Re: Linux vs FreeBSD

Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > Hi ppl, > It seems that this is very general question, but can someone give > some pros and contra about applying these OSs as either gateway, router, > cash-server etc. Many system administrators here are using FreeBSD, and I > need to analise other options because I am

setting up DNS

Hello, I'm going to be registering a domain soon, and I'm having some problems...after having gone to www.internic.net, and filling out the forms there, I got some error messges back: ERROR: Name Server /<209.241.149.168> is not registered with InterNIC. You cannot register this host thro

Re: cfs???

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 04:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want > to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd > like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the > sy

[Q] not find CGI decoding program ?

Hi. I made a cgi script by shell script as my book said. but I can not do my script. I can not find cgiparse program( cgi decording program ). I'm using debian 2.1+apache. Which package do I install for getting decoding ? What name is the decording ? where is location path ? Thanks

Printing from Netscape

I'm having problems printing from Netscape. When I try to print, all I get is either a blank page or a page that has the following printed on it: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: F0

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:29:58PM -0400, dyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a LyX 1.0 for slink? If so, can I download it from > > somewhere? > > > > It didn't make it in slink, but it's in potato. > > happy lyx-ing. > I don't want to run the unstable tree at

Re: Hello, and X & DHCP setup questions...

Hi,   I am trying to set up the dhcpd.conf to talk through my cable modem to the Road Runner service.  I was advised to try the dhcpd-beta.  I just can't figure out how to set up the dhcpd.conf file.  I'm not yet sure whether or not the Linux kernel is recognizing my Ethernet card yet.  It i

Where to enable MTRR's?

I am using potato, a 2.2 kernel on a dual PII box. I would like to enable the memory type range registers to be write-combining for my video card and 3DFX card. To do this, I need to run something like: echo "base=0xf200 size=0x80 type=write-combining" >> /proc/mtrr echo "base=0xf400

Re: Newbie networking

>> "dj" == damaged justice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dj> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: >> ifconfig eth0 reports the right values? dj> Correct. It does take many seconds to report back after hitting dj> ENTER, which goes against my experience. Indeed. Very strange. Maybe some

Re: What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?

The README.gz file in /usr/doc/gs has a 1996 copyright, so that sounds about right. To get around dselect not handling versioned provides with magicfilter/gs-aladdin, I downgraded from gs-aladdin to gs. The hpdj driver in gs gives errors (however dj500 seems to work fine). I don't know if this i

Re: MUTT and save-hooks

Thus spake R . Gregory ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been trying to invoke save-hooks to copy mails recieved from various > folks into > their own mboxes. So, for example, I've including things like the following > in .muttrc: > > save-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] +burns try: save-hook [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: adding a module to a kernel

On 11-Apr-99 Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > >> I think that if you use make menuconfig or make xconfig, it 'remembers' >> what you had the last time you ran it. Thus you only have to set the >> options that you want to change. >> HTH >> Rich > But m

Re: best way to start gnome

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been trying to find out how to start the gnome session without > getting all kinds of > error when I exit X window. When I read the gnome help file it says to put > exec gnome-session in > .xinitrc.xsession or .Xclients but I don't have those f

Re: adding a module to a kernel

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: > I think that if you use make menuconfig or make xconfig, it 'remembers' > what you had the last time you ran it. Thus you only have to set the > options that you want to change. > HTH > Rich But menuconfig (and xconfig) at the end suggests to do 'make

Re: Help for error: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument."

James Mastros wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > > I've been trying to compile kernel 2.2.1 for several machines in our small > > network. Now, some computers bring the message above during bootup at > > the command: > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > (in

Re: alarms: disk full

George, > mon Thanks for the input. I'll take a look at the program. -- p.

MUTT and save-hooks

Hi folks-- I've been trying to invoke save-hooks to copy mails recieved from various folks into their own mboxes. So, for example, I've including things like the following in .muttrc: save-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] +burns My understanding is that MUTT would copy any mail meeting the above to 'bur

Re: HP Web JetAdmin

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > If anyone gets this going I would like to hear about it, also if > they can actually print successfuly using linux to a HP printer > with a direct ethernet connection. What kind of problems you have with printing ? I'm not sure about lpr, but lprng w

Re: >8GB drive partitioning

Yes, I have used Ranish PM a lot, and even the beta version (2.38) is very stable and reliable - even if it is still unfinished. I don't use it as a boot manager, just as a partitioning tool. You can use it to downsize a FAT(16 or 32) partition, provided that partition has been defragged so that t

urlview always uses Lynx

Hello, This problem occurs when, while reading mail with mutt, I use Ctrl-b to browse the links in the message. urlview always opens an xterm running lynx, even when I have netscape running in X. Is this the correct behavior? Can I make it use netscape if I am in X and Lynx when I am not? --

