[off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread David Karlin
> I am not sure there is a way to configure it in Outlook98, which is the > specific version I have. The RE: has always worked for me. I do know there > were significant changes from Outlook97 to Outlook98. You suggestion may be > one of them. > > paul There is an Outlook 2000 version. AFAIK,

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

1999-12-03 Thread Loren King
A quick follow-up to my own query, with a bit more info. I wrote: > I have two HD's, /dev/hda is the master, but Linux is installed on > /dev/hdb. ... I can't seem to figure out how to get LILO to put the > boot stuff on /dev/hda and then start up Linux on /dev/hdb. The partition info for my d

Re: Window manager switcher

1999-12-03 Thread carlf
> This may not be exactly what your looking for, but xsm (x session > manager) can sort of do something like that. . . . > It's easy to use, check it out. Thanks, I'll give it a look -- sounds close to what I want. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer For

Re: hwclock and time

1999-12-03 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Thanks, Laurent, for your suggestions. In my case, I had made a foolish mistake. In the /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, there are two lines: hwclock --adjust $GMT hwclock --hctosys $GMT Instead of just commenting out the first line, I had commented out both lines. Once I put pack the 2nd line, de

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02.12.99 at 14:14 Nitebirdz wrote: > As far as I remember, this is the problem: when you download any >tar.gz file in Windows, it will be automatically renamed whatever_tar.gz. >... >All they need to do is to rename the file to whatever.tar.gz before >running Winzip on it. That works fin

Re: ppp hangups...

1999-12-03 Thread Tom Allard
> 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! According to th

Potato locked up on shutdown - processes still running

1999-12-03 Thread Mark M
Hi, For a few months now, I have had the error message - `/dev/hda4 busy - mounted ro' (hda4 is my /var) after all partitions are unmounted on shutdown. I haven't worried about it too much up until now. After running for about 20 days and then shutting down, init froze with `processes still ru

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
marcus >Yes, that's it. It is a problem when offering files for multiple marcus >platforms. I think it is more of a problem with windows. The file system supports it but the OS does not. I encounter similar problems using NT boxes to file serve to macs, mac users save using filenames that are p

Re: Potato locked up on shutdown - processes still running

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Mark M wrote: z10354 >After running for about 20 days and then shutting down, init froze with z10354 >`processes still running' (or something similar) before unmounting any z10354 >drives (actually before saving random seed I think). I could switch z10354 >consoles, but init h

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

1999-12-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood Yes. You can use pdf(la)tex which produces PDF directly (http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/), and dvipdfm, which uses the normal DVI output (http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm

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

1999-12-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Ironically, your lines are too long. > -- > Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada > P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 > 6623'rd

Re: xxx.tar.gz on Windows.

1999-12-03 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi EasyZip is a very nice freeware clone, and I'm pretty sure it does .tar.gz. - B Marcus wrote: > Unfortunately I don't know of any freeware for windows that will read > tar.gz. HJ-Zip is freeware. I'll ask the developer if he's adding > xxx.tar.gz support som

RE: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Keith, > > It is certainly inexcusable for Outlook to ignore References, as well as > not give any option for providing them. MS is the only company I know > of that wants their stuff to not interoperate with others'. But NS > should at least give you a "Terminate Thread" option on reply that wo

Re: my keyboard was malconfigured

1999-12-03 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Thu, 02 Dec, 1999 à 07:03:45PM -0500, Evan Moore wrote: > 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. > kbdconfig -- ( >-

Re: SMP

1999-12-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > 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? Expect few to no problems if you upgrade to 2.2.x as soon as possible (SMP support in 2.0.x, which is the d

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 03, 1999, 11:17:50 AM, Paul wrote: > Ultimately, they are getting off their butts again and the next gen looks > really good. My point: Had they not had such a death grip on the market, > they would have lost serious market share when the other cards caught up/out > paced them.

Trouble upgrading ldso on slink

1999-12-03 Thread Rajiv Garg
Hi list, I currently have a slink system with lib6-2.0.7, I need to upgrade it to 2.1.2-10 thats in the potato distribution. Prior to doing so, I need to upgrade ldso from 1.9.10 to 1.9.11. I downloaded the .deb file for 1.9.11 from potato and tried to install but get the following error m

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

1999-12-03 Thread John Pearson
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:00:19AM -0500, Tam Than Ma wrote > > 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? Ca

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread David B. Wilson
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > #! /bin/sh > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > pbm2ppa - - | >^ >Why this pipe? pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into something my HP 720 can understand (ppa?). The above script is verbatum from the pb

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Bart Szyszka
> > I am not sure there is a way to configure it in Outlook98, which is the > > specific version I have. The RE: has always worked for me. I do know there > > were significant changes from Outlook97 to Outlook98. You suggestion may be > > one of them. Have you guys gotten Outlook to work in Deb

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:18:13PM +, David B. Wilson wrote: > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > #! /bin/sh > > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > > pbm2ppa - - | > >^ > >Why this pipe? > pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into somet

