SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread Rob Rati
My scsi bus appears to want to reset everytime I try to burn a CD. My dmesg log gets errors like this: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 232511, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x2a 00 00 00 2f e0 00 00 10 00 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. scsi : aborting comman

X Weirdness

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi I've installed X 3.3.6-6 on my Toshiba Sat Pro 4270 (laptop). The machine has an S3 Savage card, and I've installed the latest drivers from the s3 site. The server is identifying my machine's video card correctly, and is not producing any errors on start up ... BUT ... all I get is a blank scre

RE: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread C. Falconer
Does your SCSI drive work if you try to mount it like a CDROM ? Do you have any other SCSI devices (hard drive/another CD etc) Have you considered setting the scsi ID to something like 2 through 5? the card is often ID6. Can you please post the dmesg lines from boot that show what scsi devi

Re: FW: Dumb X Windows Question

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Garfias
You might want to try 'task-xwindows' or something similar. I'm not sure which it is, but will install just about everything you need. Andrew McRobert spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May

Re: Firewall problems

2000-05-23 Thread str8edge
you have to make sure you have your firewall set to accept ICMP traffic. to have ipchains handle ICMP traffic you must use something like: ipchains -A input -p ICMP -j ACCEPT David [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:10:40PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > I can only half-pi

Re: POP3

2000-05-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
Try XMail : http://www.maticad.it/davide/xmail.asp it's a SMTP server ( like sendmail, qmail, etc .. ) as long as a POP3 server and has a lot of other features. > Is sendmail a POP3 server? No, if You use sendmail, qmail, ... that are SMTP servers You must install something like qpopper ( or c

Webmail

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew McRobert
hi while I'm waiting in hope re: my X Win qstn, does anyone know of a good Web mail package (ie. let's you download mail from another POP server & look @ it through WWW. ta A - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Armin Wegner
Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. It's fast.

Re: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread Rob Rati
Here's what dmesg says about my scsi chain. I have 2 hds, 1 dvd drive, and a burner on it. The burner works great when I mount it as a cd-rom drive. No apparant problems at all. The SCSI card is on ID 7, but the ID of the device shouldn't matter should it? As long as it's not the same ID as an

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Justin Megawarne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And Philip Lehman bestowed upon us all: >> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> prw-r--r--1 root root0 May 22 23:01 /dev/gpmdata >> >> If you don't have any gpmdata fifo, crea

Re: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread Armin Wegner
Have you added your burner to the SCSI bus, later? Then check, wether your SCSI bus is terminated correctly. The device at the end of the cable must be terminated, only. For some burners you have to set the jumper to disable termination. That is revers to normal harddrive setting.

Re: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread Rob Rati
What do you mean "added the burner to the SCSI bus later"? You can't do that, can you? I mean, it has to be connected and on in order to be detected and used, doesn't it? The SCSI bus should be terminated correctly. the 50-pin connector is terminated by the DVD drive, and the UW chain (the HDs)

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. Interesting typo ;) (I'm writing this as a non-native speaker, no offence intended) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied

2000-05-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:47:13PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I > made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on > others it generates the error message: > > xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied >

Re: arpwatch and the never Ending Syslog

2000-05-23 Thread KELEMEN Peter
On Wed, 2000-05-03 12:20:01 +0200, Andresito del Hierro wrote: Salut, > After I installed arpwatch the syslog grows and grows and > grows! then I looked to the init.d script and found that the > ARGS option is set at "" by default. Would be better to have it > set to "-b" by default?. The basic

Re: unable to compile ss2 under Debian 2.2

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
I only tried it on my woody system, when I checked on potato system it didn't work... You could try downloading that woody part and install it using dpkg (this will only work if ssh2 doesn't depend on all kinds (version dependencies) of things, but you can try!). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 22 May 2000

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread John Gould
Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controller will have no effect on the disk rotational velocity. However this is not what the poster asked! If you put an Ultra 2 wide on a non wide channel the transfers will be eight bits at a time instead of 16, i.e. half the speed, but it will work fine. Some

