If I play Quake for long enough, 10 - 15
minutes, my screen starts to flicker on and off. (turning of VGA power off
in my BIOS allowed me to play for another 5 minutes before it started to
flicker) Also, my mouse only responds to the up/down axis. I get
absolutely nothing from moving my
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:20:39AM +0100, Marco Presi wrote:
> Hello :)
>
> Just A question: I always used wvdial with no problem, but I noted that
> many people (not only in this ml) depreciate it. Why? Security?
It's less flexible from a normal-user standpoint. I haven't used it for
some time,
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:48:37PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Eric G . Miller writes:
> > Try using pppconfig (as root) to configure ppp, adding your normal user
> > to the allowed users (i.e. `adduser dip` ).
>
> You can do that in pppconfig. Go to 'Advanced Options' and select
> 'Add-User'.
Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?
Date: Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:52:11PM -0800
In reply to:Marc Wilson
Quoting Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Here's a question for you... which package owns /usr/bin/rcpinfo on your
> box? A Woody install of mine doesn't
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the
> time and and a user specified time zone?
I've seen mention of a thing called swisswatch. It's supposedly highly
customizable, so maybe this is something it'll do.
on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:21:31AM -0500, Patrick Dahiroc ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:59:36AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EM
JDK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I ran lilo to write the new info to MBR. Now whenever I reboot and
> get to the LILO prompt, the keyboard won't respond to any input from
> the keyboard.
I guess, you haven't set the `prompt' option in lilo.conf.
moritz
--
/* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PR
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:53:46PM -0500, Jacob I. Stowell wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Today I moved /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 and I apt-get --reinstall all of
> the packages associated with X 4.0.1. However, I still received the
> error cannot open fonts (the one I posted yesterday). I was so h
> > would "cp mybigfile /dev/null" work also?
>
> This isn't ancient Greece. We believe in the power of experiements and
> scientific method.
>
*grin* i couldn't agree more. perhaps one of the biggest steps you can take
towards becoming proficient at computing is learning to experiment.
i'm no
"Damian" == Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Willy Lee wrote:
>> I wanted to run 'ntpdate' periodically via a cron script. However,
> Given that you're trying to see if you can access xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> how about using ping? That will protect you in the case you'
I'm trying to build 2.0 on my Debian box, but I'm having some trouble
getting Tkinter set up properly and I'm hoping somebody can clear up the
trouble I'm having.
First off, here's the message that I get from 'make' before it pukes:
gcc -Xlinker -export-dynamic python.o \
../libpython2
"Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This may help
> [ cut here ] #!/bin/sh # Script to inform users that ppp is
> up # # Called from cron every 5 minutes
> if [ -e /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then /usr/local/bin/play
> /usr/lib/sounds/pppisup.au fi
> [ cut here ]
Beauty
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "Rogerio" == Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Rogerio> On Nov 09 2000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> >> Could someone give me some hints? I looked the man page for
> >> psselect and psmerge and still cannot figure it out.
>
> Rogerio>
Reply-To
I have just upgraded pysol in woody and now sound fails and causes the
program to not exit properly. Exiting leaves a blank playing surface which
can only be removed by killing the pid's
Starting up from an xterm reveals this error
SDL: Audio timeout - buggy audio driver? (disabled)
Sa
hello,
i have installed netenv on my laptop, but this thing does not work
instead of copyiing the requested file to the /etc/netenv/netenv file,
it writes a file of size 0
i have to copy by hand the requested files and restart the pcmcia system
to get it work.
So its me doing someti
A long time ago, in a galaxy far... far away, Neil Darlow wrote:
> My potato system has started warning that portmapper isn't running
> during the execution of /etc/init.d/inetd at boot.
Further investigation shows that most of the time rpcinfo returns
program 10 not available
This is odd
Explain to me again how dpkg is going to tell me what package a binary
that's not installed on the system is part of, eh?
I KNOW what it's part of. It's part of netkit-rpc. WHY doesn't
netkit-inetd depend on that?
-
Marc Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.moonkingdom.net/
Quoth Jonathan Gift,
> I'm just trying out the gimp1.1 loaded on Debian 2.2 and although I changed
> the Preferences directories to ".gimp" it still kicks up a fuss when there
> is no ".gimp1.1" directory. Is there any other way of getting it to accept
> ".gimp"? I know this is an unfinsihed relea
On 8 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote:
>Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato
>> kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop.
