Partitioning/Dual Booting

1998-06-25 Thread M. Phillips
2 or more OSes, but I've since lost/given away the issue, and I'd like to hear it from a user more experienced than myself in the area. Again, help is most appreciated. Thanks in advance, M. Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

sendmail's refusal

1998-07-18 Thread M. Dakin
I am using an older hamm (installed end of May), and sendmail is refusing to send mail to users not on the machine. For example: % sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unrecognized host name mit.edu. ^c % sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unrecognized host name transien

Re: Transfering mail from netscape

1999-02-23 Thread Mark M
This may not be the ultimate in mail tranferral ideas, but here is an idea...if you don't mind the messages having a forward header on them. 1. Set up smail to accept smtp mail (if not already done so) 2. In netscape, set up the smtp server as 127.0.0.1 3. Forward all your messages to [EMAIL PR

from a newbie

1999-03-06 Thread Ramakrishnan M
ias ramOO --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA " Software is like sex;It's better when it's free " -Linus Torvalds ---

Re: netscape

1999-03-07 Thread Ramakrishnan M
stalled whereas netscape requires libc5.So install libc5 compatibility paclage from your Debian CD. ramOO --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA " Sof

Re: writing device drivers for fbsd

1999-03-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
by Alexandro Rubini published by O'Reilly.It is a bit costly (by indian standards,so I do not have it).I don't know whether it contains anything on fbsd. --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Techn

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-12 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Ramakrishnan --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA " Software is like sex;It's better when it's free " -Linus Torvalds ---

debian-user-list archive in tar.gz format???

1999-03-13 Thread Ramakrishnan M
--- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA " Software is like sex;It's better when it's free " -Linus Torvalds ---

Re: Why not Debian? (real-time proto with linux!)

1999-03-17 Thread Ramakrishnan M
something called RT-Linux :- see http://luz.cs.nmt.edu/~rtlinux/ Ramakrishnan --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA " Software is like sex;It&#

Re: error - SIOCADDRT

1999-03-19 Thread Ramakrishnan M
n user list. --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA " Software is like sex;It's better when it's free " -Linus Torvalds ---

disabling X connections from a remote systems

1999-04-05 Thread Ramakrishnan M
I have a computer here,which is relatively slow one.Recently I noticed that people from other labs are logging in and exporting display and using netscape.I would like to disable this without using xhost - .What files should I modify TIA -- Ramakrishnan M --

joining help

1999-01-26 Thread m n
hi, i'm new to Linux. i'd like to join your project. thanks. bye __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

3.3.4-1 -> Netscape 4.51 Crashes

1999-09-01 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for flogging an already dead horse, but I believe that upgrading to xfree86 3.3.4-1 may cause the revered netscape 4.51 solution to fail For me, ns4.51 caused X3.3.4-1 to crash completely on minimising windows. ns4.6glibc2 continued to give bus errors on exiting windows but X stayed u

Resizing "/" using ext2resize

1999-09-14 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hello have anybody tried resizing partitions using ext2resize? How stable is it? I need to shrink my root partition. Do I unmount the partition before resizing? Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/~ee98m09 -- "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when

Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?

1999-09-14 Thread Ramakrishnan M
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Ranish Partition Manager is a DOS program, but is an excellent > partitioning tool. It's source code is available for download from the > web site. At one the time the author was planning on porting it over to Which site? Ramakrishnan M

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:53:54PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > OK, this is pretty complicated to me, so the chance of me misspeaking is > large. I'm no expert, so the same goes for me. > What I want is the server to do the fetchmail durring ip-up and ip-down. > That mail getting delivere

Opening dynamic text file

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Hi, Apols for the non debian specific Q, but I was hoping someone would know how I could read in and process a file (a log file in this case), and then when further lines are written read these without reloading the whole file (performance considerations). I thought that (using perl) continually

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-18 Thread Mark M
Whoops, should have said local_domains = localhost:*.mynetwork in server's exim.conf Cheers, Mark.

