Re: /var permissions ???

1999-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 03:49:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like you should have cp -a (same as -dpR?) to preserve the ^^^ (a little ignarance goes a long way :( > permissions for the subdirectories of /var. Consider this: > > bart:~$ ls -ld /var >

Problem with tape backup

1999-06-13 Thread William R Pentney
I have Bleeding Edge 2.0.34 installed, and I wish to use taper to back up. But when I tried, I received a message saying "Operation not supported by device." I tried "cat /dev/ftape" and received the same message. Any ideas? - thanks, Bill

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-13 Thread Min Xu
Hi, there: How about the /etc/*emacs/site-start.d/* stuff? If I want to keep the xemacs20 style, i.e., automatically source these starting up files, how can I do that? -- Min Xu City College of NY, CUNY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: how do you 'unstable' a machine?

1999-06-13 Thread Shiraz Sayani
Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ... edited > Now, I'd like to also install the GNOME package, and it's not available > > in the unstable distribution. How do I make it install from the stable > > distribution? Can I? Won't there be missing parts? Should I just

Re: [OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-13 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I heard that there are OpenGL drivers for the Matrox Millennium > G200 available for Linux, but I've looked on www.matrox.com and > everywhere else I can think of, and I can't find them anywhere. > Does anyone know where they are? Just two links

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-13 Thread Colin Marquardt
* OhkumaTadayoshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: >> > Do you know the way to do this with emacs? >> >> i don't, no; sorry. have a look at http://www.dotfiles.com/ though, >> there might be some configuration files there to do so. > I have found that crypt++el package do

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Carl Mummert
>partition changes you want, then choose to install packages via Internet, but >select "dists/unstable main contrib non-free". I would say dists/potato instead of dists/unstable; here is why: I once used dists/unstable, and everything worked fine until the next debian version changeover (such a

Re: /var permissions ???

1999-06-13 Thread maillists
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 06:14:45PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I recently moved /var to the partition windoze used to occupy. > > To do this (after reformatting the partition): > # mkdir /vartemp > # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /vartemp > # cp -R /var/* /vartemp > > I then set up /etc

ppp don't work

1999-06-13 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
Help! I am trying to configure PPPD in Debian 2.1, using wvdial as dialer. I edited all the files as is described in the HOW-TO, but don't work. When I run wvdial the modem start the physical connection, pppd start-up but after 5 seconds the daemon dies and the modem hangs-up. I don't know how t

ppp don't work

1999-06-13 Thread Camilo Alejandro Arboleda
--- Begin Message --- Help! I am trying to configure PPPD in Debian 2.1, using wvdial as dialer. I edited all the files as is described in the HOW-TO, but don't work. When I run wvdial the modem start the physical connection, pppd start-up but after 5 seconds the daemon dies and the modem hangs-u

Re: apt-get upgrade tries to replace my kernel-image

1999-06-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 12:43:12AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I run apt-get update/upgrade daily. Everytime I do, I'm always prompted > about replacing my kernel-image. I don't want to cuz I've compiled my > own. How do I get it to stop? Do I have to go into dselect and put it on > hold? Or is the

Re: apt-get upgrade tries to replace my kernel-image

1999-06-13 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Mark Wagnon wrote: > > I run apt-get update/upgrade daily. Everytime I do, I'm always prompted > about replacing my kernel-image. I don't want to cuz I've compiled my Had the same (under 2.0.36), its because the executable version on CDz is 2.0.36-3, but when you compile, the version number is, b

Re: Moving a kernel

1999-06-13 Thread Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Lazarus Long wrote: > ... Just one word upon this excellent explanation: you'd better give a hi level version number to your kernel, to avoid downgrading if you're kernel as a version number lower than the one installed, wich could make dselect wanting to reinstall the old kernel each time you run

/var permissions ???

