Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread John Goerzen
;ll be 20 years old at least), it's not at all a stretch to say that the 32-bit machines from the late 1990s or early 2000s will still be around in 2038. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powe

HTML ToC generators?

1998-05-20 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I have a large collection of webpages and I am looking for something to generate a Table of Contents (eg, site index). I don't need a search tool -- something that just spits out HTML will be fine. Any ideas where to find such a thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-26 Thread John Goerzen
. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capitol

Re: Is there any program like ICQ ? Thanks ! ;)

1998-05-27 Thread John Goerzen
Stuart Krivis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 26 May 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > > > There are several Linux solutions that provide an extended subset of > > the ICQ functionality. You may want to take a look at ytalk and IRC. > > Or you could use ICQ for Java.

Re: cd writers & linux

1998-06-13 Thread John Goerzen
RIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |

Re: e2defrag-problem

1998-06-14 Thread John Goerzen
L PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg > Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe > Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 > The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | --

Re: Holy Water in my system? Daemons keep dying . . .

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
OK, I don't mind that as long as the bug is left open (with severity downgraded, of course). John Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > Or, just put a 2 second sleep between the kill and start in the > > &

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
The fact is -- if we require research beforehand, there will be FAR fewer reports. I for one will not submit any (or very few at least) bug reports if this happens. This will end up hurting Debian seriously. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug reporting proceedure, was Re: Bug#24066: libc6: rsh segfaults as , a result of new libc 2.0.7r2

1998-07-15 Thread John Goerzen
oject by reporting a bug. I often don't have time to figure out the problem and end up deleting packages if they're non-essential -- or doing some quick hack to fix it. BTW, while we're on this topic, I am ASTOUNDED at the number of packages that display messages in postinst but don&#x

Re: XFree86 is 3.3.3.

1999-02-16 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 09:23:34AM +1300, David Zanetti wrote: > That is, until it dselect comes along an upgrades the X servers :( > > Several times already my 3.3.3 SVGA server has been nuked by dselect, > and 3.3.2 doesn't support my TNT board :( This would imply that you're using 3.3.3 debs

Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 packaged.

1999-02-20 Thread John Goerzen
Is this built with the Sparc and Alpha patches, so those of us not on x86 can try it out too? Thanks, John Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'lo, > > If you feel bored this WE or happen to have one of those gfx cards > supported only in the most recents XFree86 releases, you may wa

Re: cdu31a

1999-02-22 Thread John Goerzen
Hello Andrea, The kernel sources list the following as possible addresses: { 0x340, 0 },/* Standard configuration Sony Interface */ { 0x1f88,0 },/* Fusion CD-16 */ { 0x230, 0 },/* SoundBlaster 16 card */ { 0x360, 0 },/* Secondary standard Sony Interface

Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
Jerry, It would be *very* helpful if you could include the exact error messages that you get, word-for-word, what you were doing when you received them, and how to reproduce. Otherwise, we really have no idea what to do to fix. However, you can wipe out the partition table and master boot record

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread John Goerzen
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wrote: > > 12:00 noon, please. 12:00 pm is midnight... > > Pann McCuaig writes: > > I don't think so. 12:00pm is noon > > PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 hours > after noon, or midnight. No. By your logic, 12:01

Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!

1999-03-11 Thread John Goerzen
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > PM stands for post meridiem, which means after noon. Thus 12PM is 12 > > > hours > > > after noon, or midnight. > > > > No. By your logic, 12:01 PM is 12 hours and one minute after noon. > > > > 12:00 PM is noon, because the time switche

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread John Goerzen
Max, I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an "unstable" and development kernel could have its risks. Have

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
Max Kamenetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, I haven't tried downgrading yet, though I know that the problem is not > with the kernel version. I get the same problem with kernel 2.2.3. I'd > also be very surprised if this were an MTA problem because pine works > fine. I haven't tried downgr

Re: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-01 Thread John Goerzen
Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > it's a TV/Radio tuner which works under all the winblows versions > > Just because it works with Windows doesnt guarantee it's work with Linux. > It's a WinTV card. Basicly, logic suggests it's a Win-hardware, and > therefor you can not use it with L

Re: Web-based email for Debian

1999-01-02 Thread John Goerzen
There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words web mail, you'll find about a dozen. -- John On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:35:39AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based > e-mail system that would fit

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Two ways to find this: 1. grep or zgrep through Contents-i386, located in dists/unstable/ or dists/stable; 2. use dpkg -S libpq.so.1 John On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 06:21:47PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What package own /usr/lib/postgresql/d

Re: What owns a piece of postgresql...

