silly question

1999-04-28 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
(please cc: me to replies) is it currently possible to do a straight potato initial install, or must one first install slink's base system and then aptify? --phouchg "For a price I'd do about anything, except pull the trigger: for that I'd need a pretty good cause" -- Queensryche, "Revolution Cal

Looking for fetchmail program

1999-10-23 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
ly dialing if needed (and only then)...   Alexander P. Barkey

Looking for a good and simple FTP Server

1999-10-26 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Hi I want to set up a simple but good FTP Server. Can you tell me which one is good? Having problems with ProFTPd. Thx Alexander P. Barkey

Any way where i can set up a FAX server with ISDN?

1999-11-06 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
I had a FAX server running on my linux dialup router. Now I switched to ISDN...   This program still wants to read from ttys*... I can't get it to read from ippp0. Anyway I can do this?   thx 4 help Alexander P. Barkey

FAX WITH ISDN

1999-11-06 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Is there any server or program which provides FAX with ISDN?   I need it soon... just upgraded from analog to ISDN and now i sit here with no FAX   Buisness going on you know...   thx Alexander P. Barkey Hypnotic-Noise

Re: FAX WITH ISDN

1999-11-06 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Ok thx for the informationbut I only got ISDN...Think I'm going to buy a non PC fax...:( thx anyway... Alexander P. Barkey Hypnotic - Noise -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Datum: Samstag, 6. November 1999 15

I'm looking for a good ftp server.

1999-11-07 Thread Alexander P. Barkey
Can anyone tell me a good ftp which supports ratio and is easily configurable?   I would apreciate your help.   Thanx   Alexander P. Barkey Hypnotic Noise

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > This sounds like a really bad idea (aliasing it to rm). Once you get used > to having it, you become more careless with the rm command; suddenly > you're using another box where rm is for real and you've lost real work. This is a fallacy. (Or maybe Uni

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-07 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 7 Oct 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: > Some other people may shoot themselves in the foot if they don't learn > that rm is in most Unix/Linux systems a powerful and unforgiving beast that > does its work irreversibly. Thinking that rm is kinder and gentler than it > is may lead to carelessness i

Re: couple of question..

1998-10-07 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 7 Oct, tracheotomy_bob wrote: > First the most important question. Does anyone have experience running a > Matrox Millennium G200? > I assume it needs special drivers as they're not standard in XFree86, so > where do I get them from? > Can anyone recommend a truly excellent card for X. Not

Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?

1998-10-16 Thread Dale P. Smith
Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > > > I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have > > recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the > > scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run

Samba troubles

1998-10-27 Thread Giuliano P Procida
Using the lastest unstable/frozen package of Samba I have run into a curious problem with Win98. I have finally got profiles and netlogon working to my satisfaction with one serious exception: all Explorer windows no longer automatically update when I add, remove or rename files (that are local).

Re: lilo (linux only hd -> dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-29 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 29 Oct, Kevin Grant wrote: > Thanks for the help I've gotten on this so far. Unfortunately it doesn't > seem to be working. I seem to be caught in a catch-22 situation as far > as getting the system to behave as I want it to. Here's the situation: > > I have one dos/windows only hd. I have

Re: linux crash when RAM > 128MB

1998-11-02 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 1 Nov, Oz Dror wrote: > Hi > I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine. > MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890) > I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each. > > When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes. > > Is this a hardware or software problem. > > -Oz

Re: wmaker

1998-11-03 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 2 Nov, Debian-User wrote: > can anyone tell me how to make images your background in wmaker? I dloaded > some of those > themes from e.themes.org which are .jpg format then i converted them to xpm > with the gimp. > But i can't figure out how to set it to my background. Can anyone help? Am

Re: Recommendations for Email client?

