Re: access rights on /dev/ttyS1

1999-05-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ingo Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > one of the cron scripts seems to change access rights > on /dev/ttyS1 once in a while to > > crw-r- 1 root dialout4, 65 May 25 19:40 /dev/ttyS1 > > (should have write access for dialout) > > Does someone know, which script does

procmail mailing lists sorting & pine

1999-05-25 Thread scratch
Hi, I use procmail to sort my mailing lists. eg. this is what my .procmailrc says about the debian-user list: :0: * ^TOdebian-user mail/debian-user This works fine, apart from two annoyances in Pine: 1) When i reply to a message, answering "y" to "reply to all?", there's always a 'recipient lis

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread Richard Miles
> > our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is > > this possible? > > > > Yes and exceptionally easy. Get the dhcpcd package (the beta for 2.2 kernels). I have a question cencerning dhcp. Been running debian for about a month or so. I am using a cable modem to ac

Re: Creative Labs DXR3 DVD decoder?

1999-05-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
scratch wrote: > > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > > > Does anybody know if this works under linux, or if the specs are > > available so I could write a driver? > > Creative labs? Considering the recent SB Live! driver soap, my first guess > about open documentation is a simple 'no'. >

Re: Creative Labs DXR3 DVD decoder?

1999-05-25 Thread scratch
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > Does anybody know if this works under linux, or if the specs are > available so I could write a driver? Creative labs? Considering the recent SB Live! driver soap, my first guess about open documentation is a simple 'no'. -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::-

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Brad
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > c) some other program you installed (from source or tar ball) has changed it. i accidentally did that once. Most tar filed i've come across create a single directory for all the files contained, but this one didn't. It did change the permissions on '.', h

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
Pollywog wrote: > >On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: >> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: >> >>> Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. >> >> I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have >> something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created,

Star Office installation

1999-05-25 Thread Ming Hsu
Finally decided to install Star Office, and didn't expect any trouble since I already have glibc 2 and others installed. But as it always is with me and Linux, something goes wrong. :) Anyway, I decompressed the tar file into /usr/src/so501/so501_inst/ like usual, and invoked the setup script. T

Re: redirecting ports from machine to machine

1999-05-25 Thread Carl Mummert
I think that the 'rinetd' package wil do this. Alternatively, you can write a daemon yourself to do it; something like the following, plugged into a normal inetd.conf, will do the trick. Note that nc is a seperate package, I think that the 'socket' program is similar but haven't used it. --cut #

Re: redirecting ports from machine to machine

1999-05-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Please ignore the previous message. I've already found the way with rinetd. -- p.

redirecting ports from machine to machine

1999-05-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What do I use in order to transparentely forward all packets that connect to machine a on port 1 to machine b on port 2? I have to make believe the client that the server is really machine 1. TIA! -- p.

Re: dselect woes

1999-05-25 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 25 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can it be! CAN IT BE!! > > Am I a complete idiot or is Deselect one of the most diabolical > programs ever? > > Donald MacDougall > USC School of Medicine > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AMEN! (for the reasons snipped and other similar issues) -- Ke

Creative Labs DXR3 DVD decoder?

1999-05-25 Thread Will Lowe
Does anybody know if this works under linux, or if the specs are available so I could write a driver? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: install help

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: > >-13gb HD > > > >this machine also boots to Windows 98, which resides on a 3 GB partition. > > > >I was told that debian would "see" the entire hd, but cfdisk only "saw" a > to > >tal of 8 GB. > >It depends on how your BIOS describes the di

security problems in innd

1999-05-25 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I've just installed innd and besides the tipical allowing of access for some hosts that I guess it must exists, are there any other security considerations I should follow? I've noticed that it runs as user 'news' which is an advantage. TIA! -- p.

RE: Just installed Exim - how to I get local/system mail?

