Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed > slightly. Oops. I thought it said it was switch-compatible. Thanks. TL -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-ma

installing PCMCIA support

1997-10-07 Thread frank . gorishek
I am attempting to install PCMCIA support on a DELL Latitude LX notebook. I have used floppies (Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 built August 01, 1997) to install the base system and want to get my CDROM working (SCSI PCMCIA adapter) working (I have the CD set 1.3.1). I appear to be hitting a version conflict

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Steve Mayer
Oleg, The clock command has been replaced by hwclock. It will accept the same switch values that clock did. I just replaced clock with hwclock in the boot file and the error went away. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > hi, > > i'm starting to get message during boot tim

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Galen Hazelwood
>> >> Any ideas how to fix it? >> > >ln -s /sbin/hwclock /sbin/clock Nope, that's not enough. The behavior of the program has changed slightly. "hwclock -a" (--adjust) only tweaks the RTC, it doesn't use the RTC to set the system time like it used to. You need to invoke it as "hwclock --hctosys

RE: Bo-Hamm was Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 07-Oct-97 Dave Restall wrote: >Hi, >> > >> >.. but that's hamm only. >> > >> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ? >> >> Ignorant >> > >Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't >the people who decide these things be thinking "Hey perhaps we're doi

RE: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 07-Oct-97 David Stern wrote: >Hi, > >I'm looking for the place in /etc/rc ?? just after all the filesystems >get mounted and I don't seem to be able to find it. In another common >linux distro, I put my isapnp/awe soundcard initialization in >/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but there seem to be a few di

Re: user cron question

1997-10-07 Thread csmall
> I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup > script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same > username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. > I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained > only my us

Re: Wierd crankiness update

1997-10-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Darin Johnson wrote: > Regarding my problem with login/passwd/su failing, I've tracked > it a bit further. It seems that getpass() is failing, and more, that > it's actually /dev/tty that's completely screwed up. > > Symptoms: > $ echo howdy > /dev/tty > $ cat /dev/tty >

Re: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for the place in /etc/rc ?? just after all the filesystems > get mounted and I don't seem to be able to find it. In another common > linux distro, I put my isapnp/awe soundcard initialization in > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but there seem t

Re: RARP on MAC address?

1997-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a MAC address (ethernet address) that I'm trying to figure >out what IP is associated with it. I know that there is a >Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) that these machines use >to determine these types of things transparent to the user. > >Is

Re: .fvwm2rc question

1997-10-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > > Exec"Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep > > > -v grep | awk '{print $2}') > > > > > > This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ? > > > > Becau

Re: clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Tommy Lakofski
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > i'm starting to get message during boot time: > > "command clock in /etc/init.d/boot not found" > > i don't remember removing any essential > packages from my system You didn't. 'clock' got renamed to 'hwclock'. > > Any ideas how to fix it? > ln

Wierd crankiness update

1997-10-07 Thread Darin Johnson
Regarding my problem with login/passwd/su failing, I've tracked it a bit further. It seems that getpass() is failing, and more, that it's actually /dev/tty that's completely screwed up. Symptoms: $ echo howdy > /dev/tty $ cat /dev/tty howdy $ cat /dev/tty howdy $ That is, the first e

clock in /etc/init.d/boot ?

1997-10-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi, i'm starting to get message during boot time: "command clock in /etc/init.d/boot not found" i don't remember removing any essential packages from my system Any ideas how to fix it? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > I'd suggest you place your script in /etc/rc.boot/ . This will get run > at boot time after local disks have been mounted. See the man page > for "run-parts", this will tell you how the scripts in that directory > are run. Run-parts itself is invoked in /e

Gcc prints NAN for floats that are not NANs

1997-10-07 Thread Dr. Daniel Mashao
I have ported some code from Sparc to Intel. The code works fine except it prints NaNs for some floats that are not NaNs at all. One of my co-workers suggested I run the same code (of course compiled) on FreeBsd and see if the NaNs appear. The FreeBsd code does not produce the NaNs. I have searched

Re: Compaq NetFlex Adapter

1997-10-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> I have installed Debian 1.3.1 on a Compaq ProLiant 800 server. = > Unfortunately, the "Integrated NetFlex-3 PCI" Ethernet adapter doesn't = > work with any of the driver provided. The Compaq uses an onboard network card called the Compaq Integrated NetFlex-3/P. James Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Nuisances with Ethernet network.

