Re: your mail

1999-12-03 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2 Dec 1999, Ray Woodcock wrote: > Amazingly, I finally have a successful installation of slink. Whew! > > I missed a couple of bends in the road, however: > > (1) The opportunity to select a profile blew right past me somehow. What can > I enter at the ba

Re: setting up network for @home account

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/02/99 05:13PM, John and Monica Patton wrote: > The information you have sent is very helpful... but what is the NETWORK > address? I even called [EMAIL PROTECTED], and they had no idea. Without > that field entered I get a "DIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable" error. It's the network you sy

my keyboard was malconfigured

1999-12-03 Thread Evan Moore
how can i reconfigure my keyboard, i screwed up durrig the install of potato, not my '/' key is 3 and i don't even know where the '\' key ended up. all of the special keys are pretty much all a mess aswell. thanks evan

debiandoc-sgml: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce, debian-news, debian-change, debian-user. Output when installing debiandoc-sgml: Cannot find te

dpkg-dev: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce, debian-news, debian-change, debian-user. Upgrading from slink emacs or xemacs resulted in an u

File permissions when copying CD's?

1999-12-03 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this behaviour? I'm using gtoaster, cdrecord, ... Any good ideas, perhaps this is an FAQ? Svante Sig

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-03 Thread Carl Fink
Achim Bohnet wrote: > Slink and potato use the > /etc/X11/window-mangers file to determine the default window > manager . . . [etc.] I *know* that. I asked specifically about an automated tool so one wouldn't have to edit config files. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueli

Re: dpkg-dev: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Brian May
> "Svante" == Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Note: the potato version is unstable, and you are more likely to encounter problems with it rather then slink. However, if you are willing to submit bug reports, I am sure that most developers will be grateful. Svante> Hello, Since

Re: Partion sizes - recommendations pls

1999-12-03 Thread David Z. Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> Any suggestions on how large to create my partitions based on the M> following usage: ... M> I'm concerned about root. M> On my first test installation under Red Hat 6 months ago I only had X, M> KDE and Netscape and whatever Red Hat insatlls by

Re: Python

1999-12-03 Thread W. Paul Mills
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dwayne C . Litzenberger) writes: > --ZmUaFz6apKcXQszQ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 05:26:06PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > > I installed: > > python-base > > -doc > > -examp

Clipboard-like software?

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I was just wondering if anyone knew of any software that can serve as a clipboard. I'm looking for something that can just run and recieve selected/highlighted text through some key combination. I'm looking at xclipboard right now, but unless I'm not getting it, it just seems to serve as a

Humble Request Re: New release over due

1999-12-03 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I appreciate the fine quality of the debian distribution and the work that goes into it. Thanks very much! It is my preferred linux distribution. However, I have three systems that are at slink level, and have been waiting for a long time for a 2.2.* kernel, gnome (available outside official de

Re: Clipboard-like software?

1999-12-03 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> a clipboard. I'm looking for something that can just run and recieve > selected/highlighted text through some key combination. I'm looking at Don't know how well gpm does this in a console, but X provides this automatically with the left (copy) and middle (paste) mouse buttons. Works like magic,

Re: Humble Request Re: New release over due

1999-12-03 Thread Carl Fink
> After Potato, *please* limit the scope of the feature changes that > will take place before a new release. A 3-4 month cycle seems more > appropriate to this kind of development. Make your goals more modest! > Debian is already the best linux distro I have seen, with the only > drawback that is

slrn only scores some groups?

1999-12-03 Thread Carl Fink
This is odd. Since I upgraded to potato, slrn (now at 0.9.5.7) only applies the scorefile to some groups. It's properly defined in .slrnrc, and works normally on the groups it works on at all. If I use the "K" command from an unscored group, it does open the correct scorefile (~/News/Score). If

grub - help needed

1999-12-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
After reading grub.info several times I am none the wiser. To me it is a classic case of experts not being able to get down to my level. My spare box has this setup: hda1dos hdb5caldera hdb6rh sda5debian Is anyone willing to help me get it running? Perhaps give me a menu which

animated gifs w/squid

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
I was wondering if anyone knew what i could do to make animated gifs work right with squid proxy/webcaching package. I am using 2.1.2-1 ..animated gifs render once then stop. only when i turn off using squid as my proxy does it re animate endlessly.(tried it on netscape/linux netscape/win opera/b

