Re: little www svr

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:49:38PM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Jean-Yves: > > Hello, again. I'm doing fine. And you? Fine, thanks Marc. > I see now what you're talking about. I've never heard of these kinds > of upload limits before, either because they aren't common in the U.S., > or becau

Wine error

1999-11-23 Thread Jon Hughes
Just did an apt-get isntall wine, and when i attempt to run anything (weither a command or just type wine) I get the awesome error message of Segmentation fault. Doens't tell me much, I've removed it and reinstalled it a couple times now, but doesn't seem like it worked. Has anyone else encoutn

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-23 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 01:51:27AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 08:52:53AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > I think mutt is okay with me. > > Problem is, how do you "justify" the lines? It's ^j in pine. > > mutt's default editor is not vi, right? > > If you use vim, the

LaserWriter IINT

1999-11-23 Thread Andrew J.F. Clark
I'm wondering if anyone out there has had any luck setting up an Apple LaserWriter IINT under Debian, because I just can't get it to work. If someone has, I would appreciate if they could send me the details of exactly what packages they used, the printcap entry and anything else that's relevant (

Re: little www svr

1999-11-23 Thread Marc Mongeon
Jean-Yves: Hello, again. I'm doing fine. And you? I see now what you're talking about. I've never heard of these kinds of upload limits before, either because they aren't common in the U.S., or because I've always had a dial-up connection that charges based on time. Now that I understand your

gz in xemacs and netscape

1999-11-23 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I tell xemacs ad netscape to automaticly open gziped files? (does netscape do this automaticly?) for xemacs I am looking for a behaviour like vim which automaticly opens gzip files and saves them as gzip thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xswallow

1999-11-23 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i make xswallow work? I tried to istall it which put xswallow under /usr/lib/netscape/plugins I also put xswallow.conf into .netscape (whats the location for a global setup?) but all i got for mime types apearing in xswallow was aplications unknown:prompt user, and xswallow didn't appear any

Mail Q

1999-11-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I have one pop account and another acount which I have telnet/ftp access to that i have mail accounts on. I want to download the mail automaticlly each time on conection, How do i do this? For the telnet/ftp account I don't know if I can connect via pop or imap. I tried pop to names that could be s

Re: ethernet irq #4

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 07:46:25AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I feel like I`m getting close now.:-) > Unfortunately the cards had no software with them, they were both > unwanted freebies from work. As for the i/o address I would imagine > that this is covered by the message at boot time : >

Re: little www svr

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 09:20:26AM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > Jean-Yves: > > I'm a little confused about what you're asking. If your ISP is > providing 500MB disk space, presumably on their Web server, then > you don't need to worry about running a Web server. You create Hi Marc, doing well?

Re: ICMP error

1999-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
Vicente Torres wrote: >I receive hundreds of times pro day >the following message on my text screens: > >193.152.56.57 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast > >¿Can I do anything to avoid receiving this message? I had the same problem, due to an apparently misconfigured LANManager server on t

Re: liloing hdc as hda

1999-11-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Ralf rote. > You probably need the following entry to tell lilo to treat hdc as hda > for booting purposes (i.e. after you have switched your previous hdc > drive becomes hda, but the LILO boot sector still thinks it's hdc.) > disk=/dev/hdc > bios=0x80 > Now write LILO again to /dev/hdc,

Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-23 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, recently, I wanted to use an Eterm as a substitute for xconsole. Eterm -C lets it listen to /dev/console. On Debian systems, however, /dev/console is linked to /dev/tty0: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console -> tty0 so *Eterm doesn't catch anything*. xconsole, OTOH, displ

Re: /var/spool/mail/user missing

1999-11-23 Thread David S. Jackson
So then Mark Wagnon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said . . . > Anyway, my problem is: > > I was trying to set up another box, and when all was done, I > couldn't send/receive mail. Well, I could send it, but I couldn't > receive it. First, are you sure you can send mail? What tests have you run? Is this

Re: Help

1999-11-23 Thread David Teague
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please send me anything you can send. > -On any and everything. Hi Illicit We need some information about what your problem is! This is a really fine bunch of guys who have near genius at guessing what the problem is from the sparsest information,

Re: looking for prog to synchronize files via ftp

1999-11-23 Thread Tomas Cernaj
Tomas Cernaj wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm desperately looking for a program that synchronizes files on > different computers via ftp (or possibly other methods?), whenever you > call it by hand. > It should work like omirr (but not online...), that is, without > something like a master directory as

Re: Missing mail folder...