1999-05-25 Thread David Karlin
Hi Phillip, I recently installed Exim as well. My /etc/exim.conf includes: local_domains = mybox.mylocalnet:localhost (replace mybox.mylocalnet with yourbox.yourlocalnet) Hope that was of some help, --David > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome themes

1999-05-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JM" == Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> They're definitely tar.gz. What is the directory that I should JM> unzip/untar them into? I'll do things manually if I have to. I have seen this before. Unfortunately, the layouof some themes tarballs seems to differ in some ponit that make

Re: Gnome-enlightment

1999-05-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BS" == Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> But that is not reachable by ftp and I need some way to get it BS> here automaticly. The system that I am useing at work for CD BS> burning is a headless system so I do not need this on it. What OS does it run? wget can download all files

Re: SAMBA documentation???

1999-05-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 May, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about "SAMBA documentation???" > I received responses some months ago about a detailed howto for > setting up samba. Can someone who knows point me do howto documentation > for samba apart from what exists on LDP. Thanks. I need help with SAMBA. Have you ins

Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-25 Thread Christensen
Laurent and Steve, Thanks for the info. I just re-installed Linux and found that the second disk wasn't needed for the dial-up profile that I selected. Of course if I had read the documentation more carefully I would have realized that you need to switch disks and then re-execute the "install" s

Re: Re: about Linux Books questions ?

1999-05-25 Thread Paul Schwebel
There's a great introductory HOWTO at: http://www.linux-howto.com/ptHOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO Not only is this howto a very nice introduction to Linux, but in the first chapter or two, he points you to a couple of free, downloadable user's guides, both of which I'd recommend for newbies (I'm o

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread Joel Keating
Ok, well i guess my problem is my server then. Does anyone here use a NetGear RT328 ISDN router? That is what i use for my dhcp server and it seems to be setting my hostname, and i wish i knew how to change it. On Tue, 25 May 1999, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 1999 09:11:37 -0500 (CDT),

Scanner compatibility?

1999-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there! I need to buy a scanner and the less expensive I have found is an AOC Spectrum F-600 one with 9600dpi. The seller said that it works as a parallel scanner through EPP interface. Do anyone know if ther is some driver for this scanner? TIA ___

Re: Just installed Exim - how to I get local/system mail?

1999-05-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
Thanks to those of you who replied so quickly. I have made sure that in /etc/aliases I have: postmaster: root root: gsmh #root: root at the top of the list. Then, in exim.conf, I have: # qualify_recipient = qualify_domain = gmx.net local_domains = scgf.gmx.net:localhost local_domains_include_

Gnome-enlightment

1999-05-25 Thread Brian Schramm
I am running Slink. I would like to get the latest gnome-enlightment packages on my home machine. I have a slow net work connection to this machine (28.8 modem) so I would like to have my work machine download the files and I can put them on a CD for my home machine to install. I do not have the

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 25-May-99 moron wrote: >> >> > >> Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is the sticky bit? Sounds >> disgusting >>:<) >> >> David > > chmod +t > > I don't recall the numeric equivalent but I believe someone gave it in a > previous post. I believe I wa

access rights on /dev/ttyS1

1999-05-25 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, one of the cron scripts seems to change access rights on /dev/ttyS1 once in a while to crw-r- 1 root dialout4, 65 May 25 19:40 /dev/ttyS1 (should have write access for dialout) Does someone know, which script does this? thank you in advance Ingo -- Ingo Hohmann, Otto-Spe

Re: missing ldd

1999-05-25 Thread Ingo Hohmann
in reply to both messages ... On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 01:46:36AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: <...> > > As ldd seems not to be installed, which package provides it? > > > > Try dpgg -S ldd I've tried it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ingo > dpkg -S ldd ldso: /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 moron wrote: > > > Pardon my ignorance, but what the hell is the sticky bit? Sounds disgusting >:<) > > David chmod +t I don't recall the numeric equivalent but I believe someone gave it in a previous post. -- Andrew

RE: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 scratch wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. > > I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have > something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I > way off here? The sticky bit

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread moron
>On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:32:36PM +0200, moron wrote: >> I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot >> use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing >> permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried >> creating a

Re: adding local TeX sty files

1999-05-25 Thread Paul Huygen
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I wanted to add my local teTeX sty files, where on the system is > the proper Debian place to put them? I presume you have standard TeTeX on your system. The file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf controls where TeX finds the files it needs. E.g. my texmf.cnf mentions TEX

Re: Diamond Viper 550

1999-05-25 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best Xserver for it? SVGA Which X version do you recommend? 3.3.3.1 Armin OK

Re: Re: about Linux Books questions ?

