Re: SCSI controller and drive?

1998-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: > I'm looking to add a scsi hard drive and controller to my system which > currently uses an ide drive. What is a good controller and drive to > buy? Does only the controller matter or does the type of hard drive I > get matter to? The controller is probab

Re: [OFF TOPIC]Where has linuxware.com gone?

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > Linuxware.com is no longer with us. I forget exactly why they went down, I > think the admins just got tired of dealing with all the irc bots, crackers, > and lamers on there. Actually it's because the operator couldn't afford to pay for the dedicated phone line. -- see shy jo

Re: [OFF TOPIC]Where has linuxware.com gone?

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Waller wrote: > I have restricted news access here at work (only a few groups, and no > write access). > > I used to be able to telnet to linuxware.com (_used_ to be > 205.230.171.50) and log on there to use news and stuff (I'm pretty sure > they used debian...), but now I can't even get

xxgdb

1998-10-13 Thread Fernando Pinho
Hi All, I've just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my computer. Every time I try to use xxgdb and type a command (like "file xxx"), it stats beeping and writing lots of error messages. Gdb is working fine. Thanks, Fernando Pinho

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-13 Thread George R
On 10/12/98 at 08:30 AM, "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Most x86 pc's can be set to boot from harddisk *only*, with a password- >protected bios. This means the machine is safe as long as people don't >remove the cover. Unless of course the BIOS accepts the tech support password. And

Re: Timeserver?

1998-10-13 Thread Cliff W. Draper
I have a LAN off of the net and I want to run my own NTP server. Is there a special NTP server program available? I haven't been able to figure out how to make xntp3 be a server when it doesn't have another NTP server to sync off of. Any ideas? thanks, -Cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 8 Oct 1

smail & libc

1998-10-13 Thread Max
Is anyone currently working on the problem with smail and libc in slink? It has been stated here a number of times that the smail queue is broken and new messages do not get delivered (until runq is run by cron) when using the lates version of libc in slink. I'd like to know if this is something

keyboard question

1998-10-13 Thread tracheotomy_bob
Anybody know where I can purchase a 'normal' 102 key English (British) keyboard, not some goddamn windows 9x keyboard job. I've got a windows one at the mo. 'cos you can't get anything else.

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-13 Thread homega
Stephan Engelke dixit: > Hi everyone, > my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian > 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on > the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I > cannot get German umlauts to display

Motherbnoard Sound Device

1998-10-13 Thread Bert Conliffe
Hi Robert Rati, Congradulations for your success! Now, if you'd be kind enought to share with the rest of us ( who are having similiar problems ), how it was done, we'd be most grateful. If not, your success is of no use to us, its a one man victory. Until I can get my sound device to speakto

Re: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
/dev/hd(some letter on my compaq it's d) ??or?? /dev/sc(?b) mayby. (?) about the rest King Lee wrote: > I am having trouble installing Debian on MCA computer. > > >From DOS, I go to cdrom, in boot directory, I boot up (using > loadlin). I install, have some trouble writing to floppies, > and

Re: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
I's a PS/2 56LS 486SLC2, , there very fast with win 3.xx. Haven't been able to install Linux on them yet because of them being "MCA" boxes. I have found patchs though for debian 2.0.34. I paid only $60 apiece for 3 boxes, but their a pain to find parts, software, and docs on them. Nathan E Norman

Re: Slow ifconfig

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: : Bug should be posted against modutils: : : $ time ifconfig : real0m4.923s :( : user0m0.020s : sys 0m0.000s : $ killall kerneld : $ time ifconfig : real0m0.034s :) : user0m0.010s : sys 0m0.000s I'm running ker

RE: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread King Lee
I am having trouble installing Debian on MCA computer. >From DOS, I go to cdrom, in boot directory, I boot up (using loadlin). I install, have some trouble writing to floppies, and eventually get a bare system working. I want to mount the cdrom which I think is scsi, but I can't seem to find i

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Touloumtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time: > most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the > presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If > this file ex

Re: Slow ifconfig

1998-10-13 Thread Richard A Nelson
Hrm... I'm also seeing the same problem -- Rick Nelson

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: : I noticed the slink distribution contains an older release of Python than : the stable distribution has. Furthermore: : : Python-examples is dependent of Python-base 1.5.1-3.1 : Python-base is version 1.5.1-3 : : Could this be the reason why Pyt

RE: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote: : Thanks for the speedy reply :-) : You are 100% correct. My font files are all .pcf.gz. What is the : procedure to change them all to .z? One way to do it is to `gzip -d' every file and `compress' it. The /usr/bin/compress binary is in the 'ncompress

Re: wierd problem with ppp; need help!

