Re: Is ppp still active when ip-down is called?

Marc, my understanding is that the network is down at that time. ** Derek J Witt ** * Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Home Page: http://www.flinthills.com/~djw/ * *** "...and on the eighth day, God met

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

You don't want to specify the actual path to the fonts in the xset command, unless you want your X server to handle them directly (i.e. not using a font server). Instead you want to specify the port which your font server is listening at, which is normally 7100. The place you need to list the ful

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Try xset +fp unix/:7100 or something similar. xfs-xtt use port 7100, same as >> xfs. > >I really have no idea what I'm doing so I'd appreciate it if you guys would >be more specific. What's "similar" What should I do same as xfs? Like

Re: sparc kernel, got it to build... now what...

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I built a 2.2.13 kernel, finally.. make boot worked. I edited silo.conf > and ran silo, all seemed ok.When I rebooted it complained that the > image was too big to fit in the destination. What can I do about this? > Should I stick to 2.0.38? mak

Re: problem updating to potato

I had the a similar problem (util-linux and shellutils, not clock) what I did was manually run dpkg -f overwrite -i Now all works fine. Ron == MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU ===

Fonts too big after getting xfs-xtt to work

Hello, I got xfs-xtt working (thanks!), but I'm having some related problems. Now in some programs, the fonts are too big and I can't change them. My Kpanel's taskbar and menu text fontsize is too big. Changing it to some huge size or some small size or even a completely different font does nothin

A file on my disc does not want to go out

For a while, i have a file that cannot be erased. This what I'm trying: [0F]# ls -l total 3.0k -rw---1 3315321935 48M Apr 1 2037 cache368855AF0061069.gif [0F]# du 6 . [0F]# chmod 777 cache368855AF0061069.gif chmod: cache368855AF0061069.gif: Operation not permitted [0F]#

dpkg

Hi, Last week I attempted to install Coda (from "projects" version); the installation stopped in the middle of the process due to the inavailability of "bc". Then the package couldn't be continued, and it couldn't be reinstalled. The problem was that the post-installation and -remove scripts were

Re: A file on my disc does not want to go out

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:33:54PM -0200, Alexandre Pereira da Silva wrote: > For a while, i have a file that cannot be erased. This what I'm trying: The times that I've had a stubborn file I found that attacking it using Midnight Commander usually worked. That may well be worth a try here. --

installer problems with potato

In case any developers are reading that are interested, I thought I'd mention the problems I had during install of potato from floppies. First, the reason why I chose to install potato, is because I was unable to install debian after buing two different books with slink on them. I downloaded the

SCSI Timing Out (HELP ASAP)

I've just purchased and installed a new: Adaptec 2940U2W PCI card IBM 9.1GB LVD Ultrastar SCSI Harddrive I've tried to install Debian using both the Slink and the Potato disks, but to no avail. The computer boots fine, locates the SCSI harddrive at ID 0, and starts up the syslinu

Re: Tracking Web Page hits

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to be able to track people that come to my webpages. > Information like where they came from ie search engine, directly typed in > address, and etc would be nice. But also to know what domain names there > coming from including IP's w

Re: SCSI Timing Out (HELP ASAP)

On 2000-02-06 17:37:43, ^chewie wrote: > SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > > What seems to be the problem? Have you terminated the SCSI bus? Is this particular controller supported and if so, do you know

Re: SCSI Timing Out (HELP ASAP)

Take a look at . I've got an unofficial set of installation disks there for slink which will hopefully take care of your problem. Good luck! On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 05:37:43PM -0800, ^chewie wrote: > I've just purchased and installed a new: >

mailman craziness

Hi, I think I've somehow managed to break mailman. Today I went to bulk add some users to one of my mailing lists, clicked the submit button on the admin webpage and ... nothing was changed. So I did some other testing, trying to remove others that were subscribed, changing the footer and so

Re: email

ppp.log: Feb 6 14:28.21 debian pppd[157] pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 blah-blah-blahtcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Exit David - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: networks takes long time