1999-01-26 Thread John Goerzen
Ahh, no ideas then. Try writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to reach the maintainer; he may be able to help, or it may be a bug in the package. -- John On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -0600, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999,

Re: function keys

1999-01-29 Thread John Goerzen
I'm not so sure there's really a problem. As long as xterm is generating codes that match the "xterm" terminfo spec, and the console is generating codes that match the "linux" terminfo spec, what's the problem? On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:49:42PM -0600, dan wrote: > Currently, the function keys i

Re: scsi tape

1999-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:23:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: > > Hi Debian Users: > > The question is: can I use SCSI disk drives currently running with an > Adaptec 2840 SCSI controller with Bus Logic controller? I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. There's not much point to havi

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:30:35PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: >Gee, that sounds familiar! ;-) > >Yes, Linux's learning curve is pretty steep, and you can't just overwhelm > the system either (at least I can't!). You're taking the right tack -- you > have to relax, plug away, keep trying

Re: Slink CDs available

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, Will you be making CD images of the other architectures to be carried in slink as well, so those can be tested? Thanks, John On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:59:11AM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote: > > With the Bug count under 20 now, I figure it's time for some final > testing of Slink. > > For CD

Re: [whine] "Power down." vs "System halted."

1999-02-03 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I belive we now use the POWER_OFF mechanism by default as machines with > APM bioses and ATX power supplies actualy do shut off. My Alpha, which has zero APM suport either in the BIOS or in the kernel, also displays that message.

Re: [Debian]: Deutsche Manpages

1999-04-21 Thread John Goerzen
Kurt, Entschuldigen Sie bitte meine Grammatik. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch. Wenn Sie Debian 2.1 haben, koennen Sie dies tun: Zuerst installieren Sie die Pakete "manpages-de" und "manpages-de-dev". Dann schreiben Sie: export LANG=de_DE Jetzt koennen Sie schreiben, zum Beispiel: man

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-27 Thread John Goerzen
gt; have already synched to Slink should do this ASAP! > > Sorry for the confusion, > -- > Rick Nelson > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D

Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2

1998-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? > : It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailt

Alternatives to NIS?

1997-12-16 Thread John Goerzen
secure solution than NIS. Regards, John Goerzen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: best Linux video card

1997-12-24 Thread John Goerzen
__o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ > PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"Lo importante es el concepto" > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-25 Thread John Goerzen
; -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www

Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
rzen jgoerzen 1462290432 Jan 26 20:46 test Kernel 2.0.33, libc6. This is well over a gig. John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check

Re: MWave Modem

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
r MWave devices in linux, > mainly because IBM/(what is their name ?) won't provide documentaion > without lots of legal/economic strings. > > -- > Stephen > --- > "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
PROTECTED] (the linux-kernel mailing list served by majordomo). They might be able to help. > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-07 Thread John Goerzen
mp; 20.3 ;-)? > > Thanks > Jerry > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.de

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-08 Thread John Goerzen
eed? I'm probably > making a silly mistake, but it's not immediately obvious to me what it is. > Ideas? > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
8:11:54 1997 > Return-Path: > Received: from mail.midusa.net ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1]) > by complete.org (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP > id SAA10403 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 18:11:54 -0600 > Received: from master.debian.org by services.midusa.net via SMTP > (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI.AUTO) > for jgoerzen id RAA02059; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:17:11 -0600 > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:17:11 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: /etc/alternatives -- Why?

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
> > What is the /etc/alternatives directory for. I mean, what's the > philosophy behind it? > > Thanks > Paul Serice > It lets people have two programs with the same name on the system at once. Examples: nvi, vim, etc: install as vi xemacs, emacs: both install

Re: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
s in advance. > > -alex > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Live filesystem on CDs

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, just an observation here. (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.) > > Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9? > > Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.? If not, this ma

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-02 Thread John Goerzen
> John Goerzen writes: > > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will > > **NOT** work with lprng. > > Why won't samba not work with it? Please file an appropriate bug against > the samba package. Because Samba depends on the outpu

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-02 Thread John Goerzen
On Mar 2, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, > > > will **NOT** work with lprng. > > > &

Re: 56k baud modem (x2)

1997-03-03 Thread John Goerzen
I don't know why not. There is nothing different about the modem <-> computer interface, AFAIK. On Mar 2, Gregory Vence wrote: > Is the 56kb USRupgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :) > > Thanx -- Greg. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/L

Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)

1997-03-03 Thread John Goerzen
if I tried the second thing, but lpq, lprm, and lpr all worked fine from the local box, and lpr worked from Win95. If somebody could print, I would think that they would also have permission to view the queue. On Mar 3, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, John Go

Re: cdwrite / hybrid cd's

1997-05-03 Thread John Goerzen
You might check into the cdrecord program. Also, there is a list at pixar.com (cdwrite or cdrecord list or some such) that may be of use. Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to make a hybrid CD on Linux? I guess cdwrite just > writes an image file onto the CD, so the ques

Who's using Debian?

