cnews/nntp/slrn Problem
Hi all, i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn hangs with posting In my /etc/news/nntp_access: localhost bothpost and slrn outputs on start: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ slrn slrn 0.9.6.2 (Jan 9 2000 17:07:57) Reading startup file /etc/news//slrn.rc. Reading startup file /home/dschoen/.slrnrc. Using newsrc file .jnewsrc for server localhost. Connecting to host localhost ... Connected to host. Posting Ok. Checking for new groups ... Checking news via active file ... any help is appreciated Dennis -- | Dennis Schoen | Contrary to popular belief, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UNIX is a user-friendly Operating | http://www.gt.owl.de/~dschoen/ | System. It's just choosey about | +49-5207-923701 | who its friends are. pgpI9r0W2CIJ9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Changing architecture from i386 to i686 (dpkg-buildpackage to opt imize for PII)
On 10 Jan 00 17:33:06 GMT, Fredrik Liljegren wrote: I would like dpkg-buildpackage to use egcs' optimizations for Pentium II, and let the whole system understand that it is a i686 and not i386 to get proper defaults... I grep'd i386 in /etc and found that it's mentioned in quite a lot of locations. Is there any standard or at least certain way of accomplishing this? You could have a look at the pentium-builder package. Dennis -- Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Re: Really no sponsor out there?
--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all,=20 I just wanted to say that Alexander Koch will act as a sponsor for me. Hopefully the packages will be uploaded before the 2.1 Thanks to all of you offered their help. Dennis --=20 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System. It's just choosey about who its friends are. --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE4aTCq1/FOY90cYtYRAdOmAKCaRF34BJHuVsJ6Ss1bZhAMlj4prACfYZzj KxNZzdjSJsyObQ7rCMqHqvI= =ixDM -END PGP SIGNATURE- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: DEB files
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:54:12AM -0200, Tux wrote: ^^^ No Realname ?? Hello, How to create .deb files? Read the Debian Packaging Manual How to convert .rpm files do .deb files? apt-get install alien man alien Dennis -- Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System. It's just choosey about who its friends are. pgph42oRzSyc8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Save me: LILO!
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 07:26:51AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Aaron Solochek wrote: Get a boot disk. Then you can simply run lilo as root and that will rest ore your MBR. If you need more specific instructions just ask. Or download loadlin.exe and boot Linux from inside Windows. Again, you can then run lilo. You could also try fdisk /mbr on windows, its not documented but sometimes it can restore your old mbr dennis -- Dennis Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49+5207+923701 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating-System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:54:43PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hey stop, I am using WinNT 4.0 and some different Servers, but ALL Web-Servers are case-sensitive !!! Webmistress Michelle Good night. It was a long day for me. Oh, sorry i should think before answering questions ! dennis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dennis Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49+5207+923701 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating-System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:48:29AM -0400, Rick Smith wrote: HI I am hosting web sites that have been made with Front Page and I have eliminated my NT server and went with All Debian servers and needless to say some of the pages are not working correctly and I was wondering if any one could help! I am a newbie but I love it and I am not afraid to read so any suggestions would definatley be appreciated! Thanks in advance Rick Smith ABON Maybe some of the Links in your sites upper-case and the files on your server are lower-case? UNIX is case-sensitive, Windows not! hope this helps dennis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dennis Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49+5207+923701 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating-System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Re: Mail has incorrect Sender (Exim or Netscape?)
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 05:14:06PM +0100, David Warnock wrote: Hi, Although generally my email works fine I have 1 small problem. It seems that my outgoing mail has an incorrect sender (the header has Sender: david). I assume it should be Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is causing one mailing list (DebianUk) to reject any messages I send to it. Does anyone know where this header is created and how I change it (I cannot see it anywhere in Netscape preferences or in the exim configuration)? Thanks David I think qualify_domain = your_preferred_domain_name in the exim.conf file will do the job dennis -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dennis Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49+5207+923701 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating-System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Re: Share a directory?
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 08:15:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I wanted to share a directory on my Linux box, and have it available the Windows Network Neighborhood, what software/configuration do I need to look at? I think Samba will do the job dennis Thanks Hope this helps -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dennis Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49+5207+923701 Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating-System. It's just choosey about who its friends are.