1997-10-07 Thread Dr. Daniel Mashao
Hi, My /var/log/messages file grows by leaps and bounds all because it keeps getting the following message Oct 7 16:54:03 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and eth0 802.2 Oct 7 16:54:21 vitasat kernel: IPX: Network number collision 53 Oct 7 16:54:21 vitasat kernel: eth0 EtherII and e

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-07 Thread Britton
> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: > > > Pete Harlan wrote: > > > > > > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will > > > > it > > > > act/function like the SB16? > > > > > > The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under > > > Linux is to pay $20

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 10:29:11AM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It is in general a good advice to install first the actual lib* package, > > and then the appropriate lkib*g package. So it is necessary for svgalib > > and others. > > > > Perhaps som

Re: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread Bruce Perens
I'd suggest you place your script in /etc/rc.boot/ . This will get run at boot time after local disks have been mounted. See the man page for "run-parts", this will tell you how the scripts in that directory are run. Run-parts itself is invoked in /etc/init.d/boot . Bruce -- Can you get y

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-10-07 Thread Paul Rightley
On 06-Oct-97 Yann Dirson wrote: >Philippe Troin writes: > > > > Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux > > Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.57 1997/10/06 09:59:38 phil Exp $ >... > > 6. Programs that aren't available yet in Debian > > > > Programs

Re: /etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > I'm looking for the place in /etc/rc ?? just after all the filesystems > get mounted and I don't seem to be able to find it. In another common > linux distro, I put my isapnp/awe soundcard initialization in > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but there seem to be a fe

RARP on MAC address?

1997-10-07 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello all! I have a MAC address (ethernet address) that I'm trying to figure out what IP is associated with it. I know that there is a Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) that these machines use to determine these types of things transparent to the user. Is there a command line version wh

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions (fwd)

1997-10-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Oct 02, G. Crimp wrote > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(259, 15, 63) logical=(64, 63, 63) Have you changed your BIOS settings - LBA <-> Large <-> CHS? This might have messed something up. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the h

Compaq NetFlex Adapter

1997-10-07 Thread Alessandro Nisticò
I have installed Debian 1.3.1 on a Compaq ProLiant 800 server. Unfortunately, the "Integrated NetFlex-3 PCI" Ethernet adapter doesn't work with any of the driver provided. I have temporarily solved the problem by installing a standard NE2000 card, but I would like to use both adapters. Thank yo

user cron question

1997-10-07 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained only my userna

/etc/rc ?? ( where filesystems are mounted )

1997-10-07 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm looking for the place in /etc/rc ?? just after all the filesystems get mounted and I don't seem to be able to find it. In another common linux distro, I put my isapnp/awe soundcard initialization in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, but there seem to be a few differences in the structure of the /etc/

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Stephen Zander
Scott Ellis wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > > This, as has been observed before, is a BAD THING.XKeysymDB > > > > Only the XErrorDB, XKeysymDB, app-defaults & locale dirs under > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 need to be sym-linked to /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11. > > (Thanks, Guy, for

Re: remove menubar from netscape 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Curtis Brown wrote: > But can't they still use the keyboard equivalents? For example with > the menubar off the screen, I can type Atl+O and then enter a URL of > my choosing. Yes, they can. But not everything on the menus has a keyboard equivilant. It might be possible to edit the netscape Xre

scsi thinkpad cdrom

1997-10-07 Thread frank
Is anyone using a IBM THINKPAD with a cradle that has a CD-rom with Linux ? I cannot acces my CD-rom ! My previous NT 4.0 system labelelled the device as Future-Domain 8xxx SCSI IBM CDRM00201 SCSI Cd-rom SCSI port = 0 Bus # = 0 Is there a special driver I need to load for this device ? Where c

ssh

1997-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
Ok. I'm trying to use ssh to connect between remote machines, say from my machine to master.debian.org. I've read the docs but I'm still confused: 1) how do I enter a host into the "list of named hosts" that ssh is always talking about? I've tried make-ssh-known-hosts but it always dumps with

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > Scott Ellis wrote: > > My solution to the entire problem was to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to > > /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11, thereby giving it all the symlinks it could > > possibly need in one fell stroke. > > This, as has been observed before, is