>>
>> I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel
>> sources on my other part
man find
erik
Chris Mason wrote:
>
> I need to come up with a bash shell script that deletes all the files in a
> folder older than N days. I'm not sure how to test for file age so I can't
> get it done myself, can someone suggest a way?
>
> Chris Mason
> Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla
Dear community,
do you know, to compile a kernel with
make menuconfig
for modularized support of the Intel Ether Express PRO/10 (ISA)Card?
In the directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/drivers/net you'll find
eepro.c
eepro100.c
eexpress.c
as C program textfiles, but I can't see there an rela
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:00:32PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the
> time and and a user specified time zone?
>
Not sure if this is what you want, but you can show any the time in any
timezone using, eg, xclock. I have family in Pe
Hello,
I come from Switzerland so my engish isn't fluent.
I compiled my new kernel (2.2.17) with kernel-package. After that I tried the
command depmod, the result was :
Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.17/xxx/xxx.o
What is the problem ?
Best regards.
Marc Aeschlimann
Student at EICN
Switzer
Hi Mike,
Yes, that was the problem. I was running on 24bit color. I changed
to 16bit.
Thanks.
-gnana
Quoting Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Gnanasekaran Thoppae wrote:
> > hi list,
> >
> > i installed potato on my new machine and apt-get installed
> > netscape 4.75 but the toolbars and icons ar
Hi All!
Does anyone know, how I can edit the ID tag of an mp3 file?
TIA
Thorsten
Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know, how I can edit the ID tag of an mp3 file?
apt-get install id3ed
--
Mike Quin
Unix Systems Support
Systems and Networks Group, University of Stirling
"Clue. You've either got it, or you work for UUnet" - seen on UKMM
apt-get install easytag
there are others...
erik
Manegold wrote:
>
> Hi All!
>
> Does anyone know, how I can edit the ID tag of an mp3 file?
>
> TIA
> Thorsten
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
I had a similiar problem. I noticed that the mkfontdir command was
missing. I installed xutils (and xfs) then ran
mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
and my X came back.
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:53:46PM -0500, Jacob I. Stowell wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Today I moved /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> i will become a debian user but i'm new in this way and i just want to solve
> a problem:
>
> i have 20 Go hard drive..debian ask to boot 40 Mo for BIOS deficient
> ask me for a 128 Mo primary
> partition (swap )
>
I finally succeded in installing the board. Its more a setup problem than a
typically debian quaestion.
1) in the bios setup
I left all the interrupts as PnP execpt #10 which is configured on the board
(11 is the default but there was an IRQ conflict with the graphics adapter
under win). #10 is
Hello everybody,
I am trying to find out where to change the environment variables to get
the package build for a specific target (i.e. instead of i386 i686).
Also I would like to know how to change something in a configuration
file in the build directory and then get the build done with the chang
Karl Philipp wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I updated several packages regarding to X Windows, enlightenment
> and GNOME.
>
> Now, I can't login via xdm.
>
> You can read in the file ~/.xsession-errors
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:01:01AM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote:
>
> I guess, you haven't set the `prompt' option in lilo.conf.
>
Your right. I had only set delay, and forgot prompt.
Thank you,
jdk
"Aeschlimann Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I compiled my new kernel (2.2.17) with kernel-package. After that I
> tried the command depmod, the result was : Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/xxx/xxx.o What is the problem ?
Did you have modules lying around in /lib/modules/2.2.17 be
Hi,
Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems
with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5.
I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep tty5
root 298 0.0 0.1 1180 480 tty5 SNov07 0:
Got a question for the group.
I've heard at work that I am going to be asked to add a network card in our
web server so that our private network (10.1.0.0) can share resources on the
web server. The web server will not be allowed to forward any traffic by
default. This is being done by anoth
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems
> with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5.
> I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5.
>
> [EMAIL PROTE
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5.
> > I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5.
> >
> > Is this normal behaviour?
> I don't think so, have you tried killing the process, maybe with the -9
> signal, it
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 07:55:52PM +, Paul Sims wrote:
> have you defined a global http proxy (squid or wwwoffle, for instance) - I
> have had some funnies with this. Check the result of "export".
No I have never installed squid and do not find any reference to
wwwoffle (which I also removed
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> Indeed, still not able to change to tty5, pid changed but that's
> all... (btw, this happens directly after reboot, so it's not some left
> over process or anything I believe)
Any problems with the F5 key? Seems like a silly question, but I've o
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Martin Fluch wrote:
>
> Any problems with the F5 key? Seems like a silly question, but I've once
> problems with logging in due to a key not working on my keyboard.