1999-06-13 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I recently moved /var to the partition windoze used to occupy. To do this (after reformatting the partition): # mkdir /vartemp # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /vartemp # cp -R /var/* /vartemp I then set up /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda1 at /var and later wiped the original /var. It has been a lit

Re: smail immediate delivery

1999-06-13 Thread reiner
Same behavior here (Full Potato from the I-net) Please let me know if you have a solution to this with best regards Reiner Stallknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

apt-get upgrade tries to replace my kernel-image

1999-06-13 Thread Mark Wagnon
I run apt-get update/upgrade daily. Everytime I do, I'm always prompted about replacing my kernel-image. I don't want to cuz I've compiled my own. How do I get it to stop? Do I have to go into dselect and put it on hold? Or is there some other way that I can do it? TIA --

smartlist

1999-06-13 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I am trying to set up a list using smartlist on Slink with sendmail. I have read the QuickStart, and have followed what it said but I have not have any succes. I send a letter to the address with subscribe in the Subject, but get no reply, and don't get an error saying that the message could no

Re: pppd/pon permission problem

1999-06-13 Thread Attila Csosz
I should added me to the dialout group. So it works. So with the original slink settings ; + with dip,dialout group settings works. Thanks Attila On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 09:22:15PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: > I can use PPP as root but I'd like to use the PPP connection as a user. > I added sel

equivs

1999-06-13 Thread Lex Chive
Here is the problem: I am trying to install ssltelnet, but it depends on libsocks4 (tho I dont see why). I already have socks5 on my system so obviously I dont want to install libsocks4 over this. So I configured equivs to provide libsocks4. No I have: anoat:/usr/src# dpkg --status equivs

IWILL SCSI CARD

1999-06-13 Thread Warren Chadwick
Hi All I'm trying to install Debian on my machine, the trouble is it has a 'not so well known' scsi card, Iwill 2935UW. Can anyone help me on how to get around this problem. Thanks. Warren

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-13 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Grab the corresponding packages for the new packaging system from >ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/ or one of its mirrors (bbdb, auctex, gnus, >psgml, ... whatever, there are no standard lisp packages included >any more) Note that the debian ve

access beyond end of device

1999-06-13 Thread Werner Reisberger
There is a cronjob with a lot of IO activity (glimpseindex and others) which regularely causes the following kernel message written to kern.log: Jun 5 05:47:25 memo kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jun 5 05:47:25 memo kernel: 08:0c: rw=0, want=67136178, limit=610438 Jun 5 05:

Re: pppd/pon permission problem

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
Your permission problem may be at /etc/ppp. I noticed the default cron job kept changing permission on me there to root.root instead of root.dip. Then when a normal user (member of dip) tried to run pon "Permission denied" because pppd couldn't read the config files... Take a look, then take a

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
You can upgrade to potato using Apt/dselect. I did this recently after purchasing a cheapbytes of Slink. I realized the Xwindows with Slink doesn't support my video card. Anyway, just reinstall your system making the partition changes you want, then choose to install packages via Internet, but

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anybody tried installing these packages yet, and had much success? > I succeeded this way: 1. Uninstall all emacs related debian packages which you want to use with xemacs21 (e.g. bbdb, apel, ...), they don't seem to work for me by now

Re: [OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-13 Thread scratch
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm also looking for the G200 drivers. :> Unfortunately, I no longer have > my G200 machine, but I hope to be getting it again soon. Now to get OpenGL > drivers for my Mach64. ;> I presume that last one was a joke. Or isn't it? -- nico (i have a

Re: Moving a kernel

1999-06-13 Thread Lazarus Long
On Sunday, June 13, 1999 at 14:49:21 -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 0d9df5dc8a159fe6188a1ccf5c5eeb52 > I want to compile a kernel on one machine and move it to another, but am Probably the easiest way to accomplish this in the future (and more "Debian-st

Re: [OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-13 Thread ferret
I'm also looking for the G200 drivers. :> Unfortunately, I no longer have my G200 machine, but I hope to be getting it again soon. Now to get OpenGL drivers for my Mach64. ;> On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > I heard that there are OpenGL drivers for the Matrox Millennium > G200 a

echo connections

1999-06-13 Thread Pollywog
What is an echo connection? I have never seen this type of connection in my logs, and I seem to be getting them from root servers. Is this a bad thing? thanks -- Andrew

Moving a kernel

1999-06-13 Thread Robert Rati
I want to compile a kernel on one machine and move it to another, but am having som problems. The kernel README (2.2.9) just says to compile it, copy it to where lilo looks for the kernel, and run lilo. I've done this on the other machine, and I get to the "loading linux" message and then nothing

Re: pppd/pon permission problem

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 13 Jun, Attila Csosz wrote about "pppd/pon permission problem" > I can use PPP as root but I'd like to use the PPP connection as a user. > I added self to the dip group. Calling pon I get the > following errors > > /usr/bin/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied > > Currently( slink defaul