1998-10-13 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Jim Foltz wrote: > You need to give more information about your connection to get a more > precise reply. Try including log files, /var/log/ppp.log and use the debug > option in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. > Hello, Below I had tried to supply all information which migh

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:49:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > >If you can't umount it, take the system to > >single-user mode with 'telinit 1', then try the umount/fsck. > That wouldn't work either in my case, because I only have remote > access to this machine. > Yeah, I somehow miss

Re: Slow ifconfig

1998-10-13 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:27:30PM +, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: > Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly when > this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to slink the other > day. > > To give an example: > > $ time /sbin/ifconfig >/dev/null > > r

Alarming Pine/remote netscape problem

1998-10-13 Thread Colin Telmer
(Perhaps I shouldn't post this to -devel, but I find this problem quite alarming and thought others should be aware of it) I have recently discovered that if I send mail from my work computer (SunStation) using Netscape 4.05 to my home computer (Debian slink) that if I reply to the message, the or

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I noticed the slink distribution contains an older release of Python than the stable distribution has. Furthermore: Python-examples is dependent of Python-base 1.5.1-3.1 Python-base is version 1.5.1-3 Could this be the reason why Python canot be installed from slink? I would expect slink would c

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:11:38 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: >> Unfortunately I'd like to see something on the caliber of Macromedia's >> Dreamweaver but there is nothing which comes close in the Linux world. >Never seen this. What does it do? It is a WYSIWYG editor that I think makes so

Re: ".../movemail registered but not installed"

1998-10-13 Thread Peter Granroth
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 07:34:48PM +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: > What does the following message mean and what can I do against it? > > --- > Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:51:27 +0200 > From: root (Anacron) > To: root > > File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debi

Dialup ISDN performance

1998-10-13 Thread Dimitri
I am using a Bitsurfer Pro on a linux box and a win 95 box. Download rates from my provider's site seem not all that exciting. With my x2 modem I can download at the rate of about 4-5 Kb/KB, with ISDN using both channels its around 6-8 KB at best. I would like to hear from anyone else using dialu

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > : On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > : > : > : Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile) > : includes "."? > > Yuck. > > Thanks for pointing that out - looks li

Slow ifconfig

1998-10-13 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to slink the other day. To give an example: $ time /sbin/ifconfig >/dev/null real0m6.788s user0m4.450s sys 0m1.590s This used to take far less than a sec

Re: Majordomo on Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Shane S. wrote: : after installing Majordomo package on my debain liunx box and reading the : documentations for configurations, I am still having trouble getting it : to work right. : : Has anyone installed Majordomo and configured it successfully? Yup, what's going wr

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: : On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: : : : Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile) : includes "."? Yuck. Thanks for pointing that out - looks like I've some editing to do. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South P

Hybrid CD's

1998-10-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
How does one mount those hybrid MAC/PC CD's? How can one read the Mac Files? PC Files? TIA Admiral Charah Technical Support Group Cyberspace Laoag, ISP

PCMCIA support

1998-10-13 Thread Declan Moriarty
[This was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond to it here.] I have a laptop which fails to install an inferior Linux package bacause it cannot get access to the Qlogic_cs driver during installation. Is this driver available for use with any f your packages? Regards, Declan M

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 13 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: Didn't everyone noticed that the "system wide" profile (/etc/profile) includes "."? I haven't changed my /etc/profile IIRC. > instead. Really, it's very easy to get into the habit and it improves > your security. It used to be the case that people put "."

