Re: problems with SounBlaster16

1997-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 26, 1997 at 09:59:17AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Carlos Camargo wrote: > > > > > Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont > > recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize > > thanks carlos camargo > > If it is a CD-ROM

Re: md autostart?

1997-03-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On 26 Mar 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > The only "weird" problem that I have had with it is that I needed to > make sure md and raid0 support were compiled into the kernel and not > "modularized". After doing that, using "mdcreate" to make an mdtab > entry, and adding a line to my fstab, everything

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where and can't find

Re: Ghostscript with debian debian 1.2

1997-03-26 Thread joost witteveen
> It seems to me, the GhostScript from 1.2.7 doesn't find it's fonts. > Did someone else make this experience? Is this a common Bug? How can > I configure this correctly? the fonts are distributed seperately (in gsfonts). As gs is very well usable without the gsfonts package, gs only suggests gs

Re: Having the most popular problem

1997-03-26 Thread jghasler
Franz J Fortuny writes: > It would be great is someone came up with the STRAIGHT FORWARD way of > doing this. I'm working on it :) > Yes: there must be about 4 variations. If only it was that simple. There is really no upper limit. > Please, simply post a message explaining the content of the

Re: PGP setup question

1997-03-26 Thread edwalter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 26 Mar 1997, Ted Okada wrote: > package installed.. I searched for a pgp package that worked like the > netscape package where the setup asks you where the binary you compiled > was located but none was found... How does one trigger a correct pinepgp > con

PGP setup question

1997-03-26 Thread Ted Okada
Hello... I just compiled pgp-i and installed it, it runs well... However, when I tried dselect to install pinepgp, dselect said that there was no pgp package installed.. I searched for a pgp package that worked like the netscape package where the setup asks you where the binary you compiled wa

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread sacampbe
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > In X windows or regular console? Guy already answered the question. Works great! Now I can sleep comfortably knowing my monitor is happy. - Sue

Re: Appeal to IBM for VisualAge productline to Linux

1997-03-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: > Dear debian-users, > > Yesterday I attended an IBM-conference about IBM's line of VisualAge > products. Great stuff - exactly something that could give Linux an extra > boost. I would like to ask everyone on this list to send IBM an e-mail > (http://w

Re: The WWW Pages.

1997-03-26 Thread Jim Pick
> I must say, I was really thrown backwards when I saw the new look of > debian.org. It's Perfect I just love it. Me too. I'm very impressed. Good work. Cheers, - Jim pgpaPlRqiQsft.pgp Description: PGP signature

Finding harddisk?

1997-03-26 Thread Drew Nichols
I have an IBM ps/2 with 212 mb harddrive, and Debian says it cannot find a harddrive! What do i do to fix this? (some kind of command at boot prompt!) Please email me with ANY help! Drew -- _ | __ \ | | | |_ __ _ __ | | | | '__/ _ \ \ /\

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where and can't find the source again.

Re: Zyxel

1997-03-26 Thread Brian C. White
> Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like > mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work > *with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering > machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now

what's going on with the list?

1997-03-26 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey I AGAIN got re-subscribed to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).. without me saying that! strange // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. "

power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread sacampbe
I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any pointers? - Sue

mh problem

1997-03-26 Thread Jason Killen
When I try to send mail from mh (comp, repl, etc.) I get this. post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone Looks like it's my week for questions. Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI

The WWW Pages.

1997-03-26 Thread Erik Johansson
I must say, I was really thrown backwards when I saw the new look of debian.org. It's Perfect I just love it. -- Erik Johansson, one of those sloppy students A big QNX, Linux/x86/m68k Amiga and BeOS fan

Re: PPPproblem

1997-03-26 Thread Pete Harlan
> > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this > This often happens when you don't get past the "chat" with the other > modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out Just to underscore a common case: if your username and/or password aren't right, yo

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:39:39 +0100 Heiko Schlittermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort > files.exist > sort < searchlist > files.search > comm -1 -3 files.exist files.search Which can be abbreviated with zsh to: comm -1 -3 <(sort searchlist)