RE- floppy=thinkpad mount/umount

1997-10-07 Thread frank
Thank s Carey, the magic word is > append="floppy=thinkpad" in lilo.conf this works ONLY if I have in /etc/fstab "/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults" If i do not insert a floppy during boot, it will error out and eventually timeout the floppy, making the device READ-ON

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Stephen Zander
Scott Ellis wrote: > My solution to the entire problem was to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to > /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11, thereby giving it all the symlinks it could > possibly need in one fell stroke. This, as has been observed before, is a BAD THING.XKeysymDB Only the XErrorDB, XKeysymDB, app

floppy=thinkpad mount/umount

1997-10-07 Thread frank
thank you very much Carey ! the magic word was "append=" in lilo.conf . I only had "floppy=thinkpad" . AND I also have to insert the floppy just after the systems starts to boot ! so that when it gets to the mount from /etc/fstab it also mounts the floppy correctly ! STRANGE ! If I do NO

Re: Madge Token Ring Cards

1997-10-07 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Bob Jonkman wrote: > Hi all: Are "Madge Smart 16/4 Ringnode" or "Madge Smart 16/4 ISA > Client Plus Ringnode" Token Ring cards usable? I saw nothing > about them in the HOWTO Hardware compatibility list, so I assume the > worst... They a

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread George Bonser
It is a program that allows you to set certain bits in the CPU control register. I run the rc.cyrix that comes with it at boot time on my cyrix box. I still had trouble with the system locking up. The two ways I was able to fix it were 1): Disable internal CPU cache in the CMOS setup OR 2) underc

can't load library

1997-10-07 Thread Mathias Haessig
Hi! My problem is the following: I tried to install XFree86 on my linux. Now I've got all files but I can't set up the XWindows because when I run "XF86Setup" I get the error message "can't load libXaw.so.6". Can anybody help me? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Shaleh
set6x86 is a program that sets various cpu registers (run it during boot in an rc script). For me it made a large difference in heat output. Running windows I could feel the heat just touching my case. In Linux I can safely touch my cpu fan and motherboard heatsink. I have the page that has the

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Al Youngwerth
[snip] >CyrixInstead 6x86 instead of unknown 486. set6x86 has solved my heat >concerns in my rather unventilated case. What is set6x86 ? Thanks, Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

What is pam.conf?

1997-10-07 Thread Alberto Otero Garcia
Hi! I'd like to know what is pam.conf, what is it use, and why when I make root & boot disks with the yard tool ask for it when I'm gonna login. Thank you very much in advance for your answers. Note: I'm new with Debian, I think this is why I don't know any

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-10-07 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is in general a good advice to install first the actual lib* package, > and then the appropriate lkib*g package. So it is necessary for svgalib > and others. > > Perhaps something like this could be included in the HOWTO I'll try to make mention o

Re: slang and lynx

1997-10-07 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after upgrading to the newest version of slang0.99.34 and slang0.99.38 I get > the following error with lynx: can't open libslang.so.0.99.34 > > I tried making a symlink to libslang.so.0.99.38 and this results in lynx > doing a core dump when I attemp

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > Yes, but that only solves the problem with netscape. Another problem is > that files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults can't be found. I have seen > a solution for that using a symlink, but I haven't got that to work. For > me, the simplest solution sti

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Shaleh
I have never had an ounce of problem with my chip. I have a 150+ that behaves well. The problem I have seen is that everyone uses the wrong clock setup. My 150+ is actually a 120Mhz. The other problem I have seen is that not everyone makes motherboards that behave well with cyrix/IBM chips. We

Re: Bo-Hamm was Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Dave Restall wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > >.. but that's hamm only. > > > > > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ? > > > > > > Ignorant > > > > > > Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't > the people who decide these things be

Re: Time Zone & mount points

1997-10-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Nelson, R.A (Richard/Rick) wrote: > > > *) I've got /bin mounted seperately as r/o. Now, I'd like to move > > /sbin there as well. I assume that what I need to do is to mount > > a new directory (say /mnt/robins) and h