Re: Realplayer V5.0 and Netscape

1998-10-13 Thread W. Paul Mills
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:46:01 -0400 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:05:27AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > The player should already be listed there, as a plug-in, but may > > not be activated. If not, you

Re: German Umlauts on the console.

1998-10-13 Thread Thomas Apel
Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Hi everyone, > my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian > 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on > the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I > cannot get German umlauts to displ

".../movemail registered but not installed"

1998-10-13 Thread Thomas Apel
What does the following message mean and what can I do against it? --- Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:51:27 +0200 From: root (Anacron) To: root File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed --- I replaced emacs19 with ema

Majordomo on Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Shane S.
Hi, after installing Majordomo package on my debain liunx box and reading the documentations for configurations, I am still having trouble getting it to work right. Has anyone installed Majordomo and configured it successfully? thanks shane

KDE lost ability to open HOWTO.gz's

1998-10-13 Thread Kent West
Up until yesterday I could use the "home" button to open a window that browsed my home directory. Then I could navigate to /usr/docs/HOWTO and click on one of the HOWTO files and it would open up in a text editor so I could read it (it tried opening three editor windows and giving a message that I

Re: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Moore, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 | Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which | has a CD drive). [snip] | I have a network connection, so I could get the stuff from the debian | ftp site direc

Re: Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Waller
Hi Paul, Could you not 'pinch' (i.e. borrow) a CD from one of the other PCs? Shouldn't be difficult to install it on your PC temporarily, especially if it's IDE. As for DHCP, install the dhcpcd package (the client) and it should work out of the box (it did for me in a similar case (firewall,

Re: Gnome & Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
I've just seen on the Gnome web site (www.gnome.org) that GNOME will work with IceWM, WindowMaker, Blackbox, Enlightment, so I will try with WindowMaker while we get a solution to IceWM problems. Regards

Re: Motherbnoard Sound Device

1998-10-13 Thread Robert Rati
That is not exactly true. I have an onboard Sound Pro which I have gotten to work with my Linux box. It has taken a lot of work and I'm not sure exactly what I did to get it to work, but it does now work. Have you tried using isapnp? On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Bert Conliffe wrote: > Hi Fellow Mother

Re: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Sherow wrote: [ snip ] : P.S. I will never buy another IBM That's too bad - the PC Server 325 and Netfinity platforms make some kick-ass Linux servers ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: xdm replacement?

1998-10-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, kdm actually does offer a nice piece of functionality that xdm > doesn't. It allows you to choose an X session at login (kde, window > maker, afterstep, etc), by providing a combo box that lets you choose the > parameter that gets passed to

Re: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
I have found this site with has several patches and a lot of info for putting Linux on a MCA box http://glycerine.itsmm.uni.edu/mca/ and for the box http://members.aol.com/mcapage0/mcaindex.htm P.S. I will never buy another IBM Richardson,Anthony wrote: > Bo came with the MCA patches included.

Re: Gnome & Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
>Hello, > >I have a similar problem, only I can't seem to get Icewm to work. Keep in mind that GNOME panel (etc.) will only work with certain window managers and Icewm is one of them. I am trying to get GNOME working with Icewm and when I run X it exits and I get the same message as you. How di

RE: IBM W/"MCA" Board

1998-10-13 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Bo came with the MCA patches included. I'm not sure about Hamm. It worked right out of the box for me, but this will be very hardware dependent. There is an Linux for MCA web site. Check there for info. (Look in the related links area at debian.org) Tony On Monday, October 12, 1998 2:50 PM,

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: : The error is that apt-get refuses to install python-examples from slink : because python-base is not present. However, I have installed python-base : from slink... Okay, have a look in /var/lib/dpkg/status. Does this entry appear? Package: python-b

RE: lilo - booting from a device

1998-10-13 Thread Richardson,Anthony
I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative approach. Mount the boot partition of the new distribution: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt Then add the following stanza (it's based on your entry below) to lilo.conf: image=/mnt/vmlinuz label=newdistro root=/dev/hda12 Then lil

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Ruud de Bruin
The error is that apt-get refuses to install python-examples from slink because python-base is not present. However, I have installed python-base from slink... Installing python-base from stable does not solve the problem because than a olot of other dependencies are broken (I can understand this

