strcpy HELP!!!!

1998-04-16 Thread Phil
I'm using libc6 2.0.7pre1-4 and strcpy gives me a segmentation error! I've attached my C test program for inspection(source only). I only do a few things. malloc memory for a variable(forgot a corresponding free) copy a string in this varible, copy this string to another string, print both on the

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And what about the kind of transparency that is used by programs such as > xeyes? I believe this is not transparency, but shaped windows. These are real "holes". They are not part of the windows, so you can't write text on them. "blast" is a nice dem

Several nuances after upgrading recently...

1998-04-16 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Recently I went online and updated all of my local packages tht had newer versions... Not a small download. When I was finished, several things had been changed from their normal behavior. Mostly, these are pretty stupid, but I'd like them fixed. * xema

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread vanco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is > > that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The > > solution seems t

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > >> Marcus Brinkmann writes: > >> > >> $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d > >> dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d no

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> Marcus Brinkmann writes: >> >> $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d >> dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found. >> >> Note, though, that: >> >> 1) this is a directory, and not a file! >> 2

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann writes: > > $ dpkg -S /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d > dpkg: /etc/xemacs20/site-start.d not found. > > Note, though, that: > > 1) this is a directory, and not a file! > 2) I already purged xemacs* ! Sure. T

Re: Mouse Failure in X

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 08:35:53PM +, Christopher J. McNicholas wrote: > Hi! > I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse. > When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse, > it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left > corner of the screen (the entire v

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 02:22:59PM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > how can I start xdm automatically after booting? > > I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I > denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change > this... > > Does anyone know

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: >> >> Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version >> leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an >> example, after purging all the xemacs packages: >

Re: MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > > I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password. I also > > added a line saying that I want "mda formail -s procmail". I have a > > .forward

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version > leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an > example, after purging all the xemacs packages: mmmh. This shouldn't happen... >

Re: KDE and the .deb

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 06:24:08PM +0200, Klasa wrote: > >> Get the sources and compile them yourself (support, libs, base (the > >> rest in any order)). This requires a pretty fat developers installation of > > > >This could be done I suppose.. But it has a disadvantage too in that it > >defeat

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
> Debian will not work with my mouse or modem. I installed several times and > the last time I left on the system, and wrote down what I did/ was asked to > do ect. > here is what I did on my final install: okay, let's see here... [..] > #chagned root password , created a user ryder made a pass

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote: > I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is > that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The > solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard > disk, but I don't know how to do

Re: MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password. I also > added a line saying that I want "mda formail -s procmail". I have a > .forward file in my home directory, and I have a .procmailrc file. > > If I ru

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:13:08PM +, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote: > -configuring gpm > -actual config is: -m /dev/ttys0 -t bare > (as I understand this is like com 1, and is a micorsoft 2 button mouse, > which ins > not mine so I changed it) > -do you want to change anything (Y,n) > =y > -wher

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Ossama Othman
On Debian, the PS/2 mouse device is /dev/psaux, not /dev/mouse. You must also have PS/2 mouse support compiled into the kernel or as a module, which it seems you already have. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PG

PyNG package ?

1998-04-16 Thread Dean Carpenter
Has anyone messed with the PyNG package ? (http://www.cb.hva.nl/PyNG) It's very similar to MRTG in that it allows one to do snmp queries to routers, switches, whatever and build traffic graphs. Very slick. It's python based, and requires the GD module (http://daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au/~richard/gd

debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
HI, I have been trying to get Debian to run on my computer. I have be able to get Slakware 3.4 to run, but I would prefer Debian. I have a modem that is com2 in DOS, a PS/2 mouse connected to the PS/2 connector on my motherboard, ( Slakware recognized the mouse as /dev/mouse (type PS/2) ) but I

Re: fopen keeps producing seg faults under hamm - known bug ??