1999-11-23 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:28:48PM -0600, Marc Mongeon wrote: > file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} > I assume that exim is smart enough to create the file if it doesn't > already exist. Maybe something else is preventing mail from > being delivered to the new machine. Check the exim logs for

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-23 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! IMHO, encoding with more than 128 kbps makes sense. I use bladeenc, which offers much better sound quality at 160 or 256 kbps. At 128, I can hear the blips clearly (maybe because of BladeEnc). Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Missing mail folder...

1999-11-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Jan Ludewig wrote: > > as do: > touch /var/spool/mail/username Thanks. I tried that, but I did it again. It turned out that my misc mail filtering/forwarding files weren't doing what I wanted. They worked fine on my other box. I'll have to take a closer look at them tonight. Removing the

Re: [potato] blank windows

1999-11-23 Thread Ron Farrer
Goswin Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In some programs, xv, gnome-terminal, gnomicu, gv, to name a few, I get > > blank windows. The window itself comes up ok, but there is no text! In > > xv, it opens with a black background and doesn't displa

Re: [potato] blank windows

1999-11-23 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In some programs, xv, gnome-terminal, gnomicu, gv, to name a few, I get > blank windows. The window itself comes up ok, but there is no text! In > xv, it opens with a black background and doesn't display any pictures! > > Any ideas? What hardware/software

Re: pppconfig and multiple AT commands for modem initialization

1999-11-23 Thread David Natkins
ATM0 is what you want. David Karlin wrote: > > Hello, > I'm trying to get my modem to dial more quietly. I looked up the command > and it seems like ATL0 is what I want. > > I've tried various combinations of ATZ and ATL0 like: > "ATZL0", "ATZ,L0", "ATZ\nATL0", "ATZ\n\p\p\p\p\p\pATL0", and more

Re: Missing mail folder...

1999-11-23 Thread Marc Mongeon
Mark: Do you have this section in your exim.conf: local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part} I assume that exim is smart enough to create the file if it doesn't already exist. Maybe something else is pre

/var/spool/mail/user missing

1999-11-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I sent a preovious message, but I don't know where it went. It never showed up in Netscape, but then my timezone info is screwed up in netscape (which is why I use mutt). It may show up tonight... Anyway, my problem is: I was trying to set up another box, and when all was done, I couldn'

Re: Missing mail folder...

1999-11-23 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:54:20PM +, Mark Wagnon wrote: > receive it. mutt complained that there was no > /var/spool/mail/username. I don't remember doing anything different > this installation. I set up exim like always. What's supposed to go > into /var/spool/mail--files, folders? Or better

Re: having U R G E N T in the subject

1999-11-23 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:47:55PM +, Steve Tooke wrote: > hmmm that's on of pet hates when people put URGENT in the subject... but > thats only 'cause I've got procmail forwarding anything with URGENT in the > subject to my cell phone ;) this mail was a great contribution to the list :( if y

pppconfig and multiple AT commands for modem initialization

1999-11-23 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm trying to get my modem to dial more quietly. I looked up the command and it seems like ATL0 is what I want. I've tried various combinations of ATZ and ATL0 like: "ATZL0", "ATZ,L0", "ATZ\nATL0", "ATZ\n\p\p\p\p\p\pATL0", and more, but none seems to work. The modem dials as loudly as eve

Re: Bug submission

1999-11-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:15:40PM +, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one > > > old > > > email address. > > > My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and n

Re: Desperately need help on X! Please!

1999-11-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:25:26AM -0500, Tam Than Ma wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is my problem: > > After I configure X. > I typed "startx", the screen goes blank and then turn white with an "X" mark > in the middle(for about 2 seconds) and then it gives this only message: > "wait for X server to

Re: char-module-5

1999-11-23 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think I have support compiled in; using make xconfig, under > Character Devices, I selected support for console on virtual terminal, > and didn't select support for console on serial port. la -la shows > /dev/cons

Re: VPN without CisCO or Red CreeK

1999-11-23 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > I have to make VPN like : > > [ LAN-A ] ---> Linux router/VPN gateway -> leased line <- Linux > router/VPN gateway <- [ LAN B ] Is here poeple who had made such a VPN > using only Linux without special VPN hardware ? You can make that VPN, but you

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread Joe Block
Peter Ross wrote: > > On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of > > a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" > > > > will rm -r be as quick? > > > rm -rf * If you're new

