Re: Upgrade to 2.2.1 kernel, sound problems

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 10:32:04PM -0600, Mark Panzer wrote: > I upgraded to the 2.2.1 kernel (it should be somewhat stable being an > even release number) and my AWE 64 sound card now fails to work. I have > isapnp installed to configure the soundcard on bootup, that works fine > (prints out boar

Re: [Systalk] freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
> This is odd. freshmeat.net crashes my Netscape 4.5 (on Debian Hamm) and has > been doing so for at least a week. Anyone else have this experience? me too BUT only on 1 box my other box is fine (altough it's slower) netscape 4.5 on a PII233 with 256Mb of ram will crash displaying freshmeat som

freshmeat crashes Netscape

1999-03-13 Thread Pollywog
This is odd. freshmeat.net crashes my Netscape 4.5 (on Debian Hamm) and has been doing so for at least a week. Anyone else have this experience? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: which package provides ldd

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:01:39AM +0100, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar, 1999 à 10:46:59PM -0500, dyer wrote: > > Matt Garman wrote: > > > > > Which package has the ldd program in it? I could swear this utility > > > used to be on my computer, now it's not (I had that dselect removal

SMP with kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Max Kamenetsky
Has anyone here tried running an SMP system with kernel 2.2.3? If so, can you get it to use both processors? For some reason, I can get it to recognize two processors (this shows up in xproc), but top shows that at most 50% of the CPU is getting used, i.e. only one of the processors. At first I

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread Max Kamenetsky
On 13 Mar 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of > which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha > running sendmail). > > It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an > "unstable" and devel

"ether=" parameter doesn't work

1999-03-13 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == I am using 2.2.1 kernel and I have 3 Ethernet cards in my Linux box (all are Realtek 8029 PCI). The 3rd was added recently. I wanted to preserve my settings - I knew that adding the 3rd card would change my present eth0 and eth1 name-to-adapter assignments. So I added an "append" l

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. > > I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, > but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was > empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2

Re: HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE

1999-03-13 Thread servis
*- On 13 Mar, Robert Aisenberg wrote about "HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE" > Hi- > I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new > to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything > productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded

Re: Slink CDs.

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 10:56:27PM +0200, shaul wrote: > 1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd > method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required > inspite the inclusion of apt ? The problem is that even "Just" main is bigger than 1

Re: elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread John Goerzen
Max, I don't know if this is a problem with glibc2.1 or Exim -- neither of which I have the opportunity to test (my development platform is Alpha running sendmail). It is possible that your kernel version is causing trouble; being an "unstable" and development kernel could have its risks. Have

Re Installing X to Debian for a Newbie

1999-03-13 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I will mail an answer to you if I can find one. And if you find out could you mail how to me? -James

elm sending blank mails

1999-03-13 Thread Max Kamenetsky
I just upgraded my potato system to the latest version of libc and exim, and I'm not faced with the problem of elm sending blank e-mails. If I send a test message or reply to someone else's e-mail, the message comes out blank. The mail buffer gets written to a file in /tmp just like it's supposed

HELP INSTALLING X USING DPKG FOR A NEWBIE

1999-03-13 Thread Robert Aisenberg
Hi- I am trying to install X and have posted about 5 messages. I am new to Linux and Unix (I'm running WIN95) currently I have not done anything productive with it except get frustrated. I downloaded Debian 2.1 onto a 80386 with 250 MB of disk space for "/" and a 30 MB swap. I want to get X run

Re: auto sorting mail clients

1999-03-13 Thread John Leget
Hmmm, would this sort of set up work for netscape, then i can just set up a cron to fetch the mail and have it ready when i get home >;0). To read with netscape say. cheers Nicolas PROCHAZKA wrote: > Try procmail, it's very good stuff, and it's independant of your email > client , an example o

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread thomas lakofski
Probably a good idea long-term to subscribe to BUGTRAQ, or at least, debian-security-announce. usually you'll have some leeway between discovery of an exploit and potentially being attacked with it, but if you're wide open for weeks it's definitely asking for trouble. it's also worth shutting dow

Re: lilo

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: lilo Date: Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 06:51:33PM +1100 In reply to:Shao Zhang Quoting Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > I have got a 4.3GB harddisk, and due to that, lilo cannot see my > kernel which is stored outside 1024 cylinders. > The following is my configuratio

Re: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-13 Thread thomas lakofski
there's a debian package for it, `pppupd': pppupd - Keeps a ppp connection alive PPPupd, is a simple daemon which maintains a dialup PPP connection. PPPupd is able to: + Execute a redial script, should the connection drop. + Send out periodic pings to keep a connection up, which mi

ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
My local mom 'n pop ISP (brainiac) was sold to a large ISP (who shall for the moment remain anonymous) that - I *think* - engages in the practice of logging users out after a certain period of idle time. (I'm waiting for their "support" to get back to me on this question.) I know folks have devise

Re: kernel Image Size.