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. > > Interesting typo ;) > > (I'm writing this as a non-native speaker, no offence intended) > > -- > Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > V

Re: Sendmail Q

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
You mean the mail name? This is the thing what comes behind the @, eg. when I (username ron) send you mail you see it coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED], if I would change the mail name to abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz, you would see it coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] However in that case if you would reply

Re: X Weirdness

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you out of quota or out of diskspace?? What happens if you start X as root? Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > I've installed X 3.3.6-6 on my Toshiba Sat Pro 4270 (laptop). The machine > has an S3 Savage card, and I've installed the latest drivers from the s3

Re: Dumb X Windows Question

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Do you have: xfree a x-windows-manager xf86setup and many other things you'll probably want installed?? If you install x on a system where you don't have anything x on already, I would suggest you use dselect for it. Ron Rademaker On Mon, 22 May 2000, Jay

RFC - corel installation

2000-05-23 Thread Dominic Blythe
Any body else ever had problems with corel installation? mine worked fine, my friend using the same cd has the hang problem that loads of people here have reported. As I can't find any commonality in whose works and whose doesn't, I'd like your story! Corel is nice, easy and mostly Debian - it'd

Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.

2000-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-dpkg-0004/msg2.html Okay, but that issue assumes that a package leaves a bomb in its prerm. There is no way to protect yourself from such trojan packages anyway, wether you use rpm or dpkg. Wichert. -- _

ArcServe Client for Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Carlos Bambó
Has anybody tried to perform a backup of a Debian workstation using the ArcServe (CAI) client for Linux?. More specifically from a NT Server. If you did succeed please let me know the release and conditions. Thanks Carlo

Re: finger

2000-05-23 Thread Matt Folwell
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:00:11PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I've replaced finger altogether for off-site finger requests with a nice > little perl script guaranteed to confuse and amuse. Try fingering > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try it several times :) [fmp.com] User account '' has expired. Pleas

XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-23 Thread James Sleeman
I would like to install XFree 4.0 on my potato machine, are there debs available yet, or not too far off ? I couldn't even see 4.0 ones in Woody. Thanks James Sleeman

Memoria reconocida por el sistema vs. memoria instalada

2000-05-23 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hola: Tenemos un servidor con Debian que es un PC clonico, tiene instaladas 128 Mb de memoria RAM y la BIOS cuando arranca cuenta las 128 Mb. Sin embargo cuando hacemos un free -kt lo que obtenemos es: total used free sharedbufferscached Mem: 63528 62332

RE: Memoria reconocida por el sistema vs. memoria instalada

2000-05-23 Thread Dominic Blythe
translation - - > > Hola: > > Tenemos un servidor con Debian que es un PC clonico, tiene instaladas > 128 Mb de memoria RAM y la BIOS cuando arranca cuenta las 128 Mb. > Sin embargo cuando hacemos un free -kt lo que obtenemos es: on a pc with 128mb ram, this is the output from free -kt >

Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
There aren't any deb (yet), but you can compile the sources yourself, works fine here! Ron Rademaker PS. Make sure to keep the old 3, just in case anything goes wrong, I didn't the first time, something went wrong, so I tried to fix it and messed up my system even more. At the end I decided to re

Re: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied

2000-05-23 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Unfortnately I deleted the email, but I believe Darren sent me a private email saying the permissions on /dev/tty were wrong. Anyway the permissions on /dev/tty were incorrect. On the non-working machines this device was owned by a user and was rw by him only. I changed the device to "crw-rw-rw- r

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:05:42AM +0100, John Gould wrote: > Sorry, but this is rubbish! Yep. The only thing that I had to add is that if you hang a UW device on the same chain as your U2W device, your U2W device will transfer at UW rates. (which is why I had to send back my plextor-40wide, da

Thanks! - Re: (ot) What is load average?