>
> Can you switch to tty5 with ALT-LEFT or ALT-RIGHT?
>
This is indeed possible! Very strange, so my F5 key
"Aeschlimann Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I compiled my new kernel (2.2.17) with kernel-package. After that I
> tried the command depmod, the result was : Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/xxx/xxx.o What is the problem ?
Did you have modules lying around in /lib/modules/2.2.1
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> This is indeed possible! Very strange, so my F5 key probably is bound to
> something else. Is there a way for me to check this?
I just did the following:
login on some tty, e.g. tty2, and then
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> hexdump /dev/tty2
Then I pres
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:45:08PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just successfully compiled my kernel and if you actually read
> instructions and have the right tools it's a strong feeling of satisfaction.
> My question is what to do with the bzImage file or kernel. I moved it to
> bo
> The ^[[[E is the F5 key.
Same here. Strange, isn't it.
No big deal however, I can work with alt-left or right, it's an easy
combination :-)
--
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 07:34:18 +1100
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Archive/kernel problems
>
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:13:43AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote:
> > After downloading kernel-sour
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:31:19PM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote:
> I'm trying to build 2.0 on my Debian box, but I'm having some trouble
> getting Tkinter set up properly and I'm hoping somebody can clear up the
> trouble I'm having.
I didn't have any problems, but then I didn't include all things.
Have you tried unmounting that partition and e2fsck-ing it? If it's your
root partition, you might be able to accomplish that in single-user mode.
--
Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you
will hear the voice of Satan?
That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll ins
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 18:12, Mike wrote:
> > Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > Other than that, is linuxconfig a 'good thing', or does it have security
> > problems associated with it that one ought to know about?
>
> Are you referring to linuxconf? If so, I've nothing good to say about it
The tools people use for sending you stuff should tell them that the key is
expired. That should encourage them not to use it. If you revoke your old key
that certainly invalidates the signature. Technically you can't change the
expire date. I mean there's nothing to stop the software from chang
Yes, tried that only a couple of days ago, I have experienced the problem,
both before and after the check.
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Robert Guthrie wrote:
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 02:18:20 +1100
> To: Kaleb Daark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Robert Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Would this (under Other ISA cards) be what you are looking for?
< > EtherExpressPro/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support (NEW)
cheers,
Bob
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:47:52AM +0100, Walther, Christoph wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> do you know, to compile a kernel with
>
> make menuconfig
>
> for
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote:
>
> As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the
> 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk
> to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2.
>
>
I agree with this assessment.
>
> robert_wilhelm_land
Subject: RE: inetd startup warns portmapper not running?
Date: Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:18:41AM -0800
In reply to:Marc Wilson
Quoting Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Explain to me again how dpkg is going to tell me what package a binary
> that's not installed on the system is pa
Are you a member of the group "audio"? If not, you won't have access to the
dsp device, though I don't know if this is needed for playing audio cd's.
On Wednesday 08 November 2000 19:16, Joseph Holland King wrote:
> since i have installed debian i have been without sound. my cdrom can read
> cd'
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Meding wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
Before I begin, I want to mention that there is mailing list specifically
for newbie packagers called debian-mentors@lists.debian.org . You should
ask this kind of question there.
> I am trying to find out where to change the envir
1. Is there a list available for system admin type questions? Didn't
see it listed.
2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off
at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined
filesystems, even though they are listed correctly in /etc/fstab. Is
there a
Hello,
I am searching the Debian package that contains the Perl module
Expect.pm
I work on Debian Potato
Could some one say me where can I find it ?
Thank you very much
--
---
Manuel Segura
ESCPI - CNAM
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote:
> 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off
> at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined
> filesystems, even though they are listed correctly in /etc/fstab. Is
this is a problem with the way
I have tried
#!/bin/bash --login
and
#!/bin/bash -login
in .xsession and neither works.
I have also tried just "/bin/bash --login" in the saem file to no
avail?
I don't know why.
Tom
On 07 11:45 pm, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Denis Kosygin wrote:
Pietro Greco írta, 2000-11-07, 17:27-kor kelt levelében, ami 8 sorból állt:
> potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l'
> installazione di debian poichč ho grossi problemi
> grazie e arrivederci
Scusa, non parlo italiano.
Andare http://www.debian.org/ , http://www.debian
I tried to use an 'apt-get install netstd' command, but received
many error messages about other packages that were selected before,
with 'dselect'. (these packages are mainly Python-related).