1998-12-01 Thread Dale P. Smith
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > I can't believe no one else has recommended netscape. netscape 4 does support > IMAP and > in fact I think it's a pretty sweet mail client. (No, I'm not a unix newbie. > I've been > writing unix software for over five years and used various character-mode mail > cl

Re: real transparency (under X11)

2002-09-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ly need to > be rewritten to take advantage of this. > > That's not something you do in a day. In fact, it's probably > not something you can do in a year. I thought that Rasterman was working on this, and that the latest version of Enlightenment had support for it. (1

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-09-09 Thread David P James
Nowhere did he complain about the help or supposed lack thereof that he was getting, unlike a few others we've had in the past. I certainly don't think there's any reason to call him names or declare "good riddence" and the like. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics

Re: Perl: bad interpreter

2002-09-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ded and run locally. Are you logging into another machine remotely, and if so, does it have perl at /usr/bin/perl? If it's elsewhere but in the path, you could try this to keep the script portable. #!/usr/bin/env perl Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key:

SB128 PCI problems in woody - Was: Re: Linux won't boot

2002-09-11 Thread David P James
oundcard to take IRQ 5 like my old ISA SB16 did, but it did not. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread David P James
erence to open standards as much as is practicable. Then students would be free to choose between open source or commercial software as they saw fit. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mental

Re: SOLVED Re: Problem with cups

2002-09-17 Thread David P James
ad it somewhere... > > Thanks a million! > > I was about to suggest this... there's something screwy about the listen lines that doesn't make any intuitive sense. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.roger

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread David P James
system resources in the freeze/lock-up before doing so. I've had fairly good experiences with Quicken 99 under wine though. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only cons

Re: email clients

2002-09-19 Thread David P James
gt; Second, Is there someway to modify Mozilla to over-ride it's mail > client to start $MAIL_CLIENT when prompted. > (Ctrl-M, mailto:$links...) > Yes there is: http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/#network -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University

Re: email clients

2002-09-20 Thread David P James
Jamin W.Collins was roused into action on 09/19/02 23:33 and wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:19:10 -0400 David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >>Yes there is: >>http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/#network > > > Have you tried it? That si

Re: I don't understand USB Mouses in Debian

2002-09-23 Thread David P James
u'll need some modules loaded I think to get this to work: usbcore usb-uhci hid mousedev usbmouse In XF86Config-4, the device ought to be set to something like /dev/input/mice, but I think this can vary and I recall having to create it. See http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html G

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread David P James
ve to map hdb to hda and vice versa to convince that other fickle OS to boot? That's what I had to do using grub, anyway. Stolen from a RedHat support page: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/rhl_general_faq/s1-bootloader.html other=/dev/hdb1 label=dos table=/dev/

Re: image viewer recommendation

2002-09-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
-- > > Kevin Coyner > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-27 Thread David P James
h to it In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. Thanks, -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-28 Thread David P James
Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > > Install tetex-extra, I think. > Yep, that seems to have done the trick, sort

Re: Beginner Again

2002-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
amp; mtab but I'm not getting anywhere. From my /etc/lilo.conf: image=/vmlinuz.2.4.18 label=Linux2.4.18 read-only append="hdc=ide-scsi" restricted Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the wo

Re: apt-get vs perl -MCPAN -e shell

2002-09-30 Thread Michael P. Soulier
e the best bet -- or > is it?) Don't use the CPAN module. It's corrupted many perl installs on me. apt and the pre-packaged modules are far better. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate

problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
i have been using windows for quite some time now and am contemplating to shift to linux. so i am a 'newbie' to linux - in short. i recently installed debian 3.0 on my compaq making it a dual boot machine. it is a piii 766mhz machine with on board sound card. while installing, in the section o

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-09-30 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>>"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > >> i have been using windows for quite some time now and am >> contemplating to shift

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-10-01 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
01AA IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02) 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10) as suggested by one of the group, i also installed libmikmod. i c

Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 builds for Woody?

