Re: cvs

1999-10-26 Thread peter karlsson
Micha Feigin: > I am looking for a tutrial about cvs beyond the very basic work. Install the cvs-doc package, or point your browser at http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs/html_mono/cvs.html -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: your mail

1999-10-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, daphne ledwaba wrote: > My name is daphne,I am working in the IT department where i am doing network > support,My problem is Part of our clients are running Unix.Let me make a > short scenario > > machine so that users can work on unix environment.In order for the > client

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
No way, This machine is not loaded and there are no users at this time. I just rebooted and loaded "linux single" and I get exactly the same, / is full but du only reports 8MB being used. I'm puzzled here :( -- Pedro I. Sanchez Nick Cabatoff wrote: > > On Oct 26, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > Hel

RE: gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Paul McHale
Richard, I would make sure your winbox mail client is configured to use a valid account/password on the linux box. If it is, I am not sure what the problem is. With my setup, Linux is where the mail is actual sent. My account [EMAIL PROTECTED] is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My mail client (outlook89) i

Re: C programing

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +, John Carline wrote: > [...] > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C > > program I wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I > > just have to echo this question. > > This sort of question pops up on

Re: Can't get seconf NIC to work HELP!

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
So how can I get the second NIC to work? This is getting urgent now as I will have people using the system later. Patrick

Re: fetchmail error message

1999-10-26 Thread Godric
nate wrote: Thanks for the help - problem solved now.

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Peter S Galbraith writes: > Well, when I upgraded from bo to slink, all my ppp messages went to > /var/log/messages and `plog' gave nothing. Look in /etc/syslog.conf. The last lines should be: daemon.*,mail.*;\ news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install > sucesfully the cdrom module. My cdrom is a Matshita cdrom CR 5633 (got > this from the win95 previous installation). Not familiar with this cdrom, so no help here. > I had been able to install >

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler wrote: > Peter S Galbraith writes: > > Well, when I upgraded from bo to slink, all my ppp messages went to > > /var/log/messages and `plog' gave nothing. > > Look in /etc/syslog.conf. The last lines should be: > > daemon.*,mail.*;\ > news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ >

Re: proxyarp

1999-10-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You can use the arp command to make your machine answer arp requests for whatever address you'd like. The arp command is in the netbase package so you should already have it. For example, if I wanted my machine to answer arp requests for the host 192.9.202.22 and my ethernet address is 00:C0:4F:4

runnin the gimp in XF86_VGA16?

1999-10-26 Thread ascii-terminal
I was wondering if anyone got around to getting the gimp to work under the above mentioned x server. I shouldn't see any problem because images can be displayed even though they are at 24 bpp color they get reduced automatically in various applications (eeyes, xv, etc). The last time I tried thi

Re: Who is using up my root partition? [Solved]

1999-10-26 Thread Pedro Sanchez
The directory /data was being used to nfs mount a remote file system. However, there were some LOCAL directories under /data also. Unmounting /data and removing the local subdirectories fixed the problem. du -x was only seeing the remote files and certainly not reporting any file space consumption

Re: Can't get seconf NIC to work

1999-10-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
Does anyone have a URL on how to get a second NIC to work under kernel 2.2.13? The modules directory only has dummy.o in it. What is it I have missed? The family are getting aggrieved that what was supposed tp be an upgrade seems to have removed all net access for the PCs on the private IPs.

Re: getting sysclock to match hwclock

1999-10-26 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 09:52:51PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct, 1999 à 08:26:09PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > I was under the impression (I still am) that it's a bad thing to just set > > the system > > clock back. Instead you should get it to run slower (or faster

Re: /var/log/ppp.log stays empty

1999-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Peter S Galbraith writes: > My slink CD (first release) came with sysklogd 1.3-31 and its > /etc/syslog.conf file did not contain anything for ppp.log (I just > checked). Hmmm. I just checked a slink box (clean CD install, no updates). It has sysklogd 1.3-31 and has the correct entries in /etc/s

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Sean Johnson
It's written Starzilla, but it's pronounced KOffice. Sean On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:19:00AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > J Horacio MG wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech.

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:35:46PM -0400, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > This machine is not loaded and there are no users at this time. I just > rebooted and loaded "linux single" and I get exactly the same, / is full > but du only reports 8MB being used. This is a wild shot, and I don't really think so

x windows

1999-10-26 Thread raymond ferrari
I have been trying to get x windows up and running but have problems. I installed x during dselect, I have a color monitor. It seems as though the distribution I got at the Linux World Expo in San Jose may have a problem(comes from Linux Central). Seems as though I don't have a config file. I have

lossless repartition of NTFS

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, There is an NT computer with 3Gb NTFS single partition. We want to chop out of it a piece for Linux partition. Is there a tool/procedure (fips cn not do that) that will manage to do that? NTFS disk is only 0.5 Gb full. Thanks, Sasha.

