lost+found

1999-05-10 Thread gleydson
-- De: Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: lost+found Data: Domingo, 9 de Maio de 1999 11:08 'As 9:40 de 8 May 99, Gleydson enviou o texto que respondo abaixo. Nao tenho dicas de como encontrar os nomes

lost+found

1999-05-10 Thread gleydson
-- De: Adriano Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Assunto: Re: lost+found Data: Domingo, 9 de Maio de 1999 14:13 Bom, o que eu posso falar para vc é que pode ter ocorrido algum problema logo na parte de

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, Quoting Thiago Jung Bauermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:43:50AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: sou Paulo Henrique ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) do Linux Club (http://linux.cos.ufrj.br). Nos so usamos a Debian e adoramos ela.

Re: RES: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Leandro, Quoting Leandro Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Estavamos super a fim de fazer uma distribuicao em portugues da Debian (comercial sim, mas ganhando dinheiro (justo) em manuais impressos, CDs e traducao). Quem esta a fim de ajudar? Que tipo de ajuda? Nós

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi Leandro, Quoting Leandro Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): A Debian e' muito superior a RH. Ano podemos continuar assistindo essa palhaçada da Conectiva. Tá aqui a minha justificativa por topar fazer até gratuitamente. Não agüento mais escutar falar em Linux e escutar o

ENC: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-10 Thread Leandro Dutra
A Debian e' muito superior a RH. Ano podemos continuar assistindo essa palhaçada da Conectiva. Tá aqui a minha justificativa por topar fazer até gratuitamente. Não agüento mais escutar falar em Linux e escutar o nome RedHat!!!, muito menos Conectiva!!!

RES: ENC: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-10 Thread Leandro Dutra
Em primeiro lugar, isso não é culpa da Conectiva, é apenas uma conseqüência (espero temporária) da popularização do GNU/Linux. Em segundo lugar, falar mal da Conectiva não ajuda em nada. Terceiro, a gente deve um bocado pra eles, assim como eles pro projeto GNU, a SPI e

Re: Debian with 2.2.x kernel?

1999-05-10 Thread Robert Woodcock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know when a version of Debian will be released with the 2.2.x kernel? Potato, later this year. It doesn't yet have a version number attached to it. I need a Linux distribution with the 2.2 kernel to install on my system, since it uses a SCSI card only first

Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread André Bell
Is there an equivalent tool for Linux which resembles Norton Commander's dual window interface? I'd like to be able to see an entire subdirectory's files on my screen and be able to launch those I want simply by double clicking on them. Maybe one of the xserver programs does this(?) Also, have

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
It's called Midnight Commander. Type mc in an xterm (it should be installed by default). Actually, the package mc appears not to by installed on my system. And yet I am using Midnight commander. What's up with that? André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an equivalent tool for Linux

Re: wav mp3

1999-05-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
At 16:19 09.05.1999 -0400, you wrote: This was the original Message: MKbegin 644 Happy99.exe MKM35I0``([EMAIL PROTECTED]: MKM``$``+H0``X?M`G-(;@!3,TAD)!4:ES('!R;V=R MKM86T@;75S=[EMAIL PROTECTED](@5VEN,S(-B0W

Re: Getting ICQ to open and close when logging on to IP

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
put a kill or a terminate command in /etc/ppp/ip-down? On Sun, 9 May 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: I use icqnix ans can easily get it to start up when logging on to my IP. I do not know how to get it to close when I log off however. Can anyone help, please? -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL

Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread Jayson Baird
Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's with alien? Thanks... Jayson S. Baird Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter -- Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Russian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's with alien? Thanks... [prompt]# alien -i somepackage.rpm This will convert and install the RPM file. An easier way to get a quick tutorial on alien would by to type 'man alien' at the

Initiating ppp session on netmodem

1999-05-10 Thread John Hemingway
We have a debian box accessing a Shiva LanRover 2E/Plus over our internal TCP/IP network. We can telnet to the command shell of the netmodem and can initiate normal dial-out commands ok but are unable to initiate a ppp session either through the command shell of the modem (message given that a