Re: pine config remove header info

1997-10-07 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Paul wrote: > Hi everybody, I was wondering if there was a way to configure pine not to > show all the header information. The debian maillist's header has 8 > lines. Can we cut that down to about 3 ie date, from, subject. Let me > know, I would really appreciate it. There'

to see if it pine config

1997-10-07 Thread Paul
hi everybody, I'm just trying a new pine config. disreguard this message. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

pine config remove header info

1997-10-07 Thread Paul
Hi everybody, I was wondering if there was a way to configure pine not to show all the header information. The debian maillist's header has 8 lines. Can we cut that down to about 3 ie date, from, subject. Let me know, I would really appreciate it. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: remove menubar from netscape 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Paul
Hi this is the owner of the orginal message. We have told it that alt+O to be undefind. We have stopped all access accept the menubar. Paul On 7 Oct 1997, Curtis Brown wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One way I've heard to do this is start up netscape with a geometry that p

Re: remove menubar from netscape 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Curtis Brown
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One way I've heard to do this is start up netscape with a geometry that puts > the menubar off the top of the screen. Set up the window manager so windows > cannot be moved (or run w/o a window manager). If they can't click on it, > they can't use it. :-) B

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-07 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: > Pete Harlan wrote: > > > > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it > > > act/function like the SB16? > > > > The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under > > Linux is to pay $20 to 4front-tech for their

Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread joost witteveen
> I wrote: > > I have used dselect to install ghostview 1.5-13, gs 4.01-2,... > > joost witteveen writes: > > You definately need to upgrade you gs to gs-aladdin-4.03. > > Thanks. Where do I find it? And why didn't dselect tell me about this > dependency? You find it in debian. Same section wh

Re: libc5 Sendmail 8.8.7?

1997-10-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Oct 07, 1997 at 12:44:28AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: : 8.8.5 is broken if you use maps. I applied the following patch that I found : in www.sendmail.org and now my Sendmail 8.8.5 works fine. I'll start : fighting Spam right now!!! (Yah :-) Welcome to the battle! I see what the p

Re: non-English Linux use

1997-10-07 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/setfont iso01.f16 > > > > There are a lot of fonts to choose from. See /usr/share/consolefonts.

Re: [off topic] Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread joost witteveen
> At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > >.. but that's hamm only. > > > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ? Well, you are using debian-1.3.x, codenamed "bo". We (the developpers) are working on debian-2.0 (not released yet), and we haven't quite finished wit

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (regular posting)

1997-10-07 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
It is in general a good advice to install first the actual lib* package, and then the appropriate lkib*g package. So it is necessary for svgalib and others. Perhaps something like this could be included in the HOWTO Thank you Marcus -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "un

my first package - xvgr

1997-10-07 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi! I just packaged xvgr for debian sucessfully - my first package. I'd like to tell all of you who never did that, but already have compiled software on their own that it is not very difficult. It's almost fun! (xvgr is a plotting tool for X. I am not sure if it is already in hamm, I just wante

Re: wn 1.18.3-1 problems

1997-10-07 Thread Tibor Simko
hi > "jean" == Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jean> Thanks for the report. The program /usr/bin/tempfile is jean> part of the debianutils package from at least version 1.6. jean> Could you have an earlier version that doesn't include this jean> program? thank

Re: re- floppy=thinkpad

1997-10-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Problem : > The suggestion to put "floppy=thinkpad" > into the lilo.conf did not work. My lilo.conf looks like the following. I have a non-standard CD-ROM (a Sony CDU-33A), so put the command for the non-standard floppy in the same place. boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda

Re: unable to load debian

1997-10-07 Thread Carey Evans
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > If I put an image that works on that PC (used to run Slackware), > and execute boot.bat, the kernel loads but I get the error: > > "VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00" > "Kernel panic: VFS ..." Do you have the working kernel w

Bo-Hamm was Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread Dave Restall
Hi, > > > >.. but that's hamm only. > > > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ? > > > Ignorant > > Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN, shouldn't the people who decide these things be thinking "Hey perhaps we're doing something wrong here ?". 'nuff sa

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 08:03:57PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On 07-Oct-97 Adam Heath wrote: > >>On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a patch against 2.0.29 for cyrix chips?? Is anyone using it?? > >> > >>I tried the patch for 2.0.30 kernels (on a 2.0.30 kernel, of course) and

Re: Lilo and Ext2 woes :)

1997-10-07 Thread David Stern
> On October 6, 1997, Nolan Darilek asked how to remove LILO. >From _Running Linux_ (p.130) -- Removing LILO If you have LILO installed on your MBR, the easiest way to remove it is to use MS-DOS FDISK. The command FDISK /MBR runs FDISK and ov

Re: libc5 Sendmail 8.8.7?