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, [iso-2022-jp] $B02ED9nH~(B wrote: > Hi all. > > Sorry,I have amateur problem. Please help me. > > When my computer has one NIC(eth0 only),SENDMAIL starting very fast, > But when the computer has more than two NIC(eth0 and 2),SENDMAILtakes > long time (about 2min).Where is

Re: email

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > ppp.log: > > Feb 6 14:28.21 debian pppd[157] pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 > blah-blah-blahtcgetattr: Input/output > error(5) > Exit Ok - the sof

Re: email

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 08:41:58PM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > ppp.log: > > Feb 6 14:28.21 debian pppd[157] pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 > blah-blah-blahtcgetattr: Input/output > error(5) Serial port wrong or not configured? Is this an external or an ISA Plu

Re: email

It's on COM2... US Robotics 56k Voice Win... ah... is the "win" suggestive of the culprit? I also have another 56K non-voice (and hopefully) non-win modem lying around from my old Gateway computer Is this starting to sound like I oughta install it in addition and (say) run it off of COM1 when on

Re: networks takes long time

Hello Oki,Thank you. > > Hi all. > > > > Sorry,I have amateur problem. Please help me. > > > > When my computer has one NIC(eth0 only),SENDMAIL starting very fast, > > But when the computer has more than two NIC(eth0 and 2),SENDMAILtakes > > long time (about 2min).Where is Packet. > > Telnet from

Re: email

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:52:40PM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > It's on COM2... US Robotics 56k Voice Win... ah... is the "win" suggestive > of the culprit? Yes, that looks like the problem. Some of those USR modems are certainly Winmodems. See http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html . > I als

Re: mailman craziness

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:57:29 -0800 Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I immediately noticed that it's asking for the admin password > *alot* more. Every single link or button on an admin page spawns > an authentication request. Even clicking "details" links in the > general options wind

Soundcard

I installed the PCI64 Soundblaster in my computer. I can play all the kinds of sound files, but it doesn't work with Audio CD's. Did someone have a similar problem?   Ivo

Re: email

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > It's on COM2... US Robotics 56k Voice Win... ah... is the "win" suggestive > of the culprit? Possibly. > I also have another 56K non-voice (and hopefully) non-win modem lying > around from my old Gateway computer > > Is this starting

Re: Soundcard

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I installed the PCI64 Soundblaster in my computer. I can play all the > kinds of sound files, but it doesn't work with Audio CD's. Ok - do audio CDs play fine in another operating system? > Did someone have a similar problem? I have t

ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

hello all, we use ssh (and ssl telnet) at our place to remotely admin some machines (we are on an untrusted network) ... our concern now is on ftp, is there such thing as an ssh'ed or ssl'ed ftp ? or any equivalent ? (using ssh's file transfer capability is not an option since no Win9x s

Problems with Gtk Widget Shadowing in Potato

I've been having this problem on some machines running Potato, and not others. I've yet to come to any conclusions about why this keeps happeneing, but I'd assume it's a FAQ... There appears to be some problems with the rendering of the shadows of some Gtk widgets (pushbuttons, etc). Attached is

Re: sparc kernel, got it to build... now what...

Oki said: > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > I built a 2.2.13 kernel, finally.. make boot worked. I edited silo.conf > > and ran silo, all seemed ok.When I rebooted it complained that the > > image was too big to fit in the destination. What can I do about this? > > Should

sendmail

Hi, My sendmail spits out the following after "sendmail -q": Feb 7 07:45:23 pindad sendmail[8354]: gethostbyaddr(x.x.x.x) failed:1 What's the problem? No local DNS server? TIA, Oki

cannot export to HTML

Package: lyx Version: 1.1.4-1 lyx fails to export to HTML when instructed to do so via the file menu Errors that appear: In lyx on the status bar: Unable to convert to HTML the file (file name ...) (buffer-export ... in the shell lyx was called from: sh: tth: command not found The problem is

Re: ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

look into using scp its partr of the ssh package i believe. nate On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, t s a d i wrote: ch4di >hello all, ch4di >we use ssh (and ssl telnet) at our place to remotely admin some ch4di >machines (we are on an untrusted network) ... ch4di >our concern now is on ftp, is there