Creating Headers for Netscape Printouts

Hi all- Does anyone know of any utilities that will allow one to place a header/footer containing page information on printouts from Netscape? I'd like to be able to place URL, date, and page information so I can keep track of my printouts. At first I thought that maybe stringing a bunch of comm

Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a LyX 1.0 for slink? If so, can I download it from > somewhere? > It didn't make it in slink, but it's in potato. happy lyx-ing. > > -- >Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ACORN techie > AOL/IM Jim

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Jiri Baum wrote: > If you have messages that MUST not get into hostile hands, I suggest > reading a good cryptography text (sorry, I'm not keeping up with it these > days; is `Applied Cryptography' by Bruce Sterling... ITYM Bruce Schneier. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECT

LyX 1.0 for slink?

Hello, Is there a LyX 1.0 for slink? If so, can I download it from somewhere? -- Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACORN techie AOL/IM Jim Foltz

icmplogd

Hi all, Is there any way to tell icmplogd to not write a log entry for a ping from a group of ip addresses? My log files are getting huge but I don't want to stop pings completely. Thanks, Chris * Chris Brown

Re: serious ppp problems

>> "RaAA" == Robert and Amy Anuszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RaAA> However, when I tried to dial up my ISP, the troubles began. RaAA> pon dials correctly, and a connection is usually made. ifconfig RaAA> says that all is well and I have been assigned an IP address. Is the output of /sbin/

Re: Hello, and X & DHCP setup questions...

Hi Jim, Try running XF86Setup. It gives you a nice graphical install screen. Also, in /usr/doc/xserver-common, there are various readme's that will help you. They are gziped, so use gunzip Monitors.gz to un-gunzip it. As far as dhcp goes, it you want to use it for you ethernet card, i believe

Re: vi GUI for X ?

homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: homega> ~$ vim homega> :help homega> Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found homega> homega> in fact there's not vim/ (nor vi/, nor nvi/) dir within homega> /usr/share, and I haven't been able to find that help.txt so homega> far. Likewise, vim

>8GB drive partitioning

Hi. I have been trying to install debian onto a new computer, and I am having problems with reparitioning the 12 Gig hard drive. I don't want to lose the information on the existing win98 installation. I have read the documentation etc with fips, and the current version (2.0) to the best of my kno

gpm and the -S switch

Has anyone been able to get gpm to work with ``Special command processing'' a la the -S switch? According to the manpage, it should work by having the line ``append="-S \"command1:command2:command3\""'' in /etc/gpm.conf. But somehow the start-stop-daemon used by /etc/init.d/gpm befuddles the stri

Re: Netscape bookmark management

At 2:17pm on Sun, 11 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JO> I run Netscape both at work and at home. From time to time I add some sites JO> to the bookmarks list at home and others to the list at work. How can I JO> transfer the added sites, and only the added sites, from one list to the JO> othe

Re: cfs???

Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the system. -- Andy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The path of my life is stre

dselect error

Hello All I have a problem with deslect all of a sudden I can't select Access, update nor install I get the following error.. dselect: unable to access method script '/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/http/setup': no such file or directory I dont have dpkg http installed so I can't figure this out... any

Re: Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

Subject: Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:14:13AM -0500 In reply to:Chris Hoover Quoting Chris Hoover([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > First off, let me say thanks to those of you who replied to my other posting > about my mail system bein

Re: Windows NT && Samba

Subject: Windows NT && Samba Date: Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:35:58AM -0500 In reply to:Chris Hoover Quoting Chris Hoover([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was wondering if it was possible to use samba and have my linux box be able > to read/write on my NT box. I would like to do this since

Re: ati vedio card

The ATI cards are not supported by any of the 3d APIs under linux. X will work using the Mach64 server, but you will only get 2d accel.

Re: PPP/Modem prob

Could you please reply to this and include your ppp script (/etc/ppp/peers/

gnome capplet

Ok, I'm just a clueless newbie i guess but i have to ask.. I'm using potato, Window Maker version 0.52 and Gnome v0.99.3.2. My problem is that when i run the gnome configuration tool ie Control Center, my only Capplets there are Multimedia, Appearances, Workspace and Input Devices. Where is my De

Re: vi GUI for X ?