Re: char-module-5

1999-11-23 Thread mheyes
I think I have support compiled in; using make xconfig, under Character Devices, I selected support for console on virtual terminal, and didn't select support for console on serial port. la -la shows /dev/console. I did modprobe -c and it showed "alias char-major-5 serial". I do get console mess

Re: Confused

1999-11-23 Thread Shaul Karl
Have you mounted the CD ? Look for mount at one of your books. It is quite fundamental. > I have just in the last few weeks started to mess with Linux. I have > successfully installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on an old P100 box with > CDROM. My problem is that I want to investigate the contents of t

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > >=20 > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font >

Re: potato and 2 processors

1999-11-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Hi, > > Luckly, I'll have a new machine this week. It's a dual pentium > III. > How good is potato, mainly 2.2.x (x>= 13), in SMP? > I means: how stable is it? (kernel and potato) with this config. First note: ther

netscape unusable --- nameserver/SOCKS_NS error

1999-11-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
I used to be able to run netscape fine, but recently it's started giving me an error at startup like: "" Warning: the following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net This means that some or all hosts will be unreaachable. Perhaps there i

Re: Corel WordPerfect problems

1999-11-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
WordPerfect needs the libc5 version of libXpm.so.4. Install the xpm4.7 package. On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:22:51AM +0300, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > Hi all > > I've got problem when try to run WordPerfect for linux > > It claimes that it cann't find libXpm.so.4 library. > > when I try to use ldd

Missing mail folder...

1999-11-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi everyone, I was trying to set up another box, and when all was done, I couldn't send/receive mail. Well, I could send it, but I couldn't receive it. mutt complained that there was no /var/spool/mail/username. I don't remember doing anything different this installation. I set up exim like always

Re: Desperately need help on X! Please!

1999-11-23 Thread Kent West
Tam Than Ma wrote: > > Hi all, > > Here is my problem: > > After I configure X. > I typed "startx", the screen goes blank and then turn white with an "X" mark > in the middle(for about 2 seconds) and then it gives this only message: > "wait for X server to shut down". > > I don't know what the

Re: change resolution

1999-11-23 Thread Evan Moore
i am using debian @ work so i am using lilo. I tried the vga=791; however on reboot, i got a blank screen. The system started up, i edited my lilo.conf file (blindly) and rebooted. Ahhh now I can see. So i am thinking that i need to do other stuff to get this working, what else did you do? thanks

having U R G E N T in the subject

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Tooke
hmmm that's on of pet hates when people put URGENT in the subject... but thats only 'cause I've got procmail forwarding anything with URGENT in the subject to my cell phone ;) Tooky

VPN without CisCO or Red CreeK

1999-11-23 Thread Denis J. Cirulis
Hi there ! I have to make VPN like : [ LAN-A ] ---> Linux router/VPN gateway -> leased line <- Linux router/VPN gateway <- [ LAN B ] Is here poeple who had made such a VPN using only Linux without special VPN hardware ? -- +----------------------+ | Den

LPRng

1999-11-23 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello. I've recently upgraded to the latest version of lprng, and I have the following problem. I have a network printer, and I declared its address in /etc/printcap. When I print a file, everything seems allright, except the printer prints nothing. I tried lpd, the result is the same. How

Re: how to make KDM not start at bootup

1999-11-23 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I recently installed the slink version of debian. When I installed > kdm (with apt-get) it set it up so that it starts on bootup. How do I get > it so it only starts when I tell it to? update-rc.d -f kdm remo

change resolution

1999-11-23 Thread Evan Moore
I use linuxppc at home, and i can easily change the resolution of the VSs, but at work I am stuck in 640x480, is there some way of getting more resolution out of the VSs? I have tried vga=ext in my lilo.conf, but am unhappy with the result. I would love 1024x768, the same res I run X. thanks in ad

Re: potato and 2 processors

1999-11-23 Thread Ookhoi
> Luckly, I'll have a new machine this week. It's a dual pentium > III. > How good is potato, mainly 2.2.x (x>= 13), in SMP? > I means: how stable is it? (kernel and potato) with this config. > I'm already running potato in my personal workstation. It's fine. > But the above

how to make KDM not start at bootup

1999-11-23 Thread alice
Hi, I recently installed the slink version of debian. When I installed kdm (with apt-get) it set it up so that it starts on bootup. How do I get it so it only starts when I tell it to? Alice M. Pinard Casco Indemnity Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]

looking for prog to synchronize files via ftp

1999-11-23 Thread Tomas Cernaj
Hi all, I'm desperately looking for a program that synchronizes files on different computers via ftp (or possibly other methods?), whenever you call it by hand. It should work like omirr (but not online...), that is, without something like a master directory as with rdist(1). It should sync the fi

console keyboard remaped (newbie)