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 David B.Teague wrote: > > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Anderson wrote: >> >> about Debian Books questions ? >> >> Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book "Running Linux, 2/e" >>Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and >>detail information ? > > Running Linux just has com

sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread scratch
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > Do you have the sticky bit set? Try it. I've always wondered what the meaning of the sticky bit is. Does it have something to do with enforcing group ownership on files created, or am I way off here? Thanks, -- scratch --:: Nico Galoppo ::---

RE: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-May-99 moron wrote: > I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot > use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing > permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried > creating a /tmp directory in my home directory

Re: Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 09:32:36PM +0200, moron wrote: > I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot > use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing > permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried > creating a /tmp di

Re: Re: about Linux Books questions ?

1999-05-25 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Anderson wrote: > > about Debian Books questions ? > > Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book "Running Linux, 2/e" >Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and >detail information ? Running Linux just has commands. Useful to remind you about command syntax.

Permissions for /tmp

1999-05-25 Thread moron
I'm trying to find my way around Debian (hamm) and see that a user cannot use man, which is refused permission to create a /tmp file. Changing permissions with >chmod a+w /tmp< from root solves the problem. (I tried creating a /tmp directory in my home directory but it didn't work.) It makes me

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > This is not a good idea. Ash is Bourne-compatible, but not POSIX, which > bash is. That's why bash is used as sh. Install the bash source and look > in the tests/ directory. Run the file posix.tests with bash, and it > passes every test. Ash fails 8 of the tests. > Can you be specific and po

Just installed Exim - how to I get local/system mail?

1999-05-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
Yesterday I decided to replace Sendmail with Exim. I used apt-get to download and install it, and soon got it up and working. The *only* thing which appears not to work is the mail I used to get from, for example, cron when a cron job in /etc/crontab executed overnight. When I used sendmail, I used

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-25 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Wolfgang Fink wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > so please, can anybody help me to unsubscribe from this > mailing-list ? > I have tryed almost everything with my Netscape 4.5 - > Browser und Mailtool. Wolfgang --- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 25 May 1999 19:32:46 +0100 (BST), richard newton wrote: >Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? Yup. I do it using OS/2's Boot Manager, but it should be possible using LILO, too. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~

Re: DNS fails on Sun after moving NIS [fixed]

1999-05-25 Thread Max
It turns out that SunOS is almost entirely braindead and tries to rely on NIS for everything. The solution involves compiling resolv+ and substituting it in place of libresolve, as well as patching libc. The explanation is in ftp://ftp.ececs.uc.edu/pub/sun-faq/FAQs/DNS-wo-NIS.FAQ Max -- The h

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-25 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote: > > > I would really aprecciate if the debian base system uses in all important > > system scripts /bin/sh. It would be also safer to use for sh not a symbolic > > link to bash

Re: Unable to compile kernel 2.2.5 w/sound module

1999-05-25 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Hi all, > > I try to compile a 2.2.5 kernel (was up to 2.2.7 :-(( ) to make my SG live! > work Hi again, I found the PB: Souns card must not be in module, only the driver! (But why is it possible to compile sound card in module so??) -- Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL P

Re: C function manpages

1999-05-25 Thread John Hasler
Alec Smith writes: > On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc' > for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't > been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which > package might I install to get the same (or simila

Re: help: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
John Foster wrote: > Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that > hold enough power to keep the hardware clock set to the correct time, > when the system is powered off. It appears that your battery is > degrading and may need to be replaced. But it's right when it

Re: Gnome themes

1999-05-25 Thread Jason Murray
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 05:14:25PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Try > file They're definitely tar.gz. What is the directory that I should unzip/untar them into? I'll do things manually if I have to. > > -Colin > > -- > Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Jason Murray - jmurray (

Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-25 Thread richard newton
Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. "This job's too hard for us!" -Andy and Randy Pig

Re: C function manpages

1999-05-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | * Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc' | > for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't | > been able to do this without getting the 'no man

StarOffice 3.1 Segmentation fault...