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread Andrew Chung
Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's with alien? Thanks... alien -i some-prog.rpm to install alien some-prog.rpm to turn into deb for more info look at man alien -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Carl Mummert
Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W. In dselect the Scanning

Booting a sparc10

1999-05-10 Thread Wakko Warner
I have a sparc10 that I installed debian 2.1 sparc on. I can't get it to boot off the hard drive. It always complains about no disk label. The kernel on the cdrom is 2.2.1 The bootloader is silo. The disk is a 1.3gb with 2 partitions. First partition is almost the entire disk with type 83.

Re: Debian with 2.2.x kernel?

1999-05-10 Thread Jake Bishop
Robert Woodcock wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know when a version of Debian will be released with the 2.2.x kernel? Potato, later this year. It doesn't yet have a version number attached to it. I need a Linux distribution with the 2.2 kernel to install on my system, since

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Alec Smith
Another thing to think about might be NFSing what you need from another machine. Use the 386 as what amounts to (almost) a diskless client that gets all its files off another machine except /boot. On Sun, 9 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I

Re: WARNING: oops!

1999-05-10 Thread KaHa
KaHa wrote: Hey, Ken: get a virus scanner. Apologies, Ken. 'Twas Alexander that I meant. -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: 1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? remove the S90xdm file from your /etc/rc2.d (maybe all rcx.d, but 2 for sure, as it's the default runlevel) 2 - Is

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
He doesn't want it as a startup thing. There ain't no extreme about it, just a preference. Linux is not confined to X, so why artificially confine it? BTW why stop at 7 VTs when you can make up to 255 relatively easily (I have 9+syslog [X gets VT10] and would have more, but I don't like the

Re: WARNING: VIRUS ATTACHED TO MESSAGE FROM Alexander Gutfraind gutfrnd@tht.net

1999-05-10 Thread Greg Starkes
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Kenneth Sims wrote: Why did you (Alexander Gutfraind [EMAIL PROTECTED]) just send a virus (HAPPY99.EXE) to the debian-user list? He probably didn't realize that he sent it. Happy99 sends itself to everyone that the user sends a message to in the background. The user does

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-10 Thread Johnny Thompson
The only think I can think of is there's another program, more specifically a TSR that's running resident in the background causing modprobe to report with this error. Are you sure that you don't have lpd running in the background and that you have unloaded any other possibly conflicting modules

Re: WARNING: VIRUS ATTACHED TO MESSAGE FROM Alexander Gutfraind gutfrnd@tht.net

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
First, it's a trojan, not a virus--get your terminology straight: virii automagically execute and do their damage, trojans need intervention to execute (Melissa virus indeed...). Secondly, as a trojan, you have to execute it on a winbox, so there shouldn't be much problem on a Debian list.

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread John Hasler
George Bonser writes: Man, I think maybe the maintainers should be forced to install their stuff on a 386 just to get some perspective. CPU horsepower sure can cover up inefficient code. Or to put it another way, an system without any CPU horsepower sure exposes the inefficiencies. Hmm. A

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much On Sun, 9 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I installed KDE 1.1.1 on my Slink system and found I had to

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
Sounds like midnight commander: here's a link to the description http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/utils/mc.html I remeber a MC-based shell once upon a time, but haven't heard anything about it in years. For X, I don't know if anybody's make a tcl/tk interface for it, but it should run

'cardctl resume' twice kills slink

1999-05-10 Thread Dan Christensen
I have a Transmonde Vivante laptop with a PCMCIA modem running Debian 2.1. I recompiled kernel 2.0.36 to use apm, and recompiled the kernel modules as well. For the most part, my modem is fine. If I type 'cardctl suspend', all is well. However, if I then type % cardctl resume; cardctl resume

Re: hdparm

1999-05-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: Hi! try to put my hd in standby/sleep, but it dose not work so well. When I type hdparm -y/Y /dev/hda I can hear my hd spindown for 2-5 sec and then it goes back to normal mode! Does anyone know why it does not stay in standby/sleep mode ?