Re: multihost exim setup (general MTA question I guess)

1999-09-20 Thread Mark M
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 12:44:15AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > Both are running slink, server does a DNS for JJLNet, any my ISP gives me 1 ^ OK, I'm currently running the next release of Exim and the conf file was changed slightly but that didn't seem to cause you a probl

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi Bart, > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Not sure if anyone else has mentioned these yet, here are a few things you could check: i) Is there a power down of the drive through b

Peripherals work fine on old M/B, misbehave on new M/B

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi, I was hoping that someone would be able to suggest a solution for some hardware problems I'm having. i) I have two eisa network cards: 3c507, and ni65 (ancient lance chip:) These both work fine (500kB/s) when used on a 486DX100 M/B (with VLB) However, I also have access to two more rec

Getting shaper0 to work

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi all, I was wondering why I cannot get the kernel's network traffic shaper to work. It is compiled as a module in the kernel and seems to be initalising correctly. I have installed the shapecfg deb, (I assume this is for the 2.2 kernel's, not AC's backport to 2.0.*) I have tried many permutati

make-kpkg problems

1999-10-02 Thread Ramakrishnan M
. The documentation says make-kpkg will read from the Makefile to get the current kernel version and we have to worry only about the revision numbers. Help?? Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.ee.iitm.ernet.in/~ee98m09 -- "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is no

Re: hda: irq timeout

1999-10-19 Thread Mark M
Hi, You may want to try the patch Alec suggested. HTH Mark On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:55AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > ftp://ftp.x.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ (where x is your > favorite mirror) > > There's some updated IDE patches there from Andre Hedrick, the guy who > main

Getting Netscape to work on potato

1999-10-25 Thread Mark M
Hi, Despite Potato being based on a 2.2 kernel, downloading the unsupported/linux22netscape doesn't work to well. However, the supported/linux20libc5 version seems to be very stable even on my 2.2 kernel Potato system. Perhaps this is the reason for the conflicting reports?? YMMV Mark.

PPP problems on potato

1999-11-17 Thread Rickie M.
CARRIER) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (VOICE) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Nov 17 21:28:55 debian chat[138]: send (ATZ^M) Nov 17 21:28:55 debia

Re: Kernel

1999-11-24 Thread M. Tavasti
"Neil D. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I find a manual on Internet about compiling kernel's ? Get started with /usr/src/linux/README, and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ (They come with kernel sources) -- Tavasti

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Problem in vfat_rmdirx

1998-03-05 Thread M . Chady
I'm running kernel 2.0.32 and I'm sharing my disk with Win95. The partition that I share with Windoze is VFAT and it works fine under Linux, except that of course (?) different read/write/execute priviledges don't work on it. My problem is that every now and again the kernel says this: "Problem i

PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-11 Thread M. Fong
5:48 swift kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. Mar 11 06:45:48 swift kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 Mar 11 06:45:48 swift kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Mar 11 06:45:48 swift kernel: Swansea Unive

Re: PPP Configuration: Getting Hooked Up to my ISP

1998-03-14 Thread M. Fong
Status: Stage 2: Further along, running into DNS issues Thanks for the suggestions thus far: I had a shell script which didn't have the correct 'executable' permissions. Something like rw-rw-rw instead of chmod 777 /etc/ppp/. Here is how far I have progressed: 1. Executing pppd now dials out (

Cannot correctly print non-ascii files

1998-03-30 Thread M. Fong
Problem: My HP Laserjet 6L can only print ASCII files correctly. Other files just print things such as ASCII headers on Postscript files. Printing from Netscape also prints out wacky ascii characters. What step(s) am I missing when trying to configuration my system? Background: 1. OS: De

Re: SU Problems

1997-06-02 Thread M BAILEY
Before you "SU" to root type 'xhost +' this will disable X windows access control. Remember X windows is a network program and has to authorize every user before it will let you run an application. By the way xhost + is also not the most secure way of handling this problem. Do a 'man xhost' an

Re: frequently paused modem connection

1997-06-11 Thread M BAILEY
USR had problems with some 14400 and 28800 modems in the last 18 months if you have purchased it during that time or even prior I would look at USR's web site for a flash upgrade for your modem. -Matt On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > I use USR14400 modem and it works fine with mge

ISDN link on demand.

1997-11-13 Thread Batista, M.
Hello Know somebody set up the ISDN link to an ISP on demand? I make this link by hand, but when the hangup time out to come, the ISDN driver shutdown the link and i have to start up by hand once more. Thanks is advanced. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: ISDN PAP and Debian

1997-11-25 Thread Batista, M.
Iztok Umek wrote: > Hello! > > I have trouble with authentification it seems. > > Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: Local number: 0611421240, Remote > number: 1691140, Type: outgoing > Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: PHASE_WAIT -> PHASE_ESTABLISHED, > ifunit: 0, linkunit: 0, fd: 7 > Nov 19 2

