Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999 8:38 AM Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. > Jim B wrote: > > > > That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I > > heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the > > free space kept getting l

Re: shell programing

I've found this site to be particularly helpful: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/ - Original Message - From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: shell programing > Is there any good online document for shell programing u

Upgrading to kernel 2.2

Hi, I'm currently running slink on kernel 2.0.37 and am looking into upgrading my kernel to the 2.2.x series. I remember having seen a page on the debian.org site which told of the pitfalls and considerations (i.e., what other software needs to be upgraded to remain compatible) of doing so; howeve

"S" file permissions

(Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.) Can someone explain what this execute bit means? IOW, what is the difference between "s" (suid) and "S" (?)? I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV standard. Someone else said it's "super-suid" or suid without eXecut

Re: "S" file permissions

al Message - From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-user Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:11 PM Subject: Re: "S" file permissions > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jim B wrote: > > > (Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.) > >

xinetd access control

This isn't Debian-specific, but I tried another list I'm on and didn't hear anything back Anyone else running xinetd (the inetd replacement)? I'm wondering if there's a way to use wildcards in the access control ("no_access"). For example, with inetd you could deny: .aol.com and that line

slink bug(?): /etc/limits permissions

Hi all, please see this excerpt from the man page for /etc/limits: LIMITS(5) LIMITS(5) NAME limits - Resource limits definition DESCRIPTION The limits file (/etc/limits by default or LIMITS_FILE defined config.h) describes th

gnome-card-games

when I run /usr/bin/sol, I get this error: guile: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.2" "/usr/share/guile" ".") anybody know how to fix this/where to find require.scm ? (the contents search on www.debian.org seems to be down...) -brad -- Unsubsc

gnome-card-games

back, and in that reply, include the response of the computer to the above command... thanks ;-p -brad On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, B. Bell wrote: > when I run /usr/bin/sol, I get this error: > > guile: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guile/site" > "/u

guile problem Re: gnome-card-games

re.scm interpreters/scm > usr/lib/slib/require.scm devel/slib B. Bell wrote: > when I run /usr/bin/sol, I get this error: > > guile: Could not find slib/require.scm in ("/usr/share/guile/site" > "/usr/share/guile/1.2" "

Re: apt - priorities?

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > > When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian > > archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same > > version of a package is found on more than one site?

Re: apt - priorities?

On 10 Aug 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > B Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BB> and either way, for all of the packages which are in both hamm and slink, > BB> dselect wants to upgrade to the slink versions... > > slink tends to have newer versions of things than hamm,

Re: procmail

> What's the best recipe to use with this list for procmail? Here is my procmail recipe. :0 ^TOdebian { :0 c IN.debian :0 b | gzip >> debian.gz } --- saisanthosh

Window Maker problem

talled all the required libraries. What is the problem ? Thanks in Advance. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Saisanthosh. B e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc : santhosh@ #linux (irc.concentric.net, irc.debian.org, undernet) homepage: http://santhosh.home.ml.org (under-construction !!) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--

shaper module documentation

Can someone point me to the documentation to configure the traffic shaper module for the kernel? TIA, Lawrence Baker

Re: newbie help....

> 05:34:36 yoda:~/tmp/pine4.03$ build slx > Cannot stat debian/rules type "./build slx" and not "build slx", because there is a build in /usr/bin -- ------ Saisanthosh. B | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Ramdisk issue fixed - now it's a LILO problem

sector addresses) -- ------ Saisanthosh. B | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Sendmail Problems

How do I prevent Sendmail (8.8.8) from doing a DNS lookup when sending an e-mail. The Sendmail FAQ states that : With version 8.8, you change the service switch file to omit "DNS" and use only NIS, files, and other map types as appropriate. I tried omitting DNS in "hosts" of /etc/nsswit

Re: Win98 <=> Linux via E-net

rding and setting up IP-masquerading. -- -- Saisanthosh. B | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: X wallpaper

d where in the config files to set it up. add "xv --root --quit " in your X startup file. -- ------ Saisanthosh. B | [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

CONFIRM s062514302514253

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Multiple ethernet cards

Using Hamm - 2.0.33 monolithic kernel with ne compiled in. Trying to get two ne2000 cards to work. Doesn't seen to operate like 1.3. Putting the hardware parameters in lilo.conf doesn't seem to have any effect. Also, the mini-howto for multiple ethernets seems to have dissapeared off the net.

