Re: Sox - no more play?

1997-04-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jim wrote: The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works. So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-) Try catting to /dev/audio, it does the ulaw decoding by default. Jason

Re: Sox - no more play?

1997-04-05 Thread Clint Adams
The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works. So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-) You could do something like this: sox -t au sound.au -t sbdsp /dev/dsp

inetd dying

1997-04-05 Thread ljk
Hello, Recently my inetd daemon has been dying leaving no traces. Any ideas on this ? Thanks much, Lennard

Re: ppp loopback

1997-04-05 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] But .. it doesn't start ip-up properly, since ip-up does the following: [snip] # routing route del default route add default dev ppp0 # send mail echo 'doing putmail' /dev/console $EXECDIR/putmail # get mail echo 'doing getmail' /dev/console

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Re: lilo.conf--vga=ask doesn't; APM

1997-04-05 Thread Nikolaj Richers
Hello Douglas and Carey, On 03-Apr-97, Douglas L Stewart wrote On 4 Apr 1997, Carey Evans wrote: APM support can be in a 2.0.27 kernel if it's compiled in. Recompiling your kernel isn't too bad, if you make sure you have all the information about all your hardware and use make menuconfig or

Re: lilo.conf--vga=ask doesn't; APM

1997-04-05 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This may be a stupid question, but, are you typing make *config in the /usr/src/linux directory? It doesn't work in any other directory. If you are then you should replace your kernel source files because somthin aint right. On 05-Apr-97 Nikolaj Richers

syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Ken Gaugler
For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message -n unknown option and it still doesn't start. I can start it manually just fine, but that is a pain. I

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message -n unknown option and it still doesn't start. Here are the

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: Here's mine. I didn't change mine either! case $1 in start) echo -n Starting system log daemon: syslogd start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- $SYSLOGD Speaking of syslogd, when I boot the machine it hangs for 5 ro

Re: Safer package installation

1997-04-05 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ... If we use the /usr/packages/* method, though, we can separate installation into two steps. The maintainer supplies normal install scripts that handles everything under /usr/packages/package-name/. It runs as, say, user tool, group bin. After that's

Re: ppp loopback

1997-04-05 Thread mfrattola
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] But .. it doesn't start ip-up properly, since ip-up does the following: [snip] and I get messages from the echo lines, but I don't get any mail popped or sent. Strange is, if I run ip-up by hand, it behaves properly. Do putmail and

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Ken Gaugler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message -n unknown option and it still doesn't start. because, written as

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Christian Meder
On Apr 5, Rick Macdonald wrote On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: Here's mine. I didn't change mine either! case $1 in start) echo -n Starting system log daemon: syslogd start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd -- $SYSLOGD Speaking of syslogd,

Re: syslogd will not start

1997-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Ken Gaugler writes: For some reason syslogd refuses to start in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd file. The docs say to use a -n command line argument if starting syslogd from the inits, but at bootup I see the message -n unknown option and it still doesn't start. because, written as it

xdm?

1997-04-05 Thread Chris
Hello, When ever I boot up linux xdm starts before i log in. After login i try to run xwindows but it tells me that it is already running. Can someone tell me which file loads the xdm and how do i disable it? I have tried the SVGA and VGA servers but i get the same results. I just installed

MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread David/Bill Benjamin
Today, I upgraded MC to version 3.5.17 from the unstable tree, and so far, I have been unable to get the new version to run. It prints two blank lines and then hangs, and I have to kill it from another terminal to get my prompt back. I have tried using different terminal definitions, turning off

Re: xdm?

1997-04-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris writes: When ever I boot up linux xdm starts before i log in. After login i try to run xwindows but it tells me that it is already running. Can someone tell me which file loads the xdm and how do i disable it? Try the following dpkg --configure xbase This might let you re-configure

Re: Postgres95 - missing library

1997-04-05 Thread softcorp
Sorry, but I didn't found the POSTGRES95 package in the unstable tree - do you know where it hides ? --- On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 08:22:20 +0100 Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hi there, I've recently downloaded the latest stable POSTGRES95

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread Paul Wade
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, David/Bill Benjamin wrote: Today, I upgraded MC to version 3.5.17 from the unstable tree, and so far, I have been unable to get the new version to run. It prints two blank lines and then hangs, and I have to kill it from another terminal to get my prompt back. I have tried

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread Dima
I can't help you with the *.deb package nor 3.5.17, but I've used 3.5.18 for some time without any problems -- compiled from upstream sources and installed in /usr/local. It creates mc.hot, mc.hot.bak and mc.ini in my ~ -- no 10. FWIW I just finished compiling 3.5.22. -- Dimitri (emaziuk at

Re: MC broken?

1997-04-05 Thread Jim
On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, David/Bill Benjamin wrote: Today, I upgraded MC to version 3.5.17 from the unstable tree, and so far, I have been unable to get the new version to run. Could it be trying to use your old .mc.ini files? It acted very strangely here until I deleted them and created new

Bo has been Frozen -- Beta Test

1997-04-05 Thread Brian C. White
I'm not sure if this was announced before, so... * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bo has now been officially frozen! If you'd like to start upgrading to the packages in that distribution, please do. We can use all the testing we can get. People who