1999-11-23 Thread David Wilson
Yesterday I just installed potato. Today I was adding programs using dselect and apt. After finishing dselect, my console keyboard was remaped (e.g., ";" is now "m", "q" and "a" are switched). The keyboard is fine under X (even in a xterm). This problem makes login difficult, since I must r

Re: Route Table, more info

1999-11-23 Thread Marc Mongeon
Robert: Thanks for the correction, and the RFC pointer. I've got it clearly bookmarked now, so I won't make the same mistake again. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)

Desperately need help on X! Please!

1999-11-23 Thread Tam Than Ma
Hi all, Here is my problem: After I configure X. I typed "startx", the screen goes blank and then turn white with an "X" mark in the middle(for about 2 seconds) and then it gives this only message: "wait for X server to shut down". I don't know what the problem is, I have configure it over and o

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
Wayne Topa said: > I sure have found it that way. 99% of my books are ordered from > bookpool. I've had Very Bad Experiences with bookpool - lousy service (particularly in dealing with backorders), slow (and expensive) shipping... I placed one order with them and will never do it again. For tech

Re: Route Table, more info

1999-11-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:02:43 CST, "Marc Mongeon" writes: >Jason: > >You have nothing else on the ethernet segment that contains the router >internal interface and the debian eth1 interface, right? First, stop >paying for 2 IP addresses that you don't need. Assign "internal" IP >addresses to the r

Re: char-module-5

1999-11-23 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mr. Potato keeps sending me a console message telling me it can't find > module char-major-5, but I don't have any modules compiled with my > kernel, and I can't find any docs telling me anything about this. Can > a

Re: Route Table, more info

1999-11-23 Thread Marc Mongeon
Jason: You have nothing else on the ethernet segment that contains the router internal interface and the debian eth1 interface, right? First, stop paying for 2 IP addresses that you don't need. Assign "internal" IP addresses to the router internal and debian eth1 interfaces, from one of these IP

netscape4.7 messages

1999-11-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Is there any way of fixing this?: I can not read any already inbox message while netscape is downloading other messages. Now, I remember that in the windows version of nescape this is possible. May be some oddity of the version? Thanks, antonio.

potato and 2 processors

1999-11-23 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, Luckly, I'll have a new machine this week. It's a dual pentium III. How good is potato, mainly 2.2.x (x>= 13), in SMP? I means: how stable is it? (kernel and potato) with this config. I'm already running potato in my personal workstation. It's fine. But the abo

Re: pppd Crashes Serial Port

1999-11-23 Thread Jeff Sciortino
David Wright wrote: > > How are you combining running X with gpm? Do you use the repeater > option -R in gpm combined with the /dev/gpmdata pipe? > (which I'd recommend). > I'm basicly running whatever the installer set up! When I 'ps agx |grep gpm' I get this : 152 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm

char-module-5

1999-11-23 Thread mheyes
Mr. Potato keeps sending me a console message telling me it can't find module char-major-5, but I don't have any modules compiled with my kernel, and I can't find any docs telling me anything about this. Can anybody clue me in about what this is and how to correct this? Thanks. Michael Heyes

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > > About the only choice these days is bladeenc. Due > to > > patent issues it is probably NOT available in a > .deb, > > at least not on the debian ftp site. However you > can > > get it from Tord's home page (I don't

Re: Bug submission

1999-11-23 Thread Jordi
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:15:40PM +, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one old > > email address. > > My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now it's > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > bug sent the

ICMP error

1999-11-23 Thread Vicente Torres
I receive hundreds of times pro day the following message on my text screens: 193.152.56.57 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast ¿Can I do anything to avoid receiving this message?

Re: Route Table, more info

1999-11-23 Thread Jason
Here is the current route table, (output of netstat -nr) 131.107.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo The reason that it doesn't show the 207.158.140.138 address is because it says tha

Re: Bug submission

1999-11-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jordi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one old > email address. > My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now it's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > bug sent the bug report as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have looked around to see > where it go

Re: gdb and potato

1999-11-23 Thread Bart Warmerdam
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:24:05PM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: > I recently updated fully to potato and am having a slight annoyance with > GDB. Giving an 'n' command acts with the exact behavior of 's'. Does > anyone else have this problem? This is a real annoyance when attempting > to perform a s

Re: recording voice?