XScreenSaver: XRazzle

If anyone out there likes XScreenSaver, I've got a pretty cool hack you can try out. I ported it from the svgalib program razzle, and it really shines as a screen saver, I think. It draws animated stereoscopic abstract designs (the kind where you hafta cross your eyes...), with color-cycling. It

Replacement for ftpd

Some time ago, someone recommended a good simple replacement for the stock ftpd (not wu ftpd). I have looked through old messages but cannot locate it so I must ask again? TIA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Communicator installation again

I have been downloading it from the neetscape ftp site using the lynx browser. I don't know if it is binary or text. I was just following directions I found in a book. It seemed much easier than using an ftp program I have never used before. Is there any way to tell if a file is binary or t

Install not going through after SCSI0

ave an AIC-7850 and changed my install.bat file to have the following in it: loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin aic7xxx=no_probe , but I get the same results. I'd appreciate getting some help with this. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.co

Install not going through after SCSI0

#x27;ve also tried typing: linux aic7xxx=no_probe and am getting the same thing too. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

apt-get KDE?

Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to apt-get KDE. I'm having trouble finding that. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: apt-get KDE?

use? Also, how come none of the FTP sites listed at KDE's web site have a DEB package for the kde installer program? They have all the other packages except the one that I'd need to get the ball rolling. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx

RE: apt-get KDE?

won't have to deal with this. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: Netscape

I've used on Linux. I'm looking forward to the Opera betas for Linux and am hoping to see improvements in NSN from the Mozilla project. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

e need to ftp the file between one > system and the other? NoteTab Pro is the text editor I use in Windows and it lets you save files in the Unix format. Have a look at: http://www.notetab.com -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering

KDE doesn't start after crash

XConnect: Can't connect: errno=2 -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: ICQ client

eems closest to the real thing, but that one doesn't do file or chat last time I checked. Gnome ICU is pretty complete. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Matrox G400

Hi, I'd like to get a new graphics card and was wondering how well the Matrox G400 is supported on Linux. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: Matrox G400

> G200 8MB AGP, works great. I show XFree86 version 3.3.3.1 having > support for G400 16MB video. I'd guess it also works well. Does the amount of MB part make a difference? I was thinking about a G400 32MB. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafy

RE: Matrox G400

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Mozilla on Linux

? Is there a way to get around them? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

24-bit color with 1024x768 instead of 16-bit

7;m able to use 1024x768 with is 16-bit. Since I do things with graphics a lot (and on my particular setup, 16-bit colors is yucky since gradients aren't smooth at all), I'd really like to have 24-bit colors at 1024x768. Any suggestions? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

better. Not to put down this one, though, but on that one, every one of my questions were answered with at least five responses. Here, I see questions go buy unanswered, which really sucks, especially if you have the same question or if you're the one who asked it. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTEC

Setting up Soundcard

gured yet. * Thanks -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Disk Druid

first, then create the partition with the mount point, and copy the stuff back to /var . If I can't have Disk Druid, are there any alternatives? What about a graphical partitioning program like Partition Magic that'll work in KDE? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx

Configuring Logitech mouse buttons

Hello, I have a Logitech Trackman MarbleFX trackball and I was wondering if it's possible in Linux to configure one of the extra buttons (there are four) to do double-clicking. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering

ppp scripting

I'm looking for a way to force my pppd to cycle through the several dial-up numbers I use for my ISP if any of them fails. If one of their lines is down or doesn't answer, I'd like to automatically dial one of their other numbers. I could probably write up a script to do this but I'm wondering wh

RE: XDM startup?

der. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: ssh

/stable/non-us/ssh.html -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: ssh

about ssh being exported to outside the U.S., but I didn't read far enough as it looks like using a mirror outside of the U.S. like you did would be fine. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

KDE 2.0

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has tried KDE 2.0. If so, how stable was it? Especially compared to Windows9x? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

kick-start the installation. Floppies are a PITA, IMO. Too slow. After I had the base install done, I just got everything I needed through apt. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest

Startup hangs because of bad partition

hat makes any difference. If I could just edit /etc/fstab, everything would be fine. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

ICQ Debian users?

Hello, I was wondering if there are any Debian users here who use ICQ and wouldn't mind me asking them questions if I had problems. My ICQ number is 4982727 . Feel free to add me to your list if you wouldn't mind. Thanks. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Gr

RE: Other KDE apt sources?

it reaches beta status). Really?!? That's exactly why I needed the TDYC apt source, so I can try out KDE 2.0. When is it expected to reach beta status? What about other apt sources out there? It's always nice to be able to try a different site if one fails. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Startup hangs because of bad partition

> try mounting our /usr partition - some editor should be there... Yep, that's exactly what I did. Noticed /usr wasn't mounted so I mounted it and was able to use an editor. Everything is fine now. Thanks everyone. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://ww

RE: Other KDE apt sources?

E just have one place? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

cluster size

What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out. There must be some program that will tell me this... no? TIA.