Re: Problem with route and kernel 2.2.10
Ralf Comtesse wrote: Hello, I compiled kernel 2.2.10 today and almost everything went fine. The only problem is when booting. In /etc/rcS.d S40network is called and there you find the line route add -net 127.0.0.0 wich gives me SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument Was there change that I did not get? Sth. else I missed? The network seems alrigt. How do I get rid of the error message (without deleting the line ;-)) ) Regards Ralf You can delete the line, the 2.2.X Kernel does the routing itself. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: X server for ATI 3D Rage II+ Video Adapter
David B. Karlin wrote: Hello, I was browsing http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html looking for ATI 3D Rage II+ which is not listed. All the other ATI Rage models are listed as using the XF86_Mach64 X server. Does anyone know if this X server is compatible with my card? I use th ATI 3D Rage II+ with the XF86_Mach64 Server since 2 years without any problems. I think the server will detect the card and set it up correctly. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
bash 2.02.1-1.4 problem
I upgrade my bash from the slink version bash 2.01.-4.1 to the potato version 2.02.1-1.4 everythink went find, but when i hit the tab button and the filename is not definite bash just exits and gives me the login prompt (no error message). After downgrading to the slink version everythink is okay. Any suggestion ? My system is half potato/slink (already glibc2.1) dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: Problems with bash
Matthew Guenther wrote: I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). There have also been various strange crashes when using filename completion. If I change the shell to csh or tcsh and try the same things nothing happens. The system is partially potato, but I didn't get any errors about missed dependencies when I installed the new bash. Anyone have any idea what's going on? MBG -- Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow, that's big, time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I got exactly the same problem with the potato version. My system is already glibc2.1 just a few packages are not upgraded. I installed it with apt-get and there were no problems about dependencies. After downgrading to the slink version everythink works fine again. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: Esound problem (gnome) - sound device inadequate
Micha Feigin wrote: I have a computer with no sound ( yes it's an old 486 there is still one of these around :) ). The thing is that whenever i try to start a gnome program it tries to search /dev/dsp for a sound card (permision denied), fails, gives me a message : Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal. and then sometimes it starts but usually segfaults. Anyway around this? BTW i am using gnomever 1.0.5-3 BTW2 the full mesage: /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono. /dev/dsp: Permission denied Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal. Segmentation fault thanks Look out for a gnome-nosound (anythink like that) packages i think i've seen somethink out there. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: X11 install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly new to Linux. Have installed the latest stable version with some add'l packages. I downloaded X11 files from Xfree86.org. I tried to run preinst.sh and right away I got file: command not found. It also looked like the preinst.sh script was making a distinction between ELF and a.out binaries. Should I just install the X11 Deb packages from Debian.org? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I would prefer installing the debian packages wich are easier to install and much more configured for your system. Anyway if you want to install the files you already get try bash preinst.sh that should work. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: can't get mtools to work
Monte Copeland wrote: I used xv to take a jpeg screen-shot of the desktop. Then I tried to save it to a floppy using mcopy ( mtools ), but Linux will not let me do it. The following message comes up instead: Can't open /dev/fd0: Permission denied Cannot initialize 'A:' Bad target a: When I change to root, I can use mtools with no problem. So I figure I have to add my user name to the floppy group. # addgroup username floppy also # addgroup username disk That still does not solve the problem. Then I looked up some archived debian- user lists on mtools and one of the messages said to modify my /etc/fstab file. Question: Am I even on the right trail to a solution? If so, what needs to go where in the /etc/fstab file? Or if I am completely lost, could someone send me in the right direction. Thank you, Monte Copeland Knoxville TN -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null You are right, in etc/fstab, just add user to the options list for your floppy -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: problem with libgnomeui32 1.0.9-3
Raphaël\@[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: I have d/l gnome-apt with apt-get and it of course has d/l and installed some others package like libgnomeui32. But now, every gnome application tells me: gnp: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined symbol: gdk_imlib_get_cache_info I do have imlib installed. I've tried recompiling libgnomeui but it complained about a bad version of libz.I have libz.so.1.1.3 wich was with the slink I think -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I´m using libgnomeui32 1.0.10-1 on a half poatao half slink system and got exactly the same problem. dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: Help...Linux on Low Level
Kyle Landon wrote: Help!! I need to get Linux out of my master boot record so I can load windows. Kyle Try a DOS-Bootdisk and type ´fdisk /mbr´ dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: Making Makefiles
Brad wrote: i'm getting started writing C/C++ programs that are more than one file long, so i decided it's about time i learn to make a makefile. The make info page mentions automake, the automake manpage hints at configure.in... i'm getting confused! What's a good way to learn to make good makefiles? Which packages do i need, and where do i even start to learn to use them? Thanks in advance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I use the Code Crusader IDE wich can automaticly generate MakeFiles. You find it at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/ dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: New install question
John Hagemann wrote: I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa ethernet card to use as a proxy. The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card (SMC Elite) The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet card configured. Could someone please help me. TIA John Hagemann JFM Management Inc. 312-644-0870 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null First of all you need to compile yourself a new Kernel with the your Ethernet Card selected. Compile it as module or direct into the Kernel, for ISA Plug and Pray Cards you need to run the ISAPNP uttility to configure them. Please check the Hardware Howto for supported Ethernet Cards, and the Kernel Howto for Compiling a new Kernel. Hope it will help dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, unix is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: New install question
John Hagemann wrote: I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa ethernet card to use as a proxy. The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card (SMC Elite) The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet card configured. Could someone please help me. TIA John Hagemann JFM Management Inc. 312-644-0870 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Please post some more Information what you have done and The Kernel configure output /var/log/messages output Dennis -- ## #Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is# #that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they# #look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that # #you will never forgive me for. # # +++ The Mentor +++ # ##
Re: Setup a network without network
José L. Redrejo - ITAIS wrote: HI, I would like to practice the Apache Setup both at work and at home. At work I have a network but at home I have a standalone PC. How can I setup my linux box to install and execute APache without a network. I've tried it using the dummy adapter and localhost name but I heven't been able. I'm a newbie and I've studied all the how-to I've found for these themes but it still doesn't work Help please and thanks in advance Please post more Information about error-messages and what you have tried. I'm using the slink apache Packages with and without network and it works fine. and please post not in html Dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, unix is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