David Z. Maze dixit: ~> homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ~> homega> Fine, I downloaded vim and kept nvi as well (for now, just ~> homega> while I'm learning). but I suppossed there should be a ~> homega> configuration file, either general for all vi programs, or for ~> homega> nvi or vim in par

Re: Emacs

Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems Sean> that a zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of Sean> the features I've heard about. I went and took a very cursory Sean> glance at the FAQ, and some of the online manual, and

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

Phillip Deackes writes: > Thanks, John. Unfortunately when I enter 'route window 8000 ppp0' as > root, I just get the following: As Mirek pointed out, I should have specified a target, not an interface. The command should read 'route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx window 8000' where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is

Re: cfs???

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, caffeine wrote: > If you want a working CFS, I recommend compiling your own copy or hassling > the maintainer. I don't think bugging the maintainer would help since it appears that cfs is not maintained upstream. It's also hard to find maintainers for crypto packages. The a

Emacs

I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems that a zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of the features I've heard about. I went and took a very cursory glance at the FAQ, and some of the online manual, and then went to apt-get install. This thing is HUGE. I'd he

Linux vs FreeBSD

Hi ppl, It seems that this is very general question, but can someone give some pros and contra about applying these OSs as either gateway, router, cash-server etc. Many system administrators here are using FreeBSD, and I need to analise other options because I am debian addicted person :) Is any

best way to start gnome

Hi, I've been trying to find out how to start the gnome session without getting all kinds of error when I exit X window. When I read the gnome help file it says to put exec gnome-session in .xinitrc.xsession or .Xclients but I don't have those files in my directory. I am guessing th

Re: Multiple gnome-panels are started by gnome-session and other problems

I have the same 'feature' running slink with the slink-staging-area gnome debs (these few do work quite nicely actually). In order to avoid the problem, I always log out of the gnome pannel before exiting from the window manager. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way around this though

Netscape bookmark management

I run Netscape both at work and at home. From time to time I add some sites to the bookmarks list at home and others to the list at work. How can I transfer the added sites, and only the added sites, from one list to the other? I have tried the Import command, but that merely adds all the bookm

Re: linuxconf

Last I heard about linuxconf was that it had a negative affect, as it does not follow the debian file structure properly. I guess that if the debs are in experimental then you should not install them on a machine that you arent prepared to trash. John. Oliver Thuns wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anyon

Re: HP Web JetAdmin

I got HP Web JetAdmin to work okay on my Hamm distribution, after making a few sym-links to make up for the differences in filespace layout. However, I tried it again with slink and it refuses connection. I wonder if there are some access permissions that changed default from the two distros'. E

iBCS Anyone?

I've got Debian 2.1 running on a dual PPro with 256 Megabytes of RAM, Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 4 GB Cuda drive. All's fine except that I really need to run a legacy application which requires iBCS. Since the newest iBCS.deb package was compiled for 2.0.35, I installed and compiled the sources for

POP spool: permission denied (13)

Hi people! Anyone got a tip for me? I'd like to use Debian as a POP server in the LAN, but so far it doesn't want to play along. Here's the syslog: Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin tcplogd: pop-3 connection attempt from miregal [192.168.0.1] Apr 10 17:29:42 pumpkin in.qpopper[17472]: connect from mirega

Re: apache: browsing only what you want

instead of FollowSymLinks use: Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch so no one can link to / unless they are root (assuming / is owned by root ;-) note that this doesn't answer your question, but I think it's the solution... On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > I've found that if an

ati vedio card

I have recently purchased IBM aptiva E Series 2158-270 and it has a ATI (PCI MACH64 GT) card however it is giving me the unknown ati device and will not allow me to use 3d games . if there is any drivers or other known problems please send me the fix

Re: cfs???

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:45:50AM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to install cfs1.3.3-1 from the deb package and the install > goes fine. I can mount it and I get a line in mount that says:- > > 'localhost:/null on /crypt type nfs (rw,port=3049,intr,addr=127.0.0.1)' > > H

Re: vi GUI for X ?

homega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: homega> Fine, I downloaded vim and kept nvi as well (for now, just homega> while I'm learning). but I suppossed there should be a homega> configuration file, either general for all vi programs, or for homega> nvi or vim in particular ... the problem is I haven't

Re: missing libraries on svgalibg1 install

Further to my questions, I have checked /usr/lib (stupid not to have done so earlier !) and the libraries do in fact exist. Why then does ldconfig generate an error and does this mean that the installation is broken even though dselect didn't return an error ? Sorry for my silly mistake. Ivan.

apache proxy configuration on slink

Hello Debian land, Does anyone know where I should put the configuration directives, in order to switch on proxy caching. I am following the guidelines in the O'Riely book on apache, and it says to place the directives in a file called .../site.proxy This file I created as /etc/apache/site.proxy

Re: Newbie networking

(LOAF recognizes NIC and networks, Debian recognizes NIC but doesn't despite identical configuration) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bialasinski) writes: >ifconfig eth0 reports the right values? Correct. It does take many seconds to report back after hitting ENTER, which goes against my experience.