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thanks a lot, John. My Cds are from"Linux System Labs", www.lsl.com; but I am really suspecting that they are not complete. Reason: There are a bunch of files with 0 bytes, with just the name. Let me give you examples: In the binary disk1, in \disks\slink\contrib\binary-i386 there are a total of

Re: lossless repartition of NTFS

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
partition magic 4.0 + will do it..can shrink that ntfs drive down..and make an EXT2 drive ..of course pqmagic isn't free.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services

Compiling a Kernel 2.0.x with Debian 2.2 (potato)

1999-10-26 Thread Chris
Hi, I've upgraded to the Debian 2.2 (potato) release. The the default gcc enviroment is based on gcc-2.95 (egcs-1.2). These include the compilers g++, gobjc, g77, chill and gcj and libraries libstdc++2.9(-dev), libg++2.8.2(-dev). gcc-2.95 provides the preferred C compiler which is called `gcc'. Thi

Re: x windows

1999-10-26 Thread aphro
for the s3 virge the server would be XF86_S3V. what is the other card's chipset?? might be best to try to yank out the other card, and use the onboard S3 Virge, run XF86Setup, choose S3 Virge, set the resolution, and the color depth .. click on done(i think thats the name of the button) it will t

Re: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 10/26/99, Philip Lehman scribbled about "connection cost monitor anyone?": > I'm looking for a convenient way to monitor and log telephone costs > (using ppp in a country where telephone bills can *really* spoil the > day) but I can't seem to find a powerfull utility. > > At the moment I'm runn

shh for Linux?

1999-10-26 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, Are there shh client and servers available for Debian? I use putty in Windows and was wondering if there was something similar in Linux? Also, are there any shh servers? I'm looking for non-payware software! TIA, Ron -- = = Ronald Burnett Farrer =

Re: gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard Clarke wrote: [SNIP] Hi Richie, Have a look to 'la gazette' #43, I think its all you need. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX enhancements aren't.

Re: shh for Linux?

1999-10-26 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yes there are, they are in the non-us section. You need to ad the following line to your /etc/apt/source.list. The package is "ssh" deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Farrer wrote: > Hello, > > Are there shh client and servers avai

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files > that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to > /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. > > I use

Re: shh for Linux?

1999-10-26 Thread Ben Lutgens
wtf is shh?

Re: Intention to NMU MRTG

1999-10-26 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:51:51AM -0700 Joey Hess wrote: > I ran into this too. Is there a way to add those stats back in? I'm afraid I haven't had much success (probably due to the fact that my SNMP knowledge is atrocious). Perhaps the snmpd maintainer can shed some light on this one? -mj -- M

Various Problems with Gnome and X....

1999-10-26 Thread David Pollack
My problem is that when I use the gnome panel and pager app in WindowMaker my settings for the pager are not saved. I have made a little icon that autostarts the panel upon starting X but the pager app reverts to its default settings. I have the latest deb package for Debian Linux and the gnome

Re: Admin group?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Thiem
Brad wrote: > The way wheel works is that any user can use su, but only users in the > wheel group are allowed to su to root (uid 0). Your suggestion will not > let any user besides those in adm use su at all (which may be what you > want). > > The programs that don't support wheel then are ones t

manual kernel recompile vs make-kpkg

1999-10-26 Thread Charles Lewis
Warning: newbie question... I have been able to recompile the kernel successfully a few times, but I'm not sure what all is going on, and whether I am doing it the best way or not. Here is an example of what I do when I update the kernel: Install debian kernel source using dselect (not sure how t

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Taupter
Sean Johnson wrote: > > It's written Starzilla, but it's pronounced KOffice. And about the conflict between Qt and GPL licenses? Taupter

Re: Sbpcd module trouble

1999-10-26 Thread John Carline
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thanks a lot, John. My Cds are from"Linux System Labs", www.lsl.com; but I am > really > suspecting that they are not complete. > Reason: There are a bunch of files with 0 bytes, with just the name. Let me > give you > examples: In the binary disk1, in \disks\slink\con

any need to upgrade kernel

1999-10-26 Thread zdrysdal
Hi I am running slink with kernel 2.0.36. Is there any advantage to upgrading the kernel. If so, which kernel would be best? Or shall i just leave the kernel alone as things are working fine.. thanx

exim: Rewriting from address for outgoing mail ?

1999-10-26 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: exim Version: 3.03-1 Severity: wishlist How can I get exim to rewrite the from address only on outgoing mail ? - -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.2.12 #1 Thu Oct 14 09:29:24 EST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages exim depends on: ii

SDBM access with c

1999-10-26 Thread Evan Moore
I am trying to create a c program that can interface with a dbm created from a perl scriptB. I know only how to access NDBM and GDBM databases, but the person who wrote the database program in Perl used SDBM. How can I access this SDBM database in c? Thanks Evan

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