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: > >It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides > >kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. > > > >What am I missing? > > No, kernel-source doesn't provide kernel headers. How

Re: What is apt-get

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] chris Günther wrote: > Dear Gurus, > > I'm pretty new to Debian and therefore have some silly questions. My first > is: > > what is all this apt-get about? > > What is it good for and how does it work (Disclaimer: I'm not a Guru) It's good for installin

Re: sendmail

On 2000-02-07 14:52:58, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > My sendmail spits out the following after "sendmail -q": > Feb 7 07:45:23 pindad sendmail[8354]: gethostbyaddr(x.x.x.x) failed:1 > > What's the problem? No local DNS server? Reverse IP lookup failed for some reason. Check that /etc/hosts has your

ipmasq not letting through all web sites?

I just installed the ipmasq package, and hooked up my win98 box through my linux machine. The linux machine has 2 ethernet cards, eth1 is connected to the local net (the Windows machine), eth0 is connected to an ADSL line using PPPOE. On the Windows machine, I can hit some web sites, but not othe

Number pad wierdness during login

I recently upgraded to potato and I have noticed that when I am presented with the xdm login screen the number pad on my keyboard does not work. It just beeps when I hit a key. It did not do this in Slink. I did have to use the console tools to set up the keyboard when doing the upgrade as kbd was

Re: A file on my disc does not want to go out

> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Pereira da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> For a while, i have a file that cannot be erased. Alexandre> This probaly was writen when my machine crashed with Alexandre> Netscape 3.0 running in. This was on slink or even Alexandre> before.

Re: Opera

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Derek J Witt wrote: > it does need X. That is not my experience: $opera opera: cannot connect to X server - I have tried opera but I am not impressed by it. I have trouble to read local files using it and it just

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:10:32AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > It would appear the french babel package is broken. Changing the > > language makes the error go away. > great :D > and now what? I am supposed to produce my documents in french I

Re: ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

you should be able to do that via the port-forwarding facility of ssh, simply forward local port 21 to the remote machine and ftp localhost. don't forget to allow ftp-connections from localhost on the remote machine :) hth, &rw >On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, t s a d i wrote: > >our concern now is on ftp,

qpopper doesn't deliver local mail.

Hi all, My qpopper doesn't seems to deliver local mail. My Linux Server has two NIC(global and local),and already setup Sendmail and Qpopper. For example,I sent mail to own mail-address,So I found mail-data in /var/spool/mqueue ,but Fetching mail from local PC returns no mail. I also checked Port

Re: qpopper doesn't deliver local mail.

This is self response. Oh No! My /usr/bin/deliver was erased. What a shamefully.Sorry. - Original Message - 送信者 : 芦田克美 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 宛先 : 送信日時 : 2000年2月7日 午後 05:37 件名 : qpopper doesn't deliver local mail. > Hi all, > > My qpopper doesn't seems to deliver local mail. > My Linux S

Re: mailman craziness

-Original Message- From: J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:16 PM Subject: Re: mailman craziness >On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:57:29 -0800 >Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - I immediately noticed tha

Re: Fonts too big after getting xfs-xtt to work

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I got xfs-xtt working (thanks!), but I'm having some related problems. Now in >some programs, the fonts are too big and I can't change them. My Kpanel's >taskbar and menu text fontsize is too big. Changing it to some huge size or >some s

Quake2 problems on woody

Hi all, sorry if i'll bore someone with those questions but since a week i'm not more able to play Q2 on my box. I'll try a lot of things but now i don't what to do to fix it. I'm sure that i installed correctly i was able to play..:))) well the problems are: 1) using Software renderin

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MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

Hi, where is the programm mimencode that is needed by mgetty+sendfax (script new_fax). Please tell me where I can find this program. Thanks. Bye, Sven -- ++ | Please reply only to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debianのインストールについて

Tecra is for notebooks, so that's what he needs... == MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU == On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Translation : > > he's installed

Printer, Sound card

I have had Debian for about two years and never have been able to get my printer configured. Everytime I try to print I get "operation not supported by device" from the command line and a reference to "character modules not found" in xconsole. So I thought , let me try another Distro that's based

netscape 4.7.1 segfaults but not in xterm or rxvt

greetings, i finally upgraded to kernel 2.2 with gnome/enlightenment and i'm having a strange problem with netscape 4.7.1. when i try to invoke it from the enlightenment menu or gnome terminal or eterm it crashes with segmentation fault but if i invoke it from xterm or rxvt if comes up just fine.