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest > kernel so far is 808,536 in size. My largest was over a Meg. Help ! All I > maked was to hear Window Maker! That's all Try installing the kernel-packag

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Don Erickson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > Then they typically use a "rootkit" to get root access and replace files, >just as you've seen. "ls" is usually the first one they hack. Thanks to all for the good advice, I'm using this as an excellent excuse to upgrade my creaky 486 and start over w

Re: Awk scripts & Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Awk scripts & Debian awk version Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:25:15PM -0600 In reply to:Stephen Pitts Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > I have some small scripts that keep a log file of

Slink CDs.

1999-03-13 Thread shaul
1) I saw some CD vendors who claim that they ship their CD with a multi-cd method. Isn't the multi-cd method part of the official CD ? Is it required inspite the inclusion of apt ? 2) Some CD vendors say that their CDs include contrib + non-US + parts of non-free. Others only mention non US. How

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3. I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile, but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's empty. I looked at the

newbie unable to install Slink

1999-03-13 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of cd and hard drive) (scsi0) found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 instructions do

Re: Awk scripts & Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
I believe you only need to install the gawk package (from the /interpreters section) to get what you want. You will have to repair any explicit references to awk (changing them to gawk), but that should be enough to make the scripts work. I got bit by mawk myself. Also, I believe that mawk/gawk us

new user unable to install Slink

1999-03-13 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them). During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of cd and hard drive) (scsi0) found at PCI 11/0 (scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 instructions do

Re: lilo.conf problems

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Nicholas W Kopan wrote: > > I am having problems configuring lilo to dual boot to debian and > win98. I have two hard drives: > Primary /dev/hda, one partition, /dev/hda1 = win98 boot FAT32 3.2Gb > Secondary /dev/hdb, two partitions, /dev/hdb1 = linux boot 4.0Gb > [snippage] > Here is lilo.con

Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-13 Thread Brian Almeida
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Debian can make sure all the packages for gnome/gtk/imlib work together, and working packages will be uploaded, not broken ones. In the meantime, you can ac

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:57:58PM +0800, ivan wrote: > > Check out sci.math & the sci.math FAQ (lost the url-sorry) - the faq has > extensive descriptions of several different algorithms for calculating pi. I don't know if it's there, but I like the Monte Carlo method the best. You draw a circl

Re: Floppy Drive Problem.

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Floppy Drive Problem. Date: Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:23:24AM -0500 In reply to:Person, Roderick Quoting Person, Roderick([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hey guys, > > The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy > drives. When I first installed debian, I

Re: Awk scripts & Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The > searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my > operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, > the scripts no longer work. >

Re: gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 07:16:32PM +, Holger Mense wrote: > Hello... > > I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this > list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in > projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x > (gc

gcc 2.8.x deb-package

1999-03-13 Thread Holger Mense
Hello... I am searching for a debian package of gcc 2.8.x . In an old mail of this list I found a statement, that such a package should be somewhere in projects/experimental... but I only find a deb package for gcc 2.9.x (gcc_2.91.63-1.1.deb) in the potato directory. Can someone help? CU, Holg

Awk scripts & Debian awk version

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
I have some small scripts that keep a log file of notes. The searchlog feature uses awk. Now that I have decided to move my operating from the Slackware box that the scripts work in to debian, the scripts no longer work. Doing some research I found that the boxes have different versions of

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: > > > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user > > account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Also, upgrade your kernel when you reinstall -

Re: ssh problem on potato

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "FK" == Ferenc Kiraly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FK> I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to FK> the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an FK> error message like this: FK> Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. Maybe you installed glibc2.1? Ch

can't locate module ppp0

1999-03-13 Thread Pollywog
Whenever I reboot my machine (Debian Hamm with kernel 2.0.36) I get this: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 Mar 13 18:20:10 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module ppp0 Mar 13 18:20:11 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 We are h

Re: size of swap

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:59:18PM -0800, mike shupp wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > > I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? > > Apparantly Linux can't use more than 128 M in a swap partition, even > if it happens to be larger, so... You ca

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-13 Thread sjb
> I once saw a page plenty of TrueType fonts for (free?) download, don't > remember the pointer, but may be worth to do a search. fonts.themes.org is nice :) -- Sarel Botha

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:16:17PM -0700, Marshall Savage wrote: > Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into > the correct separate email box. However it does nothing > for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would > considerably help. Both web based discussion man

Re: Too New

1999-03-13 Thread sjb
go to www.linux.org and click on documentation, go to the LDP pages and download (and read) the Getting Started guide -- Sarel Botha On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My > > computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescu

ssh problem on potato

1999-03-13 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an error message like this: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. What can be worng? feri.