2000-05-23 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:19:40PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > You can find this information by grubbing about in > /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/array.c excellent. Thanks for all the great answers! -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://lupavista.jamdata.net/gpg

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Gould wrote: > Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controller will have no effect on the > disk rotational velocity. However this is not what the poster asked! If > you put an Ultra 2 wide on a non wide channel the transfers will be eight > bits at a time instead of 16,

Email forwarding

2000-05-23 Thread Richard Clarke
Has anyone on this list had experience with setting up email forwarding, like bigfoot and such services do. If so can you point me to some resources on this subject.   Richard   Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.-- Helen MacInness

Re: RFC - corel installation

2000-05-23 Thread Jean G. Turner
Hi, Want to report I had a computer built to dual boot NT and Corel Linux. We gave each OS its own drive. In selecting components we reviewed Corel's list of supported hardware and selected only those listed, with the exception of a Matrox G400. We are both basically Windows folks. The install wen

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread Dan Hutchinson
Sorry, I misspoke, I meant the data rate not the spin of the hard disk. Dan Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Non text/plain message body suppressed] ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and

Re: Webmail

2000-05-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Check out the following URLs, they might be helpful. I know that at least one of these packages has been Debianized. http://webmail.wastl.net/ http://webbasedemail.com/ http://www.horde.org/imp/ HTH, noah On Tue, 23 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > >

OT. Debian w/s in schools - info needed.

2000-05-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
I'm a very inexpert sysadmin who assists at a local school. We have a Debian box now for mail, squid, modem server and so on and they are very receptive to the idea of running Linux workstations and eventually breaking away from you-know-who. Possibilities: Booting Debian from the server. Ho

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Richard Klinda wrote: > > Hoi Frank, ALL! > > Frank> I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is > Frank> syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a > Frank> small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? > > fte, vim, jed (emacs ;-)) > This lea

Re: Dumb X Windows Question

2000-05-23 Thread Kent West
The XF86Setup app used to be in the xserver-vga16 package, I believe, but now it is in the xf86setup package. Do an "apt-get install xf86setup", then run XF86Setup. That should get you going. ktb wrote: > XF86Setup is the program you want to run to set up 'X' which creates > XF86Config. Have y

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Peter Good
I may get flamed for this lol, but i've always used mcedit for perl stuff, pretty perl colour highlighting :) Peter. "Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Richard Klinda wrote: > > > > Hoi Frank, ALL! > > > > Frank> I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is > > Frank> syntax highlig

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As > some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor > has the *be

RE: Memoria reconocida por el sistema vs. memoria instalada

2000-05-23 Thread Corey Popelier
I think you would need: append="mem=0x800" I personally use: append="mem=128M" Point is quotes and so forth are important :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 23 May 2000, Dominic Blythe wrote: > > translation - - >

Re: Memoria reconocida por el sistema vs. memoria instalada

2000-05-23 Thread Matt Folwell
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 01:21:46PM +0200, Ximo Nadal wrote: > Por lo que entendí estos parametros se podian poner en el lilo.conf y > tomarian efecto despues de ejecutar liloconfig y rearrancar el > sistema, pero cuando pongo en lilo.conf mem=0x800 You should use the line: append="mem=128M

Re: Webmail

2000-05-23 Thread Gregory Guthrie
One free one is qdpop, but they are discontinuing it. http://www-informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/qdpop/hosting.htm Others include: http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ http://www.atdot.org/faq.shtml http://www.rts.com.au/warp/warpmail/ Of course there are many free externally hosted www-

Re: POP3 port

2000-05-23 Thread Sathpal Singh
I think it's 995, try that. That's what it's got in my /etc/services anyway. Cheers, Sath On Mon, 22 May 2000, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've trouble finding out, what port a POP3 server normally listens to. > I tried 25, but that's SMTP (sendmail). And a look at the fetchmai

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed "Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?": > on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's > > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
How about fte (fte-console or fte under x)?? Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed "Re: Simple Text Editor with > Synatx highlighting?": > > on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This leads to a q

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-23 Thread Francois Fayard
I have the same problems on my computer For nfs: uninstall everything using nfs For gpm: Change your gpm.conf to device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type= type=ps2 append="" Francois

apache on debian frozen!