The error messages are about unconfigured packages.
Questions:
1. How can I avoid these unconfigured pac
John-Mark írta, 2000-11-08, 00:21-kor kelt levelében, ami 35 sorból állt:
> I have just installed mutt on my system but can't see how to
> configure it any help much appreciated
Did you install mutt from a .deb package or from source?
I installed it from source, as it's much newer (1.2.5) then t
Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start with a fresh
install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't seem to get a
kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive.
Now, on the kernels that the Masquerading fails on, it isn't a total
failure.
Basi
GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GM> I tried to use an 'apt-get install netstd' command, but received
GM> many error messages about other packages that were selected before,
GM> with 'dselect'. (these packages are mainly Python-related).
GM>
GM> The error messages are about unconfigured p
Hi,
I am using debian woody. After upgrading XFree86 to 4.0.1 I discovered strange
behaviour of ssh's X-Forwarding:
Scenario 1:
I ssh to another debian woody box (XFree86 4.01 as well) on my local network.
Then I try to run a x-app (wish/wishx in my case, but any app will do). The
program seem
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:47:44PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, I've compiled in the sound module, OSS and SB16 for my SB16PnP card
> and ran update modules. Yet nothing is in /etc/modules except my vfat and I
> see on my boot sceen no sb being loaded. What's up?
Did you do a "make
Michael Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MP> Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start with a fresh
MP> install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't seem to get a
MP> kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive.
MP>
MP> Now, on the kerne
John wrote:
> Ok ill have a go,
>
> I think its something like this :) ?
>
> for each IP number bound to each NIC a route is set up in the routing table
> to tell
> the OS what to do with specific IP numbers
>
> ie if NIC1=192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0
>
> and NIC2=192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
>
> t
Robert Guthrie wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2000 23:21, John wrote:
> >
> > As far as i know you will have to use 2 subnets and if you want the
> > 192.168.0.xxx range to be able to talk
> > to the 192.168.1.xxx range you will need to do ipforwarding between the 2.
> >
> >
> I agree with this
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:20:45 -0800, David Yeh said:
> I have a cheap MyFavoritePC celeron 400 with added ram and hard disk space.
> It works pretty well and fast with Linux.
>
> One thing I haven't been able to get it to do is shutdown the computer and
> power it off. I tried both kernel o
Troy Mutton wrote:
>
> Hi Will,
>
> Im a debian new*ie, and would like to help out if i can with this new
> project.
>
> ive been using debian for about 2 months now, after migrating from winblows
> to red hat about 6-8 months back.
>
> i dont know exactly what i can offer ;) or what it is you
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Pietro Greco wrote:
> potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l'
> installazione di debian poichè ho grossi problemi
> grazie e arrivederci
>
Cosa ti serve in particolare? Rispondi a me, in questa lista si parla
sopratutto inglese. Opp
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Alberto Brealey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:53:26AM -0800, Dave wrote:
>
> > 2. My debian box has several scsi disks on it, and if one is turned off
> > at boot time, the machine mounts the wrong disks on the defined
> > filesystems, even though they are listed correc
I'm trying to boot my potato after upgrading to XF 4.01. The system hangs
while starting the font server (XFS ). I tried booting into single user mode
to remove S20XFS from /etc/rc2.d but the file system is mounted read only.
Does anyone know how to work around this? Thanks
On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
> Robert Guthrie wrote:
> > Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup
> > is the same as mine...
> >
> > 1 linux box, serving NFS and SMB to 2 desktops that dual-boot linux and
> > windows 98.
> >
> > Und
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:42:52AM +1100, Damien wrote:
>
> it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic isn't
> that hard to deal with - maybe ten minutes a day, if you've got a good mailer.
>
Yep. It was the amount on trafic on debian-user which forced me to abandon
net
Hi All,
I have a small network at my home consisting of an old desktop machine
and my laptop. I use the desktop for IP Masquerading and a few other
things. My questionis this. How can I set up these machines so that
I can log into the desktop from my laptop so I can get rid of the large
monitor
On Thursday 09 November 2000 13:06, robert_wilhelm_land wrote:
> Does ipfowarding relate on something special compiled into the kernel
> or do I need a certain package?
Yes and Yes. Read the howto documents on IP-Masquerading and IP-Chains.
Then re-read them, then meditate and pray for understa
Hi,
I have been trying to compile the codebase for "bcast 2000", a
multimedia application on my debian box.
Under /usr/src/linux/include/linux (kernel 2.2.17), there is a file
named "cdrom.h" that has many DVD_* definitions.