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
I used this one for awhile, it seems it hasnt been updated since i used it(~2 years?) http://gator.naples.net/~nfn03343/ worked ok at the time. nate On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote: carlf >Achim Bohnet wrote: carlf > carlf >> Slink and potato use the carlf >> /etc/X11/window-mangers file

Re: animated gifs w/squid

1999-12-03 Thread Brian May
> "aphro" == aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aphro> I was wondering if anyone knew what i could do to make aphro> animated gifs work right with squid proxy/webcaching aphro> package. I am using 2.1.2-1 ..animated gifs render once aphro> then stop. only when i turn off usin

ppp hangups...

1999-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I've been getting dropped from my ISP unexpectedly from time to time and I'm not sure how to go about debugging it. There is nothing unusual in syslog or messages, but I noticed this in ppp.log. (kernel 2.2.12 pppd 2.3p5). Any debugging tips would be greatly appreciated! Dec 2 23:38:08 Sith ppp

Re: ppp hangups...

1999-12-03 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I think it is just the remote isp is a bit misconfigured, or the link is extremely slow. Try modify lcp-echo-failure to a bigger number in /etc/ppp/options to prevent the drop of the link Shao. Jonathan Lupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been getting dropped from my ISP unexpectedly from

Having apt-get mount -o remount,rw/ro /usr

1999-12-03 Thread Shaul Karl
It seems to me that the mount -o remount,rw/ro /usr feature of apt-get is not working. Am I correct? Can someone who have managed to do it can tell me how it is done?

Re: Thanks Re:looking for right ISP

1999-12-03 Thread Daniel Yang
Thank all of you for the response and help. Daniel Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

1999-12-03 Thread David Purton
Hi all, I wish to connect my old Atari ST to my linux box running slink with a serial cable and use it basically as a dumb terminal. Could someone please point me in the direction of some useful documentation as to how to do this. Also does anyone know what software would be required on the Atar

RE: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
> > So, lots of reasons not to use Outlook. I'm curious, why do you > find it to be the > best available? What does it offer that, say, Netscape can't do > with a good IMAP > server? > Thanks for the reply ! The best part of Outlook is it's integration. It works with my Pilot, has a PIM which

Re: Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

1999-12-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > > I wish to connect my old Atari ST to my linux box running slink with a serial > cable and use it basically as a dumb terminal. Fair enough. > Could someone please point me in the direction of some useful documentation as >

Re: Having apt-get mount -o remount,rw/ro /usr

1999-12-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On 3/12/99 Shaul Karl wrote: It seems to me that the mount -o remount,rw/ro /usr feature of apt-get is not working. Am I correct? from my experience no. Can someone who have managed to do it can tell me how it is done? my /etc/apt/apt.conf: DPkg { // Auto remount readonly /usr Pre-Invoke

Re: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-03 Thread Matthew Dalton
Paul McHale wrote: > The best part of Outlook is it's integration. It works with my Pilot, has a > PIM which is descent. Descent was a great game. Alas, it is no PIM. > Outlook has [sic] the best one stop application. Thems fightin' words. Prepare for ample flame-age, dude.

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-03 Thread Sprovski Bozidar
This is truly interesting. Since I wish to make an experimental firewall at work, I was wondering whether anyone can point me in the right direction. Where can I find/download a FreeBSD?? Arcady Genkin wrote: > Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If there are any debian-bsd people h

RE: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Brian, > How do you configure MS-Outlook to add the "References" header, so > that threads will work properly? Or is this a "feature" of a newer > version of outlook that wasn't in earlier versions? > > While I don't use outlook myself, I find it annoying to receive > messages from people who do u

Cluster

1999-12-03 Thread Sprovski Bozidar
I was pondering an idea to make a cluster using two Debian machines. What would I need (both hardware and software) to achieve this??? Dark0

Re: I have decided to give Sawmill a try, but............

1999-12-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Tam Than Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As of right now, I have decided to give Sawmill a try since many people > recommended it. But my Debian Box doesn't have internet access so I can't > download or use apt-get to get sawmill online. So how do I go about doing > this? Can I download the Saw

exim and procmail, and how to stop spammers?