2002-10-01 Thread David P James
as above. For some peculiar reason throwing a '/' on the end of the URL makes all the difference; compare http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla/ -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http:

Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-02 Thread David P James
/pop.my.isp/Inbox . I can force mutt to open it by using the -f (and, for safety's sake, -R) parameter with that long filename, but I would prefer a quicker and more permanent solution. I've also noticed that there is no .mutt or the like file or directory in my home directory, which

accessing network - newbie

2002-10-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
gpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 26M agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 DC100 Chipset. agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram. agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd000 memory : c111ac60 memory : c111aca0 memory : c111ace0 thanx in advance sandip -=- Windows not found C)heer P

chip on guard antivirus warning on lilo

2002-10-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
i have a win98 - linux dual boot system. i use lilo as a boot loader loaded in mbr. when i boot, lilo comes up properly. the trend chip on guard anti virus gives an error saying there is a virus. i have to assure that there is no virus before the booting can contuinue. is there any way of wor

securing lilo

2002-10-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
while installing debian 3.0, it suggested that i should secure lilo. i went throught the documentation and could not make out how to secure lilo. could someone throw more light and may be give step by step instructions? thanx in advance, sandip -=- I've seen Windows crash. Glass everywhere. -

Re: problem with sound card from a newbie

2002-10-02 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Kent West wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: >> >>> Andy wrote: >>> >>>> I have the same problem and followed your directions exactly. >>>> I even upped my kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 and included the Intel >>

Re: chip on guard antivirus warning on lilo

2002-10-03 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
Corrin Lakeland wrote: >On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 17:25, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > >>when i boot, lilo comes up properly. the trend chip on guard anti >>virus gives an error saying there is a virus. is there any way of >>working around this problem? >>

Re: accessing network - newbie

2002-10-03 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
nate wrote: >Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > >> hello all! >> >>after using windows for ages, i am planning to switch to linux. my >>compaq is already a dual boot machine running win98 and debian 3.0. >> >>i am on a lan which also provides me acc

Re: Mutt and mailboxes

2002-10-03 Thread David P James
Matthew Weier O'Phinney was roused into action on 10/03/02 09:30 and wrote: > -- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 02 October 2002, 11:05 PM -0400): > >>I've recently started using mutt remotely when I'm on campus to check >&

fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Hello, I recently started running the fetchmail service from /etc/init.d, rather than running it under my own account when I login. One thing that I like about this is that error messages go to syslog and then I see them in my logcheck emails. Unfortunately, there are also hundreds of lines of

Have a question about Debian..

1998-03-03 Thread P. D. Tisdale
I just downloaded all of the "chunks" that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! What are the chances that every chunk is bad?? Is it possible I have downloaded an old version of t

Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread P. D. Tisdale
I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but there

life after bruce is... 2.0, and beyond

1998-03-20 Thread Adam P. Harris
oo, and we care about lowering the steep curve of Unix wherever we can. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-08 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 8 Apr, Kenneth L. Summers wrote in reply to > David B. Wilson >> Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? >> (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) >> > > The method I tell folks around here to use is to go to a virtual console, > pre

Re: Major Failure re-installing system!!!

1998-04-10 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 10 Apr, John Maheu wrote: > There is a good signal 11 reference on the web somewhere - unfortunatly I > can't remember the address. http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Building a network at home

1998-04-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 21 Apr, Adalberto da Silva wrote: > Hello! > > I wish my question is only a little bit ou of scope... > > My computer is a dual boot MMX230 with 120 MBytes RAM and three IDE > hard disks (2 Megs for Win95 and 11 Megs for Linux - this is an > indication for my choices. But I do use

dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

1997-12-19 Thread Stephen P. Serafin
After installing libsocks4_4.3.beta2-3 and socks-clients_4.3.beta2-3, setting up /etc/socks.conf, and setting the SOCKS_NS and SOCKS_SERVER environment variables I can rftp through the SOCKS firewall to the internet. dftp and dselect do not connect to servers on the internet though. After upgrad

dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

1998-01-05 Thread Stephen P. Serafin
I have not found a way to use dselect through a socks 4.2beta server. Can anyone help me get it working? I do have dftp_3.2-1 working through the firewall. If I cannot get dselect to work directly is it possible to: use dftp to get the new Packages files use dselect to choose which packages t

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

1998-01-24 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 24 Jan, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well. > > It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and > not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem, > if possible? > I no longer have the space to test th

Re: Installing Debian on Laptop

1998-01-29 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 29 Jan, David B. Miles wrote: > New Debian User! > > I have a Compaq Elite 4/75 CX laptop. > I have an IC ethernet card (network card). > > I installed Debian on the laptop using disks. > I would like to make a network connection through the network card and > then install the rest of the debi

Re: dual mode?