Debian GNU/Linux -- Getting in Contact with Us

1999-03-13 Thread r . sabre
we have a Ultrasparc 10 station and i would buy debian linux for UltaSparc. Is it possible ? thank you for ask me. answer in french if possible please.

Mozilla Fault

1999-03-13 Thread Rob Pratt
Hello. I got Mozilla installed from Debian packages, but when I run it, it creates two small windows (in fvwm95) then closes and returns the message, "Segmentation fault." Can anyone help me troubleshoot this one? Rob Pratt

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user > account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Typically this is done by "script kiddies" who aren't particularly good computer users, but they take

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread William Schwartz
I know that everyone loves to hate Microsoft, and its Windows products. I know they are an easy target becuase they make a very successful product that has quite a few problems. They are a big corporation that "controls" the pc industry. and Linux is the "underdog"... All of this makes Windows VERY

Re: Netscape Install

1999-03-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: Netscape Install Date: Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 04:28:45PM -0800 In reply to:Rob Pratt Quoting Rob Pratt([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello. > > Excuse the newbie question, but I'm having a tough time getting the > "ns-install" script to run to install Netscape on a 486 machine

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.3 Date: Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 02:01:13AM -0600 In reply to:steven walsh Quoting steven walsh([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > [snip] > > > > If you have 2.2.1 and successfully add the 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 > > patches, the

Re: How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

1999-03-13 Thread John Hasler
Ole J. Tetlie writes: > Make a script that does what you want, and then takes down the links. That won't help when the link goes down for reasons other than having been poffed. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what y

Need advice for installing Oracle on Debian

1999-03-13 Thread Edmund Lian
I've been reading through the installation guide for Oracle 8.0.5, and I don't like what I see. It's such a memory hog that Oracle recommends tweaking the kernel parameters to allow the RDBMS to suck up vast amounts of memory. They also want four mount points at the root level, etc., etc. I need t

Re: Too New

1999-03-13 Thread shaleh
> > I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My > computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescue screen comes up. I press enter, > Then I go into configure keyboard. After that I partition my second hard > disk, ( first one has win98 on it)Make 1815mb for linux, 50 for swap, > and

Too New

1999-03-13 Thread Joe
I'm still trying to install Debian2.0. Here is what I'm doing. My computer boots to the CD-ROM, the rescue screen comes up. I press enter, Then I go into configure keyboard. After that I partition my second hard disk, ( first one has win98 on it)Make 1815mb for linux, 50 for swap, and should I make

[Slightly Off-Topic] Printing from Netscape - page address

1999-03-13 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Is there any way to get the Netscape Browser (in communicator 4.5) to include the address of the web page on the top corner of the printout. The same version of netscape but for M$ does this automatically, even when attached to a linux print server. Is there anything I can do to get this

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:20:04PM -0600, Faton Useni wrote: > When i updated slink from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.1 i got a kernel source package > from the debian ftp site. It was a debian package. I read that there where no > patches applied to the kernel source for use with debian. I am wondering si

Re: Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?

1999-03-13 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > the hierarchy is: > > dpkg > apt > dselect > > currently. dselect may disappear. Please, don't! :-) I know this is a ugly beast, but I learned to love it, and it will take some time for me to get used to any other. I not in the way of

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 12-Mar-99 Richard Lyon wrote: > > No free unix program is going to provide the sort of on-line help, user > interface or range of analysis methods that comes with statistica. Unix > applications like octave are not going to provide any better > statistical analysis than a spreadsheet. You may

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user > account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. > I've not been using encrypted passwords, I understand that there are ways > to derive the "salt" that the passwd

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Colin Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why not just install the debianized version? I don't know about stable, > but it is in unstable. Cheers. Sure, by all means. When I originally set linbot up over here it wasn't available in a debianised form. So, in addition to the tarball, you can

Re: true type fonts

1999-03-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay. I've got xfstt, I've got my .ttf fonts from the Windows dir. Now > what? Do I just move them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and I'm done? No, you better make a soft link if you have access to your dos partition from linux. Here it l

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread Colin Telmer
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, oneiros wrote: > Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents > > and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? > > Linbot at http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread oneiros
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents > and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Linbot at http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/ works very well... --

