Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

wngrade with or > > are they archived on the debian site somewhere ? Instead, you might want to do "apt-get update", and then "apt-get upgrade". This will upgrade you to 1.6.11, which works. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

What's up with Licq mailing list?

I haven't had new messages since Nov. 27. Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces. Any info? -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: firewalls and bsd

but admire FreeBSD's mechanisms for updates/upgrades. IMHO the "ports collection" system is remarkable. It was very easy to install and configure. HTH, -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross up

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

apt. Just copy the debs from a floppy into anywhere on your linux box's disk, and use dpkg to install them. -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Outlook and HTML

8 >Fax:413-215-3232 >Home: 937-253-6260 (anytime) > - -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: firewalls and bsd

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

XFree86 3.3.5 for slink? (was: Corel to Slink upgrade)

; the XFree86 3.3.5 to its > > sources.list and update & upgrade. Is there a source for X 3.3.5 for slink? If yes, could anyone give the URI? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

dosfsck and vat32

Hi. I know for certain that there's a problem with my fat32 partition. The free space reported is much less from what there actually is. I tried running dosfsck on it, and it says "Root directory has zero size". What does that message mean? Thanks! --

Adaptec 2940 UW

forced" upgrade. I'm going to use it with a CD-burner and a scanner. Thanks for any info! -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

o SCSI HDs, and don't plan on getting one. I'm being a bit paranoid, because I can't use my current SCSI card with a CD-R under Linux, so I want to be sure that the driver for the card I get will be up-to date... Thanks again, -- Arcady Genkinhttp

Passing media param via "ifconfig"

How can I find out valid media types for my ethernet driver (rtl8139)? Can I force it into full-duplex? How can I diagnose what media type the driver is using? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the

RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

n I get one? This one seems to hang once in a while. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: RealPlayer -- where can I get the latest?

ow could a program be a stupid idiot? And what sort of private info are you talking about anyways? -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Install by FTP ?

s or smth else), copy it into the DOS partition, and then use it during installation. This way you can get away with making only two floppies. Read the installation section of the docs on the website for more info. -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "

Sharing a modem via network

I have two boxes: one I use as a workstation, and another one which I use as a server. I am considering moving my modem into the server. What would be involved in using the modem via network from the workstation? Can it be done transparently for applications? Thanks for any pointers! -- Arcady

Re: Sharing a modem via network

rkstation being able to use server's modem to do stuff like faxing and dialing out to a BBS. Can I set up a comm port on one machine, but so that it would be actually using comm port of another? Like permanent comm port tunnelling or something of that sort? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin

Image formats

Looking for a comparison chart of different image formats, such as tiff, jpeg, etc. I wonder what format is it more appropriate to scan images into. Thanks, -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon wh

Re: Opera Beta for Linux Released!

; > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/browsers/opera-19991224.tar.gz > > Off-topic?!!! Not on your life. I have been waiting for this beauty for > *ever*!!! Are sources available? This one is linked against glibc2.1, and I'm running Slink... -- Arcady Genkin

fstab - `defaults' and `sync'

If I want to mount a partition with `sync' option, can I keep `defaults'? I know `defaults' implies `async', but will explicitly specifying `sync' override that? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkinhttp://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my p

softupdates for ext2fs? (was: fstab - `defaults' and `sync')

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27/12/99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > > >If I want to mount a partition with `sync' option, can I keep > >`defaults'? I know `defaults' implies `async', but will explicitly > >specifying `sync' ov

Re: Burning CDs in Linux

ard, althought it worked perfectly under Win. I think that the driver for the card was too old, and hasn't been tested with CDRs. Since I replaced the Qlogic for Tekram 390F, I haven't had a problem. Also, make sure you have all necessary options compiled in you

Re: Debian Linux

into them. Read the installation instructions for more info. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

lect that thank you, I want my system left just the way it is right now. I want to clear that list of packages lined up for removal. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which h

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

Well, you get the idea: all packages show with "installed; install (was: install)" flags, but nevertheless are rigged for *removal* when I chose "Install" command. Any ideas, anyone? I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I tried looking in various /var directories,

Re: dselect+apt -- how to clear cache?

ed | [...] | Package: libmd5-perl | Status: install ok installed | [...] | Package: libcurses-perl | Status: install ok installed | [... and so on ...] ` So, as you see, all of the packages that dselect wants to _remove_ are not set to be removed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. Any ideas?