Re: APM doesn't really work

David Kanter wrote: > > I compiled a new kernel last night with APM support. When I boot up, I get > the message about APM BIOS. However, it doesn't work all that well. > On my Hamm system, I had a hell of a time just getting my monitor to shut down let alone suspend the system or put it on st

Re: video permissions

This may help, but only if you are using a 3dfx card http://www.netroedge.com/~phil/3dfx-howto.html "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > Nope, not really. The trouble is that the video hardware isn't accessed > through a > device. It's accessed using privileged

Fonts

I really like the way X works on my Hamm system. The only complaint I have is with the font quality. Sometimes they look fine for example as I type this message, and other times they look really crappy. The biggest problem I have is with Netscape Navigator. Sometimes the fonts are too small and

SWAT: How to do it right

I was reading one of the replies to another thread about ease of use v.s. power and flexibility. The author made an example out of SWAT. Since I run Samba and have never activited it, I figured I would fire it up and check it out. He was absolutely right...its beautiful. I'm really impressed.

since we're on the subject of partitioning... :)

This one's a quickie. I had a 1.2 gb which was split with a 64 MB swap and the rest was the primary partition (ext2). Now I have a new disk as hda, a 17 gb, and everything's fine. I set up my old disk as hdb. blah blah blah... However I'd like to reclaim that old 64 MB swap partition and use i

Re: Brand spankin new user...

Soul Existance wrote: > > ... so is it going to destroy any data on my win98 partition, or when > i do this change, does it only partition the 3 gigs i set aside... You will be using Linux fdisk to create your root and swap partitions during the installation. You will see your dos partition w

xconsole

Hello list people; Anyone out there know what it takes to get xconsole working as not root. All I get is a "Couldn't open console" message. The man page isn't much help and there are no debuging options. I tried chmod'ing /dev/xconsole and /dev/tty0 but it didn't make any difference. This is a

Re: sb16

> However, i did not even get > an message in the startup. I am running an SB16 as well. If you don't see something like this; Sound initialization started at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5 at 0x330 irq 5 at 0x388 Sound initialization complete during kerenel initialization, then you have not compile

Re: hi i got a question

Scott Henry wrote: > Medium answer: > > WinModem (and other Win* hardware) is a really stupid idea: > cripple the hardware to save a few manufacturing bucks. > And unless you have a pretty fast system, you take a big performance hit too. What a rip-off.

Re: PCMCIA (?) Ethernet problem

"Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > I'm installing Debian 2.1 onto a Zenith "Z*Star EX", a 486/50MHz > laptop w/8MB RAM and a 300MB HD. Sorry I don't have any technical help to offer you on this. But I would like to tell you this; The very first time I installed Linux, in '95, was on one of those

Re: "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"

Gary Young wrote: > > Some change between the kernel in Debian 2.0 > and in Debian 2.1 fails on something in my > hardware. I'll look at what hardware is > in the box next. > Hamm uses 2.0.34 while Slink uses 2.0.36 The only obvious difference I have noticed is that 2.0.36 is able to proble I

tailing rotating log files

Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. For example: tail -f /var/log/messages However, tail does not "move" to the new "messages" (or whatever) log file when they are rotated by savelog. So for example, I will still see the last lines from the old messages file

Re: tailing rotating log files

g (perhaps using equivs) in order to make it think I've upgraded the package. b) get potato source deb and make an slink package, which should take care of dpkg's concerns. c) other methods? "b" sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure how to do it at the moment, never

md5sum of a cd

I just burned some CDs from their ISO images. I have the m5dsums of the images, and now I'd like to compare a hash of the completed CD against the original image... basically I want to make sure the CD was burned ok. I'm concerned because the hard drive I downloaded the ISOs to was bad, and I had

DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

tion (which I had up only for testing MSIE3 since Win98 won't allow it) and replaced it with a /var partition. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com ** Good deal for magazine subscriptions/renewals while helping my school: http://www.gigabee.com/magazines/

Debian images with newer kernel

Hello, Where can I find the rescue and other disk images for Debian with the newer kernels? When I went to the potato directory and got them from there, the kernel was 2.0.x. Isn't it up to 2.1.x or 2.2.x now? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafy

RE: Getting The Most Out Of APT

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RE: Debian images with newer kernel

nning. I've tried this a couple times with floppies and also from a DOS partition and this happens every single time. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com ** Good deal for magazine subscriptions/renewals while helping my school: http://www.gigabee.com/magazines/

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

e a way to run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive itself is the problem? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

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Flat-panel monitors?

Hi, I was wondering what luck, if any, you guys have had with flat panel monitors in Debian. Has everything worked as it should? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

r messages and asked what they could be caused by. Do you want a list of every single piece of hardware on my computer? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: Flat-panel monitors?