Getting at Debian distribution files

1998-10-13 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on a PC at work. I have the Debian 2.0 Official CD from CheapBytes, which installed fine on my home PC (which has a CD drive). The work PC has no CD drive, but it *does* have a network connection. I have got the install through to the point of running dselect as r

Re: help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> | Hi all , > | > | After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. > | I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for > | cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is > | > | sh: Error in loading shared libraries > | : undefi

Linux Drivers

1998-10-13 Thread Carl Vilbrandt
I would like to confirm you are working on a Linux driver for: ACER 2x4 cdrom rw and w Model # 6206a and when the Linux driver will be ready.

Re: help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hi all , | | After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. | I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for | cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is | | sh: Error in loading share

Re: I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread servis
*- Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about "I have a winmodem:( And now?" | Hi Debian users, | last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 | Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend | discovered that it is a w

Re: CD ROM BURNER

1998-10-13 Thread Carl Vilbrandt
If a lot of people on the linux groups send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] requesting information on the driver for linux that they are working on it would help and more that likely it would help linux out. acer 2x4 6206a cdrom rw 1 800 452-2237 acer number www.acerperipherals.com goto products st

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
Thanks a bunch J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:25:28AM -0500, David Sherow wrote: > > Yes I have access to a machine that already has debian running on it, But > > I'm not to sure what to do with the patches I've downloaded. Not only > > that, but I'm really green on Linux

PRINTS 1 PAGE SHORT

1998-10-13 Thread Bob Barth
From applix words I cannot print a single page and if a job is more than a page, the last one is in the printer's buffer, but it won't print until I go off life and press the Form Feed key.  >From DOS 'lp filename'  works fine.   If I insert a Page Break in words, it will print the first pa

Installing on ThinkPad 600

1998-10-13 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Hi, I'm trying to convert a colleague of mine from Slackware to Debian 2.0r2, but we're not getting beyond the 'Loading Linux: ...' line with the Tecra floppy. Likewise with 'linux floppy=thinkpad' or 'linux floppy=nodma'. Tried booting into DOS and running d:\install\install.bat, the ke

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:25:28AM -0500, David Sherow wrote: > Yes I have access to a machine that already has debian running on it, But > I'm not to sure what to do with the patches I've downloaded. Not only > that, but I'm really green on Linux. You might want to read the Kernel-HOWTO then (e.g

Re: Juno cable modem

1998-10-13 Thread Russ Cook
Linux is a Unix like pc operating system, much more powerful and versatile than Windows. It has quite a user base among the scientific and academic communities, and is becoming quite popular among general users, also. See http://www.debian.org and http://www.linuxhq.com Please consider supporting t

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-13 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Thanks for the help everyone. After looking at things some more, I dropped ipfwadm and patched the kernel to support ipchains. I haven't totally configured my second pc, but I can bring it up manually as a backup to my isdn router. (My isp seems to have performance problems on isdn, and I can somet

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-13 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Quoting Mike Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev > package from slink. You're right, I compiled it with libncurses4 and my program starts, but unfortunately all the colors have gone. :-( Instead of colors, everything is bold now. I update

Re: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread Greg Norris
Do you have xfstt referenced in /etc/X11/XF86Config? I was getting similar errors under vncserver when trying to use unix-domain sockets with xfstt. If you have an entry that looks like FontPath "unix/:7101" try replacing it with FontPath "tcp/localhost:7101" The "normal" font-serve

Re: Please Help!! Debian can't find SCSI HD during installtion

1998-10-13 Thread David Sherow
Yes I have looked at the site, there is a lot of info there. I tryed a 1.2 rescue and driver disk, but it still won't find the hard disk. There are some patchs for the 2.0.34 kernal but I'm not quit sure what to with them though. Got any ideas? I'm really a newbie at programming in C, and f

Gnome installation

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!!! I just finished compiling Gnome 0.20 (with GTK 1.0) which included the following packages: mico, mc, gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-objc, gnome-utils, gnome-admin, gnome-graphics, gnome-games and now I have my /etc/X11/window-managers file look like this /usr/local/bin/gnome-se

Re: A little question about Debian

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Redirected to -user; I don't see what this has to do with the development of Debian. Also, you get better answers if you ask more specific questions.] On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:43:48PM +, Matthias D wrote: > I would like to know if there is anything like usable with API or Corba > technology

Re: turnkey debian?