The Debian XFree86 FAQ

1999-06-13 Thread Branden Robinson
I see a lot of questions on debian-user, particularly about xdm, that are answered in the Debian X FAQ. Obviously there are lots of people that don't know this document exists. It is in /usr/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ. I have MIME-attached the latest version (which answers more questions than the ve

pppd/pon permission problem

1999-06-13 Thread Attila Csosz
I can use PPP as root but I'd like to use the PPP connection as a user. I added self to the dip group. Calling pon I get the following errors /usr/bin/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied Currently( slink default ): -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip105532 JÚN 19 1998 /usr/sbin//pppd -rwxr-

Re: Locating fdformat...

1999-06-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
ftformat has been replaced by superformat, which is in fdutils, along with setfdprm. This is the case for both slink and potato. Bob On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 12:29:45AM +0930, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > Where in potato are fdformat and setfdprm? They aren't in util-linux. > > Does Debian ha

Re: Emacs without X in Debian?

1999-06-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Xemacs (the name says it all) needs X, but Emacs does'nt. > In this case, names don't say all: Xemacs doesn't need X, too. Greetings, joachim

Re: Can't start Xserver as user

1999-06-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 10:26:26AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > In /etc/X11/Xserver > > /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA > Anybody There are no comments below it? Hmm. Well, the above should work in any case, as long as you have the xserver-svga package installed. > I don't think I have Xwrapper inst

Re: Too many posts for my mailbox

1999-06-13 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > My mailbox cannot handle the number of posts this list generates, > especially not when I'm away for the weekend or even week. What should I > do to participate in this mailing list without clogging my mailbox? I suggest you subscribe to debian-u

Re: apt-get didn't automatically install dependency

1999-06-13 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > I thought that apt-get was supposed to automatically install dependency > packages--is this true? Does this problem indicate a bug in apt-get, or > a "bug" in the karpski package definition? Should I report this to > someone? > It's a bug in t

Re: SVGAlib and Riva TNT card?

1999-06-13 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:53:45 +0200 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: debian-us

apt-get didn't automatically install dependency

1999-06-13 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Last night, I did an "apt-get install karpski". It went fine, but when I tried to run it, it said it was missing libpcap0. So I installed the libpcap0 package, and everything was fine. I thought that apt-get was supposed to automatically install dependency packages--is this true? Does this proble

Re: Threading Was Re: Balsa problem - new mailbox (pop3)

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SP" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SP> Has anyone found an X-based mail program that does threading? gnus in XEmacs. Ciao, Martin

UPS suggestion

1999-06-13 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I need an UPS for my system (say 300 W plus 15" monitor) and I would like to spend as little time seting it up as possible. What UPS do you reccomend me in order to plug it, connect it to the serial port (the UPS should bring the cable, I don't want to use the soldering machin

RE: Newbie needs dselect/CD help

1999-06-13 Thread Beerwinkle DE \(Dean\) at MSXWHWTC
Sorry for the late reply - out of office for a couple of days. The answer to all of your questions are yes. I have no doubt this CD (purchased from Linux Central) is the problem. My CD drive works fine. I am at the top level. Do you have any suggestions where to purchase a reputable CD copy? Aga

Re: Gnome-pager losing its state

1999-06-13 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since my last upgrade, gnome-pager no longer seems to store the > properties I associate with it. Is this a bug, or is there a known > workaround? Yeah, I've seen this too. Since I had never used it before I thought this was a missing feature but if you

Can't boot linux anymore from HD

1999-06-13 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hello, yesterday I suddenly could not boot Linux from the HD anymore. When booting, LILO begins the boot process correctly, but after that first line "Loading linux..." is written to the screen, the PC reboots immediately. However, it is still possible to boot from diskette (which takes an

Gnome-pager losing its state

1999-06-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
Since my last upgrade, gnome-pager no longer seems to store the properties I associate with it. Is this a bug, or is there a known workaround? Thanks, Stuart.

Apt-get and dpkg --force-overwrite

1999-06-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
Did apt-get stop passing --force-overwrite to dpkg in the last few versions? I just did a dist-upgrade last night and for the first time got fatal errors for "xfree86-common: trying to overwrite file 'something/X11' which is also in package afterstep". I had to locate the debs in /var/cache/apt and

Re: Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR

1999-06-13 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Albert Claret wrote: > > As strange as it seems, Infomagic has decided to (for some reason) not > include Debian in their June Linux Developer's Resource 4 CD-set. In their > website, http://www.infomagic.com/catalog2.htm#linux, they state that > these CDs

Locating fdformat...