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-17 Thread M. Kirchhoff
tric population frustrates me endlessly. I'm offended both as a proponent of the Liberal Arts *and* as one who believes in the importance of science and technology; attacked on one side, flanked by disbelievers on the other... -- M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-19 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Out of personal curiosity, I will be conducting an experiment this weekend that may perhaps turn into a larger project. My very cooperative wife will be attempting to install Windows XP Professional and then Debian Woody--both from scratch--on one of our home computers. The impetus for this exp

Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-27 Thread M. Kirchhoff
I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well. Are there any p

problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-29 Thread dooble M
hing like that at the end: Code: Bad EIP Value Kernel panic: aiee... then my system freezes and i'm forced to push the reset button. I already made a lot of researches over the web, without success. Help !! Thanks in advance and sorry for my english. dooble M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-30 Thread dooble M
Paul Morgan a écrit : On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:02:11 +0100, dooble M wrote: hi everybody, I'm new on this list ! I'm runing with woody and i'm trying to use my ide cd-burner. Since I read that I need scsi emulation to make it work, I just recompiled my kernel (2.4.22 with mak

'tar' and retaining permissions

2003-12-02 Thread M. Kirchhoff
If I wish to make a bzipped tar archive of all my user's files in the /home tree, in addition to preserving permissions, access times, and ownership, would the following be appropriate? tar cjpf backup.tar.bz2 /home --atime-preserve --same-owner Thanks for any tips -- me.kirchhoff -- To UNS

Recommended Gnome Install Method Under Sid

2003-12-12 Thread M. Kirchhoff
To install Gnome under Sid, is it recommended to simply do: apt(titude)-get install gnome-desktop-environment Or is it better to install things piecemeal: apt(titude)-get install gnome-core gdm etc. Thanks for any suggestions -- me.kirchhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Wrong colors with gimp-print

2003-12-14 Thread dooble M
7;s not my printer, because everything is ok under window$. I also tried to configure the colors with cups (gimp-print), but that's not very easy. Thanks in advance dooble M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

aptitude and synaptic

2003-12-15 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Does Synaptic's ability to "remove including any orphaned dependencies" do as good a job as the inate abilities of aptitude? I've recently abandoned apt in favor of aptitude for its ability to track and automatically remove unneeded dependencies. However, I really like Synaptic, but want to be s

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

1997-06-18 Thread M BAILEY
> > OK, so I'm "technically challenged"! How do I put 1200 clients in 2 C > class networks with static IPs? > Are these all unix stations or are some of these Win95/NT if the latter of the two you can buy a product from Bay Networks that lets you use IPX for 50 stations to one IP number it see

Re: USR Modem Hangs Intermittantly

1997-06-30 Thread M BAILEY
There is a Flash update for this modem you will probably have to find it on their web site or actually call tech support and ask for an RMA and I beleive they are still sending 33.6 modems to fix the problem as well. My suggestion for next time buy a motorola.. I have over 45 of them and am ye

Re: MAJOR SPAMMER: Is Your Web Site A Secret?

1997-07-09 Thread M BAILEY
I have a spare machine (Or at least CPU time) on a box that could do the work. THe machine is connected via 155Mbs ATM in chicago. If you guys are interested let me know.. --Matt On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Is there a lawyer willing to go after spammers pro-bono out there? > >

Re: Hardware Question: Which MB to maximize RAM economically?

1997-07-12 Thread M BAILEY
The only MB's I know of that have 8 SIMM slots are the ASUS Dual Pentium/Pentium PRO Mother boards take a look at http://www.tdl.com/~netex/mb/pi-p65up5.html for specifications. --Matt On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > My friend asked this on comp.os.linux.hardware, but he go

Re: Hardware Question: Which MB to maximize RAM economically?

1997-07-12 Thread M BAILEY
Oooopps found another with four dimms... http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/pr/index.htm Others of interest http://www.airwebs.com/p6ndi.html http://www.airwebs.com/p6kpi.html http://www.tdl.com/~netex/mb/KN97.html On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > My friend asked this o

3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
*** PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not on this list. THANK YOU *** Dear friends, I have just installed Debian Linux. Congratulations for the installation wizard. I found it pretty easy and straightforward with lots of useful information. Unfortunately the only part I haven't been

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Dear Jim, Thanks alot for your help. I just have another question... when I was installing Debian (latest version 1.3) I did noticed that they do have a module (NET) that supports 3C59x. Since this is a recent release of Debian why isn't there a more recent copy of the driver made available in t