1998-02-06 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 6 Feb, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been eyeing some multi-processor motherboards. After checking several web > sites, I've come across a factiod that only Intel supports "dual mode". So, > what is "dual mode"? And does one need "dual mode" to run Debian under SMP > kernel option? Or can one

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread Adam P. Harris
[You (Avery Pennarun)] >(I'm not sure magicfilter can handle this on its own though!) Yes it can. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is off topic, but I don't have access to cola (and > newsgroups in general) and I feel more confortable asking here, because I > want Linux specific answers. > > Ten days ago a professor here bought a Pentium II/233 system. H

Re: Hello

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 16 Feb, Ben Pfaff wrote in response to someone else who wrote: >I would like to know how debian handles in a machine with two pentiums. = >Are two cpus quicker then one in any situation. I mean does every = >program run quicker. > > Generally any particular process will only run on

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 17 Feb, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On 16 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> Can you point me to the source code for the benchmark? I can run it >> on my PII/233 for comparison if you want. > > and Alex Yukhimets: > >> Same here, only with PII/300. > > You can find the source code here: > >

Re: 1FA:

1998-02-21 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > 1FA: is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive. I had this > problem once before and the problem mysteriously went away. It hasn't gone > away yet on this box. this disturbs me. This is a new machine with a > 9gig cheeta drive, 1st (system) partit

Re: 1FA:

1998-02-22 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
On 22 Feb, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 11:33:03PM -0500, Stephen P. Ryan wrote: >> On 20 Feb, Bruce Dobrin wrote: >> > 1FA: is what I get when I try to boot from My hard drive. I had this >> > problem once before and the problem mysteriousl

Re: Has anyone used multi- cpu's on debian

1997-03-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with the cost of multiple cpu motherboards going down i was wondering if anyone has created a super debian system? allan ps what apps are you runnning? --- end of quoted material --- Yes, I have. 2xPPro 200/256k on a Tyan S1662D, 128M RAM. I pulled the hard drives

wu-ftpd package weirdnesses

1997-05-23 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hiya All, I'm new to Debian -- just installed -- and am trying to get things set up as I had them on my Slackware machine (approximately ;). Using dselect, I installed the wu-ftpd package (that's what came with Slackware, and I got the impression it was 'better' than the default Debian ftpd), and

Re: wu-ftpd package weirdnesses

1997-05-23 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > The wu-ftpd man page has some excellent advice on these questions. Hmm, well I wasn't exactly looking for advice, but thanks for directing me to the man page. (blush) Anyway, I created the directories and gave them permissions as they had under Slac

EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-25 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
Hi All, I'm having weird problems with EMACS. I just installed Debian 1.2 (rex-fixed, actually, so that would be 1.2.15 at the time I snarfed it, methinks) -- a clean install, onto a fresh HD. As I recall, EMACS required some X library or other (I don't have X on my system), which seemed odd to

Re: Connecting to Novell network

1997-05-26 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Michael Hill wrote: [IPX woes] > debian# ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on > debian# slist > slist: No primary IPX interface found in ncp_initialize > debian# ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 > ipx_interface: Requested d

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-27 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: > This doesn't seem to be in the FAQ, but programs which *allow* operation > under X-Windows are always linked against the X libraries under Debian. Thanks for explaining. :) > This is probably not the case, but I thought I'd mention it; you aren't > by

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-27 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Adrian Miranda wrote: > You should probably post again, with a little more information. Thanks for telling me what to post. Here goes. . . . Debian 1.2.x (rex-fixed, I think Debian 1.2.15 technically). I'm using SVGATextMode 100x37x8xSVGA, logged in at the console. I have

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-27 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
To those who tried to help me, Curiously, rebooting (which I did for other reasons ;) appears to have fixed the problem with EMACS displaying things incorrectly (though it always appeared to know where things really were ;). At least, one of the more reproducible weirdnesses hasn't come back to h

Re: PASCAL for Linux

1997-05-28 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote: > I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been > unsuccesful. Um, I'm assuming you're using Debian, since you're asking in debian-user. (grin) Did you try the p2c package, which is a Pascal-to-C translator? Not exac

Re: How can I restore Dselect's needed Perl modules?