Thrown into console (X won't start)

what could have happened and how to debug this thingy? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

"LI" for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

vmlinuz | label=default | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com

Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

ks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Poor networking performance

Running FreeBSD `---- -- Arcady Genkin

Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify

Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? > > Yes, but i had to change the md5 sum in the index file. Check the > archives, i've posted about this before. Thanks a lot, Brad! Problem solved by modifying the Ind

Re: Adding a superuser

with a userid 0. ,[ For example ] | tea:~# useradd -u 0 -o -g root -d /root -s /bin/sh toor ` Don't forget to do a "passwd toor" after that. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Adding a superuser

or's shell. Done. Thanks for the tip. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

identd -- do I need it?

identd[14997]: started | Jan 9 23:30:00 tea identd[15019]: started | [ ... ] ` Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | vga=normal | verbose=5 | | image=/vmlinuz | label=default | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = potato | root = /dev/hdc1 ` Guess what! Lilo stopped working from /dev/hda4 too!!! It won't give me a boot prompt (hangs at "LI" just like when running off /dev/hdc1). What

Re: How to install over www

ct to install the rest via ftp/http. I ended up using 5 floppies altogether. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: [URGENT]: Convert BMP to PBM

-- | Opt graphics netpbm 19940301.2- 19940301.2- Graphics conversion tools | Opt graphics pnmtopng 2.37.3-12.37.3-1PNG <-> netpbm (pnm, pbm, ` HTH, -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the

Further LILO woes

icks up Lilo on /dev/hdc1, Lilo starts loading and hangs at "LI". As always, any suggestions highly appreciated! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Forcing Full-duplex on D-Link 530TX (via-rhine driver)

0.0.0 | UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 | RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 | TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 | collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ` Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What

I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

w my 96M automatically, while this 2.2.14 kernel compiled under potato seems to have problems with that. I used my old config file and did a "make oldconfig", so the only change is the compilation environment... Could the new compiler + libraries have to do with this? -- Arcady Genkin

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > : 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed > : in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? > > Do you own a Compaq? Nope. The mobo is an Abit BX6. The BIOS counts 96

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM >64

that remain will not get fixed. I recompiled the kernel and all the modules with gcc-2.7.2.3. The problem persists. Any further ideas? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Viewing powerpoint files

Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^) Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

se might be in if any. How about libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev etc.? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: RTL8139

e option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make > config'. If you do "make menuconfig", go to the very first option, "Code maturity level options", and say "Y" to "Prompt for development drivers". Then the driver will appe

ncurses upgrade to 5.0 left a dangling package behind

rmful | To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' | ?] ` Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Adress magnager

and am very satisfied. The records have all necessary fields, custom fields are supported, etc., is very easily searcheable, and integrates with emacs-based emailers to automatically expand email addresses. You can also snarf email addys from incoming messages by pressing just one ke

DeskJet 690 -series

read about utilizing this driver? Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Text conversion utils (dos2unix)

Which package do text conversion utilities come with? I'm looking for dos2unix primarily. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Text conversion utils (dos2unix)

Jan Ludewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 10:31:07AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Which package do text conversion utilities come with? I'm looking for > > dos2unix primarily. > > duconv I can't find this in dselect's list of

xcolorsel won't grab colors

: 91 (X_QueryColors) Value in failed request: 0x8000 Serial number of failed request: 1661 Current serial number in output stream: 1661 Any idea what this could be? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the

Re: ssh encryption

ge of data > takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the > username is passed in clear-text or encrypted when > using the -l option to ssh client. User name and password sent over ssh are encrypted. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'

CD-cataloguing program

Could somebody recommend a good cd-cataloguing program? It would be nice if it could handle data and audio cds, as well as read mp3 tags. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who

Batch rename files

1-member-01.txt | group-1-member-02.txt | ... | group-2-member-01.txt | ... ` The resulting files should have an identical portion `blah', and retain the original numerical parts. , | result-1-01.txt | result-1-02.txt | ... | result-2-01.txt | ... ` Thanks for any suggestion

Re: Cannot mount all CDs

them, though, can play and extract tracks from them just fine. There are also mixed-mode CDs, which have both data and audio tracks. Such CDs can be mounted, but you will only be able to see the data portion of the CD when you go to /mnt/cdrom or whatever other mount point you would choose. -- Arcady

Can't print from Gimp

:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp3:\ | :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ | :if=/etc/hpdj/hpdj-best:\ | :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: ` There's nothing at all in /var/log/lp-errs. I can print using Gimp's own HP DJ driver, but I really don&#x

Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class Typing "about:plugins" in netscape shows Flash installed. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Re: help with dselect

gt; > No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard > Mac m68k CD #1, so it shouldn't have any trouble. What on earth is it > wanting me to input? David, is the CD mounted? If not, have a look at mount command. -- Arcady Genkin