1999-12-03 Thread ferret
I'd like to make exim use procmail to deliver incoming messages by default, using the ~/.procmailrc file. I haven't been able to make much headway through the documentation, however. I know sendmail will do this by default, but sendmail seems to be (with default configurations) more open to use b

Re: Outlook and HTML

1999-12-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Paul McHale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hunted down the problem with previous post(s) being in HTML. If you are > an outlook user and are interested in the resolution, please e-mail. Most > people apparently have this set correctly and know how to detect HTML. > > Thanks to everyone for t

error installing emacs?

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Su
i just did an update for my potato box, and the only error that didn't correct itself with several Install passes was emacs. here's the error, as far as i can tell: install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20 cp: debian-changelog-mode.el: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen

Re: Clipboard-like software?

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/02/99 05:00PM, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > Don't know how well gpm does this in a console, but X provides this > automatically with the left (copy) and middle (paste) mouse buttons. > Works like magic, and is far better IMHO than the key commands you > have to use in Windows. > > Just s

Re: exim and procmail, and how to stop spammers?

1999-12-03 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:28:12 -0800 (PST) ferret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to make exim use procmail to deliver incoming messages by > default, using the ~/.procmailrc file. Transport: procmail_pipe: driver = pipe command = "/usr/bin/procmail" user = ${local_part}

Re: wake-on-ring

1999-12-03 Thread John Leget
Im not 100% sure on this but don't you need an external modem for that feature to work ?. You dont mention what type you have, i may be wrong wont be the first time and possibly not the last Cheers luis wrote: > hello > > i continue interested in making my box to power-on-ring > > i have ena

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Also check /etc/lpd.perms. It has stricter defaults in the potato version, it seems. I had to work a bit with that to get it to work, but now it definitely does. It is not broken (for me) in potato. Bye Giacomo Giac

Re: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, December 02, 1999, 2:03:33 PM, Adam wrote: > In one standard (I don't know which), = is a special character used for > end-of-line and otherwise as an escape character MIME > But you're right, Outlook can be made to send in plain text, and your (Paul) > emails have been good about t

Re: debiandoc-sgml: slink-to-potato bug?

1999-12-03 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Svante Signell wrote: > Since I'm new to Debian I don't know where to report (possible) bugs > yet I'm posting it here. Please advise me to the correct list next > time. The lists subscribed to so far are: debian-announce, > debian-news, deb

Re: Cluster

1999-12-03 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
Hi Sprovski, I don't know more about it, but I can give you a few interesting adresses to find out more information. First, the Debian Beowulf: http://www.debian.org/ports/beowulf/ Second, the Beowulf (the original): http://beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf.html The MPI Homepage

Re: File permissions when copying CD's?

1999-12-03 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:12:23AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi, > > When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted > read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this > image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this > behaviour? I'm using

Static routes

1999-12-03 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hello ! Is there any built in mechanisms for static routing in Debian or i should write my own script for up static routing every time my system is rebooted ? -- +----------------------+ | Denis J. Cirulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>| | Phone : +

help about XLL

1999-12-03 Thread eran . benichou
I have to develop an .xll program at work and I don't really know how this does really work. Do you think you can help me a little with that ? Maybe you can give me the name of books, former example or whatever. Thanks, Eran

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-03 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>Carl Fink wrote: > Achim Bohnet wrote: > > > Slink and potato use the > > /etc/X11/window-mangers file to determine the default window > > manager . . . [etc.] > > I *know* that. I asked specifically about an automated tool so one > wouldn't have to edit config files. I hope you don'

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it both ways. In potato current lprng (3.6.12-1) uses daemon.lp uid/gid. Mirek

RE: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP)

1999-12-03 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Paul McHale writes: > > > > So, lots of reasons not to use Outlook. I'm curious, why do you > > find it to be the > > best available? What does it offer that, say, Netscape can't do > > with a good IMAP > > server? > > > > Thanks for the reply ! > > The best part of Outlook is it's i

acorp 10/100Mbps PCMCIA Fast Ethernet Adapter.

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, How to configure Acorp 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card ? Mirek

cfdisk table: unusable space??

1999-12-03 Thread J Horacio MG
Looking at the cfsdisk table, I've just seen this (just look at the last line of the table): hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 78.45 hda2Primary Linux ext2 78.45 hda5Logical Linux ext2 1498.25 hda6

THNKS! (Was Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.)