1999-06-13 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Where in potato are fdformat and setfdprm? They aren't in util-linux. Does Debian have a cross-reference of programs to the packages that contain them?

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread John Foster
Graham Seaman wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been using debian for a while but am still a relative > newbie. I just bought a new pc with Advansys Initio SCSI driver. > The supplier asked me what OS I wanted; I asked for Linux. They > told me I would have to use RedHat, since the Initio drivers > (which

Threading Was Re: Balsa problem - new mailbox (pop3)

1999-06-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 12:26:38AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 03:35:51AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > when i try to make a new mailbox through balsa (through prefrences add > > > server) and then try to check the mail i get a message wrong

Re: qpopper error message

1999-06-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >mail.mattyt.net(doma) is running slink with qpopper installed. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can retrieve their mail just fine, but >when they do, xconsole says: > >Jun 13 00:33:22 doma in.qpopper[710

Re: kde mirrors

1999-06-13 Thread trapstep
Hi! There is an european mirror of snowcrash: ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de/mirror/debian-snowcrash.tdyc.com works great for me. Stefan Bunse <== > If you wanna contact me for any reason, do it! You'll reach me at: ma

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1999-06-13 Thread Bmonte99
Check to see if you have the correct drivers installed for the NIC card, if not the resinstall the drivers for it and make the that card it using the correct interrupt, which should be IRQ 10 or 11. If you have a SCSI controller make sure that it is not trying to use IRQ 11 because it takes thi

smail immediate delivery

1999-06-13 Thread Daniel Daboul
smail used to work on my 'slink'-debian system to my full satisfaction: incoming mail was delivered into my INBOX /var/spool/mail/$USER immediately and xbiff beeped. Now this changed (apparently after I installed a few packages from 'potato' to get licq version 0.61). Incoming mail now remains in

do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I've been using debian for a while but am still a relative newbie. I just bought a new pc with Advansys Initio SCSI driver. The supplier asked me what OS I wanted; I asked for Linux. They told me I would have to use RedHat, since the Initio drivers (which are only supplied in binary format) ha

Too many posts for my mailbox

1999-06-13 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
My mailbox cannot handle the number of posts this list generates, especially not when I'm away for the weekend or even week. What should I do to participate in this mailing list without clogging my mailbox? Please send a reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I'm now going to temporarily uns

pt keyboard map

1999-06-13 Thread PMMA
Salutations!       I'm writting this e-mail to ask you to include support for the portuguese keyboard in your next release. This would be something. Only SuSE 6.1 supports it. To set the keyboard map we have been using a script you may find in:   http://students.fct.unl.pt/users/jar/files/lin

Re: Esound problem (gnome) - sound device inadequate

1999-06-13 Thread Dennis Schoen
Micha Feigin wrote: > > I have a computer with no sound ( yes it's an old 486 there is still one > of these around :) ). > The thing is that whenever i try to start a gnome program it tries to > search /dev/dsp for a sound card (permision denied), fails, gives me a > message : Sound device inadequ

Re: Problems with bash

1999-06-13 Thread Dennis Schoen
Matthew Guenther wrote: > > I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I > could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the > potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the > shell crashes (logs out if on

A: USR Sportster Message Plus modem

1999-06-13 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Now answering my own question of long ago If you want to use a USR Sportster Message Plus modem with linux, you may find some interesting programs and infos at http://www.messagecentral.de/ (Sorry, but this page is in german.) btw, they want to add other modems to the pages as well. Ingo --

bash 2.02.1-1.4 problem

1999-06-13 Thread Dennis Schoen
I upgrade my bash from the slink version bash 2.01.-4.1 to the potato version 2.02.1-1.4 everythink went find, but when i hit the tab button and the filename is not definite bash just exits and gives me the login prompt (no error message). After downgrading to the slink version everythink is okay.

migration Suse -> debian

1999-06-13 Thread Werner Reisberger
What's the easiest way to migrate from a Suse 4.2 dist to a recent debian? I want to keep some configuration files in /etc, everything in /usr/local and $HOME should be not touched. Suse 4.2 has no package system but a little mess with programs not belonging to packages isn't a problem for me. -We

Netscape 4.6, receiving message: "Your browser sent a message this server can't understand."

