Re: Locate

1997-03-08 Thread System Account
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, when I use locate I get an error. This is what I get if I type like locate what ever. Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell me why? And is there a command to see how

Re: now what

1997-03-08 Thread edwalter
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, MR DAVID C STEIN wrote: So I downloaded my debian base sysetem now what do I do?? Where do I go??? Is xwindows the next thing I need?? Also someone showed me how to mount a floppy disk mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy How do I unmount it Where is a file

Re: SVGATextMode...

1997-03-08 Thread edwalter
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (2) I seem to have a problem configuring my SVGATextMode program. For a start I have a cirrus Logic GP-5446 Card and this in not listed amongs the list of supported cards (XFREE does) Also, could someone with a cirrus logic car, who has

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-08 Thread Stuart Lamble
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: [...] There shouldn't be. Which version of vim do you have installed? When I changed the compilation procedure to configure vim with X support, I created two versions - one for 1.2 (which, at the time, was

Re: experiences with /dev/md? (multiple device) drivers ?

1997-03-08 Thread Dale Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Does anybody here have experience with the multiple device drivers under linux? [ snip ] My main worry is reliability of the driver. And speed matters, too. Hints and recommendations welcome! I've been using it for a few months on a machine that does

lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Brian S. Julin
FYI I upgraded tons of packages (stable) and now lynx takes about a minute to start. -- Brian S. Julin

Re: Locate

1997-03-08 Thread Thought
Try running updatedb to fix your locate problem df will tell you about your disk space On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, when I use locate I get an error. This is what I get if I type like locate what ever. Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No

make-kpkg

1997-03-08 Thread johannes martinez
What exactly does this do? Does it make a package or does it make a new kernel? If either where does it put it? Come to think of it now i could have did a find on the newest files but, a little to late for that now. Is it of any use to use make-kpkg or should i just do a normal

Re: Which OSF/Motif ?

1997-03-08 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
BB == Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BB I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as to which BB versions of Motif are any good and what the prices are. CheapBytes has SWiM Motif for $69.00. It's working well for me so far. Install the 2.0 version, not the 2.0.1

Re: make-kpkg

1997-03-08 Thread Brad Bell
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, johannes martinez wrote: What exactly does this do? Does it make a package or does it make a new kernel? both. it makes a .deb package of your customized kernel. If either where does it put it? i ran: make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image from the directory

nslookup

1997-03-08 Thread Gith
Ok, I think this gets into the bind/named realm and I really try to avoid going there if at all possible. Here's the general question, Running nslookup localhost shows me this: # nslookup localhost Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name:

Re: Sz Program for Minicom

1997-03-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 16:46:44 CST Pete Poff ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .edu) wrote: I don't have the sz program for the minicom program so that I can download with my zmodem. I've looked around on the ftps sites and can't find the sz. Could anyone point me out to where I might be able to

BlankTime, SuspendTime and OffTime?

1997-03-08 Thread Mark Lever
Hi all, Does anyone know why blanktime, suspendtime and offtime don't work in the XF86_S3 server anymore? I have the X package from 1.2.7 on ftp.debian.org. Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied Digital Access, Inc. San Diego, CA 92121

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote: This doesn't explain why the problems have only started occurring in the past few days. I've been using the same set A/set B mix for many months, and only started getting corruption this week. Something must have changed, and that should be fixed. login

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders: On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote: This doesn't explain why the problems have only started occurring in the past few days. I've been using the same set A/set B mix for many months, and only started getting corruption this week. Something must have changed, and that

Re: lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mar 03, 1997 at 07:38:33PM -0500, Brian S. Julin wrote: I upgraded tons of packages (stable) and now lynx takes about a minute to start. Same here; well, about five seconds, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything in that time. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne,

Re: make-kpkg

1997-03-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, make-kpkg is part of the package kernel-package, which is designed to make it easier to compile kernels. The idea is that one configures the kernel to ones liking, using one of make config, make menuconfig, or make xconfig, and then sit back and let make-kpkg take care of the

resolv.conf

1997-03-08 Thread Bruce Perens
It is made by the installation process when you configure your network. The one made then has these two lines: search DOMAIN_NAME nameserver XX.XX.XX.XX Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Debian on the shuttle

1997-03-08 Thread Dave Van Dijck
* Reply to a message in linux-debian-users. Jason Killen wrote in a message to Dave Van Dijck: --==OT-RSN: MOVED by text! JK From: Jason Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK To: W. Joseph Mantle [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org JK Why does everyone keep saying that X should

Kernel compilation problem

1997-03-08 Thread Dave Van Dijck
* Reply to a message in linux-debian-users. Steve Reid wrote in a message to Dave Van Dijck: --==OT-RSN: MOVED by text! Well, I am trying to compile a custom kernel, which I've done SR This is a known bug in make-kpkg. SR I haven't tried make-kpkg since I reported the bug, but I suspect

libvga?