1997-06-14 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On 13 Jun 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Somehow, the Perl modules that dselect needs got munged. Yah, whassup wit' dat? I had problems with dselect's 'install' option, and with chat2.pl. I copied a missing module from elsewhere, re-ran dselect, tried to install something new, and ran into ano

Re: Boot linux from two linux partition

1997-06-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for this silly question. I am new to both Debian and Linux. My disk has following partions: /dev/hda1DOS /dev/hda2extended partion /dev/hda3swap /dev/hda4Red Hat linux /dev/hda5Debian 1.3

Re: majordomo and perl 5.004

1997-06-17 Thread Kendall P. Bullen
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Brad Roberts wrote: > I upgraded a bunch of hamm packages this morning including the perl 5.003.07 > to 5.004 (ok, its been a while since I did a dselect run) and it seems that > majordomo.pl from 1.94.1 isn't liked much by perl 5.004. Wow, you should tell your e-mail softw

Problems with AMD - related to 2.1.x?

1997-09-08 Thread Jan P. Schier
Hi all, I have the following problem: I want to NFS mount home directories from different machines on a server. The server runs Debian 1.3.1 and the kernel 2.1.40 - I chose the 2.1.x kernel on advice from the company where I bought the system (reasons: SMP and support for Intel EtherExpress Pro/10

Re: top doesn't understand multiple processors

1997-09-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- You wrote: When running top on my 2 cpu machine, I get some interesting states: 12:12pm up 18:03h, 5 users, load average: 1.52, 0.76, 0.49 65 processes: 61 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 90.2% user, 107.5% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 128044K av, 11052

Re: graphics accelarator cards ?

1997-09-17 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Marc Fleureck wrote: Does somebody know what cards are compatible and give good performance ? Is e.g. Matrox a good choice (say Matrox Mystique or Matrox Millenium) ? What's the difference between Matrox Mystique and Matrox Mystique ii ? --- end of quote --- I think Matrox is a good choice,

Re: 2 CPU machines

1997-09-19 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Jesse Goldman wrote: I've just put Debian 2.0.30 with version 6 of the deadlock patch on a new 2 CPU machine. The messages file tells me that the two CPUs were initialized OK and that the machine is running roughly at 400 MHz. If I run "bogomips", however, I still get out 198 MHz. I'm guessing

Re: Multiple network cards. ARGH! Double ARGH! ;-)

1997-09-24 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: Perhaps, the driver must be compiled inside the kernel, since some drivers have their parameters analised in boot time but not in loading module time. If there is some PNP card, you may have problems. --- end of quote --- I think you can put the parameters in the

Re: hamm mirror

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Timothy Phan wrote: I've been mirroring the ftp.debian.org on the bo/ and bo-updates/ for months now. The activities on this version seems to slow down quite a bit. Now, I'm thinking to mirror the hamm/ as well. Would someone tell me approximately how much more disk space do I need

Re: netatalk question...

1997-09-30 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Jason Costomiris wrote: Macs (using netatalk, of course) can file just fine, but can't print. What am I missing? --- end of quote --- I haven't tried this, as I'm sitting in the middle of more Macs than I care to think about, and I need to print to AppleTalk printers (the reverse problem, whi

* Formal call for the retention of Bruce Perens *

1997-10-26 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- "dc" wrote: >Enough is enough. I agree. I'm sick and tired of debian-user being hijacked by whining "dissidents". >It is time for Bruce Perens to step down form the leadership position, and an >interim leader take his place until a new leader can be chosen at the formal >election.