1999-11-23 Thread Remco van 't Veer
I use aumix(1) to set the mic to recording source and brec(1) (from bplay) or rec(1) (from sox) to record. HTH, Remco On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 01:58, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Is there any good util to record voice from mic? > -gnana -- General Javier Solana moord security Honduras KKK Echelo

uvscan

1999-11-23 Thread Christopher Le
did someone have some news about uvscan ? because the link ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/unix/linux/nlxb318e.tar does not exit. thank you. Christopher

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:36:55AM +, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > Lindsay Allen writes: > | > rm -rf * > | > | That's something I *never* do. Why? Because it puts "rm -rf *" in my > | history buffer which means that one slip can lead to disaster. So I > | use rm -rf /here/there/some/place/* w

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread Martyn Pearce
Lindsay Allen writes: | > rm -rf * | | That's something I *never* do. Why? Because it puts "rm -rf *" in my | history buffer which means that one slip can lead to disaster. So I | use rm -rf /here/there/some/place/* which at least means I cannot blow | away my whole file system if I make an er

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 22-Nov-99 aphro wrote: > From what i read the root partition cannnot be > part of a raid array without some crafty configuration. > > nate The "crafty configuration" is precisely what I would like to learn about, if anyone could point me in the right direction. With thanks, Ted. ---

world writable libguile

1999-11-23 Thread Ethan Benson
hi, I mentioned this on the devel list and i think they already figured out what was wrong and presumably fixed it. but i had just discovered that /usr/lib/libguile.so.6.0.0 was mode 777 (world writable) for those not on devel it might not be a bad idea to do a quick check on your system's l

liloing hdc as hda

1999-11-23 Thread Martyn Pearce
Richard E. Hawkins writes: | | I managed to scrounge up an additional identiacl hard disk to replace | my dying disk. dd seems to have successfully duplicated the drive; | they look the same. To write to the drive, I have it as the primary on | the secondary controller. | | | I switched ca

Bug submission

1999-11-23 Thread Jordi
Hello, last night I submitted a bug report for gfcc, and "bug" used one old email address. My address was before [EMAIL PROTECTED] and now it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] bug sent the bug report as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have looked around to see where it got this information from, but I couldn't find anyt

Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: good book to learn perl Date: Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:37:13PM +0200 In reply to:Shaul Karl Quoting Shaul Karl([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| > >| > saw a few on amazon ..not a whole lot of reader reviews of them tho >| > >| >| Isn't www.bookpool.com generally cheaper then

Re: HELP: Error: can't find libjava.so

1999-11-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 22 November 1999, at 17 h 24, the keyboard of Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, found a fix. but still i do not know what failed. > but as it seems it could be /bin/sh. BTW, you copied your message to many mailing lists and you forget debian-java, which seem

Re: Newbie question floppy format

1999-11-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? > Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not > work. Returned error - command not found. > Thanks for any help in advance. superformat from the fdutils package. Look at the info page fo

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:00:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of > a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" > > will rm -r be as quick? It will actually be much quicker (you may need to add a

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems-SOLVED!

1999-11-23 Thread John Foster
Wayne Topa wrote: > When I installed OSS Non-Free, I installed it into /usr/local/lib/oss. > The 'play' is the command to play a file ie > $ play hello.wav or play cowbell.au, etc. > > It is in the oss directory along with ossmix, the mixer command, and > the soundon and soundoff commands and th

ethernet irq #4

1999-11-23 Thread paul
I feel like I`m getting close now.:-) Unfortunately the cards had no software with them, they were both unwanted freebies from work. As for the i/o address I would imagine that this is covered by the message at boot time : "eth0: AT1700 found at 0x320, IRQ 5, address f4aacbbd auto-sense int

Corel WordPerfect problems

1999-11-23 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Hi all I've got problem when try to run WordPerfect for linux It claimes that it cann't find libXpm.so.4 library. when I try to use ldd on WordPerfect executable (xwp) it shows: libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX

Re: GUI toolkit for a beginner?