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RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

that it had to do with hardware. I'll find out what type of harddrive I have tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it's either a Mitsumi or a Toshiba IDE drive. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

herwise, I'd start down the "turn off go faster modes until it works > reliably" track as already suggested; the same approach can fix Sig-11s. > Check out the tool hdparm as well as tweaking the dma in the kernel. I'll try the hdparm thing and some of you guys' other s

RE: Sun goes fully open source!

nd > they > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them > anything truly worthwhile in return. Well it's better than Microsoft capitalizing off others without giving them anything worthwhile at all. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:498

RE: Slink to Potato

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RE: In case anyone was wondering where kde.tdyc.com went.

alf of the KDE mirrors out there to mirror the apt sources would be heaven. Gnome has a buttload of apt sources, why can't KDE? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

Re: Mounting my cdrom

>mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist Sounds like /dev/cdrom is symlinked to the wrong "real" device. What device is your CDROM? Probably hdc or hdd? hda = primary master hdb = primary slave hdc = secondary master hdd = secondary slave Try mount /dev/hd? /mnt Once you get it w

Re: checking promiscuous mode

You would see the promiscuous flag in the device configuration when you run ifconfig. If it's not there, it's not running in promiscuous mode. ifconfig -a or ifconfig - Original Message - From: Eugene Sevinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:44 PM Subject: che

Re: XDM to KDM

You could run /usr/sbin/switchdm to change your default display manager. Regarding the xdm start-up scripts: you will find them in your /etc/rc#.d/ directories. The easiest way to disable it from boot-up is to run: update-rc.d -f xdm remove Check the man pages on update-rc.d though, before you

Lockup

My Linux box locked up on me this morning. Running the stock Debian 2.1/Linux 2.0.36 kernel... and only two services, telnet (from xinetd) and SSHD1 (current version). It runs all the time over a dial-up PPP connection... but I couldn't log into it when I got to work this morning; I figured maybe

Re: slink ifconfig broken

"ifconfig -a" will show aliased interfaces, though. - Original Message - From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 6:14 PM Subject: slink ifconfig broken > > Just a note that ifconfig on slink will not show aliased interfaces. > > The source for potato back

Umm... slink and potato bug?

The version of lsof that I see in the slink and potato dists is only usable on kernels up to 2.0.35. Yet slink is a 2.0.36 kernel, and potato is a 2.2.x kernel... which means the lsof included with the distro is unusable. Is this a distro bug or am I just missing something?

mail clients

Hi all. Is there a good POP3 and/or IMAP4 client (console or GUI, doesn't matter) that supports multiple accounts with easy switching between them... and that can filter based on the "account" concept rather than just on headers? If I'm not making sense, I'm looking for something for Linux that c

Re: mail clients

> Windows is not Linux. Linux is not Windows. This is not about "what OS is for whom," "who is what kind of user," or anything like that. The question is: "Does a client with these features exist for the Linux platform?" If one does not, it would be nice if somebody made one. It doesn't have to

Re: ping duplicate packets

Note that you also could get dupes as a result of the client PC, i.e. the one FROM which you are pinging your Linux machine. I saw this happen a couple times at my old job... a kid was pinging a host from a Win95 PC and was getting dupes... it turned out that he had Client for Microsoft Networks i

seemingly random lock-ups

My machine (Debian 2.1 slink, stock kernel (2.0.36)) has been locking up on me unpredictably. This occurs every several (3-4 on average) days and has been happening ever since I installed Linux on this machine. (There is no other OS on there.) My hardware is an Intel 200 MMX CPU on an Asus PI-P5

Re: Removing a pid

Perhaps you have a "left-over" .pid file in /var/run/ . - Original Message - From: Johann Spies at Johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-poslys Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:13 AM Subject: Re: Removing a pid > On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ralph Winslow w

RE: In case anyone was wondering where kde.tdyc.com went.

folks, then? Why don't the mirrors for KDE have apt-ing setup? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

RE: Last potato linuxlogo

looked for all the images I could use (I think linux_logo --help is where I found out what those were), none of them had the swirl. I'd appreciate knowing why that happened too. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.

RE: Three questions

ve had trouble with them myself, although Linux *is* relatively new with its popularity and I'd imagine all this would be cleared up in a year from now when Bill Gates will be the head chef of McDonald's. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgra

Microsoft posts Linux myths

Hi everyone, I found a Wired article with a link to this Microsoft document, titled "Linux Myths": http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljre

Mail arriving late

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DDP Manuals

Are the DDP Manuals, Web pages available as debs (or gz's) for offline reading ? Saisanthosh B -- "All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory..." (By Larry Wall)

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