Slink w/Panasonic PCMCIA cdrom.

1999-05-10 Thread nate
i just got a free 5x86 100 8MB notebook..win95 was a dog so i wiped it o ut.. i got the base of slink installed and booted up. pcmcia services start..but i can't figure out how to get the cdrom working, or even what device it would be. win95 said it was a SCSI pcmcia card..linux says its a

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread budi wibowo
convert the rpm to deb with alien -d rpm_package it will create the_deb_file then dpkg -i the_deb_file budi wibowo informatics eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 9-5-99 at 19.32 Jayson Baird wrote: Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE

1999-05-10 Thread mguenthe
I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a local. For example: ?package(local.Eterm):\ needs=X11\ section=Personal\

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 04:50:30PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp on it. Now

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much The problem is that something would change the ownership back to

Re: Booting a sparc10

1999-05-10 Thread illusion
Sun, as far as I know, doesn't work their disklabels like x86 machines do. One thing I've found that you have to have is a type 5 partition (Whole disk) that encompasses the entire drive. Then create your partitions. You may be able to boot off a floppy, then add the partition through fdisk

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp on it. Now it is running Debian

virus matters

1999-05-10 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
I'm sorry. The virus attack that originated my windows box took me by surprise. It seems that every time I have better reasons to switch pernamently to the Debian Linux installed in my system. I would like to thank everybody who responded with the alert, and those who helped me with the wav -

linux download sight

1999-05-10 Thread Dirt0man
I am in Sacramento Calif and want to download Linux for my I B M computer need the right version please?

Need libgcc2.c ????

1999-05-10 Thread Seppo
Hi! I just uppgraded from Hamm to Slink and faced strange situation. I have one program only in binary, so I can't compile it myself. This program has been compiled with the following system: - 2.0 kernel - g77 0.5.19 - gcc 2.7.2.8 It worked with hamm, but crashes with

Re[2]: Getting ICQ to open and close when logging on to IP

1999-05-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put a kill or a terminate command in /etc/ppp/ip-down? Thanks, John. This is what I tried to do, but kill needs a pid. If I try 'kill icqnix' nothing happens apart from the system telling me that there is no such pid. How to I make it so that icqnix will

Re: Re[2]: Getting ICQ to open and close when logging on to IP

1999-05-10 Thread Corey Ralph
Try killall instead of kill. On Mon, 10 May 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: put a kill or a terminate command in /etc/ppp/ip-down? Thanks, John. This is what I tried to do, but kill needs a pid. If I try 'kill icqnix' nothing happens apart from the system

Can I compress my Linux partition ?

1999-05-10 Thread Vieri Di Paola
I would like to know if it's possible to compress a Linux partition with a drivespace-like utility. Thanks.

question

1999-05-10 Thread Vieri Di Paola
I would like to know if it's possible to compress a Linux partition with a drivespace-like utility ? Thanks.

Linux Kernel Version?

1999-05-10 Thread Dave Evanson
Hello, Just reading your FAQ's and cna't find out what Linux Kernel version that Slink uses...I have downloaded Slink, and I want to use Linux drivers for my Token Ring NIC, the only problem is that the manufacturer only lists compatibility by Linux version,not by any particular

understanding free's output

1999-05-10 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hi List ! when i invoke free, i get the following : archangel:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63268 12692 50576 22284944 5824 -/+ buffers/cache: 5924 57344 Swap: 130748 0

Re: Linux in a K6

1999-05-10 Thread Sarel Botha
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 01:08:59PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, a friend of mine is buying a K6 and want to know if the following especification run on Linux. Thank for any information,Paulo Henrique SiS 530 AGP Chipset -