Re: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:41:53AM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > where is the programm mimencode that is needed by mgetty+sendfax (script > new_fax). $ dpkg -S mimencode metamail: /usr/bin/mimencode metamail: /usr/man/man1/mimencode.1.gz Mirek

Re: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 11:41:53AM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: > where is the programm mimencode that is needed by mgetty+sendfax (script > new_fax). $ dpkg -S mimencode metamail: /usr/bin/mimencode metamail: /usr/man/man1/mimencode.1.gz Useful command, dpkg -S. -- Carl F

Re: ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 09:32:11PM -0800, t s a d i wrote: > hello all, > we use ssh (and ssl telnet) at our place to remotely admin some > machines (we are on an untrusted network) ... > our concern now is on ftp, is there such thing as an ssh'ed or > ssl'ed ftp ? or any equivalent ? (u

Problem with ldso/gdb in potato

--- Begin Message --- BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed! This seems to point towards ldso in my potato installation. However, ldso has been installed without problems. This error only seems to occur with gdb, all o

Re: Printer, Sound card

Hi there, it doesn't matter what distribution you use to get things things working because you have to do the same things for each distribution that you try. to get things like sound and printing you have to compile them into the kernel. I forget the exact configuration to get things working. but l

Re: ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 06:57:13AM -0600, Joe Chung wrote: > > With the port-forwarding feature, I was able to use good old ws_ftp from the > Windows machine to connect securely to our Solaris server running openssh's > sshd. That should work for you. > > Unfortunately for me, the federal agency

Re: Problems with Gtk Widget Shadowing in Potato

Hello, I have always seen this problem under slink, I am running GTK 1.2 also. The text that is "doubled" or "shadowed" always seems to be text on buttons that are "grayed out" and not selectable. I tried a few thems and fonts, but the problem remains. Although it is very ugly, it doesn't caus

Re: ipmasq not letting through all web sites?

when setting up ipmasq use the -l option in the ipchains command(s) and make sure kernel firewall logging is on. that'll log it. and everything else :) nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: msherm >I just installed the ipmasq package, and hooked up my msherm >win98 box through my linux

Re: Beep?

Quoting Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Many things make the system beep when > > you type the "wrong" thing in. Typically, pressing up- or down-arrow > > (bash shell, command recall) too many times will make the

XSetup?

Ok, I hate "xconfigurator". It did it's job but it's confusing as hell if you don't know everything about modelines and frequencies. When my box was redhat I had an "XSetup" which was considerably easier. I haven't found it yet. Anyone know what package this is in, or a different/better

Re: XSetup?

"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, > I hate "xconfigurator". It did it's job but it's confusing as hell > if you don't know everything about modelines and frequencies. > > When my box was redhat I had an "XSetup" which was considerably easier. > I haven't found it yet. Any

Re: [*] about gcc

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 13:55:08 -0600, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was crying out from somewhere about: Re: [*] about gcc lists> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:38:32AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: lists> > you need to do lists> > lists> > gcc -lm lists> > lists> > to link the maths library. lists> > l

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Re: .gz in Netscape

"Paul J. Keenan" wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 12:15:45PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > I am wondering if it is not the *server* behavior to send it > > uncompressed. This happens to me too, but when I try one of the .tar.gz > > files, it downloads compressed. Seems unlikely that my Net

Re: [*] about gcc

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Re: XSetup?

try XF86Setup .. ? nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: Robert > Robert > Robert >Ok, Robert > I hate "xconfigurator". It did it's job but it's confusing as hell Robert >if you don't know everything about modelines and frequencies. Robert > Robert > When my box was redhat I had

email

I installed my other US Robotics internal modem (not win)... the system got dial tone and dialed out to msn, but apparently something is amiss in the dialog with msn   Here's the ppp.log   Feb  7 12:58:36 debian pppd[905]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0Feb  7 12:58:37 debian chat[906]: abo