1997-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
.html I'll probably also make a mirror of it somewhere... -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Debian install on multiple machines

1997-05-28 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, What is the easiest way to install an identical set of packages on multiple machines? That is, at install time, I want it to select the same packages to install, rather than manually having to select packages on each machine. Thanks, John Goerzen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: xdm???

1997-06-01 Thread John Goerzen
but the > X login prompt never appears. Anyone know how to get this to work? Did you check /var/log/xdm-errors? That is the first place to check in the event of trouble. Secondly, did you try to start xdm when you already had an X session running? If so, that is a mistake. -- John Goerzen

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
startx or xinit, you can set up an alias. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
/cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Prog

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
Look for an option something like: * Drop carrier on DTR low * Disconnect on DTR low If I remember correctly, it is an AT&Dx command, but I'm not completely sure. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Just killing pppd will do it

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
ives. > > Simon Karpen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT." > --Larry McVoy > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-12 Thread John Goerzen
ll going strong. Considering that they were all cheap IDE drives, originally installed in a poorly-ventilated case, it is not bad. John > > --Simon > > On 10 Oct 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I've had nothing but good luck with Seagate and Western Digital.

Booting to SCSI

1997-10-15 Thread John Goerzen
drive instead of the IDE drive? Yes, I know I can make the LILO in the MBR of the IDE drive point to the Linux partition on the SCSI drive, and I have done this; but I would perfer a better solution. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debia

Re: A quickie on telnet

1997-10-15 Thread John Goerzen
gt; > Any ideas, or do I have to re-write in C using sockets (bleah)? > > --Mike > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen

Re: CDR drive replacement.

1997-10-17 Thread John Goerzen
isn't in 2.0.29.) I have had good luck with this drive with all sorts of various media. I have not experienced any problems with data loss on any media, as sometimes occurs with CDR drives. I have used both the genuine HP media and the cheap Pioneer media without difficulty. -- John Goerzen

CD recording question

1997-11-12 Thread John Goerzen
and better way to do it. Converting to wavs and back seems rather cumbersome. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks! John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS

Re: CD recording question

1997-11-13 Thread John Goerzen
Unfortunately not. This being an audio CD and not a data one, that doesn't work :-( Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am looking for a good program to read audio from an audio CD and > > store it in a file sui

Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-19 Thread John Goerzen
Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 > 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 > Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble?

Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-23 Thread John Goerzen
would, of course, solve everything. It does now come with PPP support. You just have to know how to configure it. (Which really isn't all that hard) -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EM

Video capture boards and Linux

1997-11-29 Thread John Goerzen
Does Debian/Linux support any video capture boards? If so, what software is needed and what boards are supported? Thanks, John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS

Debian over NFS

1997-06-18 Thread John Goerzen
try to install on the client since it would fail if it tries to write anything in /usr. * How do I remove packages? Again, if I remove from the server, there may still be files left in the client's /etc and /var directories. * What is the suggested method for going about this?

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
> > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- T

Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
> -- > Raja R Harinath -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom > "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LI

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
s. There have already been exploits made public on Bugtraq, I believe. And once Communicator for Linux is officially released, we won't have to worry about it any more. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUB

Re: Anyone has seen this before?

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
he FreeBSD driver a shot. Make sure you have no cabling problems (long cable runs, etc). -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Netscape bug: Newbies using root

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

Re: Quotas & AMD

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
p-me. :-) > > > Thanks in advance, > Felix Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Deb

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
> > What am I doing wrong? Look: "1024x768" is not the same as "1024X768". > easiest way is to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. Mine looks like: Better: edit XF86Config and specify a default color depth. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.

Re: setting & switching screen densities

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
> rates in XF86Setup, and the defined modes will have low enough refresh > rates for the video card to cope with. The older xf86config program > used to provide a lot more modes apparently. Has anyone noticed this > before? Yes, although I had not identified the cause like you

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Yes, that is true. This is precisely why this is not such a big deal for us, although it may be for people running Windows... Jim Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Let's not over-react, please. This bug *only* allows peopl

Re: BIG NetScape Bug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (fwd)

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
;s this thing called an "Upgrade", you know -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Xlib3.3 server probs

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
problem as well. > > Two solutions. You can allow any user to run apps by executing: > > xhosts + Ick, ick, ouch! NEVER do that! > > The second solution is to add specific users to your .Xauthority file > using the xauth program. See man pages for details. &

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
g up > itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to > turn off this feature? > > Thanks for help in advance ! > > Anthony > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: X11 Problems

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
ST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
ROTECTED] . > > > > > Help! I'm modeming... and I can't hang up!!! >,, / > ( "> > _(->)-> > .' ^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `-> Bitburn Access. > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Re: X newreader

1997-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
gt; Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+---

Re: [Common Lisp] I'm working on the clisp package...