Re: fdformat missing

Hello, Nathan E Norman: > The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it > wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring > data. But if you're just going to put one tar.gz file on it, do you need a filesystem at all? Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?

Hello, Gary Singleton: > I have to ask what the advantage of gs-aladdin is (if any)? gs-aladdin is the newest version gs lags behind some fixed number of years (maybe three but I don't remember) I use gs-aladdin because it has/had some driver that I needed. Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: top like drive usage utility?

Hello, > > Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. They > > would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for 10 > > minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is > > accessing the disks? There's "fuser -mv /", but that just tells you whi

Re: where is my kernel source?

Hello, ktb: > > My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained > > 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/' Marlon Urias wrote: > My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird > thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd. > t

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

Hello, John Galt: > What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not > get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no > access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then? > This method should be as easy and as transportable as PO

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

Hello, John Galt: > > Most crypto is based on a similar setup to email, Umm, no, cryptography is the art of writing messages that can only be decoded by the intended recipient. Very little to do with e-mail. If you have messages that MUST not get into hostile hands, I suggest reading a good cryp

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

Hello, Pollywog: > I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim > filters and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited > to 8.3 type names. I believe there are some ways around this umsdos - unix filesystem on top of MS DOS - that way you'll be able t

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

Hello, Michael Stutz: > This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; > chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root (should I have done that?) but doing "mount > /dev/fd0 /floppy" as a user still gets "mount: only root can do that": Only root is allowed to mount/umount things by defa

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

Hello, James Mastros: > I always run as root. Avoids permission problems.) Hmm, most permission problems are there to tell you you're doing something dangerous. Always running as root deprives you of that warning. Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: root can't login

Hello, Bradley Bell: > I'm running potato, and just upgraded libc6. As can happen with unstable, > it broke stuff. bash for one. since root has bash set as its shell, I > can't log in as root. I can log in as a normal user, which has tcsh for > its login shell. > SO, does anybody know any way

alarms: disk full

Hi! Does anybody know of a prgram that monitorizes the use of hdd, and when one of the gets full it sends an email to a designed address? Is easy to do it in a shell script, but why do it if it's already done? Thanks a lot for your help! -- p.

apache: browsing only what you want

Hi! I've found that if an user makes a soft link from his public_html directory into /, then an external user can browse throughout all the directory hierachy. Can anybody tell me how to make apache server only the pages which are directly under the public_html directories and /us

missing libraries on svgalibg1 install

Hello, I'm having tremendous difficulties with a programme that I am writing and the root of the problem seems to be with svgalib for some reason. To try to establish whether this is true and to attemp to fix the break I decided to purge svgalib ( dpkg --purge --force-depends svgalibg1 ) and rein

Re: How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

All I can tell you is the message that showed up while installing Netscape. It said (in effect) that the external movemail program should be set to /usr/lib/netscape/movemail I haven't started playing around with mail configuration yet so haven't gotten around to this point in my own setup. (I

Re: vi GUI for X ?

David Z. Maze dixit: ~> shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ~> > Also, is the only way to avoid "broken words" at the end of a line? ~> SEP> ~> SEP> And yes, hitting enter is the only way. ~> ~> No it's not...in vim, I routinely do ~> ~> :set wm=4 (...) Fine, I downloaded vim and kept

Exim, Fetchmail, and Mangled Headers

Hi, I having problems with receiving email via exim and fetchmail. I have the feeling this is a true newbie question but I can't find a reference to the problem anywhere -- sorry if I am missing the obvious. The received email has mangled headers with a blank line part the way through (thus conf

Re: How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

I've been trying to do this since I first started using debian about 2 years ago. One thing that you can do is to use a ~/.forward file to get your MTA (smail or exim) to move the mail to a directory which NS can use for mail (eg ~/.netscape/Mail) and direct netscape's mail directory to there. Th

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: [...] > Thanks, John. Unfortunately when I enter 'route window 8000 ppp0' as > root, I just get the following: > > Usage: route [-nNvee] [-FC] [Address_families] List kernel routing > tables >route {-V|--version}

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

On 10 Apr 1999 19:55:33 -0500, you wrote: >Fact is that most know less than this ISP did. Which is exactly what I intended to say. I apologize if I did not make myself clear on the first try. We don't live in an ideal world, unfortunately. Greetings Marc --

RE: serious ppp problem

Hi, Amy. About your ppp0 interface problem: It seems that you don't have compiled-in the PPP support into your kernel (this support is required for ppp0 net device). Solution: Reconfigure and recompile kernel (in 2.2.x kernel module form is recommended because some parts of PPP are availa

cfs???