1999-06-13 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Is there any way I can find out which server didn't understand? Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern M

[OT] Matrox G200 3D acceleration

1999-06-13 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I heard that there are OpenGL drivers for the Matrox Millennium G200 available for Linux, but I've looked on www.matrox.com and everywhere else I can think of, and I can't find them anywhere. Does anyone know where they are? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards o

Need sound driver for ESS1869

1999-06-13 Thread Franklin Phan
I use Debian Linux 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) and have an ISA sound card that uses the ESS1869 AudioDrive sound chip. I understand that the current version of the sound driver supports this sound chip. Unfortunately, the version of sound driver that came on the CDROM does not support this chip, and I

Debian not included in Infomagic's June LDR

1999-06-13 Thread Albert Claret
As strange as it seems, Infomagic has decided to (for some reason) not include Debian in their June Linux Developer's Resource 4 CD-set. In their website, http://www.infomagic.com/catalog2.htm#linux, they state that these CDs include Red Hat 6.0, SuSe 6.1, Slackware 4.0 and (for the first time) Ca

Text cursor disappears in Emacs

1999-06-13 Thread Andreas Voegele
Since the last update of my systems the text cursor disappears in GNU Emacs 20.3-8 under X11. The problem maybe has something to do with the syntax highlighting. Above colored parts of the text the cursor is visible. I've got two machines and the problem occurs only on one of them. Both machine

Re: php-cgi and non apache

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Saturka
On 13 Jun 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > MS> I can't make to work php-cgi with non apache httpd's. Is there a > MS> way? (I use cern-httpd, but I'm satisfied with any non gutsy > MS> eater httpd.) > > I have no problems with it on th Roxen webserver. I just do a redirect > like > > /(.*

qpopper error message

1999-06-13 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, mail.mattyt.net(doma) is running slink with qpopper installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] can retrieve their mail just fine, but when they do, xconsole says: Jun 13 00:33:22 doma in.qpopper[710]: connect from jay.mattyt.net Jun 13 00:33:22 doma in.qpopper[710]: [EMAIL PROTECTE

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1999-06-13 Thread nzfinnegan
 

Problems with bash

1999-06-13 Thread Matthew Guenther
I'm having a problem which looks to be a bug in bash and I was wondering if I could get a confirmation/solution to my problem. I recently upgraded to the potato version of bash and now whenever I type a backspace on a blank line the shell crashes (logs out if on the console, quits an xterm). Ther

Re: starting pppd

1999-06-13 Thread Chuck Peters
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 09:05:37PM -0500, Chuck Peters wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We want to make it easy for our Windows users to setup ppp by having pppd > > start if they dial into one of our modems or start lynx if they telent or > > ssh in. > >

Re: Balsa problem - new mailbox (pop3)

1999-06-13 Thread John Foster
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 03:35:51AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > when i try to make a new mailbox through balsa (through prefrences add > > server) and then try to check the mail i get a message wrong password > > supplied and then balsa dies. > > I know the account is on

Re: Upgrading my bo/hamm system

1999-06-13 Thread John Foster
manu wrote: > > Did i make a mistake ? > > APT simply don't do anything useful. > I wanted it to upgrade my entire system, but only 3 pakages were > updated. > > yes, i ve read the release-info. > > Can anyone tell me the secret ? > Cause i really don't want to upgrade by hand... > > Thanks. >

Re: Boot error

1999-06-13 Thread Lazar Fleysher
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Kevin A. Foss wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:55:58AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have noticed that sometimes I get this boot error: > > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. > > Could someone tell what and how dengerous it is? > > T

Re: kernel "append" options

1999-06-13 Thread Lazar Fleysher
> Lazar Fleysher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > HI all, > > > > > > Could some one tell me how to find if a given kernel release supports > > > certain append option. In particular, I am interested in > > > 2.0.36 supports ide-scsi option. > > I use 2.0.35 and it has it. I use it for my IDE P

Re: Where do I put environment variables with wdm/xdm?