1999-12-03 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Thanks for your help. In the end, I used mkpasswd (as included with expect) to do this. It was only after the whole thing was up and running that I found out about chpasswd. I was thinking that since quite a number of people I know start using Linux/Debian at home, and then "fertil

exim config probs

1999-12-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having some troubles with exim configuration. I had set a masquerade box, that will work as smtp server for incoming and outgoing messages. I've (tried) to configure exim (w/ eximconfig) so that internal machines (that use us as smart server) can send and receive

PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?

1999-12-03 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Has anyone gotten Acrobat to work on Potato? I have often if not always gotten a message that Acrobat on this system of mine (Potato) cannot grok\footnote{understand} the file, because it's a compressed(?) format .pdf. Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood by commo

Re: Static routes

1999-12-03 Thread Marc Mongeon
Denis: Static routes are configured by /etc/init.d/network. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid."

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice.  changing (fixing) permissions did not work.  what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it bot

Licq 0.71

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
What's happening with the latest version o Licq? I've just upgraded to it and I'm getting the following error: russo:~$ licq 16:38:50: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (/usr/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so: undefined symbol: setEnabled__11QScrollViewb. TIA, Bruno.

[Fwd: where does libjpeg.so.6a come from ?]

1999-12-03 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Sorry ... my EXIM has gone awry !!--- Begin Message --- I am unable to perform a kernel "make xconfig" since it abend when invoking the "wish" command stating that it does not find libjpeg.so.6a. This is an unstable install . Thank you. Bob --- End Message ---

where does libjpeg.so.6a come from ?

1999-12-03 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I am unable to perform a kernel "make xconfig" since it abend when invoking the "wish" command stating that it does not find libjpeg.so.6a. This is an unstable install . Thank you. Bob

Re: Atari ST as Dumb Terminal

1999-12-03 Thread John Miskinis
Hello David, I wish to connect my old Atari ST to my linux box running slink with a serial cable and use it basically as a dumb terminal. Could someone please point me in the direction of some useful documentation as to how to do this. Also does anyone know what software would be required o

Re: ppp hangups...

1999-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Lupa writes: > Is it just because things are hairy on the ISP end? Yes. This is your pppd discovering that the ISP has gone away. That's what LCP echo requests are for. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Supported video chip-sets

1999-12-03 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Hello, I am going to buy a new computer, but which video adapter/chip-set ? Many powerful new computers come with things like Matrox G400 or NVidia Riva TNT2. I am still using Slink with XFree 3.3.2, where these chips are not supported. However they are supported in potatoe with XFree86 3.3.5. Doe

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. I don't have any problem with lprng :) > > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > > > > > thanks for the advice.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with a uid/gid that the lpd daemon couldn't retreive, filling my var completely up blocking other services as mail etc...) i tryyed to swit

dselect Install

1999-12-03 Thread Carmine Lucarelli
Hi all. Searched the archives and checked out the dselect tutorial, but couldn't find a satisfactory answer. I installed Debian 2.1 a couple of days ago, and now want to install the suggested development packages. I get the package list through apt just fine, and was able to download (through d

SMP

1999-12-03 Thread Tobias Rundström
Hello. Anyone knows if you can run SMP on a system with one Pentium II 233mhz and one Pentium II 366mhz or if this will mean problem? -- -- Tobias Rundström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.tobi.nu -- "Antingen lever man eller så är man död. Lever man så är väl livet i sig inget större

What video card do I use?

1999-12-03 Thread Rick Dunnivan
I just laoded Debian for the first time. When I run XF86Setup, I dont see my video card listed and am not sure how to go about using the advanced options. I have a 16MB nVidia RIVA TNT AGP. Can anyone help me? = rick __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousan

ISO-8859-15: setfont and default font

1999-12-03 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I have defined iso-8859-15 charset in my $HOME/.bash_profile, and it works as such if I set a proper font for it, eg.: # setfont lat9u-16.psf lat9u-16.psf is a font I copied into /usr/share/consolefonts/. I use /etc/kbd/default.map for getting characters specific of iso-8859-15, just bindin

Re: dselect Install

1999-12-03 Thread Evan Moore
well as far as i know dselect will start out where it last left off and finish intalling the rest of the 130 Megs, i'm not sure if it has installed these packages yet or not, i would guess not. if you are using apt mehtod of getting your debs then they will be downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives/