2000-05-23 Thread Thomas Braun
hello group i use the htpasswd from apache for my squid password list with ncsa_auth authentication ! my password is 9 characters long but if i typed only 8 it is ssuccessful ! is this a bug or can squid only handle 8 characters? -- cu thomas PGP DSS Key fingerprint = B4 9F 55 F6 D4 5D

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:39:16AM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: > On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed "Re: Simple Text Editor with > Synatx highlighting?": > > on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've no

Re: POP3 port

2000-05-23 Thread Dan Brosemer
He's probably looking for port 110. 995 appears to be an encrypted version. Interesting... now I'm wondering how to set this up (the ssl version, that is). Time for me to do some reading. -Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ grep pop3 /etc/services pop3110/tcp pop-3 # POP

ip accounting

2000-05-23 Thread Litzler Mihaly
Hi, I have a Cisco1600 router connecting to an ISP. I would like to count the network traffic of this router, but not like the way of mrtg does, because I want to know all downloaded or uploaded MBs on all IP addresses in my C class using this router in a time period (for example in a month). Has

RE: SCSI bus reset when burning

2000-05-23 Thread JoeCool
I have this same type of problem when I try to use SCSI tape backup. I get simular error messages and the machine's load goes pretty high and sometimes needs to be rebooted. I have had no luck getting the tape backup to work. this is the error i get: -- May 3 14:23:23 taz kernel: SCSI host 0 abo

Adaptec SCSI controller

2000-05-23 Thread Mark Carroll
I just picked up a cheap Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA SCSI controller. Do I stand a chance of getting it working with my system (currently upgraded to 'frozen')? If so, which SCSI driver (kernel module, whatever) should I be using? I haven't managed to get it to do anything so far; it'd be nice to know th

Re: ip accounting

2000-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:59:59PM +0200, Litzler Mihaly wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Cisco1600 router connecting to an ISP. > I would like to count the network traffic of this router, but not like the > way of mrtg does, because I want to know all downloaded or uploaded MBs on > all IP addresses in

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 6:57:22 AM, Keith wrote: > This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's > Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As > some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor > has the *best* Perl syntax

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 7:39:16 AM, Jesse wrote: >> (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. > Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are > certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been > using a different Perl mode in Emacs. Not to mention I fail to see how Em

Re: dhcp

2000-05-23 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
dhcp-client is indeed the package you want. Post the error messages you get during install. In order to run a gateway for your external interface you'll want to set up IP Masquerading and then have all your other boxes point to your linux box as their default gateway. In order to get IP Masq. goi

Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 11:28 AM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs got into the discussion of "Simple > Text Editor..." Lisp interpreters with dillusions of OShood doesn't meet any > of those three words. Go back and read the text you snipped. The question got c

Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
>> (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. > > Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are > certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been > using a different Perl mode in Emacs. I haven't noticed any issues, but I don't make huge usage of here documents, and I te

Re: Adaptec SCSI controller

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
In the kernel is a driver for the aha 152x, so it should work. In other words you stand a chance and it is possible! Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Mark Carroll wrote: > I just picked up a cheap Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA SCSI controller. Do I stand > a chance of getting it working with my syste

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread John Gould
Yes, I believe you can. You can set the transfer speed in the setup of the AHA2940 card from CNTRL-A at boot up. You can also use SCA drives with either UW or U2W, if you can obtain these. They have 80 pins and need external termination and ID setting, but there is an adaptor that you can buy for a

dselect error (sorry for the repeat)

2000-05-23 Thread Brent McMillan
I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked recently, but I can't find it in the archives or my inbox. I just tried to install a few packages using dselect. dselect is set up to grab the packages off a cd. As far as I know I've done nothing differently, however, I when I hit

gs, wmaker debs? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?)