1999-06-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 03:49:57PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I have recently started using wdm (a variant of xdm) and am finding that > environment variables I put in ~/bash_profile are not picked up. Where > do these variables go? > > Many thanks. > > > -- > Phillip Deackes > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: apt problem

1999-06-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:02:44PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > I have a potato system here at school that I cant upgrade anymore. > When I use apt+dselect and go to install option dselect stops at line: > Correcting dependencies... > and do

Re: Upgrading a bo/hamm system

1999-06-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 09:58:34PM +0200, manu wrote: > Did i make a mistake ? > > APT simply don't do anything useful. > I wanted it to upgrade my entire system, but only 3 pakages were > updated. > > yes, i ve read the release-info. > > Can anyone tell me the secret ? > Cause i really don't wa

Re: Balsa problem - new mailbox (pop3)

1999-06-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 03:35:51AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > when i try to make a new mailbox through balsa (through prefrences add > server) and then try to check the mail i get a message wrong password > supplied and then balsa dies. > I know the account is on an smtp server (I don't know if t

Re: starting pppd

1999-06-13 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 09:05:37PM -0500, Chuck Peters wrote: > > Hi, > > We want to make it easy for our Windows users to setup ppp by having pppd > start if they dial into one of our modems or start lynx if they telent or > ssh in. > > The problem is I haven't figured out quite how to do it.

Re: Enlightenment Seg Fault

1999-06-13 Thread Oz Dror
I have the same problem, but only when enlightenment sound is turned on. the problem started when I upgraded to the latest potato packages. Kelly Corbin wrote: > I recently set up a potato machine and had enlightement working. Then I > installed sound in my kernel and turned it on in enlightenme

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-13 Thread OhkumaTadayoshi
Thanks so many people for replying me. now I can do most operation :-) thanks. Steve Lamb wrote: > >I still wish to have site policy of installing ungziped documents :-) > >I don't care to waste a little disk space... > > find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip uum, I wish to do this under contro

Re: where is xemacs21?

1999-06-13 Thread Min Xu
Hi, I also tried that xemacs21 without good news. To install it in potato, I had to remove python-elisp to successfully install it. And after it was installed, I found that the /etc/*emacs/site-start.d/* is not loaded when the xemacs21 starts up and there are some errors in the starting phas

Re: ppp conection problem

1999-06-13 Thread John Hasler
Could you post your /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of plog? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Apache won't run...

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
I can't get my Apache to run. It always dies with [Sat Jun 12 18:16:03 1999] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr 127.0.0.1 getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket getsockname: Socket operation on non-socket Error getting local address I'm, obviously, trying to run this on my home computer wit

starting pppd

1999-06-13 Thread Chuck Peters
Hi, We want to make it easy for our Windows users to setup ppp by having pppd start if they dial into one of our modems or start lynx if they telent or ssh in. The problem is I haven't figured out quite how to do it. What we want is: start ppp if they dial into the equinox SST, ie on ttyQ[1-16

RE: Esound problem (gnome) - sound device inadequate

1999-06-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Jun-99 Micha Feigin wrote: > I have a computer with no sound ( yes it's an old 486 there is still one > of these around :) ). Have you tried adding yourself to the "audio" group? It might work even though you have no sound device. -- Andrew

Re: php-cgi and non apache

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MS" == Martin Saturka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I can't make to work php-cgi with non apache httpd's. Is there a MS> way? (I use cern-httpd, but I'm satisfied with any non gutsy MS> eater httpd.) I have no problems with it on th Roxen webserver. I just do a redirect like /(.*).php3(

kde mirrors

1999-06-13 Thread Bill West
Anyone know of any KDE sites like the snowcrash.tdyc.com (which seems to be dead) one? -- Bill West Houston TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://synergy.linux-help.org finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public pgp key ** Linux = The c

Balsa problem - new mailbox (pop3)

1999-06-13 Thread Micha Feigin
when i try to make a new mailbox through balsa (through prefrences add server) and then try to check the mail i get a message wrong password supplied and then balsa dies. I know the account is on an smtp server (I don't know if thats the same as pop3). What i am tring to do is access that account t

Esound problem (gnome) - sound device inadequate

1999-06-13 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a computer with no sound ( yes it's an old 486 there is still one of these around :) ). The thing is that whenever i try to start a gnome program it tries to search /dev/dsp for a sound card (permision denied), fails, gives me a message : Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal. and then s

php-cgi and non apache

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Saturka
I can't make to work php-cgi with non apache httpd's. Is there a way? (I use cern-httpd, but I'm satisfied with any non gutsy eater httpd.) THX, Martin