1999-05-25 Thread Rene Feenstra
Hello When I try to setup SO3.1 I get a segmentation fault ?? Help apreciated greatly Rene

SAMBA documentation???

1999-05-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I received responses some months ago about a detailed howto for setting up samba. Can someone who knows point me do howto documentation for samba apart from what exists on LDP. Thanks. I need help with SAMBA. -- NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacrame

Re: A problem with POP3

1999-05-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 May 1999 20:48:35 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: > The answers is: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Relaying denied Which MTA are you running? Whatever package it is, it doesn't know that it is responsible for receiving mail for @atlas.uvigo.es. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: C function manpages

1999-05-25 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc' > for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't > been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which > package might I install to

Re: A problem with POP3

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > I have a problem with ipop3d. However doesn't matter if it is cucipop, > qpopper or ipopd. I can colect e-mail but if i want to send a > e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The answers is: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Relaying denied > This is an SMTP returned error. It mea

A problem with POP3

1999-05-25 Thread José
I have a problem with ipop3d. However doesn't matter if it is cucipop, qpopper or ipopd. I can colect e-mail but if i want to send a e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The answers is: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Relaying denied this user exits (if a use other users i have the same a

Help

1999-05-25 Thread Ralph L.Juliano
We want to buy the Bulk Email Software. Please tell us the prices or where - what. Ralph

Re: BUG: /dev/null 0600 was: Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

1999-05-25 Thread Jon Marler
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jon Marler wrote: > > > I figured it out ... > > > > The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set > > them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. > > Whatever did this is a bug. /d

Enlightenment pager won't go away

1999-05-25 Thread William R Pentney
I cannot figure out how to get rid of that blasted Enlightenment pager. I read a FAQ that said to try the following: eesh -e "pager off" but this didn't work - I just got an error. The documentation doesn't mention it anywhere it all (wonderful!). I saw a similar message in the mailing list earli

Help! - Are these components supported?

1999-05-25 Thread David Bolder
Hi, I'm interested in buying a new computer and running Debian on it. I want, however, to make sure that what I'm buying is supported. Specifically, is the following hardware supported? - Yamaha XG 64V Sound card - ATI Rage Pro 8MB 2X AGP Video Card - 32X Max Variable CD ROM If you can help, or

Re: about Linux Books questions ?

1999-05-25 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Anderson wrote: > > about Debian Books questions ? > > Q1. O'reilly Corp have a book "Running Linux, 2/e" >Can teach and help us know Debia/Linux structure and >detail information ? > Q2. GUN have make Debian system book plan ? > All publisher not b

Re: Diamond Viper 550

1999-05-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I use this card. I use the SVGA server version 3.3.3.1. HTH. -Ian On Tue, 25 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best > Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend? > > Armin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubsc

Re: enlightenment, rpm

1999-05-25 Thread Pimeys
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote: > ok i wanted the latest version of enlightenment on my debian 2.1 so i > took the rpm off of the RH6 cd and copied it to /. then i did alien -d > theenlightenmnetrpm.rpm on the rpm and it generated it. i also did it > on the enlightenment-conf rpm.

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-05-25 Thread Brad
On 25 May 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Actually, you don't need the navigator binaries, when you install the > communicator ones. COmmunicator = navigator + mai/news/editor/calendar Actually, i like not having the mail/news/editor/calendar for my normal browsing. The only time i use the comm

Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-25 Thread Brad
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Ali Onur UYAR wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Ali Onur UYAR wrote: > > > What this means is that, as the 16-bit dma channel you have to pass another > > 8-bit dma channel that is instead of passing irq 5,6,7 etc. you have to pass > irq > > 0,1,2,3 > > At some point an error mes

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 May 1999 09:11:37 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >What is the settting that allows you to set the hostname on the client? I >run dhcpcd on my linux box on a Win network, and my dhcpc always sets my >hostname to dhcpc1. Where is this seting you are talking about i've been >trying to find it fo

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB

1999-05-25 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
Thank you very much Eric, With the line DisplayManager*resetSignal: 15 in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config my system does not lock when I close an xsession. Fernando T. C. Brandt Instituto de Física | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. de São Paulo | www: http://satie.if.usp.br CP