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to install XFree 4.0 on my potato machine, are there debs >available yet, or not too far off ? I couldn't even see 4.0 ones in Woody. Take a look at http://www.debian.org/~branden/plans.txt. It seems like the move to the

FTP and GNOME

2000-05-23 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Hi: I'm not sure if it's an off-topic, but I want to create an icon to an FTP address in the GNOME desktop, but I can't. If I create a URL pointing to an FTP site, I get a Netscape window, and actually I expect to get a GMC window. I know that GMC has FTP support, and it's possible to create an F

Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Jay Kelly
Hello All, What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread ferret
Isn't ultra2 usually LVD interface? If it is LVD you probably won't be able to use it on the narrow channel. If it isn't LVD, where do you find these drives? On Tue, 23 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Gould wrote: > > > Sorry, but this is rubbish! The SCSI controll

Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread TheChucklinTrain
If i download this program do i risk crashing windows?

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:33 AM 5/23/00 -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: >Hello All, >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great There is no one "should". The reason why there are different distributions is because they fit different n

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
First of all potato == frozen and has a lot more packages to choose from compared to slink, I would advice you to use potato, except if you need a really stable and secure system, I don't have stability security problems with potato, but slink is the official stable and it might be more stable. Ro

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Using windows is risking to crash windows ;)) But with downloading debian you don't risk more or less than when downloading any other thing. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s un

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Davide Libenzi
> If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? For sure, meant that Windows will not ever run on Your machine ;) Davide -- Feel free, feel Debian !

Re: dselect error (sorry for the repeat)

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like a bug in some script used by dselect where the existing of a file is testing, but there is no file to test for its existence. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brent McMillan wrote: > I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked > recently, but I can't find it in t

cd-rw for old cdrom drivers (8x)

2000-05-23 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I've burned a potato image (disk 2) on a cd-rw disk. What cdrecord options should I use in order to make the disk readable by olders cdrom drivers (8x, 4x, 16x, etc)? I've tried in a 8x and wasn't able to read even it works fine on a 44x one. Thanks,

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great First off, potato is the same as frozen ... The distributions are: slink = stable = 2.1 potato = frozen = future 2.2 woody

power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Matthew Wilson Emmett
Hello all, I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and the clock always got skewed. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any good tips or suggestions? Thanks, Matt

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:40 PM 5/23/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? Probably. In my experience, any time you do *anything* with Windows, you risk crashing it. But that's probably not what you meant. Downloading isn't the issue -- a Debian download is no diffe

Re: OT. Debian w/s in schools - info needed.

2000-05-23 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Message from Lindsay Allen at 23/05/00 09:54:58PM: > > I'm a very inexpert sysadmin who assists at a local school. We have a > Debian box now for mail, squid, modem server and so on and they are very > receptive to the idea of running Linux workstations and eventually > breaking away from you-kno

Re: scsi disk question: u2w vs. uw

2000-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't ultra2 usually LVD interface? If it is LVD you probably won't be > able to use it on the narrow channel. Not true. My Seagate Barracuda ST39173LW is LVD and works fine on my 50 pin 2940U adapter (using to 68-to-50 pin adapter). (scsi0) found at PCI 18/0 (

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Steve Lamb hat gesagt: // Steve Lamb wrote: > Vim. I've not seen a problem with its highlighting that didn't also > improve the readability of my code when I got in the habit of getting it to > colorize right. The /only/ perl construct I know of that doesn't work is > something like this: >

Re[2]: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 9:46:23 AM, Ron wrote: > First of all potato == frozen and has a lot more packages to choose from > compared to slink, I would advice you to use potato, except if you need a > really stable and secure system, I don't have stability security problems > with potato, but slink i

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 8:41:46 AM, John wrote: > Go back and read the text you snipped. The question got changed to "text > editor with best Perl syntax highlighting", without a concomitant change in > subject line. (X)Emacs certainly qualifies, despite it's editing functions > being only a subset