Re: email

On 2000-02-07 13:33:43, davidturetsky wrote: > Feb 7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 > user="MSN/davidturetsky" password="[omitted]"] > Feb 7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x0] > Feb 7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: rcvd [PAP AuthNak id=0x1 ""] > Feb

Re: email

probably that or a misconfiguration of ppp. you sure your POP uses PAP and not CHAP ? some of those big name isps do weird things.(like IBM .. or at least they used to) nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, davidturetsky wrote: davidt >I installed my other US Robotics internal modem (not win)... the system

Re: Swap space newbie question

mkswap /dev/hda2 swapon /dev/hda2 add an entry in /etc/fstab for it type swap mountpoint none /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 nate On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: photiu >Hello all. photiu >I've just done a fresh install of slink and forgot to initialize the swap

Re: Is ppp still active when ip-down is called?

On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 06:50:07PM -0500, Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When pppd is shutting down and calls ip-down, is the > ppp interface already dead, or can the network still I just did a quick test, and the connection is apparently down at that time. You can write your own poff t

Re: email

Not at all sure. I tried to do Chat (?), but who know the answers to all the setup questions, so I just went along with the suggestions I also tried variants on my login name... will try a few more... maybe even send a post to msn if I can find the right people to address Thanks for all the sugge

Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

I cannot seem to get X running on my Tecra 8000. I have installed Debian 2.1r3. I run XF86Setup and select the NeoMagic card. For the rest I have tried a lot of different combinations for screen and the like, but non give me a decent 1024x786 immage. Has anyone managed to get this working properly?

Re: Doesn't kernel-source packages provides kernel-headers?

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaul Karl) wrote: > > >It is my understanding that each kernel-source package provides > > >kernel-headers. Yet kernel-source-2.2.14 does not mention it. > > > > > >What am I missing? > > > > No, kernel-source doesn't provide ker

keyboard x-tra button remap

Is it possible to somehow remap the top row of buttons on the "Microsoft Internet Keyboard" to perform certain functions under debian? Will this USB keyboard even work?

rcS error on bootup --potato

Hi, I'm running potato, and on a vanilla install of it, I get the following error message: /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file Anyone else have this problem, or know what's going on with it? Perhaps I merely have to wait for a package updat

Re: email

> probably that or a misconfiguration of ppp. you sure your POP uses PAP > and not CHAP ? some of those big name isps do weird things.(like IBM .. or > at least they used to) > I believe that MSN uses mschap, which is Microsoft's own version of chap. I cannot at the moment recall where I saw th

Re: Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

try upgrading to xf86 3.3.6 see www.debian.org/~vincent nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: erik >I cannot seem to get X running on my Tecra 8000. I have installed Debian erik >2.1r3. I run XF86Setup and select the NeoMagic card. For the rest I have erik >tried a lot of different

Re: Swap space newbie question

Thanks to all who replied - problem solved. Such quick, informative and friendly help is one of (the many) things I like about Debian. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:19:14 -0800 (PST), aphro wrote: > mkswap /dev/hda2 > swapon /dev/hda2 > > add an entry in /etc/fstab for it type swap mountpoint none

Re: Printer, Sound card

Hay Eric, without details on what you tried and what you have it's a bit difficult to guess what anwser you need:) But I like guessing so... You need a driver to be able to print. In stock debian systems such a driver is compiled as a module named lp. You have to tell the system to use this modul

Eterm keys

Hi, I just got myself a 'theme' for wm at themes.org. Looks great, especially with those pseudo-transparent eterm backgrounds. I found it impossible to use the 'home' and 'end' keys in an Eterm, while they do work in an xterm... Why? Can I enable them in any way? I told WM to launch an Eterm on s

Re: email

Aha! The plot thickens! Tnx. Will fool with variants on this David - Original Message - From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re: email > > probably that or a misconfiguration

The Last Hurdle.