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Rozman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello ! > >I'm using HTK speech processing tools. I've built them and used under IRIX, >Cygnus. >Now I'm trying to get them to work under debian - (debian 1.3 upgraded to >hamm). >Some of fopen functi

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > If youw ant the "Easy way out" check out > www.4front-tech.com they have the OSS/Linux sound card drivers > They work great and suport many cards. They have one advantage in being > comercial software (there is also OSS/Free...bu

Re: mutt (was Re: A few things about Debian Hamm)

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:58:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there some 'mutt for pine users' documentation available somewhere? > > Not that I'm aware of. There's a Pine.rc in /usr/doc/mutt*/examples that > gives you Pine-like keybindings though. That's not enough. What I did was

Possibly Off Topic: Fonts gone bananas in X.

1998-04-16 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, I recently upgraded my X packages to 3.3.2-3. (xlib6g, xbase, xserver-vga16, xserver-svga, xfntbase, xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbig, xfntscl). I also upgraded my gimp stuff to gimp0.99.26-1, libgimp0.99.26-1, libgtk10.99.10-1. Now when I do text in gimp with any font, say, lucida bright or times, th

Re: Severe security hole in Bind

1998-04-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just noticed this link with a warning about all Linux > distributions. http://www.LinuxMall.com/support/bind-4.9.6.html > Currently I'm running Hamm/Frozen, am I vulnerable? I check the > config file(s) and did not notice the 'fake-ique

Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No, unfortunatly he ca

fopen keeps producing seg faults under hamm - known bug ??

1998-04-16 Thread Robert Rozman
Hello ! I'm using HTK speech processing tools. I've built them and used under IRIX, Cygnus. Now I'm trying to get them to work under debian - (debian 1.3 upgraded to hamm). Some of fopen function calls keep producing seg faults. Is this known bug and is there easy solutio

Severe security hole in Bind

1998-04-16 Thread mike
I just noticed this link with a warning about all Linux distributions. http://www.LinuxMall.com/support/bind-4.9.6.html Currently I'm running Hamm/Frozen, am I vulnerable? I check the config file(s) and did not notice the 'fake-iquery yes;' line, so can I assume that I am safe?

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread José-Vicente Gilabert-Beneyto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > I've been using my monitor (17" Hitachi SuperScan Pro) and video card > (Diamond Stealth 3d with the S3V Xserver) with X for almost a year now. > Just today, it started acting funny. > > Every few minutes, the screen

MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-16 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
Can anyone give me a short and sweet rundown of what I need configured to get a working fetchmail system running? I have SMail set up and working (I can send E-mail from my system, and I can send/receive email between different accounts on my system). Now I want fetchmail to grab mail from my ISP

Re: Mouse Failure in X

1998-04-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Christopher J. McNicholas wrote: > > > Hi! > > I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse. > > When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse, > > it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left > >

Re: How much HD is necessary to mirror Debian x86?

1998-04-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > I want to download the entire Debian hamm distribution _for > Intel only_ (just binary-i386, isn't it?) How much HD is > necessary? Just yesterday I put Debian 2.0 (main + contrib; binary-i386 + disks-i386) on a CD-ROM, flattening symlinks fro

Re: Mirror

1998-04-16 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! John Boggon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I get mirror to leave the debian/contrib and debian/non-free > directories but still retrieve the hamm | slink/contrib, hamm | > slink/non-free directories ? exclude_patt+|^contrib/ exclude_patt+|^non-free/ and when you dont't want mirror to create

finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: nr# dpkg -l xemacs* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-confi

Rookie trying to install 1.3

1998-04-16 Thread Kevin Lewis
Hi my name is Kevin I am in Kelowna B.C. Canada. Hobbies are Ham Radio and my Computer, I came across a disc with Linux debian 1.3 on it and I was intregued, I decided to get myself in hot water and try to run this O/S. I printed out a ream of stuff, copied many 3.5 floppies from the CD with the or

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-16 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > debmake is kind of out of fashion now and has been > replaced by a different package called debhelper. Well, debmake may be out of fashion, but perhaps "replaced" would not be the right word here. They are just diff