RE: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Bart, > > Have you guys gotten Outlook to work in Debian or something? Through WINE? > If you did I'd like to hear about that. For a second there I > thought I was reading > mail from Microsoft's newsgroups. I checked and don't believe Outlook will run under linux in any fashion. The original foc

RE: SMP

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
> Expect few to no problems if you upgrade to 2.2.x as soon as possible (SMP > support in 2.0.x, which is the default in slink, isn't all that hot). For what it's worth, Corel's web page indicates Corel/Debian Linux ships with 2.2 Kernel. Please see link: http://linux.corel.com/products/linux_os

RE: Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-03 Thread Matthew Denson
All right. Still not working. I am well into the learning as I go mode. I've installed slink a couple times now. With different sized partitions, I've made the change Jens recommends below and still no change. When I reinstalled slink the script was still unhappy about my drive but I could use

Need help w/ netatalk & papd

1999-12-03 Thread Jon Marler
I have some Mac (the horror) users that are printing to papd through Appletalk and everything works great ... except one thing ... The print jobs stay in the queue and I have to do a "lpc start all" to get them to come out. When reading the papd documentation, it states: "papd spools jobs direct

modem driver?

1999-12-03 Thread Brian Mc Namara
Is it possible to get a linux driver for a Rockwell PCI56kRVP "win" modem?

RE: Can not boot from HD after install

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
I havent been following this thread but i thought i'd ask. 1) is the partition you installed to/boot from marked as ACTIVE 2) is the partition you installed to/trying to boot from a PRIMARY partition 3) what do you see when you try to boot ? (exactly) 4) does the partition that you are booting off

Re: modem driver?

1999-12-03 Thread Alec Smith
No. These modems are driven by proprietary software that has yet to be released by Rockwell for anything but Winblows. Even so, they place a performance hit on the CPU since it has to do all the work. Do yourself a favor and get yourself a real modem. On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Brian Mc Namara wrot

What hardware is good for Debian servers?

1999-12-03 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I had many problems with Asus, and it was one of the brands people said to be good. During my quest to solve many of these problems, I discovered that Asus is likely to have problems, or just glitches, that make you loose time where you shouldn't. Now, since there are many servers to buil

How can I change a password from a script?

1999-12-03 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello! I'm root, I'm on a Debian Slink or on a Debian Potato, and I would like to present my intranet users a web page to change their passwords. It would be easy to do, if I just had to work with the good old /etc/passwd database: read the old password, verify it, encrypt the new one and change

Re: cfdisk table: unusable space??

1999-12-03 Thread Brad
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 *1 1080293+ 83 Linux native > /dev/hda2 11 2080325 83 Linux native > /dev/hda3 1000 1024 200812+ 82 Linux

Mounting partition as /var/spool/mail

1999-12-03 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, A colleague at work has offered to prove he can crash my debian server if I give him a user account. Its a kind of RH vs Debian thing so I've said he can try. One way he might try is simply to fill the hdd so I have given him a 10 MB partition as home. In case he tries to do

Re: How can I change a password from a script?

1999-12-03 Thread Joe Block
Enrico Zini wrote: > Now we have shadow passwords, MD5 hashes, NIS, LDAP, PAM... wow! It's > fantastic, but I need something that knows how to change passwords on my > system, because I don't. Check out chpasswd - you can pass it a list of username:newpassword pairs. > I would like to call passw

Re: [off-topic] MS Outlook

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Friday, December 03, 1999, 12:37:09 PM, Bart wrote: > Have you guys gotten Outlook to work in Debian or something? Through WINE? VMWare. ;) > The only reason I don't use it is because I don't have any use for the > reminder/calendar/etc. stuff in Windows because of ICQ99b. Gack. I wish

Re: How can I change a password from a script?

1999-12-03 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Dec 03, Enrico Zini wrote: > I'm root, I'm on a Debian Slink or on a Debian Potato, and I would > like to present my intranet users a web page to change their > passwords. It would be easy to do, if I just had to work with the > good old /etc/passwd database: read the old password, verify it, >

Macromedia products for linux

1999-12-03 Thread Ben Lutgens
This is an email I recieved from macromedia after I asked them to support our OS. I think maybe if enough people show interest maybe we'll get flash for linux. Fire off and email to the address in the email please. -- Ben Lutgens http://cybercreep.mosquitonet.com icq#10836629 "There are

Re: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

1999-12-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I had many problems with Asus, and it was one of the brands people said to be > good. Curious - I have an Asus P2B motherboard, and have had 0 problems. I chose it based on Asus' reputation for quality. A fluke, perhaps? > During my

Why

1999-12-03 Thread Brigette Heffner
Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? In plain English...how do I get help with the install?  Is there a book (written in HUMAN English) that I can buy?  I have read all kinds of "how to's" and I am missing something because I have tried to install THREE versions of Linux and can't

How to create /dev/modem?