Gong Xi Fa Cai to all you people out there celebrating Chinese New Year and a good Linux year of the dragon. Okay, this is my last hurdle, after this I'm completely switched over to Linux. I finally realized that my PCMCIA modem (V90) doesn't work properly on my Acer TM512T. The following happened

Re: rcS error on bootup --potato

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 03:59:53PM -0500, Griim wrote: > Hi, > I'm running potato, and on a vanilla install of it, I get the > following error message: > > /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: > unexpected end of file > > Anyone else have this problem, or know wha

cron not using new entry after crontab -e?

I just updated my cron to the one from frozen: 3.0pl1-55 I've noticed that when I do a crontab -e, even though cron says in the logs that it sees the update, it doesn't run the new entry I put in there. When I take cron down, put in the entry, then bring it up, it sees it fine. I notice the new

SOLVED: MIMENCODE (mgetty+sendfax)

Bruce Sass wrote: > I've had mgetty+sendfax installed before and have never installed > metamail. Progs are sometimes supplied by more than one package and it > may depend on the version of Debian you are running... > which is why I set you to the Contents file. > > -- > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Mirek

Re: rcS error on bootup --potato

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Griim wrote: > Hi, > I'm running potato, and on a vanilla install of it, I get the > following error message: > > /etc/init.d/rcS: /etc/rcS.d/S35devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: > unexpected end of file Known bug (typo) in libc6 package ... Martin --- devpts.sh.orig

gnome-terminal F-Keys???

Hello all: I was wondering how I change the F-Keys on gnome-terminal so that through send the correct xterm codes, and not the Linux console codes. Does anyone out there know how to accomplish this?? As it stands now, F1 Through F4 send \EOP \EOQ \EOR and \EOS . Nearly every

Apache FrontPage Extensions

I need info on the Apache FrontPage Extensions under potato! Anyone? Regards, Onno

Re: email

AFAIK they do use mschap, which is documented in the PPP howto. Apparently not so easy to use via linux either. Peter Good. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, davidturetsky wrote: > Not at all sure. I tried to do Chat (?), but who know the answers to all the > setup questions, so I just went along with the su

Re: cron not using new entry after crontab -e?

I have seen that my new cron does not seem to work... Thanks for the tip. I'll try bringing it down and up. I think a bug report would be an excellent idea. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I just updated my cron to the one from frozen: 3.0pl1-55 > > I've noticed that when I do a cr

Reporting RAM

What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have? My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding the mem= line to lilo.conf, but it doesn't work for me. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA

Re: cron not using new entry after crontab -e?

I can't get mine to work even if I bring it down, update it, then start it... I think it's broke. On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > I just updated my cron to the one from frozen: 3.0pl1-55 > > I've noticed that when I do a crontab -e, even though cron says in the > logs that it sees

Can't load libXt.so.6

Hello everybody, Ever since I upgraded my libc6 package, programs can't load libXt.so.6. I found it on my hard-drive in /usr/X11R6/lib/, so do I need to change a path variable or something? Thankyou, Cameron Matheson

Cron running 6 hours early

After upgrading my machine to Potato, my cron jobs now run at GMT time. I have my machine set to local time: hwclock is local system time is local in /etc/defaults/rcS: GMT="" tzselect is set to US Central time I have my cron.daily jobs set to run at 4am while I am asleep, but now they run at 10p

help on installation - partition disk

Dear Experts,   I tried to install Debian Linux disk on my home computer starting with Rescue floppy. The machine model is emachine monster 500 with 13GB hard drive and Windows 98 on it. I partitioned the (only) hard drive using flip.exe like this     800 MB    for Windows 98 (650 MB system

Re: email

aphro writes: > you sure your POP uses PAP and not CHAP ? They requested CHAP: > rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 > ] He refused and suggested PAP: > sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x2 ] They then offered to use PAP: > rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 > ] He agreed: > sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 > ] And

Re: Reporting RAM

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Lane Lester wrote: > What command will tell me how much RAM Debian Linux thinks I have? 'free' will do it. The kernel publishes the information in /proc/meminfo. > My BIOS, Win NT, and Win 98 all know I have 128M, but Corel Linux > thinks I have only 64M. I've tried adding t