Re: adding local TeX sty files

1999-05-25 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > If I wanted to add my local teTeX sty files, where on the system is > the proper Debian place to put them? For example, I would like to add > figdef.sty which doesn't come with the distribution. Do I need to > make any configuration file changes? Che

Re: Installing from source

1999-05-25 Thread Brad
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote: > Brad> Actually, that is exactly Debian policy: programs you install yourself > go > Brad> under /usr/local, the distro never touches it. > Brad> > Brad> If you make a deb from the sources, then you should of course make it > not > Brad> touch /usr/l

Re: Web site shuts down Netscape

1999-05-25 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello. Which version of Netscape are you using? I have upgraded my Netscape from 4.5 to 4.6 and lo' behold the problems with it have been resolved. I checked several sites that gave me fits due to HTML codes, Java and few others..and it works perfectly. So I recommend that you upgra

Re: [Help] Memory

1999-05-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nguyen Hai Ha) writes: | On Mon, 24 May 1999, Mr. (Ms.) Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > It's probably something strange going on with the BIOS function used | > by linux to detect the amount of memory in your computer. I have two | > suggestions you can try: | > | > 1) Manua

Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-05-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I heard that the new kernel is very modular. Does this mean I can have a > > lean mean kernel and include only the modules I need? Is SMP turned on by > > default? If so would it make sense to turn it off for single processor > > systems so as

Re: Diamond Viper 550

1999-05-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best | Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend? The V550 is based on the nVidia TNT chip. You'll need to get XFree86 3.3.3, or better, in order to use it. Unfortunately Debian 2.1 d

RE: getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/slink/rkrusty/binary-i386/ -- On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-May-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > > does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1 > > from? > > > > thanks, > > > > chris > No http that I know of. I

Re: ppp Routing problem

1999-05-25 Thread John Hasler
Mike Patterson writes: > I'm almost there, thanks to various people's help. The last problem I > have has the symptoms of a routing problem, but ifconfig and route say > differently. Here are the outputs. any clues? > # route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: Ethernet identification

1999-05-25 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hello, all, > > the people here at the department have bought a software (proprietary) > usually available for Unix platforms. We've got their Solaris and > Linux version. For the Solaris they asked us the "hostid" to put somewher

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > What is the settting that allows you to set the hostname on the client? I > run dhcpcd on my linux box on a Win network, and my dhcpc always sets my > hostname to dhcpc1. Where is this seting you are talking about i've been > trying to find it for weeks. > The dhcp server has this setting,

Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > I heard that the new kernel is very modular. Does this mean I can have a > lean mean kernel and include only the modules I need? Is SMP turned on by > default? If so would it make sense to turn it off for single processor > systems so as to get better performance? > a) get 2.2.5 or higher, 2

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread Joel Keating
What is the settting that allows you to set the hostname on the client? I run dhcpcd on my linux box on a Win network, and my dhcpc always sets my hostname to dhcpc1. Where is this seting you are talking about i've been trying to find it for weeks. On Tue, 25 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread Joel Keating
You need dhcpcd, get it install it, and the rest is magic On Sun, 23 May 1999, Kent West wrote: > Mark Wright wrote: > > > > I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use > > our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is > > this possible

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB

1999-05-25 Thread Alec Smith
I have this same card. You want to use the XFree86 3.3.3.1 SVGA server. Download the glibc version from ftp.xfree86.org, and then copy the new server over the one installed by Debian. Or, you could probably upgrade to Potato to get the same server. On Tue, 25 May 1999, Fernando T C Brandt wrote:

Re: Web site shuts down Netscape

1999-05-25 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! > Try disabling java and javascript and see what happens. For me, some > java pages either lock Netscape up, or kill it dead. That one might be problematic, as even though you try to swich javascript off it stays on. That checkbox seems to be only windowdressing... Regards Thorsten Manegold

Re: Ethernet identification

1999-05-25 Thread Rob
> I will only need the ethernet card number in the following format: > > 00:00:00 . (10 characters) > > Have somebody there anu idea on how I get this number by a simple promptline > command? Try 'ifconfig' .. For example, a line of mine reads thusly: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0