Re: Flash + Netscape (autodetection problems)

t to mention that when I had slink installed, the plugin worked fine with same sites, that are cureently not working under potato. Of course, this also means an upgrade from navigator 4.61 to 4.7. As an example, an intro at www.pizzahut.com used to work, but doesn't anymore. ;^( -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance

ons? Could the fact that the whole drive is one 30G ext2fs partition have anything to do with the slowness? Many thanks for any suggestions, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: Netscape 6 for Linux ?

egister Mozilla. All that said, either of the browsers is by no means a finished product. They are slow, bulky, and buggy. Gotta say that I love Mozilla's rendering engine + international languages support. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: ATA-100 disk under 2.2.18 -- horrible performance

newer? I used the first patch. Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

ne got a better idea ? What I do is ``chmod -x'' on the unwanted file in /etc/init.d/. This prevents them from being loaded. Essentially the same thing as you do, but I think that this way the script is going to be deleted if the package it belongs to is removed. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Suspend to RAM on a desktop computer

I've got this new ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard which supports suspending to RAM function. In the manual, though, it says that one needs Windows operating system to do that. Is there any chance to utilize this functionality with Linux? Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

the last rule (the one that ends in "|/dev/xconsole"), but it doesn't do the trick. Any input greately appreciated! -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

cron.d/exim file. This would let me turn off or reschedule the exim cron job; but how would that let me change the logging of its runs? -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

rather see. I *ony* wanted to get rid of cron logging its normal activities. In case anyone was following, changing the above to the following solved my problem. ,[ syslog.conf ] | daemon.*;mail.!*;\ | news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ | *.=debug;*.=info;\ | cron.!info;

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

uucp and local0 through |local7. ` As I wrote in my previous message, ever since I added "cron.!info;" to the line that pipes to /dev/xconsole, I am not seeing the exim cron notifications any more. Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: syslogd and exim cron job every 20 minutes

? >^^ Thank you, this seems to be the correct syntax. However, strangely my misspelled version cron.!info works too. ;^) -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

A secure FTP replacement

d POP3 and IMAP in SSL, FTP is my last worry. Thanks for any input. -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: A secure FTP replacement

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > Is sftp not available as a Debian package? Couldn't find it in > > dselect. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg -p sftp > Package: sftp > Priority: optional > Section: non-US > Filename: d

Control CPU fan's speed

are there utilities to do such thing from under Linux? Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

x yet lm_sensors > doesn't support the chip..so 50C is from the bios) Hmm... In my case the CPU is barely even warm. It's a PIII-667 (not overclocked). My questions still stands, though: are there any utilities for interacting with BIOS for this purpose, anyone? -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Perl 5.6 and potato

;m just starting out with Perl and need 5.6 because that's the version installed at school. Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.

Debian breaks commitment to support Lenny until after Wheezy is released

ations out there who are stuck in the same situation. I wonder what it would take to make Debian reconsider their decision with regards to termination of Lenny support, and stick with the promise from 2009. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2009/msg9.html [2] http://www.debian.org

Re: Debian breaks commitment to support Lenny until after Wheezy is released

for Lenny without an explicit announcement. -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cak7ktt9cdesqnp-cwcv-ssmhpfu7ccydudn3uhbztxuvfpa...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Debian breaks commitment to support Lenny until after Wheezy is released

nd. Do you mean to say that the Debian project was supposing that the larger organisations might want to operate without security support for a year or two?! > And I can't account for why you did not know of the Lenny end of support > date. My colleagues from a sibling network

Very slow LVM performance

to 256 Block device 254:0 Many thanks in advance for any pointers! -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti

Re: Very slow LVM performance

=1.0 --chunk=1024 /dev/md{0,5,1,6,2,7,3,8,4,9} Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilk5for3gq2w9kvajfe7vgzvqmagyjjbkvfl...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Very slow LVM performance

/s I would still like to know why LVM on top of RAID0 performs so poorly in our case. -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Very slow LVM performance

side note for your side note. :)) >From the man page to 'lvcreate' it seems that the -c option sets the chunk size for something snapshot-related, so it should have no bearing in our performance testing, which involved no snapshots. Am I misreading the man page? Thanks! -- Arcady

Re: Very slow LVM performance

ou get quite a bit of redundancy from doing the three-way mirroring. You are still redundant if you loose just one drive, and we are planning to have about four global hot spares standing by in case a drive fails. -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Very slow LVM performance

wish list. After dealing with all the idiosyncrasies of iSCSI and software RAID under Linux I am a bit skeptical whether what we are building is going to actually be better than a black-box fiber-attached RAID solution, but it surely is cheaper and more expandable. -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCR

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