I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Don Erickson
Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. I've not been using encrypted passwords, I understand that there are ways to derive the "salt" that the passwd file uses? Anyway, this person hid a

lilo.conf problems

1999-03-13 Thread Nicholas W Kopan
I am having problems configuring lilo to dual boot to debian and win98. I have two hard drives: Primary /dev/hda, one partition, /dev/hda1 = win98 boot FAT32 3.2Gb Secondary /dev/hdb, two partitions, /dev/hdb1 = linux boot 4.0Gb Am I having problems because I didn't make root fit in the first 102

Re: fstab question

1999-03-13 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, When I use the 'auto' filesystem type in fstab, my vfat floppies are detected as umsdos and I lose the long filenames. Is there a way around this? Andy Holmes West Sussex, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!", Edmund Bla

Re: Where to now?

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "w" == wlovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: w> I installed Debian, and it dropped me into deselect. Deselect what? w> Is the question? Are the packages additional software that needs to w> be down loaded or is it talking about software included within the w> distribution. These are the packag

Re: junkbuster acting up

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JL" == John Leget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JL> I now also get the following error when trying to fire it up again JL> manually "etc/init.d/junkbuster start" which give me this JL> "# shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot JL> access parent directories: Permission deni

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JH" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> Seth M. Landsman writes; >> Very few people I've spoken to prefer black on white over white on black. JH> I do. I have lousy vision and I find that black on white lets me JH> cram more stuff on the screen and still read it. I also do. In

Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
> The staging area is not a secret, it is publically available, too, for > developers and testers. Check the dtk-gnome mailling list archiv if you are > interested (or devel-announce). > And by testing this you make a significant worthwhile contribution to the Debian project. Whoops ... gnome 1

Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
> > Couldn't .debs that aren't 100% at least go into potato? That's what > unstable is for isn't it ? Why is there this pent up frustration for always having the absolute latest versions of software? I would have thought it may be a good idea to wait a few weeks to see if others report that the

Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
> I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, > and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. > For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing > my data, I use SigmaPlot for windows. A call to all scientists out there > - are there any nati

Re: I can't beleive this

1999-03-13 Thread Richard Lyon
> I have no respect for those people. Yes, a computer is a tool. But > lets drop in a few other examples. > Well linux is a tool for me. I don't care a monkey about the internal workings of the kernel. Its only important to me that it works. Yes I have had to compile a kernel image to get

putting a WWW site and CGI-BIN on a CDROM?!

1999-03-13 Thread Chris Evans
Apologies for cross-posting to debian-user and debian-ISP but I think you're the people I need. I run a site under Apache-SSL very happily under Debian but someone wants me to run a new site for him which would have about 450 articles (journal articles), about 4m words. He and I would want to

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread mike shupp
>From the Linux Hardware Compatability HOWTO v98.4, 10 November 1988 ( Patrick Reijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ...When you add more than 64 Mb of memory you have to add the follwing line to your LILO configuration file: append="mem=M" So when you hav

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread mike shupp
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > mike shupp wrote: > > Amber on black used to be recommended in Olden Times. > > But I'm surprised you find white on black better than black on white. > > The white letters stand out true, but black on white is closer to > > normal reading, and ought to seem

Re: apt

1999-03-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
Craig T. Hancock wrote: > Is there way to see what pacakges that happen to be upgraded $ apt-get -s dist-upgrade HTH, -Remco

junkbuster acting up

1999-03-13 Thread John Leget
Greetings all Running 2.2.3 and potato I have suddenly started having problems with junkbuster, it runs from inet.d or seems to accept it doesnt work, i restored config files from a recent backup in case i had made i change in one of its config files causing the problem but no go. I now also ge

Re: Book on Xwindow

1999-03-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
>-Shawn Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and > they > seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for Motif. I have > no idea which one I should get so if anyone can recommend a book I would > appreciate i

Re: How to run a script when disconnecting a dialup connection

1999-03-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
>-"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I know that ip-up and ip-down are run by pppd when the link is brought up > or down respectively. However, ip-down is run AFTER the link is brought > down. What I'd like to do is run a script or two BEFORE the link actually > goes down. Make a script tha

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread steven walsh
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: [snip] > > If you have 2.2.1 and successfully add the 2.2.2 and 2.2.3 > patches, then the end product *is* 2.2.3. Just tar it up yourself > and name it as 2.2.3 tgz. > > Details, details. >:) "See you on the flip side" - Steve Walsh (EfN

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: > Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap > space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM. > > Thanks in advance everyone! Hi, If you're still running kernel 2.0.x then you need to add this to lilo.c