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > > How about using find and generate a list of ALL files, then "grep > > `indivual_lines_from_your_list` list_of_ALL_files" and checking grep's > > return value? > > Well, what I am doing right now is generating a list of the files that > are present (using

Re: problems with SounBlaster16

1997-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Carlos Camargo wrote: > > Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont > recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize > thanks carlos camargo If it is a CD-ROM which connects to the proprietary port on the soundblaster, configure the ker

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, thank you very much for your solution; it is very sharp. I was doing things the hard way. I like the shell solution very much. Regards, Eloy.- > On Mar 26, Eloy A. Paris wrote > : Hi, > : > : I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) > : per line. My task consist

problems with SounBlaster16

1997-03-26 Thread Carlos Camargo
Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize thanks carlos camargo

Re: 1740 controller

1997-03-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : aha1740 controller, and says '174x detected, but not in enhanced so : disabled' (or something close to that. Huh? I have several machines running Debian on aging 1740A cards. You need to run the EISA configuration utility (usually provided on floppy wi

Re: Network Configuration

1997-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jordi Inglada wrote: > > >>Hello, > >> > >> last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by > >>the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and > >>finally my card is detected. > >> > >> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can'

Re: md autostart?

1997-03-26 Thread Dale Martin
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > 1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if > I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel > has md compiled in (not a module). Other people have addressed this question. > 2) Can

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Mar 26, Eloy A. Paris wrote : Hi, : : I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) : per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and : generate a list of the files that are NOT present. 1. The perl solution: --- #!/usr/bin/p

Re: PPPproblem

1997-03-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
R. Chris Ross wrote: > > I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at > one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am > trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In > the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and

RE: X server not working

1997-03-26 Thread Paul Rightley
I, too, once had this problem with. Just make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path. Paul On 26-Mar-97 The Gardyan wrote: >>I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i >get the "command not found" message although I can clearly see the binary >in the directory.

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi Martin, > How about using find and generate a list of ALL files, then "grep > `indivual_lines_from_your_list` list_of_ALL_files" and checking grep's > return value? Well, what I am doing right now is generating a list of the files that are present (using find and redirecting its output to a f

Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Hi, > > I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) > per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and > generate a list of the files that are NOT present. > > At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of > awk's, sed's, and find

Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT present. At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of awk's, sed's, and find's. However, it's b

Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)

1997-03-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT present. At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of awk's, sed's, and find's. However, it's b

Re: tetex

1997-03-26 Thread Christoph Martin
Jesse Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hiya, > > I've had trouble replacing latex with the now available tetex. I > selected (I believe) all appropriate packages and then tried to install > them. The installation script said that I needed to do a "dpkg --purge > --force-depends" on a b

Boot Disk

1997-03-26 Thread Gregory Vence
Hello, I've got bad memory on the spare machine. How do I set up a boot from floppy on a regular basis? Just use the Rescue disk? Thanx -- Greg.

Re: XTerm with Colors ???

1997-03-26 Thread Christian Groeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And don't forget to make sure that these resources are merged from > your ~/.xinitrc, because it won't be done automatically! (See man pages > for xinit and xstart.) > > $ head -12 ~/.xinitrc > #! /bin/sh > >

sgml-tools cannot produce html

1997-03-26 Thread Dumont Frederic
I cannot produce html files with sgml2html (even example.sgml and guide.sgml). Apparently, other kinds of output work fine. I suppose the problem is in sgml-tools (I use version 0.99.7-1) It says : Processing file example.sgml /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: /usr/lib/sgml-tools/rep/html/mapping:326: bad input

Re: 1740 controller

1997-03-26 Thread Marc Herden
>I was given a Compaq ProSignia pentium 50 for our user group here >at the lab. It has 82 MB RAM and 6 1 gig drives on the builtin >scsi controller. When I boot a custom kernel, it sees the >aha1740 controller, and says '174x detected, but not in enhanced so >disabled' (or something close to that.