1999-11-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Mike Werner wrote: > > I'm finally getting to the point with C that I plan on finally trying to > hack together a few small programs that I've been thinking about for some > time now. > I'd like to also put together a GUI frontend for some of them > at some point. However I have zero experience

GUI toolkit for a beginner?

1999-11-23 Thread Mike Werner
I'm finally getting to the point with C that I plan on finally trying to hack together a few small programs that I've been thinking about for some time now. I'd like to also put together a GUI frontend for some of them at some point. However I have zero experience with GUI programming. I know th

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread aphro
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zdrysd >will rm -r be as quick? rm -rf works for me .. the -f wont prompt for anything..dont use it unless yer real confident you wanna delete it :) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Networ

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-23 Thread claw
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:20:31 - (UTC) Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have all of this, so it seems I just need to move the procmail > director upward. Yes, it must be above the localuser. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)

small procmail problem

1999-11-23 Thread Pollywog
Now that I am using procmail via my Exim.conf, I am getting this: On 23-Nov-1999 root wrote: > Nov 23 05:11:43 lilypad procmail[13624]: Enforcing stricter permissions on > "/var/spool/mail/pollywog" > Nov 23 05:11:43 lilypad procmail[13624]: Enforcing stricter permissions on > "/var/spool/mail/pol

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Peter Ross wrote: > On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of > > a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" > > > > will rm -r be as quick? > > > r

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Nov-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:44:37 - (UTC) > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I tried this, but I get: Starting MTA: 1999-11-22 21:41:17 Exim >> configuration error transport procmail: cannot find transport >> driver "localuser" in line 362 > > Y

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread Peter Ross
On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of > a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" > > will rm -r be as quick? > rm -rf * Just make sure that you are in the correct direct

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems Date: Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 11:28:03AM -0600 In reply to:John Foster Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| Wayne Topa wrote: >| > >| > In reply to:John Foster >| > John >| > >| > I have been using commercial OSS for over 2 years

deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread zdrysdal
Hi does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of a directory other than the command "find . -exec rm {} \;" will rm -r be as quick? thanx

Re: Info

1999-11-23 Thread John Carline
Nikhil Vohra wrote: >Please tell me about your software what sort of > os it is what are it's system requirments is it > available in english is it totally free of cost till > our door step on cd does it have a GUI or not Send > details on [EMAIL PROTE

Re: exim and procmail?

1999-11-23 Thread claw
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:44:37 - (UTC) Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried this, but I get: Starting MTA: 1999-11-22 21:41:17 Exim > configuration error transport procmail: cannot find transport > driver "localuser" in line 362 You should have a director stanza (after the procmail d

Re: Revised post (off topic?)

1999-11-23 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:16:00PM -0800, Nun Yobiznez wrote: > > Could someone please tell me what should be in $#ARGV, > 0? Why not try an apt-get upgrade, then manually use deselect to rid yourself of those yucky packages that suck like xbiff ( I hate xbiff ). -- Ben Lutgens http://cybercr

Revised post (off topic?)

1999-11-23 Thread Nun Yobiznez
I would like to resubmit this query of the list. I have revised it somewhat to make more sense. >I have done interesting things.I am running >potato and went to ftp.debian.org to get the latest >updates via apt. I was using dselect and selected all >updated packages from the availabi

Re: Locale question

1999-11-23 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:53:53PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > I never cared much about localization but now I'm stuck with a program that > works well with all locales but has to do some output without using the > locale. > > Since the output is a floating point I get e.g. 14,7 instead of 14.7

gdb and potato

1999-11-23 Thread Dave Wiard
I recently updated fully to potato and am having a slight annoyance with GDB. Giving an 'n' command acts with the exact behavior of 's'. Does anyone else have this problem? This is a real annoyance when attempting to perform a strncpy() call where GDB steps me through the ASM files: (gdb) 199

Re: Ethernet irq #3

1999-11-23 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I`m fairly new to all this so before I go to the extent of replacing > the kernel, which I hadn`t intended to do until potato was the stable > version, please could someone tell me in laymans terms how to change > the IRQ that this NIC u

(mega)flops?

1999-11-23 Thread luis
hello everybody: is there any package that enables me to measure how many flops a machine runs? thanks a lot

Re: how to use apt-get with a kde mirror ?

1999-11-23 Thread Carl Fink
In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'd like to know how to use apt-get with a kde mirror ? > >ftp://ftp.kde.org/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink/i386/ > >i don't know what to put in /etc/apt/sources.list ... I use deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde -- Carl Fink

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