1997-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
How does this differ from gcl (GNU Common Lisp)? Thanks, John Goerzen Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The new version of clisp was released today from it's upstream source. > I'm going to package it for debian, probably this weekend. If you use > clisp

Re: Netscape ?

1997-09-01 Thread John Goerzen
--- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Progra

Re: integrate X-programms

1997-09-01 Thread John Goerzen
n the X-screen? > > There is currently just the desktop and a shell for input. > > I still haven't figured out how to make custom menus yet. I do know that > it involves editing your .Xresources or .Xsession files, something like > that anyways. No, you edit your wind

Re: UW SCSI Card

1997-09-03 Thread John Goerzen
t AHA 2940UW. > I was wondering if people had experience with those and/or if there is another > suggestiong (Buslogic?) > > Thanks, > Luis. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Troub

Re: offlineimap duplicating emails

2004-12-24 Thread John Goerzen
ges in it for testing... send along a dump of -1 -d imap and a ls -lR over your Maildir tree. -- John -- John Goerzen Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: POPmail and procmail

1996-12-09 Thread John Goerzen
ool. It doesn't use sendmail. You can simulate it, though, by running: procmail -o spoolfile other options cat spoolfile | formail -s procmail rm spoolfile -- John Goerzen | System administrator & owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Net

Re: What's the problem?

1996-12-17 Thread John Goerzen
ogin, rsh, ftp, and finger connections. You can do this by editing /etc/inetd.conf file. Now I may be totally off on this and it could be a different problem. As I said, I am grasping at straws. But it won't hurt you to make your system a bit mroe secure anyway :-) -- John Goerzen

Problems with Talk under Debian

1996-12-22 Thread John Goerzen
ins the word "complete". This file is fed to the hostname program at boot time by using hostname --file. -- John Goerzen | System administrator & owner, The Communications Custom programming| Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix

Cron doesn't start

1997-01-05 Thread John Goerzen
hould be. This is Debian 1.2 Thanks for any help. John Goerzen -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

Re: Cron doesn't start

1997-01-05 Thread John Goerzen
> Instead, do "update-rc.d cron defaults". > > This is in the "Debian-1.2 installation problems list" posted here by Dale > Scheetz. OK. That worked! Thanks for the tip. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming

Re: Fw: Novell and Linux

1997-01-12 Thread John Goerzen
owto. If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: emergency action

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
ot; and it should take you to the shell prompt. You may also try "Linux 1" if Linux -emergency doesn't work. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
riate major and minor device numbers. Any > suggestions? By the way, the drive is hooked to a Sony controller. Here's the entry for your reference: brw-r--r-- 1 root root 15, 0 Dec 27 18:23 /dev/sonycd -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Cus

Re: Diald Problems....

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
> Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did > not. Probable configuration error. I've been getting the same error for quite some time. Everything seems to work, though. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom

Re: Sony cdu31a problem

1997-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
considered "old technology" > and ignored. Considering that I'm running on a 33MHz 386, I think that > older machines still have a lot of life left in them, particularly with Linux. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMA

Re: PPP and /contrib

1997-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
mailed to a newsgroup, etc..) :) Maybe I'm just too paranoid, but I just > have to ask. Those packages, generally, are no less safe -- they're just not "officially" supported (often due to copyright and/or licensing restrictions). -- John Goerzen | Running Debian G

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
a configuration > file directly. > -Walter > > The system I intend to run it on is the university system running > slackware. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread John Goerzen
ternal file to handle the sorting > for you. It doesn't need filename completion because it is all I am not aware of a different reader for Unix that does automatic filtering without editing an external file. Anyway, it's very easy to set up. -- John Goerzen | Runnin

Re: dselect for newbies

1997-01-17 Thread John Goerzen
update, select "selecT" if desired, and then go to Install. Works nicely for me. Regards, John Goerzen -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: setting up authentification for reading news

1997-01-17 Thread John Goerzen
te a .newsauth file; in SLRN, it is an entry in .slrnrc. See the manpages for those programs for more detail. Search for "authentication". -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

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