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:21:36 AM, Frank wrote: > Hey, no problem here with highlighting that code snippet using > VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Feb 10 2000 17:28:27) > (official wichert debian package) Hmmm. I guess I'm just set in my ways because... work: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 1:37 PM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, because were are still on simple editor. Again, I fail to see how > Emacs qualifies since it isn't simple nor is it a text editor. (Please note that I changed the subject line a couple messages back, to remove the 'simple'.) Ha

Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:46:21 AM, John wrote: > Have you perhaps never used emacs? I have. > Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a > pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in > fact. Hey, don't tell me. Tell all the Em

Re: Re[2]: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've had no problems with installing potato, however upgrading has been a pain in the ass. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 9:46:23 AM, Ron wrote: > > First of all potato == frozen and has a lot more packages to choose from > > compared to slink, I wo

Re: Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 1:49 PM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:46:21 AM, John wrote: >> Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a >> pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in >> fact. > > Hey, don't tell me.

Re: ip accounting

2000-05-23 Thread Robert Waldner
Cisco´s have a built-in accounting capability. Simply enable "ip accounting output-packets" an all interfaces (eg Ethernet0 and (Serial0 or BRI0)). Then write a simple script that telnets to the cisco, enables, and does "show ip accounting". Et voila, all you have left now is the aggregation of the

Re: Version Of Debian

2000-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What Version on of Debian should I be using. Is there a big difference from > >Slink to Potato to Frozen? Any seuggestion would be great > > First off, potato is the same as frozen ... > > The distributions are: > > sl

So much for wishful thinking...

2000-05-23 Thread t.bedlam
Amazing how these things start. :) Well, Steve, I hope this teaches you there is no such thing as a friendly joke when Emacs is in the line. (So to speak.) If the FSF or the GPL did not exists, Emacs would still be a tax-deductible charity. (...under the bill of rights...) On Tue, May 23, 2000

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Mats Rynge
Steve Lamb wrote: > Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs got into the discussion of "Simple > Text Editor..." Lisp interpreters with dillusions of OShood doesn't meet any > of those three words. Fox X I would use Nedit. Very easy to use and great highlighting. Actually, this is the only o

Re: power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On 23 May 2000, Matthew Wilson Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd like to have my desktop save power after 30min of inactivity. >I've managed to do this before, but I lost my overnight cron jobs, and >the clock always got skewed. Do you want that when you're in X or on the console? Three thin

kdm

2000-05-23 Thread Kendall Shaw
I'm running potato. When I run kdm, it doesn't read my .xsession file. How can I correct this? Also, some of the instructions given for installing kdm don't fit with the debian file layout. Where can I read about debian's X file structure? It's especially difficult because KDE doesn't seem to offe

Re: RFC - corel installation

2000-05-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dominic Blythe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Any body else ever had problems with corel installation? It might be worth posting this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the modified subject line (because RFC is jargon for something else). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fa

Re: kdm

2000-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I'm running potato. When I run kdm, it doesn't read my .xsession file. How > can I correct this? > in /etc/X11/Xsession.options: allow-user-xsession should do the job. > Also, some of the instructions given for installing kdm don't fit with the > debian file layout. Where can I read about debia

root can't view manpages

2000-05-23 Thread Brian Stults
For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root, I get the following: man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I've included the output below. If any

Re: Debian GNU/Linux

2000-05-23 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If i download this program do i risk crashing windows? Isn't that a "risk" that you take every time you start Windows? :-)) -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specia

root can't view manpages (incl. strace)

2000-05-23 Thread Brian Stults
For some reason, root cannot view manpages. If I type "man ls" as root, I get the following: man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied It works fine as an ordinary user. I did an strace on the command, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I've included the output below. If any

Auto starting a script

2000-05-23 Thread A. Scott White
The following are the pertinent sections a script (and the script it calls) which I want to auto start for run levels 2-5. startup.sh simply calls tomcat.sh with a "start" parameter. Questions: - Can I accomplish this by simply placing a symbolic link to startup.sh called S99tomcat in rc[2-5].

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