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello again, I am still somewhat confused on how I actually go about installing the 3c90x.c driver... I would appreciate some help/tips or alternatively, pointers to FAQs etc where I can find more info regarding this. I have just installed Debian 1.3. I got the Rescue and Device driver's disket

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Dear Thomas, > Well, get the kernel-source package aswell as the kernel-package. Install > both, then go to /usr/src/linux/drivers/net and replace the file 3c59x.c > with the patched version you obtained from Donald Becker's page. In > /usr/src/linux, do a make menuconfig to run the kernel config

Re: 3Com Fast Etherlink XL

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello Jonh, > I did it by getting the 3c59x.c file and just compiling it > using the compile line shown at the bottom of the file. > Then I copied the 3c59x.o file to /lib/modules//net/3c59x.o > (copying original out of way) > and rebooting. thanks for your prompt reply. As I mentioned to Thoma

Re: 3com 3c59x.o module for Kernel 2.0.29

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hi again! nearly there... :-) ok> # cd / ok> # tar -zxvf /tmp/3com_tar.gz ok> # depmod -va A listing of the modules is displayed. ok> # modprobe -v 3c59x.o Nothing happens. I assume this is a good sign... > The last step should initialize your card. If it works, do a > ko> # rmmod 3c59x.o

Re: 3com 3c59x.o module for Kernel 2.0.29

1997-07-18 Thread David M
Hello Allen, I guess will be in "interactive mode" :-) After rebboting once again I do get some output from modprobe -v 3c59x.o: /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x.o /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x.o: unresolved symbol register_netd ev_R24876de2 /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/3c59x

Suggestion to future debian releases

1997-07-21 Thread David M
Dear listmembers, I have just installed Linux (debian) and I was very happy with the installation "wizard". It sure made it easy to install. I would like to suggest something though. Is it possible that in future realease 'man' be included in the base system? I'll explain why... I have inst

Re: Suggestion to future debian releases

1997-07-21 Thread David M
Hello Bruce, > You can move that "man" package over on a floppy and install it. > dpkg -i should do, unless it depends on another package, > in which case it will tell you about that. I have tried this but there are dependencies. I keep getting the required packages down only to find out that

What if package size is bigger than a floppy can hold? (was Re: Suggestion to future debian releases)

1997-07-21 Thread David M
Hi again, Well I got most of the things I require down. BTW I got an error when I did the 'dpkg -i man-db*'. It installed but complained at the end and the script aborted at line 87... it still works though... Now the question is I need to get a 2.3MB package onto floppies and then to the Lin

Re: Installing from a pile of floppys

1997-07-21 Thread David M
Hi there Luis, > I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on a 386SL laptop and everything is Ok > for the base system. But now I would like to install some big packages > with big .deb files that don't fit in a single floppy. Is there some > preferred procedure for doing this? > (I have some clues: use

Gcc errors while compiling #com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-21 Thread David M
Dear listmembers, Thanks alot for your help. The split command worked like a beauty! :-) I installed gcc (+ the required package cpp and a few other suggests nad reccomends). Now the problem is the following: In the source code of the patched/updated driver it says at the end what command to

Re: Gcc errors while compiling 3com updated driver 3c59x.c

1997-07-21 Thread David M
Thank you Andrea! :-) > put a blank between the option '-c' and the input file argument > '3c59x.c'. It did work with the space. :-) You see the source code has a carriage return just at that point. I assumed as all of the other arguments were glued together this one would be too. I did notice

RedHat vs Debian (was Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm)

1997-07-22 Thread David M
Hiya Travis, > I just switched from Red Hat 4.2 to Debian 1.3.1 and I am now realizing how > much > Red Hat really hides you from things. I was trying to decide what distribution to install (RedHat versus Debian) just b4 I shifted to Linux. I must say in the beginning I was very much inclined a

Adaptec 2940Ultra Wide PCI SCSI Host Adapter

1997-07-22 Thread David M
Dear list members, I was looking at the documentation my adaptec PCI SCSI and notice a couple of configuration parameters that could be changed when running under Linux (rather than DOS or Windows). These are: Plug and Play SCAM support -- The default setting is disable

Re: How Linux (and Debian) compare?