KDE and the .deb

1998-04-16 Thread Klasa
>> Get the sources and compile them yourself (support, libs, base (the >> rest in any order)). This requires a pretty fat developers installation of > >This could be done I suppose.. But it has a disadvantage too in that it >defeats the purpose of packaging the thing. There is always a tradeoff

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or > > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is > > > > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.e

Re: Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Petra wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hi, > > I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe > contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can > even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of th

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ...but... you have make a mistake ;-) > > > in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools > > > > Yes, silly me. I knew that, I just didn't think of it. > > I always though raidtools is for 2.1.XX and mdu

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. >it tells me that the CDROM is in use, and says >'permission denied' even when I'm root. Well, probably it _is_ in use. Try "fuser -vm /cdrom" to see

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > how can I start xdm automatically after booting? > > I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I > denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change > this... > > Does anyone know which files to alter?

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jonas Bofjall wrote: >How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, >however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? tzconfig - sets your timezone date - sets your system clock hwclock - sets your hardware clock xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference

Re: PLEASE HELP !

1998-04-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Martin Madlik - System Admin wrote: > I think, tha this is simple, but I can't move with it for 6 hours. > I'v dowloaded php3 script and apache 1.2.5, and I want to recompile php3 as > an module > ./configure --with-apache=/usr/local/apache_1.2.5 It creastes Makefile and > so on.

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Gernot Bauer wrote: >how can I start xdm automatically after booting? ... > >Does anyone know which files to alter? /etc/X11/config: # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Bruce Jackson
You must compile sound into the kernel. See Sound How-to. Tristan Day wrote: > > I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't > like my sound card. > > Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't > exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exi

mutt (was Re: A few things about Debian Hamm)

1998-04-16 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:57:32PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > Is there some 'mutt for pine users' documentation available somewhere? Not that I'm aware of. There's a Pine.rc in /usr/doc/mutt*/examples that gives you Pine-like keybindings though. > In particular, I very much like the 'search

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA" > > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the > > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. > > > > If yo

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't believe that is true > > I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work > > well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP > > I can't seem to get mail

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: > Hi, > > how can I start xdm automatically after booting? > > I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I > denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change > this... > > Does anyone know which files to alter?

Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Tristan Day
I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. I mount it with mount /dev/hdc /cdrom and normally I am able to unmount it with umount /dev/hdc /cdrom but whatever I do: umount /dev/hdc or umount /cdrom or the first command, it tells me that the CDROM is in use

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:16:57PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > >> I have 2.0.33 running on an ABIT IT5H 2.0, K6-233 w/ 64 megs of RAM. > > I think that motherboard is based on the TX chipset, which does not cache > any memory over 64mb. So adding more than that is most propably worse. It's b

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't > exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I > looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE ones and nas. Have you recompiled your kernel wi

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
What type of soundcard do you have? For many Soundblaster compatible types if you get all of its info and recompile your kernel and turn on the built-in kernel sound card drivers (and configure them) then you are all set I have never had luck going that route but...I had a couple of really weir

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > > Why have two "DOS" bootable drives? In my experience, "DOS" only likes to > > see > > one main bootable drive. [snip] One other item which I did not mention: The bootable "DOS" drive _must_ be the first one detectable by "DOS". > > This is the setup of my three

Re: How can I add the 3rd ethernet card ?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stellar R'espree wrote: > Hi, > > I use a PC linux machine with 2 ethernet cards. (one for eth0, the other > for eth1). > And now, I want to add third ethernet card. > > It is recognized as eht2 at my machine, but when I tried to following > command, > > /sbin/ifconfig

Re: procmail question

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > > Hi all there! > > I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I have > > big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can anybody > > tell me how? > > Try the procmail and procmailex (examples) man or info

Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Tristan Day
I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't like my sound card. Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE o

Re: HELP!!!