1998-10-13 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this idea of basing a turnkey end user system on debian linux. > In order to pull this off, a login prompt is NOT WANTED. I want the > system to come up running the end application. (some backdoor method

[OFF TOPIC]Where has linuxware.com gone?

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I have restricted news access here at work (only a few groups, and no write access). I used to be able to telnet to linuxware.com (_used_ to be 205.230.171.50) and log on there to use news and stuff (I'm pretty sure they used debian...), but now I can't even get there. If I do telnet linu

Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

1998-10-13 Thread Alex Shnitman
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > Transparant proxying is an optimization in that you can redirect > all connections to port 80 of any outside-server to pass through > a caching proxy, so that you get the benefits of a proxy cache without > configuring the client to use the caching proxy. I men

chinese-input-method in xemacs20-mule-canna-wnn

1998-10-13 Thread zhaoway
Please help! Where's the chinese input methods for xemacs20-mule? I only got those japanese input methods. I've installed all of the xemacs20* packages in Debian 2.0 binery CD. But where's the Chinese input methods? Haven't it been included in Debian 2.0? Or, could I find it in slink? Thanks! zhao

One question about configure X windows, without found X font paths .

1998-10-13 Thread ayin
Dear Sir: One question! When I configure the X windows system , the script test the settings I entered. But the program tell me that it can not find the font path. But I have already installed the 9fonts packages. Which packages need I to make the X windows runing well ? Another fonts package ? W

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > dmesg | more > > might help Nope, it doesn't. :-( It only reports some of the startup messages. The important ones like the output of fsck (even whether it was run at all) is not shown. BTW, I don't understand the man page of dmesg. It desc

Re: Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Jeff Miller
Yes, I'm running hamm, kernel build 2.0.35 and I have used KDE and FVWM95 successfully. >>> "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/13/98 9:41:00 AM >>> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/13/98 at 08:22 AM, "Jeff Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Has anyone been able to get Icewm working? When I

Re: Motherboard Sound Device Gyrations

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Did you actually edit the isapnp.conf. The pnpdump command just gives you some default options from the scan. You also need to uncomment the "(ACT Y)" line which enables the isapnp configuration. There are (depending on your soundcard) i think 3 actual pnp device

Re: Urgent Help needed please

1998-10-13 Thread Andy Spiegl
> On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > > > trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to > > /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: > > "No space left on device". According to Mike Touloumtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1) You usually don't have

Icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Jeff Miller
Has anyone been able to get Icewm working? When I run it, X exits and I get a segment fault. I also get the message "cannot open maudio" or something like that. TIA

Motherboard Sound Device Gyrations

1998-10-13 Thread Bert Conliffe
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13 Oct 98 >> Is it possible that this on-board sound is PnP, in which you would need to >> setup isapnp tools? On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Bert Conliffe wrote: > I too am having the same difficulty, getting my motherboard > sound device to be recognized by the current li

Re: ls-120 drives

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies > on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /d

Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no problems. -- I get the same exact results wit

RE: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread David Karlin
Remco, Thanks for the speedy reply :-) You are 100% correct. My font files are all .pcf.gz. What is the procedure to change them all to .z? TIA, --David > -Original Message- > From: Remco van de Meent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 4:21 AM > To: David Karli

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-13 Thread Brent McMillan
oops. I was just pointing to the /debian directory. While poining at hamm all the packages that were missing reappeared. However, specifying the directories "main, non-free, contrib" won't find .deb files even though it updated. hrmph. I'll look around tonight and see if I can find

Re: Help with /etc/adjtime?