Re: Supported video chip-sets

1999-12-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 Dec, Egbert Bouwman wrote about "Supported video chip-sets" > Hello, > I am going to buy a new computer, but which video adapter/chip-set ? > Many powerful new computers come with things like > Matrox G400 or NVidia Riva TNT2. > I am still using Slink with XFree 3.3.2, where these chips ar

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 3 Dec, Rick Dunnivan wrote about "What video card do I use?" > I just laoded Debian for the first time. When I run > XF86Setup, I dont see my video card listed and am not > sure how to go about using the advanced options. I > have a 16MB nVidia RIVA TNT AGP. Can anyone help me? > Slink

apt-get on local filesystem

1999-12-03 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I have a copy of debian/dists/unstable on my hard disk I am too dumb to understand how to specify the correct string in /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt will use this source instead of the HTTP sites (to which I have no connectivity). BTW I tried setting the $http_proxy environment var but a

Re: Clipboard-like software?

1999-12-03 Thread Phillip Rulon
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:50:21 -0800 From: Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent:

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, I use lprng but maybe I help you On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems > with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with > a uid/gid that the l

Re: NNTP server.

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Schuller
> I want to install an NNTP server and news reader so that I can read some > news groups I am interested in. The machine I have runs on Hamm, and has > very little free disk space (about 145 M in /usr and 20 M in /var). > However, I am interested only in a few newsgroups, mainly comp.text.tex. > Co

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-03 Thread Rick Dunnivan
I have a winmodem and thus have not configured ppp yet. How do I go about doing this without being on the net? = rick __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

Re: exim config probs

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/03/99 10:23AM, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I'm having some troubles with exim configuration. > I had set a masquerade box, that will work as smtp server for > incoming and outgoing messages. > I've (tried) to configure exim (w/ eximconfig) so that internal > machines

Re: apt-get on local filesystem

1999-12-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Robert J. Alexander" wrote: > I have a copy of debian/dists/unstable on my hard disk > I am too dumb to understand how to specify the correct string in > /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt will use this source instead of the > HTTP sites (to which I have no connectivity). Use file:/whatever/

Re: ppp hangups...

1999-12-03 Thread Raphael Clancy
Could be noise on the phone line, though there's not too much to be done about it. If stability is your main concern you could connect at a lower speed (YUK!). Or if it's really bad, (ie you can hear noise when talking on the phone) you can call your phone company. I'd recommend against that o

NIS and groups

1999-12-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, To get Netscape movemail working on my NIS server, I did: adduser hazelsct mail so NS could write a lock file to /var/spool/mail. However, when I try to do this on the NIS clients, I get # adduser hazelsct mail Adding user hazelsct to group mail... usermod: hazelsct not found in /et

Re: firewalls and bsd

1999-12-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Sprovski Bozidar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is truly interesting. Since I wish to make an experimental firewall at > work, I > was wondering whether anyone can point me in the right direction. Where can I > find/download a FreeBSD?? www.freebsd.org -- Arcady Genkin

Re: wake-on-ring

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
usually you need an internal modem with a wake on ring connector and a wake on ring connector on the motherboard to take advantage of this. *i* dont know of any other way to wake on ring.. nate On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, John Leget wrote: johnjl >Im not 100% sure on this but don't you need an external

Re: SMP

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, [iso-8859-1] Tobias Rundstr?m wrote: tobi >Anyone knows if you can run SMP on a system with one Pentium II 233mhz and one tobi >Pentium II 366mhz or if this will mean problem? it quite possibly could cause problems depending on what the machine does for a living, the cpus can

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Rick Dunnivan wrote: rdunni >I have a winmodem and thus have not configured ppp rdunni >yet. How do I go about doing this without being on the rdunni >net? It's a multistep process to getting your problem solved. 1) take out modem 2) go to store, buy new modem (not winmodem 3

Re: error installing emacs?

1999-12-03 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 10:46:06PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: > i just did an update for my potato box, and the only error that didn't > correct itself with several Install passes was emacs. here's the > error, as far as i can tell: > > install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20 > cp: debian-changel

Re: Clipboard-like software?