Re: Quake2, x11amp, sound probs

1999-05-10 Thread John Leget
Same problem here I use ALSA sound drivers and just now tried compiled in OSS support same problem, i lose all sound after q3test. ( Have a AWE64 ISA ). Ran fuser /dev/*temp didnt show any sound devices in use but attempt to access /dev/dsp = device or resource busy. Anyone have a sledge hammer

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much The problem is that

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

1999-05-10 Thread Peter Makholm
William R Pentney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you don't want to mount the drive for the entire session, you could also just try the following: I shoul proof read my articles before sending them. My /etc/fstab have almost the following lines: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
Perhapss you have gmc installed? /nisse On 9 May 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: It's called Midnight Commander. Type mc in an xterm (it should be installed by default). Actually, the package mc appears not to by installed on my system. And yet I am using Midnight commander. What's up with

netscape weirdness and bus errors

1999-05-10 Thread Alan Bailward
I'm using /unstable, and a couple of upgrades ago some really, /really/ annoying netscape stuff started happening with 4.51. The first thing is when I have multiple netscape windows open, and close one, sometimes netscape will all go, and the entire thing has crashed with the following message:

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-10 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: Dselect ? Do people 'still' use that? Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it in a directory and install it with dpkg. I have tried apt, but could not

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-10 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it in a directory and install it with dpkg. I have tried apt, but could not get it to install a package from a directory

Now Star Office does not work after upgrading,

1999-05-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have checked the recent list messages about StarOffice not working after upgrading but they all seem different from mine. In my case it just says Abort and nothing. Any ideas? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Regarding Smail installation...

1999-05-10 Thread Anil Kumar J I
Please help me in installing Smail in my unix machine through UUCP. Please give me detailed instructions. Thanks in advance. - Anil [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:J I;Anil Kumar tel;pager:9612-316762 tel;fax:+91-40-3730652 tel;home:+91-8712-26887 tel;work:+91-40-3735430 x-mozilla-html:TRUE

Re: ftp via proxy?

1999-05-10 Thread Karola Risto
Thanks, It works fine now. When I am using http://ftp.debian.org/debian in apt. But ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian in apt is not working, nor ftp out to internet on the command line. Any ideas why http is working in apt, but ftp is not? Should ftp be configured more? Anyway, Philip, your answer

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

1999-05-10 Thread Peter Makholm
André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation We have all been there. I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man fstab' says: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config Yuck, I keep

Re: Apps For Debian? HTML Editor

1999-05-10 Thread Jean-Marc Bourdaret
A 18:49 08/05/99 -0700, vous avez écrit : As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix system) Here is my dilema after searching

Re: PS/2 router with MCA nic

1999-05-10 Thread jesus duran
i have recently obtained a ps/2 - 70 with an mca smc-tcp mc nic and initially could not get the kernel to properly recognize the nic but that was because i needed to apply a patch to one of the standard nic drivers...i just found the patch yesterday but have not tried to apply it but along the

defrag

1999-05-10 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I installed the defrag package and read the man pages. I'm not sure how to use this since my only filesystem is (usually) mounted, and anyway the defrag executable is on that filesystem! I suppose I can copy the executable to a floppy, go to single user mode and then unmount the filesystem and

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Jan Vroonhof
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In dselect the Scanning available packages .. part puts out about one dot every three seconds. Isn't this output from 'dpkg'?, it can build huge internal tables (or something like that at least it grew to a wopping 13MB RSS for me once.).

Re: hdparm

1999-05-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 May, Michael Beattie wrote about Re: hdparm On Sun, 9 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: Hi! try to put my hd in standby/sleep, but it dose not work so well. When I type hdparm -y/Y /dev/hda I can hear my hd spindown for 2-5 sec and then it goes back to normal mode! Does anyone

Re: counting traffic

1999-05-10 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:20:16PM -0700, Vaidas wrote: Try mrtg. As an example www.debian.org/mrtg Hello! Does somebody know the simple way to count traffic bytes in/out debian server? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Help with apt Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 05:16:55AM -0400 In reply to:Mitch Blevins Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and sometimes I download a package over

Re: Q: multi-cd method.