1998-10-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:02:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to find information about /etc/adjtime. This is apparently what > regulates the CMOS clock. The README for adjtimex says "clock(8) uses the > file /etc/adjtime to record the drift rate and the time since the RTC was > l

Re: X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote: : Hello, : I'm setting up an X-server called 'vncserver' and it barfs everytime I run : it. : Here is the log: : : rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 : httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 : failed to set default font path : '/usr/X

Re: Big Fat Thank You !! - Cannot run executables issue

1998-10-13 Thread Paul Crowley
rathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every answer was the same.. > > I did not have a "." in my PATH.. There shouldn't be a "." in your PATH; even at the end, it's a security risk. Use ./foo instead. Really, it's very easy to get into the habit and it improves your security. It used to be

pppconfig

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Oldfield
Just a note of thanks to the author of pppconfig. I recently used it to connect to a free UK ISP service (Freeserve) and it was much nicer than previous hassles both on Linux, and Windows. Cheers, -- Martin Oldfield.

Re: using apt with kde pkgs?

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
tOn Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: : does anybody have a line for /etc/apt/sources.list which allows one to : download the hamm kde packages from ftp.kde.org or one of its mirrors? I just looked in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.0/distribution/deb/hamm/binary-i386/ but found no

Re: Python

1998-10-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On 12 Oct 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: : I am trying to install some packages from the slink arcive with apt-get. : I receive an error message that python-examples is dependent on : python-base. But after installing python-base from slink, the message : remains. Installing python-base from sta

Re: I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Debian users, > last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 > Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend > discovered that it is a winmodem. > What I have to do to

roasting cdr's for Apple Macs

1998-10-13 Thread Ferdinand Schinagl
Hi, is there a way to produce Apple Macintosh conformat CDR's under linux? I guess it is necessary to write hfs formated data onto disk therefore, but I'm not absolutely sure. Regards, Ferdinand.

X-font called 'fixed'

1998-10-13 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm setting up an X-server called 'vncserver' and it barfs everytime I run it. Here is the log: rfbInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5901 httpInitSockets: listening on TCP port 5801 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6

help !!! cannot log on to my machine

1998-10-13 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all , After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste. I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is sh: Error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol : history_get_string

Re: Creating HTML

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> >vi? > >(x)emacs > >Netscape Composer? > > joe is another. > > Unfortunately I'd like to see something on the caliber of Macromedia's > Dreamweaver but there is nothing which comes close in the Linux world. Never seen this. What does it do? I would have thought that something could be

Re: Fonts in X and other X problems

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Console programs I run in X, have two major problems: They > often appear monochrome (like Midnight Commander) > instead of colour and have weird characters appear when I > use shortcut keys like ALT-H. > Help.! What colour depth are you using? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Stewar

I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, last week I wrote to the list saying that I bought a Motorola V90 56.6 Kbps modem. I wrote telling that it doesn't working in my Linux box. My friend discovered that it is a winmodem. What I have to do to this piece of hardware work in my Linux Debian Hamm b

Ncpmount and ncpumount automatics in XWindow login

1998-10-13 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I setup some computers with Debian Hamm and installed ncpfs and ipx packages. I already mount user directories with .nwclient file and ncpmount at .bash_profile and umount at .bash_logout at console. But in XWindow I didn't figure how I can mount user direct

Help with /etc/adjtime?

1998-10-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to find information about /etc/adjtime. This is apparently what regulates the CMOS clock. The README for adjtimex says "clock(8) uses the file /etc/adjtime to record the drift rate and the time since the RTC was last set." But I don't have any man entry for clock(8). Can anyone shed a

proxy ARP debian install

1998-10-13 Thread Vincent Murphy
hi. I have got a PC at college with a ethernet connection to the internet, thru a firewall. I use apt-get and dselect with apt for all my debian package needs. what i would like to do is to set up this machine so i could bring in my own machine from at home, sit it on top of the current machine, c

Re: Problems sending mail

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having trouble with my mail and am looking for some help. > > I am running a hamm system, using smail for mail delivery. I have > attached copies of the smail config, transports, and routers file, > as well as a snippet from the smail logfile. > > My machine is st

Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)

1998-10-13 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It's a matter of threat assessment and the value of what you are > protecting. We can get paranoid and put gun towers on every corner of our > homes because someone might want to interrupt power and communications to > our personal linux server. Recently, I was reading

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