1997-07-23 Thread David M
Dear friends, > > It'd be interesting to know how many active Debian systems there are out > > there! > > Me too. There was some discussion on debian-private a few months ago > about writing a package that would collect stats about the systems > it was installed on - and send them via e-mail t

Boot order

1997-07-23 Thread David M
Hello folks, I have just added a master IDE drive (primary IDE) to my linux setup. Now it is trying to boot from it rather than my SCSI HDD (the one where Linux is). Can I change this? I had my drive setup as a slave b4 (without a master) and eventhough BIOS did not detected it, Linux did. Any

Boot order (2)

1997-07-23 Thread David M
Hi again Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? If I only have one IDE drive should I set it to slave or master (I know normally is master) in Linux? If I set it to slave BIOS doesn't even detect it :-) Any consequences of changing these settings? Regards, Dave

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-23 Thread M BAILEY
If you can use Pascal the GNU pascal suite is great --Matt On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > As i prepare to launch back into coding, is anyone familiar with just > how bad the Fortran support is? or is that all a myth? > > I really need as much performance as I can get, and

Re: Boot order (2)

1997-07-24 Thread David M
> > Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do? > > yup, i do just the same on my setup - i pretend to the bios that i dont > have any ide disk, so that i can boot on my scsi drive. > > of course, this does not work for people who use a so-called operating > system that depen

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Well since this seems to be such a "hot topic" ;) I felt I should give my opinion. Well here it goes I think the current naming convention is fine. :-) Of course the symlinks *have* to be there to make things clear to everyone. And despite not being a developer I still love to know w

Success: NIC 3C905-TX works!

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Dear friends, I finally got my NIC card and Linux "happily married"! ;) Well at least during the "honeymoon" (well I only tested pinging thus far! I hope I am not celebrating too soon... :-o Anyways it *is* a step forward!) I would like to thank everyone out there for their support. Without

Re: Adaptec 2940Ultra Wide PCI SCSI Host Adapter

1997-07-24 Thread David M
> > Plug and Play SCAM support > > -- > > The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if > > enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices > > that support SCAM. Those that don't usually are not affected (except > > some olde

Re: Boot order (2)

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Hello Lindsay, have you read my latest good news! :-] BTW thanks alot for all the help on the NIC problem. I really appreciate it :-) > I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway. Yep I did it and it worked! :) > Set to Only or Master - it will not work as a slav

Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-24 Thread David M
Hi again, Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted! Now just as I get to the lilo prompt all I get is 01 01 01 01 f

Re: Uh oh! After dselect installed the new kernel... the system does not boot...

1997-07-25 Thread David M
Hello again, Mmm I would think the installation would have prompt me for that... (it did ask whether to use the lilo.conf configuration file). Anyways I have booted from diskette and ran `lilo`. I still get the 01 01 01 01 01 01 How can I revert back to my old kernel image? Just change t

Re: Debian and Red Hat and Slackware prevalence

1997-08-01 Thread David M
Mmmm wouldn't this have to do with the following (old) postings...??? ;) http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0057.html http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0096.html http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archives/rms-post/0089.html http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~grath/archi

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread David M
Dear Carl, > I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a Linux or Unix expert, but > as an experienced software trainer and former network manager and > customer support person, I hope I'd be able to contribute some > experience with the thought processes of the non-expert. Yes, please do. We ne

Re: Debian-Lite : The Project

1997-08-04 Thread David M
Hello ppl, I have been (quitely) reading the Debian project thread and I was wondering whether the following is possible. Why do we have to limit ourselves to debian-lite or any such subset of Debian? Is it not possible to have some sort of pre-packaged configuration files, that you load with

IDE for C++ on Linux (Debian)

1997-08-11 Thread David M
Hello there! I am looking for a good IDE for C/C++ development for Linux (Debian). Something like Turbo C++ or better, either for X or not (if it could run from both would be nice :) ) If there are other IDE for JAVA I would too like to know which one is best :) Thank you for your time. Dave

MLMs comparisons and Linux

1997-08-12 Thread David M
Hi there people, I need to find a good MLM (mailing list manager) for Linux. I wonder if any of you have some pointers to comparison charts for MLMs (features supported, etc.). I have searched the web but did not find anything relevant. I am particularly interested in comparing Listserv, Majo

Swap additions

1997-08-13 Thread David M
Dear friends, I have Debin Linux (1.3.1) and when I installed I setup a 128MB swap partition. Unfortunately, mirror.pl requires heaps of memory when mirroring large ftp sites and as I was initializing time stamps it ran out of memory. I would like to add a swap file so that I can initiate the

Nobody user doing a find / ( -fstype ?????