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Joost Kooij wrote: > My advice: run for the shop and get another board. Another brand and > model. I don't know how you value your time, but I would certainly shell > out some money if it would save me a week of hassle. I value my time highlyit its one thing strugling getting something to wor

Re: pon only works for root after upgrade to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Britton hat gesagt: // Britton wrote: > > I recently finished installing the hamm upgrade packages, and now ppp only > works from root. Is there something new that I can change in a config > somewhere or something to fix this? On the other hand, poff can now > turn off pon when the connection h

XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, how can I start xdm automatically after booting? I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change this... Does anyone know which files to alter? Thanx, Gernot P.S.: Im at runlevel 5 and its debian 2.0.

Using tix AND Blt with hamm system! HELP

1998-04-16 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi, I had written a nice visual application using the BLT (v2.3) library and also using tix extensions on a bo system: To be specific I used tclx76 tix41 tk42 on the bo system and my own compiled version of BLT v2.3. Now, after upgrading to hamm on one machine, it appears that tix41 requires tk8.0,

Re: AccelX on Debian

1998-04-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote: > > > 3) Buy the complete package > > 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package > > Is there anyone out there running Accelerated X on Debian? > HOW do I do it? I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 11:01:34AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up > > > to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it > > > possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, > > >

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-04-16 Thread Damon Muller
G'day Rick, >If you could choose one book to help you learn Linux, what would it >be? I'm looking for something that covers installation, use, and >administration. Oh yeah, and also how to format a floppy disk : ) I haven't read a lot of Linux books, but I found Running Linux (2nd ed.) by Wel

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: > How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, > however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? hwclock --systohc or hwclock --utc --systohc if your clock is set to GMT aka UTC Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread The Thought Assassin
On 16 Apr 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unfortunately, after this not all is well. After pppd exchanges IP > > addresses, it reports something like: > > ppp not replacing default route to eth0[192.168.1.255] > In remove the default gatewa

AccelX on Debian

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote: > 3) Buy the complete package > 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package I'm sorry, but I can't get this to work either. XiGraphics does not answer my emails. I've tried experimenting with this over and over again. Now all

Setting system time?

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is > > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not > mistaken). It implements

Re: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have made some progress towards solving the problem. It > turns out that my machine insisted on having the IP address > for the session with my ISP, which is used as address for the > serial device on incoming connections. I have defined this in

RE: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > I have made some progress towards solving the problem. It > > turns out that my machine insisted on having the IP address > > for the session with my ISP, which is used as address for the > > serial device on incoming connections. I have defined

mirror and speed

1998-04-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again, I have setup a config file to mirror hamm, but mirror works in very slow mode ??? The connection is fully stablished as reported by netstat: tcp0 0 rdsi38.vlc.servic:26873 slug.ctv.es:ftp ESTABLISHED tcp0 0 rdsi38.vlc.se

Re: mgetty & log files

1998-04-16 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, Paul Miller wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, shaul wrote: > > > It seems that mgetty stops logging information after the logs have been > > > cycled. Well, it doesn't "stop" logging, it continues logging to the old file - if you have "cp"ed the file away and then "rm"ed the old file, it's stil

Re: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have made some progress towards solving the problem. It > turns out that my machine insisted on having the IP address > for the session with my ISP, which is used as address for the > serial device on incoming connections. I have defined this in >

swap and multiples devices

1998-04-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I know that IDE devices has a blocking design, so is better to put swap devices in diferent cables, but: SCSI is not blocking, but does there is a big difference in performance if the swap devices are placed in different "cables"? Thanks in advance,

Apache tilde question - Solved

1998-04-16 Thread Tim Metz
Thanks to those who replied regarding the apache question on tildes/ScriptAlias. I upgraded to Apache 1.3b5 and that seemed to fix the problem. - Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Using Apache/1.1.3 Debian/GNU, I am trying to ScriptAlias a directory under a > users home directory so that it can execu

Re: RAID installation

1998-04-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Martin! On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 12:53:55PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: [...] > Hmm, you're correct, the bootdisks lack real RAID support. I've > brought this up on the appropriate auditorium now. Th

PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread Erik van der Meulen
My initial problem: > I am doing my best to get a ppp connection with my > ISP working. I would have expected this to be fairly > easy, because my provider supports Linux and has some > scripts available for this purpose. > Unfortunately, this did not turn out as easy as I hoped. > My modem dials

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark Phillips writes: > [snip] > > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system > > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it > > was bootable. > > > > So what's wrong? On my father's com

StartX error message "xkbcomp..."