Re: problem with setting time

1997-03-26 Thread Alfons Juan i Ciscar
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinian wrote: > Hi All, > Is there any magic for setting system time except using > `date -s 14:20:00 ? I have it shifted forward by 3 hours each time > after rebooting while the board clock is set correct. > > ( date --version > date - GNU sh-utils 1.12) >

problem with setting time

1997-03-26 Thread Eugene H. Sevinian
Hi All, Is there any magic for setting system time except using `date -s 14:20:00 ? I have it shifted forward by 3 hours each time after rebooting while the board clock is set correct. ( date --version date - GNU sh-utils 1.12) Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Divisio

query on tk42

1997-03-26 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, Recently I had a strange problem. I tried to install the program called addressbook from unstable and the installation went fine. However when I tried to run its graphical interface using the command addressbook I got bash: /usr/bin/addressbook: No such file or directory I could't figure wh

Re: Smail, From header

1997-03-26 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Mar 26, J. LILLIBRIDGE wrote > I'm running Debian Linux at home. When I send e-mail out, I want to have > the From: header say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've figured out how to get > nmsu.edu put in there (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But my login here at > home is just jl. What is the best way to

Appeal to IBM for VisualAge productline to Linux

1997-03-26 Thread Ronald van Loon
Dear debian-users, Yesterday I attended an IBM-conference about IBM's line of VisualAge products. Great stuff - exactly something that could give Linux an extra boost. I would like to ask everyone on this list to send IBM an e-mail (http://www.ibm.com/Assist/ ; if you want to know more about it, h

Re: PPPproblem

1997-03-26 Thread Peter Iannarelli
R. Chris Ross wrote: > > At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this > mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for > maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started > r

Smail, From header

1997-03-26 Thread J. LILLIBRIDGE
Hi. I'm running Debian Linux at home. When I send e-mail out, I want to have the From: header say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've figured out how to get nmsu.edu put in there (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But my login here at home is just jl. What is the best way to make sure the From: field is adjus

Re: X and Keyboards

1997-03-26 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \(Andy\)
Andrew Cater (Andy) | +44 1242 672705 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Hubert Palme wrote: > After upgrading to 1.2.7, X does only know a US keyboard. Where in > the many configuration files can I tell X, that I have a German one > -- and where can I read about it? > > Thanks in adv

Re: Network Configuration

1997-03-26 Thread Jordi Inglada
>>Hello, >> >> last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by >>the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and >>finally my card is detected. >> >> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp, >>telnet, etc... When I try

Re: X server not working

1997-03-26 Thread Michael Tempsch
On 25 Mar, The Gardyan wrote: Re: I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i Re: get the "command not found" message although I can clearly see the binary Re: in the directory. I checked to see the file attributes and they are set to Re: be 755 so I don't understand

X server not working

1997-03-26 Thread The Gardyan
I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i get the "command not found" message although I can clearly see the binary in the directory. I checked to see the file attributes and they are set to be 755 so I don't understand what the problem is. When I try running star

AT1500 Ethernet card?

1997-03-26 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have been helping a friend set his Debian Linux system and he has an AT1500 (AMD LANCE) ISA ethernet card installed. Apparently the driver for this card is not possible to install as a module and it must be compiled into the kernel. I have done this but during boot, no indication th

Re: screen capture tool for Debian

1997-03-26 Thread Harmon Sequoya Nine
Zach -- From what I can tell, the "xv" program does just what you want. If you don't have it on your Debian distribution, you can download it from a Debian mirror -- it's in "non-free", so it's not included on the cd's anymore (to my knowledge). There is an option under the "save" window

Having the most popular problem

1997-03-26 Thread Franz J Fortuny
I have been reading all those messages about PPP being so screwed UP. I must admit that here, in this one, I got caught. I have not been able to get my connection running for more than 1 minute. I suppose my ISP is not getting the right stuff, and there is no way for me to know if the contents of

Re: XTerm with Colors ???