But under /usr/include/linux, the cdrom.h does not have these
definitio
> Michael Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> MP> Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start
> with a fresh
> MP> install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't
> seem to get a
> MP> kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive.
> MP>
> MP> N
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:49:49AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote:
...
> I have now downloaded both kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb and
> kernel-source-2.2.15_2.2.15-3.deb, first from ftp.de.debian.org,
> ftp.au.debian.org, and ftp.debian.org which seemed to go OK, dpkg even
> installed them with
Well, exactly the same problem as some months before:
how do I make exim pass local mails to Cyrus?
I already copied the parts posted by jason,
but that doesn't seem to help.
local_delivery:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}"
return_path_add
HI all-
I recently upgraded a potato system to woody, then did the Xfree86 4.0.1
thing. This system runs win4lin for a few reasons and is a smallish dell
latitude Ls laptop. I managed to get through reconfiguring X for my
neomagic (ugh) video adaptor. When using Xfree86 3.3.6, I could launch
wi
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I've spent some time lately in console mode due to some problems
> with X, I've noticed something strange: I cannot switch to tty5.
> I can switch to tty1 to 4, and 6 (7 when in X), but not 5.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux|grep tty5
> root 298
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:19:16PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> G'day,
> After a fair bit of work, the Debian FAQ-o-matic is back up at
> http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom
>
> I have plenty to do already so I'm looking for people to maintain
> various
> bits of the fom. If you wou
it is used in the script
http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync
I tried loading lockfile-progs but it doesn't
have the program. It does have lockfile-create but
this clearly isn't the same program or more precisely the
line
if lockfile -! -l 43200 -r 0 "$LOCK"; then
echo `hostname` is unabl
Hm, I'm on my old circa-1996 machine and Shift-Page_Up doesn't
scroll up in the console. Don't know where to even look for this,
I'm lost without .Xresources..
-chris
I'm trying to install noflushd , from sources, on an old
pre-Potato and Potato machine. It complains about the absence
of kupdate, which doesn't appear in the package contents
AFAIK. How do I get kupdate without reinstalling from scratch?
-chris
Andrew Dwight Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I set up these machines so that I can log into the desktop
> from my laptop so I can get rid of the large monitor on top of my
> desk?
SSH (Secure SHell) is a very nice telnet replacement, which uses
encryption and keys. Try apt-get instal
hallo,
I´m having problems to configure exim for a temporar
conection to the internet, using several providers.
My mailbox is at yahooo via smtp and pop and now I
need a sample configuration-file.
Sorry my english is really bad
Thanks Arne
_
Hi again,
Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error
message saying something about "this program requires dialog". Can
some kind soul tell me how to fix this?
Also, I was talking to a friend of mine who already has XFree 4
running. He mentioned that the S3 Virge s
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:38:48PM +0100, Arne Braun wrote:
> I´m having problems to configure exim for a temporar
> conection to the internet, using several providers.
> My mailbox is at yahooo via smtp and pop and now I
> need a sample configuration-file.
What exactly is the problem?
You basic
This has been niggling at me for some time now, and when I did a
fresh install recently it jumped out at me. When you install the Perl-
5.005 packages, the package scripts say something like: "Warning
old DBs will not be compatible with new versions of perl, please
use DB dump to convert." Somet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I recently had the opportunity to use a FreeBSD feature that I found
extremely cool. I had built a machine, set it up as a server, deployed
the server, then realized I needed to add a disk. The machine and OS
support hot-swapping SCSI disks, so I was
This file seems to be part of the procmail package.
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: it is used in the script
: http://www.debian.org/mirror/anonftpsync
: I tried loading lockfile-progs but it doesn't
: have the program. It does have lockfile-create but
: this clearly isn't the same p
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Casey Henderson wrote:
>Ok, I found the dexter utility and tried to run it. I got an error
> message saying something about "this program requires dialog". Can
> some kind soul tell me how to fix this?
As root:
apt-get install dialog
Martin
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:41:11PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 12:43:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > you think YOU've got it bad? i'm using MAC netscape, and boy is
> > it ever screwy! i couldn't count how many times every day i get
> > text in my scrollbar, overlapping
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:36:31PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:50:53AM +, Pollywog wrote:
> >
> > On 09-Nov-2000 Chris Gray wrote:
> > > That's interesting, because I believe that junkbuster defaults to
> > > reporting that I'm using Mac Netscape as well. I'll try it
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