1999-12-03 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:50:21 -0800 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I have a bunch of xterms and other apps running, I > select some text, find the one I want to paste into, but somewhere > along the way I double click and lose the selection. XClipboard can help here in that it

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-03 Thread Eric G . Miller
This may not be exactly what your looking for, but xsm (x session manager) can sort of do something like that. You have to set up sessions, and AFAIK you can't change sessions midstream. Some window managers are "session aware" so changing your window manager will be saved for the next session -- p

Installing from boot disk and CD

1999-12-03 Thread Tim Ayers
Hi, I'm trying to install slink on a Compaq Deskpro 6000. This computer has an Adaptec SCSI controller so I need to boot using the special Rescue and Driver Floppies for Adaptec from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/. But I would like to install everything else from the CDs I ordered from Linu

booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-03 Thread Loren King
I have two HD's, /dev/hda is the master, but Linux is installed on /dev/hdb. Originally, the master drive was DOS, and I used loadlin to start Linux on the second HD. Something fatal happened to my original DOS HD, so now I've put a new HD in its place, made it ext2, and mounted it as extra spac

Re: exim config probs

1999-12-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Did you make sure that you have set up exim to do relaying for your > internal network? You neet to put the network address when eximconf > asks you about relaying local networks. I 've never set this up > before, but you can take a look at a Linux Gazette

RE: SMP

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
> > Anyone knows if you can run SMP on a system with one Pentium II > 233mhz and one > Pentium II 366mhz or if this will mean problem? I have two Dual boards and have run SMP under NT for some time. On the boards that I have, you can't set the processors at different speeds. There is one speed s

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEHOST SAMEUSERACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root > ^^^ > I think, this is in a separate line? yes bad cut&paste... > $ checkpc what's that??? i haven't this comm

[potato] Problems with gdm

1999-12-03 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi When I start gdm it immediately crashes and restarts again creating and endless loop. I checked the log files and found the following: Gdk-ERROR **: an x io error occurred aborting... I suppose this is a library error. Has anyone seen this happen before? Should I report it as a bug? I have: l

Re: Clipboard-like software?

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/03/99 08:00AM, J C Lawrence wrote: > clipboard buffers. There's also the `cutview` utility which I've > cutview is pretty nice. I think I'm going to try it out for a while. Just in case you or anyone reading this is interested, the sources can be found at: http://www.users.uswest.net/~h

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-03 Thread Joe Block
Rick Dunnivan wrote: > > I have a winmodem and thus have not configured ppp > yet. How do I go about doing this without being on the > net? In short, you don't. Winmodems only work with windows - get an external modem and you should be good to go. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL Sys

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul McHale wrote: > > Brian, > > > How do you configure MS-Outlook to add the "References" header, so > > that threads will work properly? Or is this a "feature" of a newer > > version of outlook that wasn't in earlier versions? > > > > While I don't use outlook myself, I find it annoying to rec

Re: hwclock and time

1999-12-03 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, 02 Dec, 1999 à 07:17:08AM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I have been following the postings about hte inaccuracy of time > brought about by shutting down the machine. > > The suggestions were: rem /etc/adjtime, run hwclock > and remove hwclock --adjust line from /etc/initd.hwclock.s

Re: hwclock and time

1999-12-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > I have been following the postings about hte inaccuracy of time > brought about by shutting down the machine. > > The suggestions were: rem /etc/adjtime, run hwclock > and remove hwclock --adjust line from /etc/initd.hwclock.sh > > I have done this, run hwclock t

Joysticks

1999-12-03 Thread Tom Allard
I just upgraded my Slink kernel from 2.0.34 to 2.2.10 and wanted to play with the joystick drivers. I've got a M$ Sidewinder (not a 3d pro or anything, just a plain analog 2-button, 2-axis joystick that plugs into the game module on the soundcard). I compiled the joystick module and created t

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-03 Thread Mike Werner
Rick Dunnivan wrote: > > I have a winmodem and thus have not configured ppp > yet. How do I go about doing this without being on the > net? You could try going to that site and downloading the debs using whatever connection you are sending email through. Then, transfer those debs to someplace th

SMP

1999-12-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Hello. > >Anyone knows if you can run SMP on a system with one >Pentium II 233mhz >and one >Pentium II 366mhz or if this will mean problem? AFAIK all dual cpu mb's WILL NOT run with two cpu's of different speeds, IE: they BOTH must be the same speed. If you can force the PII-366 to run at 233mhz

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