1997-10-07 Thread Eloy A. Paris
At 06:16 PM 10/6/97 -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:45:52AM +, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > >: I do need some of the anti-spam features present in Sendmail 8.8.7 >: (8.8.5, the latest libc5 version, should have these anti-spam >: features but they seem to be broken). > >8.

Re: wn 1.18.3-1 problems

1997-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > Should I included a dependency on this? I believe that the policy > manual says that essential packages don't need to be mentioned. But > this may not be useful in the case where the interface provided by an > essential package changes as in this case. I ran into the

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread George Bonser
On 07-Oct-97 Adam Heath wrote: >>On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: >> >>> Is there a patch against 2.0.29 for cyrix chips?? Is anyone using it?? >> >>I tried the patch for 2.0.30 kernels (on a 2.0.30 kernel, of course) and >>it locked up a few times ... so if anyone has had better luck with this

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Adam Heath wrote: > Where could I get the kernel patch? http://www.linuxhq.com/upatch20.html > I'm glad someone else likes animaniacs. Yeah, sometimes I feel silly cuz' I'm 20 years old and I'd rather watch animaniacs than Star Trek ...

RE: smail error

1997-10-07 Thread George Bonser
Mine are set owned mailroot with the same permissions that you have. chown -R might be your friend here. On 07-Oct-97 Paul Miller wrote: >I keep receiving error messages from Cron about smail... here is what they >say: > >--- >/usr/lib/smail/checkerr: .newerrors: Permission denied >mv

smail error

1997-10-07 Thread Paul Miller
I keep receiving error messages from Cron about smail... here is what they say: --- /usr/lib/smail/checkerr: .newerrors: Permission denied mv: .newerrors: No such file or directory --- I beleive this has something to do with the permissions on the /var/spool/smail/errors directory, but I'm not su

RE: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time

1997-10-07 Thread George Bonser
Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot. Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you want to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp. On 07-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote: >any reason why /tmp be cleaned at boot time while /var/tmp not? > >l

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Adam Heath
>On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: > >> Is there a patch against 2.0.29 for cyrix chips?? Is anyone using it?? > >I tried the patch for 2.0.30 kernels (on a 2.0.30 kernel, of course) and >it locked up a few times ... so if anyone has had better luck with this >patch, please let me know. At this

Re: [off topic] Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: > At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > >.. but that's hamm only. > > > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ? > > > Ignorant > "hamm" is the unstable distribution of Debian. The name comes from the pig in Toy Story. Ad

Re: [off topic] Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: > At 10:41 PM 06-10-97 +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > >.. but that's hamm only. > > > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ? The current project leader of Debian, Bruce Perens, works for Pixar, the computer company that made the "Toy Story

Re: Cyrix kernel patch

1997-10-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 02:19:00PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Is there a patch against 2.0.29 for cyrix chips?? Is anyone using it?? I never found the Cyrix patches terribly useful anyway; CPU identification in /proc/cpuinfo was about the best thing, I never saw any performance increase. I have K6 n

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-07 Thread Ed
Pete Harlan wrote: > > > How well/is the AWE64 GOLD Sound card supported under Linux? ..or will it > > act/function like the SB16? > > The alternative to doing backflips getting this card to work under > Linux is to pay $20 to 4front-tech for their commercial driver for > Linux. It's hassle-fre

why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time

1997-10-07 Thread Lawrence
any reason why /tmp be cleaned at boot time while /var/tmp not? lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: netscape communicator 4.03

1997-10-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Ed wrote: > There is a temporary solution that does not involve downgrading: > > I clipped this from the Sept. debian-devel archive: Yes, but that only solves the problem with netscape. Another problem is that files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults can't be found. I have se

Re: ghostscript problem

1997-10-07 Thread john
I wrote: > I have used dselect to install ghostview 1.5-13, gs 4.01-2,... joost witteveen writes: > You definately need to upgrade you gs to gs-aladdin-4.03. Thanks. Where do I find it? And why didn't dselect tell me about this dependency? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing