Re:You've won $5,000! -off topic

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes this day 30 Mar 98: > Most AOL users aren't exactly guru material OTOH, the next Alan Turing might be 10 years old and logged on to AOL right now. . . > PS If you forward spam from AOL to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" they'll know it > happened and be able to do something about

Cannot correctly print non-ascii files

Problem: My HP Laserjet 6L can only print ASCII files correctly. Other files just print things such as ASCII headers on Postscript files. Printing from Netscape also prints out wacky ascii characters. What step(s) am I missing when trying to configuration my system? Background: 1. OS: De

Linux wont boot anymore

For some unknown reason, Linux just stopped booting :( It goes through loading the kernel and the other checks till it gets to the fsck area. There it finds that my hda2 is clean (where I have Linux). The hd does some very rapid activity and then after about 3 secs, it just stops! No errors, no oth

X11 problem with Trident card under Debian 1.3.1

Hello! I have a Pentium 120 with a Trident TGUI9680 card with 2mb RAM coupled to a HP monitor upon which I installed Debian 1.3.1 from a CD. I installed the SVGA server, because it was supposed to support my card, and made sure the monitor settings are correct. I believe I chose the correct sett

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

Thomas Apel wrote: Nice job, Thomas! I just had a look at your page and I, for one, like it. A lot. > > Hi! > > Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > > > Would you people shift this thread to debian-www? > > > > I am sorry for starting this thread on the wrong list. I did not n

Re: Which Linux should I install?

Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > Oh thanks... not so confuse... so usefull. But I know it's dificult to > learn all in a couple of minutes far away from the information. > > thanks anyway > > p.s. I will install a linux machine at work and start to experiment. I'm > not sure about RH or Debian.

Re: URGENT: Problems with bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb pkg.

Damir Naden wrote: Re-boot from your rescue disk, mounting your root partition without formatting it, and whatever partition holds your favorite editor. Use that editor to edit /target/etc/passwd (IIRC) and change the root login (and anyothers you like) to ksh or csh or, God help you, tclsh, or s

support for IBM ThinkPad 755CD

Hi, I am thinking of buying a IBM Thinkpad 755CD laptop. Is it supported under Debian Linux? Thanks, Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which Linux should I install?

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > >I'm > >not sure about RH or Debian. It's because here in Brazil Debian is not > >used a lot. No local support or consultant. > > Perhaps we could set a local mailing list? I don't think that's really a good ide

Re: 2.1.xx Kernels

On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:52:41AM -0400, Adam Greene wrote: > Whats with these 2.1.xx kernels, When I was in University over a year ago, > they had 2.1.xx kernels, will this kernel ever come out of development, and > is Plug-and-Play in the kernel yet??? It sounds like there is going to be a code

uname doesn't show the up to date kernel compilation number.

I installed a custom kernel using make-kpkg + dpkg. bash-2.00$ uname -a Linux rakefet 2.0.29 #1 Sun Mar 29 23:18:35 IDT 1998 i586 unknown ^ | Should be #2. 1) How to correct this ? 2) From where uname get this number (is it written in the

Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

Jay Barbee writes: > > I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into > > "buffers". Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require > > massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary > > behavior? > > I'm trying to keep from us

Re: dpkg options

> > The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is > there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might > be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help > pages. For example, is there an option to get the long description of a

Re: MIT Kerberos Version 5, Release 1.0.4 - Debian build problems

Alec Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AS> I was wondering if any one had successfully built MIT Kerberos AS> Version 5 under Debian? We've not yet succeeded so I would AS> appreciate any hints/tips from anyone who has been successful. It took some source tweaking to get 1.0.4 to build; krb5 1.0

Latex problem in 1.3.1

Hi Sorry if this is FAQ: I'm new to LaTex and have a problem with the sample2e.tex example document: \documentclass{article} and \section{Ordinary Text} I only get the "O T" printed. The installation is from a 1.3.1 Debian CD. Does anybody know what has happened here? Than

Re:You've won $5,000! -off topic

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Keith Matthews wrote: : To whoever cares. : : I read this list all the time as I am a new inexperienced user. : Between the "Hi I'm Sandra" series of messages and this one telling us : we all won $5,000.00 it is pretty obvious AOL users have no business : on this for

idle users...

Lately, I've noticed that when I exit xterm, it doesn't log me off.. paul ttyp3Mar 28 15:33 old (:0.0) paul ttyp4Mar 28 14:24 old (:0.0) Today is March 30th and I have idled set to kick idle users off after 120 minutes.. idled only kicked one of three 'ghost users' off, the

Re: Copyright of 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:38:32PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I am packaging the client server software produced by the DICT > > Project, which is under the GPL. I am not sure if the dictionary > > databases that are used

Re: gated?????????

> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:50:50 +0200 > From: Florian Attenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: gated? > I have 2 computer connected by ethernet. > One is connected to the inernet by isdn. > > What do i have to do, t

Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

> I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into > "buffers". Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require > massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary > behavior? > I'm trying to keep from using swap space. Once a swap parti

Re:You've won $5,000! -off topic

To whoever cares. I read this list all the time as I am a new inexperienced user. Between the "Hi I'm Sandra" series of messages and this one telling us we all won $5,000.00 it is pretty obvious AOL users have no business on this forum and nothing to offer us except continued annoyance.

laptop soundconf

this is the soundconf file for a Gateway Solo 2300 LS with a Yamaha YM715 sound chipset. i am running kernel 2.0.33. btw, the card is not configured as a soundblaster. i had the same experience as you did, namely if i booted into windows and then linux the sound card will work. unfortunately the ca

Re: dpkg options

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 30 15:56:12 1998 > > The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is > there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might > be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help > pages. For example, i

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

For those of you who don't know, I am the current webmaster for Debian. I just heard of this thread yesterday and was going to read the debian-user archive, but won't bother as the discussion has been moved. Future replies will not go to debian-user so subscribe to debian-www if you are interested

MIT Kerberos Version 5, Release 1.0.4 - Debian build problems

Hi. I was wondering if any one had successfully built MIT Kerberos Version 5 under Debian? We've not yet succeeded so I would appreciate any hints/tips from anyone who has been successful. The machine in question is a PC (Pentium II) running Debian 1.3 and kernel version 2.0.33. We've successfu

Re: You've won $5,000!

On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 12:21:53PM -0500, JeffRow12 wrote: > http://www.best.com/~darin1/index.html";>Click Here To Get Your > Money! This just proves my previous point that aol should NOT be allowed to post here. They might be doing alot to prevent spam, but its obviously not enough. I am yet

Re: Packages

Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 03:43:58PM +: > I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the differences are in these > three > formats. They are not different formats. They comprise the same package. > .dsc Obviously, a descrip

Re: gated?????????

Hi! Florian Attenberger schrieb: > > I have 2 computer connected by ethernet. > One is connected to the inernet by isdn. > > What do i have to do, to get an internet connection on the other one. > (I think the one with connection should forward the packets, that come > from the other one) > I th

Re: Install process

Alex Yukhimets wrote > > in no case did I enter runtime parameter for the device modules that I > > selected > > which included : under "fs" binfmt_java and vfat > > under "ipi4" ip_alias , ipip( IP Tunneling) , and rarp > > Reverse > > Address Resolution Protocol. > >

Re: Install process

G. Kaplan wrote > 1.) is there a log file of the choices make during the installation > process that begins with resc1440.bin execution? No. > 2.) can one do a partial reinstall that will modify some of the choices > previously make by stepping through the install menu? This should be possible at

Where to download fast debian?

I want to know the better places to download Linux Debian. I want to buy the CD, nut for now. It will take longer to come here in Brazil.. for 3 weeks in General. Do you know the fastter ftp service? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: You've won $5000 Dollars

What's with all the spam on the list lately? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pine and from: field

Hi, I'm subscribed to several mailing lists to one adress(A), now I have installed a popper server in that machine to download my email to another account(B). I would like to know how to configure pine and/or other user agents to acct like I was sending the email from the Original adress(A) se

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

Hi! Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Would you people shift this thread to debian-www? > I am sorry for starting this thread on the wrong list. I did not notice that there is a www related list. So please send replies to debian-www. Concerning the topic I think the most imp

Re: Copyright of 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 08:38:32PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I am packaging the client server software produced by the DICT > Project, which is under the GPL. I am not sure if the dictionary > databases that are used with these programs should be packaged or not. > (They are available for

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Re: Banco de Dados

I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run third part apps that will expect to find a 100% compatible DB w/ transactions. They recomend (obvius) Oracle 8. But it's no so cheap. And I've heard that the version for SCO runs SLOW. SCO version can run as well on Lin

Re: Install process

> in no case did I enter runtime parameter for the device modules that I > selected > which included : under "fs" binfmt_java and vfat > under "ipi4" ip_alias , ipip( IP Tunneling) , and rarp Reverse > Address Resolution Protocol. > under "misc" lp (took the defau

SCSI tape problems

Well, I spent the evening getting the Adaptec AVA-1505 card working. I finally got it so that the system now boots and sees the card. This card is supposed to be supported by the AHA152x support. Here are the kern.log messages now (heads of each line clipped for breavity) from when I just reboo

dpkg options

The man page for dpkg says it's inaccurate and also out of date. Is there an updated man page somewhere? I was just wondering if there might be some options for the program that are not listed in the man or --help pages. For example, is there an option to get the long description of an installed

Re: Pine mailboxs and Mutt.

I switched from pine to mutt-i about 2 weeks ago, and haven't had any problem with the existing mailboxes. I did have to do "ln -s mail Mail" in my home directory I switched from pine to mutt-i about 2 weeks ago, and haven't encountered any problems using the existing mailboxes. I did have to

sdram and linux #2

Thanks for all the replies. I can appreciate the possibility of the hdd going bad, but it has been operating flawlessly before and after trying to use the sdram, but that doesn't exclude the possibility. Tried the old mem and both the .30 and .33 kernels this morning with absolutely no problems.

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff Shilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just downloaded biss-awt_0.87-1 and the web page says there are no > > depends, etc but during installation I found out it needs jdk1.1-runtime. > > Where is this package? Does jdk1.1-dev provide this or sh

gated?????????

I have 2 computer connected by ethernet. One is connected to the inernet by isdn. What do i have to do, to get an internet connection on the other one. (I think the one with connection should forward the packets, that come from the other one) I thought about gated, but I dont know, how to configur

Re: sdram and linux

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > anyway memtest86 boots on its own anyway... quick Q: does memtest86 > work on SDRAM ? I know it doesn't work on ECC or Parity ram? I will > dfind out tonight...I am trowing 64 MB od SDRAM in my machine (nice > upgrade from 32 MB of old SIMMs) Well

Re: what serve the file in the /dev directory

The files in the /dev are not the actual device drivers , but the files corresponding to a spesific device driver , so on my system the /dev/hda is the first harddisk etc. You don't actually need everyone. If you dont have a scsi disk you cant omit all the /dev/sd files. The best way to make t

Re: Banco de Dados

What about using Samba for the file and print sharing portion and PostgreSQL as the database server? E.- Leonardo Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Can you tell me about a great DB for Linux, preferred with : Transactions? : I'm thinking about use Linux as File Server and DB Server in my

Who is using Linux DB Servers

A cretine question: Which fo you is using a Linux DB Server with the Administrational Systens in your company? Controlling Clients, Payment, etc.. etc.. etc..? What's the size of this companies? What's the size os thees Databases? TIA Leonardo Ruoso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Which Linux should I install?

>Is there "Login scripts" or similars? Oh, just remembered! You need only create a netlogon share with Samba... >Oh thanks... not so confuse... so usefull. But I know it's dificult lo >learn all in a couple of minutes far away from the information. > > thanks anyway > >p.s. I will install a

Re: Which Linux should I install?

Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Oh thanks... not so confuse... so usefull. But I know it's dificult lo > learn all in a couple of minutes far away from the information. yes it is true...it takes a while to switch the thinking from "windows mode" to "linux mode"alot of things work under a differnt set of

Re: Which Linux should I install?

> So. UNIX is NOT for WORKSTATIONS. Is this true? No. But things are harder for starters than in NT. Only that if using NT, after 12 months you will have been left with a system crying to be reinstalled perhaps. And will still not have had to reboot even once if you are using Linux... >

Re: PHP/FI

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Peter Bodnar wrote: >I have som problems with PHP/FI modules, I need to recompile this, but... >where I can found sorce code? www.vex.net/php is not working (Error 404) If you're refering to the php3 packages found in hamm now (version 3.0b6) ... the final (non beta)

Re: Which Linux should I install?

Oh thanks... not so confuse... so usefull. But I know it's dificult lo learn all in a couple of minutes far away from the information. thanks anyway p.s. I will install a linux machine at work and start to experiment. I'm not sure about RH or Debian. It's because here in Brazil De

Re: sdram and linux

It sounds a lot like memory that is not fast enough (or not enough wait states). It might also be some sort of "addressing error" that does not show up in Win. Also, did you tell lilo that you have more than 64M of memory? -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Re: Which Linux should I install?

Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > YEAH! I'm not a UNIX Wizard. I know a litle about TCP/IP networks. I am > just receiveing my books on Linux next week from amazon. I agree that > UNIX can do what NT can do. thats a good start :) > So. UNIX is NOT for WORKSTATIONS. Is this true? absolutley not! i

Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:04:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into > "buffers". Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require > massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary > behav

Re: Packages

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: : Hi all : : I was looking at Debian's WWW site today at the package listings, and : I noticed that for the packages the source is avvaliable in three : different formats, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what : the differences

Re: URGENT: Problems with bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb pkg.

Here's what I'd do - install the ash from hamm, then do: ln -sf ash /bin/sh Then, edit your /etc/passwd file (with vi, probably) and change the top line so that it contains '/bin/ash' instead of '/bin/bash' - root should now be able to log in, at least. Damir Naden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *

why does the kernel suck up memory?

I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into "buffers". Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary behavior? I'm trying to keep from using swap space. Once a swap partition is acc

2.1.xx Kernels

Whats with these 2.1.xx kernels, When I was in University over a year ago, they had 2.1.xx kernels, will this kernel ever come out of development, and is Plug-and-Play in the kernel yet???

Re: sdram and linux

tony mollica writes: > > Hi. Just looking for a little more info. > > Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual > type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears > to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot > up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually)

Fw: Design of Debian web site

Would you people shift this thread to debian-www? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: List split suggestion

>I'd like to suggest the list to be split in "debian-users" and > "debian-beta" or "debian-testers". All questions related to unstable, > untested or merely not-yet-reliable SW would be sent to the second list. > That's because I can't keep up with this mail volume anymore... > > > Leandro G

Re: the install that never was

>Well, I just tried booting with a RedHat boot floppy. Why not try Debian? http://www.debian.org/. If you are not likely to try Debian, you could always build another floppy from the CD. For more details, try http://www.redhat.com./. If you are wondering, debian.org is a volunteer organizat

Re: Install process

> 1.) is there a log file of the choices make during the installation > process that begins with resc1440.bin execution? > 2.) can one do a partial reinstall that will modify some of the choices > previously make by stepping through the install menu? The answer would be "No" to both, but... Once y

Install process

1.) is there a log file of the choices make during the installation process that begins with resc1440.bin execution? 2.) can one do a partial reinstall that will modify some of the choices previously make by stepping through the install menu? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

> >> No. While inastalling X or gpm you should tell coniguration program that > >> your mouse using /dev/psaux device, and the protocol is ps2. > >> The simplest way would be to exit from X, "dpkg --purge gpm", > >> then install "gpm" package. It will ask you questions about the device > >> on the

Re: More on XDM?

But I was able to run another xdm session on another server, same terminal and get the same application working with enough colors. The only difference is a "wharf" bar... if that is draining all the extra colors that the app needs, i guess I am stuck. So I have to reduce the color load o

Re: Which Linux should I install?

YEAH! I'm not a UNIX Wizard. I know a litle about TCP/IP networks. I am just receiveing my books on Linux next week from amazon. I agree that UNIX can do what NT can do. So. UNIX is NOT for WORKSTATIONS. Is this true? If I agree to change every NT and NW host by a UNIX host I wil

Packages

Hi all I was looking at Debian's WWW site today at the package listings, and I noticed that for the packages the source is avvaliable in three different formats, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the differences are in these three formats. they are .dsc

List split suggestion

I'd like to suggest the list to be split in "debian-users" and "debian-beta" or "debian-testers". All questions related to unstable, untested or merely not-yet-reliable SW would be sent to the second list. That's because I can't keep up with this mail volume anymore... Leandro Guimarães Fari

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

>> > My mouse is a standard Microsoft PS/2 Intellimouse connected to an >> > almost new Dell Dimension D266. It connects to a small round 6pin >> > socket which I assume to be a serial mouse port. >> >> Nope, this is not a serial port. >> >> > As root, I tried 'insmod psaux' which executed, but

Re: Which Linux should I install?

You can do all that and more...but...it is not exactly the same for instance...the concept of "mapping drives" is well...not a Unix type concept :) but every l-user ( I am in service..I fix PCs...I say luser because I deal with the worst of the lot) has (in the normal configuration) their own "ho

Re: sdram and linux

can you give a little more information? I recently had a simmilar problem that munged my system ...but... it wasn't ram related (tho my RAM did go bad too..for unrelated reasons) Are you runnin gbo or hamm? There is a package that was in hamm when it was unsatble...which is on my hamm CD that I bur

Re: broken ncurses?

I had a similar problem a while back when I upgraded ncurses. Had to manually delete the existing soft links for ncurses, before running ldconfig. Then all worked OK. On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: > > I suspect a broken ncurses setup is the root of my problems. The > ncurses-base and ncur

URGENT: Problems with bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb pkg.

** Confidential ** Greetings -- First off, I know I shouldn't have done it... Now-- I tried to upgrade bash from hamm (I used to have bash_2.01-5.deb from hamm way back in January of 1998) to the newest bash_2.01.1-1_i386.deb from ftp1.us.debian.org last night. The upgrade didn't go well, and n

Banco de Dados

Can you tell me about a great DB for Linux, preferred with Transactions? I'm thinking about use Linux as File Server and DB Server in my company. I don't know yet if it's crazyness. But I need to reduce costs and get more stable than with Windows NT and specially not so eating a lot of har

Re: More on XDM?

> I use Accelerated X which defaults to 24 bit color. Did you misread my > message? Or does xdm not use accelerated X? I never installed xf86config, > at least not on Linux.. I do it for freebsd and am happy with 16 bit color > there. :) Xdm will use whatever is Xserver is configured.

Re: Samba config/password problem; Win95 OEMSR2

I am not sure if osr2 forces encrypted passwords, but it sounds like a possibility. Can you smbclient to yourself in Linux to see if it will browse? If that is successful, the problem is definatley password related... you set it up as "security=user" and since windows 95 does not let you c

Re: More on XDM?

I use Accelerated X which defaults to 24 bit color. Did you misread my message? Or does xdm not use accelerated X? I never installed xf86config, at least not on Linux.. I do it for freebsd and am happy with 16 bit color there. :) My question was that logging in remotely gives

Re: PHP/FI

Peter Bodnar wrote: > hello > >I have som problems with PHP/FI modules, I need to recompile this, but... >where I can found sorce code? www.vex.net/php is not working (Error 404) > > thanx > Peter > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: sdram and linux

tony mollica wrote: > Hi. Just looking for a little more info. > > Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual > type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears > to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot > up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually). B

PHP/FI

hello I have som problems with PHP/FI modules, I need to recompile this, but... where I can found sorce code? www.vex.net/php is not working (Error 404) thanx Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: sdram and linux

I've got 128MB of ECC SDRAM in my hamm box and haven't had any problems. Some people say that you should only use SDRAM that is certified to work with your motherboard. Did you set up your BIOS to use SDRAM instead of DRAM? -Ossama _

Re: Installing Mouse Driver

Thank you for all your help with the mouse driver - I now have it installed, and XF86Setup recognises it. All I've got to worry about now is setting up the X Server correctly! John -- John Wingfield Committee Member & Website Manager British Double Reed Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bdrs

Samba config/password problem; Win95 OEMSR2

I'm running my Linux box (hamm) to two Win95 machines which are running OEMSR2 with the Dial-Up Networking 1.2 upgrade. After upgrading to the latest Samba I am having trouble getting access to my printer (which is on the Linux box) and my home directories. I have read and reread the Samba

AMD K5, Netscape, netstat & zombies

I got some problem running Netscape 3.04 after I recompiled the kernel. Simply Netscape hangs waiting for a netstat process which becomes zombie. Searching on the net I found this message that was the answer: > From "Lev Babiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have K5-100, and when I compiled

Re: missing /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout libs

> Maybe you just need to remove the symlinks. I notice that my > /usr/X11R6/lib/i486-linuxaout directory is empty (hamm). Can't do that Bill, they've got to point to somewhere! Strange how my tunnel vision works -- there are symlinks there, where are the libraries? There must be libraries so

Re: Which Linux should I install?

I'd like to know if Linux can do what NT can do in a client X server configuration. Let me explain. I don't want every workstation user an network/system administrator. With NT I can configure from server wich volumes will be maped for each user, wich workstation each user will be granted access, w

Re: sdram and linux

Hi, This may also be indicative of incipient problems with your hard drive. Back up all your data (just in case) ... manoj -- Our business is run on trust. We trust you will pay in advance. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key C72610

Re: More on XDM?

Carroll Kong wrote: > Where do I go to >increase color depth allocation per user? I want to have maximized resource >s >allocated Thanks in advance guys! > >Debian 1.3R6 running XDM-Shadow To set a default depth of 16, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and insert a DefaultColorDe

sdram and linux

Hi. Just looking for a little more info. Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually). Booting from the rescue disk and

Re: Debian Hamm & Dselect

Hi, > Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? > I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other > day that my package list went to nothing. hamm is now dists/frozen, the new 'unstable'-version is slink. Bye,

Re: kernel-package instructions questions

Hi, make-kpkg clean does all that clean does, and more. There is no need to run make dep; make-kpkg handles all that. You can use make-kpkg to vreate pcmcia packages in sync with your kernel. Look into /usr/doc/pcmcia*/ and /usr/doc/kernel-pacakge/README for details. manoj --

Qt install problem

I am trying to install KDE, but the Qt compile/installation failed. I followed the instructions, including the ..profile additions to the best of my (very limited) knowledge. /qt make goes along for a while, then: gcc -I/usr/local/qt/include -c -02 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall -W -I/usr/X11R6/

Re: kernel-package instructions questions

No, follow the kernel-package instructions (though I think that your doing a make dep won't actually hurt anything, you'll just be doing something manually that make-kpkg clean will do anyway). -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECT

kernel-package instructions questions

hello- i've started to use kernel-package and have a few questions. 1) after doing a make config (or menuconfig, etc.), there is some mention on the screen about doing: make dep; make clean however, in the kernel-package docs, the next step after doing a ma

Re: X query..

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Michael Beattie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Whenever I start X, I get an xterm automatically opening. Is there a way > > to stop this? I have never minded until now, but now I usually close it > > straight away. The reason I ask is that

Re: Netscape 4 not working

Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 08:37:18PM -0600: > >Yet I get "Bus Error", when i start netscape. > > > do you have the latest awe-netscape installed? i had to remove it to > get netscape to work again. Don't mind me, but what is "awe-netscape" ? I also have this bus err

Debian Trademark Question

Take a look at "Children, do know the way to Debian LINUX?" http://www.ipa.net/~alemas and tell me what you know. May I use the Debian name this way? If so, should I put the little [TM] symbol next to "Debian?" I will _not_ name any business "Debian." ...just thought I would promote it a

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