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Peter S Galbraith wrote: > However, I don't think your 2940U is the problem. The no_reset > parameter is to prevent the HBA from resetting the SCSI bus, which it > does by default to allow all the SCSI devices on the bus to initialise. Then I don't need the `linux' label anyway. <...> The l

Re: I really need some help

1997-07-02 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following files are corupt debmake.list mgetty-docs.list mgetty-fax.list mgetty.list mount.list xmix.list These files reside in the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory could someone or a few poeple even compress those for me and send them this way ;-) If they can't be se

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

1997-07-22 Thread Lester P. Wang
I have converted from RedHat to Debian. RedHat is very nice if you don't want to look at writing your own scripts. The configuration tools are very nice; however, I had to edit them by hand with an editor to make them work correctly after a version upgrade. I still have a RedHat system for Appli

Re: Proposal and questions about chemistry Debian packages

1997-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Frits Daalmans wrote: ...have recently obtained a new program for molecular modelling. It was produced under the GPL and (very well) written in C (IMHO). ... - If I contact the author of this 'moldy' program, Keith Refson, and ask his permission to compile and package it for Linux (only i386 f

Re: Video card

1997-08-08 Thread Stephen P. Ryan
--- Karsten Bolding wrote: Hi Does anybody know if this card woks with XFree. Matrox MGA PowerDocEd 2MB PCI grafikkort --- end of quote --- Yes, it should. That's a Matrox Millenium PowerDoc Edition, which is supported by the SVGA server in XFree86 3.3 Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linu

Re: X screen position

1997-08-11 Thread Curtis P. Brown
Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone utility to shift the X screen (permanently?) to the right? > Try xvidtune. --Curt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

socksified clients

1997-08-15 Thread Stephen P. Serafin
Are tcp/ip clients (ftp, telnet, ...) already socksified in Debian 1.3.1? My tcp/ip connection is behind a firewall that uses CSTC version 4.2beta. What do I need to do to get through it to the internet? So far I have only found information on setting up a Linux machine to be a firewall. Stephen

Debian is a great distribution

1997-08-15 Thread Stephen P. Serafin
I just finished installing Debian 1.3.1 on my home pc. With just a handful of floppies with images and packages downloaded from the internet I was able to successfully compile a customized kernel and connect to the internet with ppp on the first try. Now with dftp and/or dpkg-ftp and/or dselect I

FW: ftp

1997-08-16 Thread Lester P. Wang
-- From: Lester P. Wang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 1997 6:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: ftp Hello all, I am one of those people who converted from RedHat to Debian. I have got a ppp server at my friends network which has A connect

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread David P James
ng interest to him. I just wish I could pass print jobs off to kprinter directly and not have to bother with Mozilla's annoying print system. Then again, I mainly use Konq now and that's all I use to print. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpn1KSotaa55.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-24 Thread David P James
On Wed 24 November 2004 00:06, Brad Sims wrote: > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:14 pm, David P James wrote: > > just wish I could pass print jobs off to kprinter directly and not > > have to bother with Mozilla's annoying print system. Then again, I > > mainly use Konq n

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread David P James
I did. You're far better off to burn a score of CDs than rely on MS Backup. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpWwKCKzsG7P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I >>> have decided they would be a good i

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-30 Thread David P James
change the send behavior nor any decent font sets to choose from. > :( I assume you're referring to the fonts in the message history pane? Ya, they "weirded out" on me one day and I have no idea how to get the old ones back. To me, they're too large now. -- David P Ja

Re: art files

2004-12-05 Thread David P James
On Sun 5 December 2004 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do I get rid of them? I don't know but may I ask why you sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask this question? -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn&

Re: OT Translate a little german for me please

2004-12-18 Thread David P James
'Reply'. Luckily 'Reply to author' respects the "Reply-to:' header if set so you don't have to worry about your replies going to the wrong place (and somehow it ignores Reply-to: in the case of munged mailing lists and uses From: instead). So just replace the Rep

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-18 Thread David P James
e to the fact the outlook can't cope with pst files > above 2 GB. > That sure is a lot of viruses to be keeping around... :) -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpL7uA3AOVTz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread David P James
be confused with the religious big state variety of "conservatives", of whom GWB is one. Anyway, it is for that love of freedom that we use Linux and Debian in particular. Some of you may be using it because of a belief in the similarity of open source development and idealized ma

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