1999-12-03 Thread Hans
Sorry, I know this has been asked before. Just can't find the answer. Running Slink with 2.2.10 kernel. Am missing /dev/modem and can't figure out how MAKEDEV makes this (tried ./MAKEDEV modem, ./MAKEDEV /dev/modem, ./MAKEDEV generic and ./MAKEDEV serial). Anyone with some pointers? Thanks -- Hans

Re: dselect Install

1999-12-03 Thread Evan Moore
ya! i too finally got my proliant 5500 with SMARTII RAID controller to work, but i installed from debian floppies. my method using potato (also did it with slink) boot floppies. 1.download kernel source and compile a new kernel with SNARTII compiled in 2.cp the kernel into /floppy/linux 3.edit

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread Marc Mongeon
Brigette: Before you give up, buy the Debian GNU/Linux Administrator's Guide, published by O'Reilly and Associates. I haven't read this book in particular, but the O'Reilly books are hands-down the most thorough, clearly written, and helpful books I have ever seen for Unix computing topics. And

RE: Why

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Brigette, You wrote: Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? In plain English...how do I get help with the install? Is there a book (written in HUMAN English) that I can buy? I have read all kinds of "how to's" and I am missing something because I have tried to install THREE versions of L

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread debian
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:18:56PM -0600, Brigette Heffner wrote: > Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? Because its a scabable server OS that is great for stability and security and can serve 1000s of users from a single PC. > In plain English...how do I get help with the install? Is th

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread Evan Moore
if your ever look at buying a new computer to put linux on you may look at buying an apple. the LinuxPPC group has declared their distribution to be the easiest to install version of linux. I installed it on my PowerMac 8600 with no problems. I have heard many great things about Corel Linux aswell,

Re: How to create /dev/modem?

1999-12-03 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hans, > Running Slink with 2.2.10 kernel. Am missing /dev/modem and can't figure > out how MAKEDEV makes this (tried ./MAKEDEV modem, ./MAKEDEV /dev/modem, > ./MAKEDEV generic and ./MAKEDEV serial). Anyone with some pointers? Thanks > -- Hans I don't think /dev/modem is a true device in the sense

RE: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

1999-12-03 Thread Paul McHale
Enrico, > What brand and type of motherboard, raid controller, CPU, modem and backup > system would you use, to be able to install Debian on it without > risking to go > mad after some hardware flaw? > > What are good brands of motherboards? Asus? Intel? Soyo? Tyan? MSI? VIA? > Others? What are t

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread aphro
based on your email i make the assumption that you may not be fully able to install/setup linux on a laptop(one of the more complicated platforms to install to due to the hardware in them) i suggest you attempt to seek out someone who can help you in person. most linux users are more then happy to

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread Vincent Murphy
= Brigette Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19991203 2214]: > Is there a book (written in HUMAN English) that I can buy? running linux, (o'reilly) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/ i started using linux with the 1st edition of this book. highly recommended. .

Re: Macromedia products for linux

1999-12-03 Thread Tom Allard
> This is an email I recieved from macromedia after I asked them to > support our OS. I think maybe if enough people show interest maybe > we'll get flash for linux. Fire off and email to the address in the > email please. I think you should read the Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO. http://www.dat

Re: How to create /dev/modem?

1999-12-03 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> If you're wondering which ttyS* has a modem attached to it, try running > wvdial. It does an excellent job of detecting modems (in my experience). Sorry, try wvdialconf (it's the configurator that looks for modems). pppconfig also tests serial ports for modems and has worked for me. Chris --

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread Tom Allard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Why is it so hard to get anywhere with Linux? In plain English...how do > I get help with the install? You can get a lot of help right here. What, exactly, are you having trouble with? Are you able to get to a command line interface or are you getting stuck before th

molassus after bios reset & massive ipx collisions

1999-12-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Argh. This is almost impossbile to type--it's several seconds behind me . . . I got the tech folks to reset my bios (password was apparently misset). My machine is now as slow as mollassus. At the same time, I find that the network collisions have moved up from twice a minute to twice a s

Re: File permissions when copying CD's?

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Dec-1999, Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 gtoast

Re: What hardware is good for Debian servers?

1999-12-03 Thread jchawk
Enrico, I can give you some advise on the motherboard and such. If your talking bang for your buck, go with an A-bit BP-6. With dual celeron 366's (PPGA) overclocked to 550 MHZ. You can find your cpu's on ebay or somewhere similar pre-tested and guaranteed overclockable. Modem, I would go with

Re: Why

1999-12-03 Thread David Karlin
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:47:26PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brigette: > > Before you give up, buy the Debian GNU/Linux Administrator's Guide, > published by O'Reilly and Associates. I haven't read this book in particular, I found their "Running Linux" to be extremely helpful in getting

Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 hazels

Re: Outlook and HTML

1999-12-03 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:28:57AM -0500, Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Standard signature separator is "--" with a blank following it. Actually, it's "-- ". Notice the trailing space. Mutt, slrn, and Netscape all do this correctly. I'm sure most other software does as well. -- E

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