1997-03-08 Thread Dave Van Dijck
* Reply to a message in linux-debian-users. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in a message to Dave Van Dijck: --==OT-RSN: MOVED by text! jN From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jN To: debian-user@lists.debian.org jN I've been trying to run several svga games and keep getting this jN error: jN

Re: TO the holier-than-thou guru

1997-03-08 Thread tomk
Craig Sanders writes: [snip] from the pppd man page: ipcp-accept-local With this option, pppd will accept the peer's idea of our local IP address, even if the local IP address was specified in an option. ipcp-accept-remote

Re: Kernel compilation problem

1997-03-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Firstly: It was a problem with kernel sources not expecting the suddenly POSIX compliant expr in shell utils, not with make-kpkg. (/usr/doc/kernel-package.Problems.gz in newer kernel-packages dissects this in detail). Secondly, sure, this is Unix. You can always do things

Re: lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian S. Julin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded tons of packages (stable) and now lynx takes about a minute to start. This is because your /etc/mailcap has a ridiculous lot of goodies been added to via a installation routine of packages who use

Re: lynx lagzzzzz

1997-03-08 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian S. Julin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded tons of packages (stable) and now lynx takes about a minute to start. This is because your /etc/mailcap has a ridiculous lot of goodies been added to via a installation routine of packages who use

Another shared lib question

1997-03-08 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I have been reading the gcc-howto and the elf-howto... and have made my first shared library. My question is: does the code have to be rewritten/redesigned to take care of any reentrantcy problems? I have a feeling that globals/statics are bad news. Am I right? For Example: program a calls foo

Re: Another shared lib question

1997-03-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:55:46 CST Walter L. Preuninger II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have been reading the gcc-howto and the elf-howto... and have made my first shared library. My question is: does the code have to be rewritten/redesigned to take care of any reentrantcy problems? I have a

Re: nslookup

1997-03-08 Thread Thought
edit your /etc/hosts and put mybox on the line with 127.0.0.1 it should then look something like: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.quicklink.net mybox On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Gith wrote: Ok, I think this gets into the bind/named realm and I really try to avoid going there if at all

zsh vsh bash

1997-03-08 Thread Thought
Hey, what do you guys think is better, zsh or bash?

Re: Another shared lib question

1997-03-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I have been reading the gcc-howto and the elf-howto... and have made my first shared library. My question is: does the code have to be rewritten/redesigned to take care of any reentrantcy problems? I have a feeling that globals/statics are

Re: Debian on the shuttle

1997-03-08 Thread Paul Seelig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Van Dijck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe a new project could be started to create a good desktop that takes a few good idea's from other desktops like win95 and OS/2's PM, and adds idea's of it's own. It has been tried several times before,

Re: Locate

1997-03-08 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
If you check /etc/crontab you'll notice that there's a line that does something like 'run-parts /etc/cron.daily'. /etc/cron.daily has among others a file called 'find' that includes the commands to update the locatedb. Like the name implies, files in /etc/cron.daily are run once a day, in my

very small bash script question

1997-03-08 Thread Lawrence Chim
Does anyone know how to check a directory is empty in bash script? lawrence,

Re: zsh vsh bash

1997-03-08 Thread Larry Ayers
On Fri, Mar 07, 1997 at 11:19:28PM -0800, Thought wrote: Hey, what do you guys think is better, zsh or bash? I like zsh, as I'm not that good at typing both quickly and accurately. The command-line spelling correction is helpful. What's also nice is that the init-file syntax is almost the

Re: GCC problems

1997-03-08 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Hi. I had the same problem when trying to use the c++ side of gcc. The problem was with gnat, which created some links that caused gcc to be unable to find particular executables. You can fix this by de-installing gnat (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH gnats, WHICH IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PACKAGE).

Re: Locate

1997-03-08 Thread David Puryear
Hi, On 08-Mar-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: If you check /etc/crontab you'll notice that there's a line that does something like 'run-parts /etc/cron.daily'. /etc/cron.daily has among others a file called 'find' that includes the commands to update the locatedb. Like the name implies, files in

Re: alias?

1997-03-08 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Hi Bjoern. To get an alias to be permanent, it depends on what shell you're using. For the korn-shell, place the alias in your .kshrc file under your home directory. For bash, put it in .bash_profile and .bashrc -- all of these files are executed by a shell whenever you have either a) just

Re: now what

1997-03-08 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Dave -- Since you're using a modem and don't have a direct internet connection, I'd suggest ordering the debian cd's from i-connect (web = www.i-connect.net). The installation should go pretty smooth, although you may have to repeat the procedure a few times to get everything to install correctly.

libraries

1997-03-08 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, I was wondering what the difference is between lib*.so and lib*.a libraries and is there any way to switch between them? For examples, I have in my /lib directory libtermcap.so, but when I try to compile stuff with that library I get an error from the compiler saying that the library

Re: Another shared lib question

1997-03-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:55:46 CST Walter L. Preuninger II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have been reading the gcc-howto and the elf-howto... and have made my first shared library. My question is: does the code have to be rewritten/redesigned to take care of any reentrantcy problems? I

Q: Will Digital HiNote run Linux

1997-03-08 Thread John Plate
Hi Does anybody knows if the Digital HiNote (laptop) VP 535 can run the Debien Linux? Thank you in advance. John -- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine producing gratuitous folder locks

1997-03-08 Thread David C. Winters
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, David C. Winters wrote: Today, I started getting running into a problem with Pine 3.94--it began [Del.] On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Pete Templin wrote: Are the permissions on the /tmp directory correct? (1755, which looks like drwxrwxrwt in ls -l /) This is often my first clue

syslog question

1997-03-08 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I just installed the unstable version on my computer. Everything seems fine bu tthere is one problem . I have my innitab file sending the contents of /tmp/messages to /dev/tty8 . Additionally I have the syslog.conf file sending some messages to /tmp/messages so I can see syslog mesages on

Re: syslog question

1997-03-08 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wro t e: Hi, I just installed the unstable version on my computer. Everything seems fine bu tthere is one problem . I have my innitab file sending the contents of /tmp/messages to /dev/tty8 . Additionally I have the syslog.conf file sending some messages to

Re: Where to go next

1997-03-08 Thread MR DAVID C STEIN
Many thanks to all who've answered my questions about how to get started with Linux. When the documentation said there was an entheusiastic user group out their its right. I've posted to other lists and just gotten nasty replies about how the question wasn't on topic enough or how I should

Local X application defaults

1997-03-08 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Where should I put the app-defaults files of locally installed (non-Debian, in /usr/local/) X applications? Thus far I've just put them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/, even though /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README says I shouldn't do that... (I don't really want to cat them all to the end of

X

1997-03-08 Thread Daniel Karlsson
Hello I've finally managed to make X work. At least in a way. When I write startx I get a patterned background and a square in the upper left corner in which it says xterm. I have no mouse response, even though I have in text mode. All I can do is to press Enter. Then the square disappears and

zsh vs bash

1997-03-08 Thread Richard Sharman
Thought writes: Hey, what do you guys think is better, zsh or bash? I prefer zsh, I find it easier to work with. For a while it had several features missing from bash (and most shells), but bash has caught up on many of them. It still has some features which don't seem to be in bash

Re: Zimmerman case

1997-03-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Bruce: The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. From: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is true, but he is still be pestered more than you and I would like to live with. Uh, maybe. He seems to be making money on the issue.

Noch da... (dies gehoert zur ersten Mail)!!!!

1997-03-08 Thread Bjoern Starke
Hallo Christian, Hier ein kleiner Nachtrag, der sicherlich ertragreicher ist als die vorangegangene Unmutsbekundung: Die Meldungen gibt der Kernel beim Systemstart aus. Ich beginne ab der Stelle wo die Probleme auftreten: Loading modules: binfmt_aout nfs smbfs vfat Initialization of vfat failed

Installing a new kernel....

1997-03-08 Thread Bjoern Starke
Hello, today i tried to install a new kernel. After making xconfig, make zImage and running lilo and restarting the system the following happens: This messeges are printed by the kernel at startup. I am beginning at the point where the problems started: Loading modules: binfmt_aout nfs smbfs

very small bash script question

1997-03-08 Thread Richard Sharman
Lawrence Chim writes: Does anyone know how to check a directory is empty in bash script? lawrence, This seems to work for me. --- dir_is_empty --- #! /bin/bash # syntax dir_is_empty [optional_directory] # return 0 if it is empty #1 if

Re: Installing a new kernel....

1997-03-08 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote: Hello, today i tried to install a new kernel. After making xconfig, make zImage and running lilo Did you issue make mrproper before make dep and make zImage? Your output indicates a problem with modules. After makeing a new kernel image, you

Re: Noch da... (dies gehoert zur ersten Mail)!!!!

1997-03-08 Thread Bjoern Starke
On Sat, 8 Mar 1997 23:30:15 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Sorry, wrong adress. Plase refrain from sending mailbombs ;-) Ciao...bjoern

Re: wtmp locking problem (was: Re: SOLVED: Erk! Something is *really* wrong here!)

1997-03-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On 8 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote: Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree. I've got login 1.45a-3 installed and the problem hasn't appeared - it's definately a problem in the rex-fixed/binary/base and bo/binary/base because if I dpkg -i *.deb in either directory the problem

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-08 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? I would imagine that at least for the first day or so most everything would be error free and ready to go, but maybe not? The only thing I can think of that would cause ME to have