1997-03-26 Thread Graeme
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:00 +0100 Christian Groeling > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the > > Debian 1.2.4 release? > > Add: > *customization: -color > to the system-wide /etc/X11/Xresources,

Re: Newbie question

1997-03-26 Thread Graeme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > - A few months ago I buy a CD with Debian 1.1 distribution included. > After that, I download Debian 1.2 from www.debian.org. > I week ago I installed Debian 1.2 but I didn't run dSelect program, in > that moment. Last night I run dSelect program in order to ins

1740 controller

1997-03-26 Thread Tim Sailer
I was given a Compaq ProSignia pentium 50 for our user group here at the lab. It has 82 MB RAM and 6 1 gig drives on the builtin scsi controller. When I boot a custom kernel, it sees the aha1740 controller, and says '174x detected, but not in enhanced so disabled' (or something close to that. Huh?

Problem installing Linux

1997-03-26 Thread Matthew E Novacek
I downloaded the disks for Linux off of your web page and tried installing it on a secondary computer. I got part way through the installation process to where the program was trying to configure several different peripherals to see what was present on the system. The program then printed out the

MHS mail transport available for linux ?

1997-03-26 Thread R. Chris Ross
I know that there is quite a bit of support for Novel networks in linux. Does anyone know if there is an MHS mail transport available? Currently I am running a DOS based remote client to my shop but it would be great if there were something in linux. dosemu is a possibility I suppose b

PPPproblem

1997-03-26 Thread R. Chris Ross
I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock established then th

Re: screen capture tool for Debian

1997-03-26 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Guy Maor, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes: > > > I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture > > tool > > on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb > > file which may then be opened with x

Re: md autostart?

1997-03-26 Thread CD Rasmussen
MD setup is easier than it looks. When you used mdcreate to make /dev/md0 it wrote a file called /etc/mdtab. You do not have to modify /etc/init.d/boot since it already has a call to "mdadd -ar" if it and /etc/mdtab exist. In other words, if you are running a recent copy of the sysvinit code an

Re: sendmail on two hosts for one domain

1997-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:04:56AM +0800, Michael J. Maravillo wrote: > > what i really want to do is forward certain users to the second > machine. that is, without using aliases. if the user doesn't > exist on the first machine, it will try the second one. But how will you specif

Re: screen capture tool for Debian

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes: > I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool > on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb > file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right > direction, I woul

Ghostscript with debian debian 1.2

1997-03-26 Thread Hubert Palme
It seems to me, the GhostScript from 1.2.7 doesn't find it's fonts. Did someone else make this experience? Is this a common Bug? How can I configure this correctly? Thanks in advance! Hubert Palme

Re: Error while installing unstable/binary/base/at_3.0.deb

1997-03-26 Thread Ed Donovan
Hi Andreas - This has been reported as a bug (by Dirk Eddelbuettel) and is fixed in at_3.1.2-1. But, with the problem in the postrm script, normal reinstallation of the new version doesn't work. :-( If your system gets stuck in that state, you can edit the buggy postrm script pretty simply to

screen capture tool for Debian

1997-03-26 Thread John Zachary
Hi, I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it. BTW, I've been runn

Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?

1997-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On my machine, (but I use shadow) it is: __> dpkg -S /etc/shells shadow-passwd: /etc/shells What does dpkg -S say for you? unless the dpkg database is aso trashed, that should be the canonical answer for you. BTW, I am attaching my /etc/shells so you may rebuild you

Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?

1997-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava: > On my machine, (but I use shadow) it is: I use shadow. In fact, I've been using the shadow packages from experimental for 6 months or so, and I somehow lost /etc/shells in the process of upgrading to the new shadow login and passwd that are now in bo. > __> dpkg -S /etc

Re: XTerm with Colors ??? (fwd)

1997-03-26 Thread Christian Groeling
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:00 +0100 Christian Groeling > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the > > Debian 1.2.4 release? > > Add: > *customization: -color > to the system-wide /etc/X11/Xresources, or to your .Xresources > I h

Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just "passwd", and has shadow > support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new > package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid. Yes it is. I'll fix it. Guy

Re: sendmail on two hosts for one domain

1997-03-26 Thread Michael J. Maravillo
what i really want to do is forward certain users to the second machine. that is, without using aliases. if the user doesn't exist on the first machine, it will try the second one. mike On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Frank Kujawski wrote: | Please be more spefic on what