1999-05-10 Thread FAName
This issue is covered in http://www.debian.de/releases/slink/i386/ch-dselect-main.en.html Though I dont know if this manual is correct. It says to run access and update with the last binary cd and then to run the install-option for each cd seperately (here install told me to insert the first cd

Re: wav mp3

1999-05-10 Thread Paul L. McNeely
You moron, stop sending trojans over the mailing list that's not funny. For those of you that downloaded that program and got the nice fireworks display you also got the trojan implanted on yours system. What it does is extract certain files to the system directory and attaches a copy of itself

Re: wav mp3

1999-05-10 Thread Greg Starkes
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Paul L. McNeely wrote: You moron, stop sending trojans over the mailing list that's not funny. You seem to know how to get rid of it, but you obviously don't know how it works. He probably didn't even realize that he had happy99 on his machine, which which would have sent

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 05:50:07PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with update-menus, being unable to add menu

Re: Need libgcc2.c ????

1999-05-10 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
The file mentioned sounds like it is part of gcc, which means that the program is causing an error in gcc's internal library. it is uqite common to get a not found message from gdb (especially with e.g. string errors or malloc errors), but it generally points to a lack of checking on the part of

DNS for workstations using DHCP

1999-05-10 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, My workstations currently have static IP adresses, and I'm planning to change this to a DHCP protocol. I already have a DHCP daemon running on my unix box witch gives IP address in the range of 32..254 (CLASS C network). I use 1..32 for the current workstations (staticly assigned). On my

Backups Sharing

1999-05-10 Thread Allen B. Riddell
I've got a relatively small harddrive running Debian -- I could fit it all on a CD-R, and I'd like to, frankly. I LOVE debian and my system now. What's the recommended way of doing this. I fear that I'll backup crazy stuff if I just tar the entire root directory --- isn't there some wacky

Re: [OT] Low versus medium priced scanners

1999-05-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP 5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or simply the bundled software.

Re: defrag

1999-05-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I installed the defrag package and read the man pages. I'm not sure how to use this since my only filesystem is (usually) mounted, and anyway the defrag executable is on that filesystem! I suppose I can copy the executable to a floppy, go to single

Re: Linux in a K6

1999-05-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, a friend of mine is buying a K6 and want to know if the following especification run on Linux. Thank for any information,Paulo Henrique PIO Mode from 0 to 4 and Ultra DMA/33 at mode

Emacs and the ALT key.

1999-05-10 Thread Allen B. Riddell
Ok... I can't remember if this started when I installed 2.2, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. the ALT key (on my PC keyboard) doesn't seem to work in emacs.. It works in netscape -- and aside from that, I have absolutely no problems at all with anything... I remember using xmodmap

Re: dhcp

1999-05-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I assume when you say dhcpd you mean dhcpcd (the client package). If the name ends up in hostinfo-eth0 I believe this means that you're getting the option in the dhcp response. That is, I don't think that any info in hostinfo-eth0 is generated. I'm just guessing because I use the dhclient

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-10 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Quoting Mitch Blevins([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Not so much dselect, but dpkg yes. I have a dialup connection and sometimes I download a package over more than one dialup session, save it in a directory and install it with dpkg.

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Andrew Chung
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a local. For example:

Re: DNS for workstations using DHCP

1999-05-10 Thread shaleh
My questions is can I use bind to solve my problmen? Is it posible to assign IP addresses to workstations using a look up table. So CP6 will always get's 192.168.1.6 as his IP address? if machineA should always be 1.1.1.1 you add a line in the dhcp server's conf binding the machine's MAC

Re: X works, but no mouse?