Re: Slink - just want to upgrade XFree86 and Gnome

1999-05-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 May, Patrick Colbeck wrote about "Slink - just want to upgrade XFree86 and Gnome" > Hi > > Well after several months in RedHat land (just to make it easy to keep > up with Gnome) I want to move back to Debian. I have some nice new > Debian 2.1 CDs but unfortunately 2.1 doesnt have XFree

Diamond Viper 550

1999-05-25 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend? Armin

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB

1999-05-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > I am not being able to make a decision about the > xserver for the Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB. > I have tried both xserver-svga and xserver-s3v. > > With the xserver-s3 I am able to use depth 32 in the mode 1152x864, > but the system locks almost always when I close a xsession. I used to

Ethernet identification

1999-05-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hello, all, the people here at the department have bought a software (proprietary) usually available for Unix platforms. We've got their Solaris and Linux version. For the Solaris they asked us the "hostid" to put somewhere in the code and avoid "piracy". But the Debian GNU/Linux machines doesn't

Re: ping duplicate packets

1999-05-25 Thread Rob
> Today I pinged my box over the Internet and the ping util reported it > received some duplicated packets. I never saw this before. I am > wondering when and why this happens. Who or what is duplicating these > packet, my box or some box on the route? I am using a 2.0.36 kernel > on a i386 mac

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-25 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Justin Hagemeier wrote: > > Well I sort of do this already I have a laptop that has the Potato distro > > on it, I use both ethernet and ppp, > > I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no > > ethernet connection, then no IP i

Re: DHCP and debian

1999-05-25 Thread shaleh
> > On Mon, 24 May 1999 14:14:12 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use > >our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is > >this possible? > > That actually should be no problem at all. However, I did not try it

Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions

1999-05-25 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
I downloaded the source files for Kernel 2.2.1 from the Debian site. I currently am running Slink (2.0.36) and was hoping to upgrade to 2.2 (good idea???). As I was going through the configuration menus (using make menuconfig) and found that some of the configuration options available under slink a

Slink - just want to upgrade XFree86 and Gnome

1999-05-25 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi Well after several months in RedHat land (just to make it easy to keep up with Gnome) I want to move back to Debian. I have some nice new Debian 2.1 CDs but unfortunately 2.1 doesnt have XFree86 3.3.3 and I need it on both my PCs (Matrox G200 and a laptop with a GL7555). The question is how d

Re: apt-get problem

1999-05-25 Thread David Wright
Quoting Debian Mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > X has been reorganized. xterm is in its own package and startx is in > > xbase-clients. > > Is there a way to get to such vital information without looking up > changes for every installed file or bugging people here on the list? It's the second subs

ping duplicate packets

1999-05-25 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Hi, This is not directly Debian related, sorry. Today I pinged my box over the Internet and the ping util reported it received some duplicated packets. I never saw this before. I am wondering when and why this happens. Who or what is duplicating these packet, my box or some box on the route?

Re: Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB

1999-05-25 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Fernando T C Brandt wrote: > I am not being able to make a decision about the > xserver for the Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB. > I have tried both xserver-svga and xserver-s3v. You might try looking at www.xfree86.org and seeing if the latest release has bugfixes that could

RE: Some kde questions

1999-05-25 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
Where did you get the KDE distribution from. I downloaded 1.1.1 from kde.ord (.deb files) but after I installed them, I could not start "startkde". I inserted the line in my .xsession file and when I log in through xdm, it simply returns me to xdm instead of starting KDE. Is there a problem with ve

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
Wolfgang Fink wrote: > Hi everybody, > > so please, can anybody help me to unsubscribe from this > mailing-list ? > I have tryed almost everything with my Netscape 4.5 - > Browser und Mailtool. > > Thanks a lot, > > Wolfgang read here. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe > > > -- > +---

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 14:40:49 +0200, Wolfgang Fink wrote: > so please, can anybody help me to unsubscribe from this > mailing-list ? There's a clue in what the list software puts under all messages: > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null See http://www.debian.o

Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB

1999-05-25 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
I am not being able to make a decision about the xserver for the Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, 4MB. I have tried both xserver-svga and xserver-s3v. With the xserver-s3 I am able to use depth 32 in the mode 1152x864, but the system locks almost always when I close a xsession. The xserver-svga works fi

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