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-03-13 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 11-Mar-1999, Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm currently offering CDs 1,2 and 5 (all the binary CDs -- source will > > come along soon). Given the prices most people in Australia are forced > > to pay for net access it will almost certainly be a lot cheaper to buy > > the CDs t

Re: auto sorting mail clients

1999-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:02:11PM +0100, Nicolas PROCHAZKA wrote: > Try procmail, it's very good stuff, and it's independant of your email > client , an example of procmailrc : Or exim's .forward, if you're running it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Re: Problems with .tar file

1999-03-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:16:49PM -0330, Greg Starkes wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think it should be qt-1_42.tar (or qt-1.42.tar), not qt-1_42_tar.tar. Try > > renaming it ^^ ^ ^ > > > > If this doesn't work, may

debian-user-list archive in tar.gz format???

1999-03-13 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hi, Apart from the searchable archives in the web,has anyone made a tar.gz archive of this list? I think somebody with time and resources should seriously consider doing this,since this list is an invaluable resource. ramOO ---

Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-13 Thread Ryan Yeske
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 12:01:10AM -0500, Jim Bray wrote: > Grub, the Grand Unified Boot Loader, actually understands ext2 (altho' > when I tried it it didn't do symlinks, and I like to have vmlinuz be a > symlink). So if you are using Grub, these problems don't arise. Grub > should eventually r

Re: C Program confused me

1999-03-13 Thread ivan
Check out sci.math & the sci.math FAQ (lost the url-sorry) - the faq has extensive descriptions of several different algorithms for calculating pi. At 06:47 PM 3/12/99 +0800, Bal K. Paudyal wrote: >Hello Friends, > >I encountered following program in one of the Linux Howtos. This calculates >the

Re: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
You need to ask your ISP to put you in their DNS. When someone tries to contact a host.domain.name, their computer sends a request to their ISP's DNS server. That if that DNS knows the IP that goes with that name then it sends the IP back to the person/program that requested it. If not, it refe

Using current progs: unstable debs v tarballs

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Everyone: I will be receiving my slink CDs in the next week or so. I've noticed a few posts about the more adventurous moving to potato. I want to run the latest version of windowmaker, and there is a package in potato. I'm a little nervous about mixing portions of potato in with slink because

Re: web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread Lucas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents > and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? > > TIA, > > Chris > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null check here: http://www.deb

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-13 Thread Marshall Savage
Filtering gets the email messages from the listserver into the correct separate email box. However it does nothing for the overwhelming volumn problem which threading would considerably help. Both web based discussion managers & news reader programs handle treading well. For a group of this

web link checker

1999-03-13 Thread wax_man
I'm in need of a program that can parse a bunch of linked web documents and look for any broken links. Does anyone know if such a thing exists? TIA, Chris

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread ktb
You can add, append="mem=128m" To your lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. If I remember right you can upgrade to the 2.2.x kernel and the memory will be recognized also. Hope that helps, Kent Jesse Lee wrote: > Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my > swap space fin

Re: Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
> Jesse Lee wrote: > > Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my > swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs > RAM. you need to put the line: append="mem=128M" in your lilo.conf and rerun lilo -- Debian_GN

Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?

1999-03-13 Thread Jim Bray
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: > > Folks: > > I installed Slink on my system but had not installed LILO > to make it bootable directly from the HD. Someone swiped the > boot disk. > > Question: Is it possible, given the contents of the /etc/fstab > file and a knowledge of where

Re: Magicfilter and Stylus Color 640

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 01:59:15PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > I purchase a new printer (above model) and I'm having some > troubles to get correct settings for it. > I tried to use the magicfilter options (stcolor 360 and 720dpi) > but the 720dpi always fails to print.

Re: Kernel 2.2.3

1999-03-13 Thread Marshall Savage
Yes, there are Linux 2.2x kernels in .deb format at http://netgod.net/ Follow their 2.2.3 button in the upper left hand corner of their home page. Version 2.2.3 is the one you, now, immediately get to but the older 2.2.x versions are in the archives. At 3/10/99 08:20 PM , you wrote: When i

Re: ergonomics question ($TERM colors)

1999-03-13 Thread John Hasler
Seth M. Landsman writes; > Very few people I've spoken to prefer black on white over white on black. I do. I have lousy vision and I find that black on white lets me cram more stuff on the screen and still read it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTEC

Memory Help

1999-03-13 Thread Jesse Lee
Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM.   Thanks in advance everyone!   Jesse (aka Dade)

hdparm

1999-03-13 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Evening all. I've been trying to get hdparm to work, but it seems ( I can not verify) unsuccessfully. I got Scorpio:/home/ryn# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=WDC AC11000H, FwRev=12.07H12, SerialNo=WD-WT364 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=

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