1999-05-10 Thread deblists
On 8 May, Brent Metzler wrote: I noticed no one else replied to this, so I'll give it a stab. I had a similar problem with the mouse. The problem seemed to be caused by running gpm, the command-line mouse proggie, before X. This apparently causes conflicts that X cannot handle. when

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 Anthony Campbell wrote: When you get problems with .Xauthority files, you should delete them and then do xauth-b to rebuild them. I would need to do this at every login :( until I find out what is causing the problem. What I will do is put something in my .bash_profile to

I need help with X

1999-05-10 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it tell's me this : Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink since March without any problems and now in

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread Jens Ritter
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like midnight commander: here's a link to the description http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/utils/mc.html I remeber a MC-based shell once upon a time, but haven't heard anything about it in years. For X, I don't know if anybody's make a

Re: I need help with X

1999-05-10 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it tell's me this : Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp on it. Now it is running Debian

Re: Norton Commander for Linux?

1999-05-10 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Sun, 09 May, 1999 à 07:40:48PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: It's called Midnight Commander. Type mc in an xterm (it should be installed by default). Actually, the package mc appears not to by installed on my system. And yet I am using Midnight commander. What's up with that? You've

Re: X works, but no mouse?

1999-05-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:17:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually have gpm set up as a repeater and X using the repeater device, however, gpm can't start either. An strace of 'cat /dev/psaux' gives me the same errors about not being able to open the device, and /var/log/messages

Metro-X Slink

1999-05-10 Thread debian
I'm attempting to install Metro-X (metrox) on a fairly virgin Debian slink box. (I need touch screen multihead support). The initial set up has gone well -- i can start the X server -- but the remaining configuration is stalled. When i try to run configX ( root running startx in the default

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2 Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:02:25PM -0400 In reply to:Andrew Chung Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself

rsync problem

1999-05-10 Thread trapstep
Hi! I've got a problem with rsync. my wish: i want to get all binary-i386 packages of the potato distribution from ftp.de.debian.org. so i set up an includes file as follows: - **/ - **/* + dists/potato/ + dists/potato/* + dists/potato/*/ + dists/potato/*/* + dists/potato/*/binary-i386/ +

help! dselect / apt-get segmentation fault!

1999-05-10 Thread Yifang Dai
help! dselect / apt-get segmentation fault on me... Here is the output when I run dselect/install: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: nvi-m17n-common systune nvi-m17n 16 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove

Telnet Problems...

1999-05-10 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All: I've recently discovered a problem on my two Linux boxes in the house. If I am not connected to the internet, I cannot telnet between the two of them :( Can anyone help? Linuxbox (Computer 3) Tcp/IP: 192.168.0.115 Subnet 255.255.255.0 Gateway 192.168.0.10 DNS 206.66.158.201 (My ISP)

Re: Telnet Problems...

1999-05-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 May 1999 17:45:26 -0400, Brant Wells wrote: What happens, is I can telnet to the system(ie: telnet 192.168.0.115), and it will say 'Connected' but it will never show the login prompts. However,. if I am connected to the net, it works

Re: How to use intelligent signature generator with mutt?

1999-05-10 Thread Joey Hess
Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: I'd like to use the perl script to generate the signature for my mail messages, depending on the addressee. For example: when the address ends with .pl the signature is in Polish etc. Now I have the signature var set to ~/.generate_signature|. Is it possible to

Xglint starts, but no wm

1999-05-10 Thread james_k
Hi List My Slink version of Debian worked for a month now, but now the Windowmanager doesn't start anymore. The Xserver gets up but no Windowmanager appears. The cursor is moveable on the screen. The error message says something about _TransSocket () and so on but no error number like the 111

libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-10 Thread J Horacio MG
I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward as upgrading any other package? how about post installation problems? I mean, is

Broken select in dselect

1999-05-10 Thread Kent West
Hi All. This just started today, after doing a dselect/Update off of www.debian.org stable main, contrib, and non-free. Mow when I run dselect and go into the Select option, the program just with the message: dselect: failed to create baselist pad: Cannot allocate memory This is on a 32MB

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE

1999-05-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
m == mguenthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: m I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with m update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However m I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a m local. For example: m

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