1998-04-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I just installed hamm from scratch. There is one problem in startx, there is an error message at the end: System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fat

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of > > > jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a > > > monito

Re: Apache Question

1998-04-16 Thread Tim Metz
> Why are you trying to set this via apache confs?? Isn't all cgi info set in config files in one way or another (i.e. ScriptAlias, AddHandler, or mod_rewrite) ? > Just make the directory in the users home directory. Take away read access > so no one can go in. Give everyone rights to execu

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it > was bootable. > > So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as > now it is /dev/hdc (th

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA" > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. > > If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to mult

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:29:39AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: >> > There are some rather severe problems with memory corruption. Generally, >> > you will only see them on busy systems. Other problems include memory >> > leaks, filesystem problems and system hangs. There are also networking >>

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of > jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a > monitor problem, or is my video card going, or have aliens changed the > properties of the local space-time continuum

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 04:05:57PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > I've been using my monitor (17" Hitachi SuperScan Pro) and video card > (Diamond Stealth 3d with the S3V Xserver) with X for almost a year now. > Just today, it started acting funny. > > Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little --

printer quota

1998-04-16 Thread Jason Killen
Does anyone know of a printer quota package. I know there is printer accounting but I'm not sure thats what I want. I have a hack worked out if there is not a printer package but I was hoping there was something a little more standard. Thanks -- Jason KillenD

Re: Apache Question

1998-04-16 Thread Shaleh
Why are you trying to set this via apache confs?? Just make the directory in the users home directory. Take away read access so no one can go in. Give everyone rights to execute cgi's and off you go. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Jeff Shilt
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hi, > > I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe > contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can > even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. > > Permission to u

Apache Question

1998-04-16 Thread tmetz
Using Apache/1.1.3 Debian/GNU, I am trying to ScriptAlias a directory under a users home directory so that it can execute cgi programs. The tilde in the ScriptAlias directive from the srm.conf file seems to be causing problems in the line below (cgi programs are not being executed, but instead

Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Petra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. Permission to use, copy, and distribut

PLEASE HELP !

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Madlik - System Admin
I think, tha this is simple, but I can't move with it for 6 hours. I'v dowloaded php3 script and apache 1.2.5, and I want to recompile php3 as an module ./configure --with-apache=/usr/local/apache_1.2.5 It creastes Makefile and so on. make It works fine make installgood but now if I

Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Will Lowe
I've been using my monitor (17" Hitachi SuperScan Pro) and video card (Diamond Stealth 3d with the S3V Xserver) with X for almost a year now. Just today, it started acting funny. Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightes

Newbie question (long)

1998-04-16 Thread Cam Vetter
I just recompiled my kernel using kernel 2.0.32, and everything seems to work well, except when I boot I get the following error messages which I take it means I screwed something up. (Is this because I configured serial support as a module?) Any help would be appreciated. Apr 15 21:03:05 debian

Using correct libc makes things easier

1998-04-16 Thread Chip Grandits
I had been having trouble upgrading my SVGA X server to support my Matrox Millenium II. Based on some help from Ben Pfaff and Ossama Othman I went to the Xfree86 web page and downloaded the 3.3.2 versions of various files like the SVGA server, setup, VGA server, config, etc. After replacing the

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:28:34PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > Yes. If you put one disk on each ide channel/adapter/whatever and if > you put swap partitions on each drive, you will get a speedup as the > kernel is able to use both partitions concurrently (up to a point). On the other hand, Linux

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 02:49:31PM -0700, King Lee wrote: > While Debian does have more packages, it also seems to stricter, in > terms of including packages into their core distribution, than > Red Hat. There were several important (IMHO) packages > available on Red Hat cdroms that were not a

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-16 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:43:55PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > > unfortunately I just got married > > That's not what I meant Your wife didn't read that, did she? ;-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental Engin

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