Hi, I've been trying to install cfs1.3.3-1 from the deb package and the install goes fine. I can mount it and I get a line in mount that says:- 'localhost:/null on /crypt type nfs (rw,port=3049,intr,addr=127.0.0.1)' However I can't create any cfs directories. When I try to use the cmkdir command

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He doesn't remember correctly. The command is 'route', not > 'ifconfig'. > Try 'route window 8000 ppp0'. Thanks, John. Unfortunately when I enter 'route window 8000 ppp0' as root, I just get the following: Usage: route [-nNvee] [-FC] [Address_familie

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

> > Apr 11 13:59:43 valis modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 > Alias this in /etc/conf.modules. For my SoundBlaster16, I have: You mean *manually*? Not done automagically by the package manager? Oh well, and I was getting so excited about how easy make-kpkg makes recompiling a kerne

Re: /dev/nst0 hosed

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:49:30AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > Somehow my /dev/nst0 device has become messed up. Could someone > please tell me what it should be? bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 Jul 20 1998 /dev/nst0 > Also, how do I use /dev/MAKEDEV to rec

Re: 2 Questions

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:30:05AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after > a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root > (it is only setup to run as me right now)? Debian's boot process is fairly well-described at: http

/dev/nst0 hosed

Somehow my /dev/nst0 device has become messed up. Could someone please tell me what it should be? Also, how do I use /dev/MAKEDEV to recreate it. Thanks, chris

Re: How to determine actual modem speed

On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 09:27:40AM +0200, Ookhoi wrote: > > > > Is there a way to measure the actual speed at which a modem is > > > connected? As modems negotiate the speed al the time, the CONNECT string > > > at the start of the connection is not up to date some time later. > > > > Depending o

2 Questions

I have two hopefully quick questions. 1. How can I get my machine to automatically start fetchmail after a reboot? Also, how do I have it ran by a user other than root (it is only setup to run as me right now)? 2. Is there a way to script the startup of a remote program? I want to have wmm

Re: Windows NT && Samba

You don't need Samba if you just want to use a Linux Workstation to write to an NT hard drive. You only need Samba if you want to allow Windows read/write access on Linux. To write from Linux to NT, install the smbfs package for kernel 2.0, or smbfsx for 2.2. Then, build your kernel with either in

Re: URL for gnome staging area?

deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:20:27 Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try > after years with AfterStep. > > TIA. > > -Ian > > ___

Windows NT && Samba

I was wondering if it was possible to use samba and have my linux box be able to read/write on my NT box. I would like to do this since my NT box has more hd space right now, and I'm in need of a place to store my mp3's. Thanks, chris

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

On 10 Apr 1999 08:02:58 -0500, you wrote: My modem is ActionTec ISA x2. You can download firmware upgrade from their web site to V.90 or something like that. Only $60 u if you can actually find one.

RE: Mail system all fouled up

On %M 0, Pollywog wrote > > On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > > > > > > > > exim is running from inet.d and is being ran as exim -bs. > If you're running exim from inetd, you should also have a crontab for mail that runs exim -q periodically; do you? > I have never run it from inetd, but wh

URL for gnome staging area?

What is the URL for the Gnome staging area? I am going to give it a try after years with AfterStep. TIA. -Ian __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92

Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

First off, let me say thanks to those of you who replied to my other posting about my mail system being hosed. I ended up having to reinstall since it looked more an more like the first install did not go well. After that I applied what you guys said and I now have a working email system. How

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

> Apr 11 13:59:43 valis modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Alias this in /etc/conf.modules. For my SoundBlaster16, I have: alias char-major-14 sb post-install sb /sbin/modprobe "-k" "adlib_card" options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM sy

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Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

Jason Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I JS> compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it. JS> Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly. (Actually, it sounds like kmod is in fact DTRTing.) JS> C

Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:03:31PM +1000, Jason Stokes wrote: > Certain modules hang around in the > kernel forever, even when they aren't being used, and are never flushed (eg > ppa, the Zip parallel port driver) Do an lsmod. Do the offending modules have a use count of 0, the "(autoclean)" fl

Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it. Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly. Certain modules hang around in the kernel forever, even when they aren't being used, and are never flushed

Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel

In order to get sound support for my SB Ensoniq AudioPCI 32, I compiled a custom 2.2.3 kernel with make-kpkg and installed it. Alas, the new module interface isn't functioning correctly. Certain unused modules are autoloaded on startup, and are never flushed, while others (soundcore, es1371) d

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