1997-08-13 Thread David M
Hello ppl! I just noticed when running top that a process owned by nobody was doing a scan of / with and -fstype argument...? I am not sure what it is but can someone kindly explain me? Maybe I should start looking for security patches for Linux (Debian) huh? ;) Thanks, Dave -- TO UNSUBS

Re: Nobody user doing a find / ( -fstype ?????

1997-08-13 Thread David M
Oh I see :) It is just that nobody kinna got my attention... ;) Thanks guys for clearing this to me (I did kill the process just in case! ooops! Anyways if it is running of cron it will start again some other time) I have another quick question for you if you don't mind... :) I am running the t

Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys! If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a good brand that is widely supported by Linux (Debian)? Thank you. Dave -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: qmail 1.01 package

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys! > > Is there a qmail 1.01 package? I couldn't find one in any of the > > contrib/non-free/stable/unsable directories. > > I found one in project/experimental and it works great. I'd love to try qmail! I have a large mailing list running and the ability to send many (200,000+) mess

Hey! ;) How come qmail is already in my passwd and group files???

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys, I am about to install qmail when, voila! Qmail has already the user ids and groups created in /etc/passwd and /etc/group??? I never installed qmail before and it is not a package in dselect... so I assume smartlist or some other package added this in for me??? Also the sh in my cu

Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-14 Thread David M
Hello guys, more surprises! ;) Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run ./dnsfq hostname. It reports hard error! Have any of you qmail installed on Debian? Did you encounter this problem? If so how to go about

Installing qmail.deb (was Re: Laptop for Linux Debian)

1997-08-15 Thread David M
Dear friends, before anything else, let me thank you all for your support! I think Laptop vendors should start looking at supportintg Linux as you can see people wanting to purchase a laptop (such as myself) will prefer a brand (or generic) laptop that does support Linux!!! :) Now regardng qma

Installing qmail.deb still has problems...

1997-08-15 Thread David M
Dear friends: I just installed qmail1.01.deb and I still got the same 'hard error' report. Also to install qmail I had to remove libpthread0 and splay and then install libso and libc6 before qmail could be installed. Now qmail might be installed but it will probably not work cause control/me

Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-15 Thread David M
Hi there again! > >more surprises! ;) Everything compiled ok but when I got to step 7 there > >is a hard error message when the ./qmail-config script tries to run > >./dnsfq hostname. It reports hard error! > > > >Have any of you qmail installed on Debian? Did you encounter this > >pro

Proxy Server and firewall?

1997-08-22 Thread Batista, M.
Hello, What is the best software for connect my LAN to the Internet?. Current i have Socks, but i would like to know others. Any suggestion will be very pleased. Thanks is advance. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Radius

1997-09-03 Thread M BAILEY
Send me a message at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have not figured it out yet and I will pass you a copy of our config files so you can see the settings to do so.. --Matt On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: > I am looking for someone who can tell me how I go about setting up radiusd. > I need

Re: XFree86 and USB Mouse & Keyboard ---> Frustrating!

2004-11-22 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:40:49PM +0100, Thomas Otto wrote: > > it seems not to be an mouse problem... try : # cat /dev/input/mice When you move the USB mouse you should see: (�(�(�(�8��(�8��88�8��8��8��8��8��8��8��88�(��8�� Look for your mouse and keybord in /proc/bus/usb/d

Re: Mass bug reports for packages with GFDL documentation?

2004-11-24 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:26:53PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 14:20, John Hasler wrote: > > > Adam writes: > >> What is the problem with the GFDL? > > > > It does not comply with the DFSG and it has been decided that > > documentation > > is software (please don't sta

Re: Burning Fedora CD's

2004-11-28 Thread Mike M
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:53:34PM -0200, Eriberto wrote: > Is the burnning installed on hdc? Is Debian the SO? Try it: > > 1) insert ide-scsi in /etc/modules file; > 2) insert ide-scsi=hdc in /boot/grub/menu.lst, in end of line > initialized with kernel. Here are my notes: CD Recording ---

remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread Mike M
Hi, Yesterday I built a Debian stable file server for my father assuming he had a router/switch with a DHCP server on it. Today I learned that he does not have a router - only a switch. I want to try making the Debian box into a router remotely. Would this work? 1) connect Deb box to cable mode

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:29:34PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > Mike M wrote: > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > > 4) using ssh, install iptables and configure iptables on Deb box

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-30 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:01:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, Mike M wrote: > > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > > 4) using ssh, install ipta

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