Re: Installing Linux 1.3.1

1999-06-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi friends Hi > I'm a beginner in the Linux World and as my first step I have installed > Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 in a PC 486 > / 100 MHz through the floppy drive. My PC lacks of CD-ROM or network > connection. Why 1.3? You could get 2.0 Anyway > > $ I don't know how to use the dselect com

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MJ" == Marcus Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MJ> They seems to work just fine. Anyone know how to test the glx-g200 MJ> driver? The mesa-gl screensavers dont seem to be any faster etc... Anything that is compiled against Mesa will do. But you either have to recompile it against libGL

Re: Use MD5 to check packages

1999-06-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> Or you could install the debsums package which will also let you create BC> .md5sum files for packages that don't have them. How do you do that? There is nothing in the manpage or in /usr/doc/debsums about this. Ciao, Martin

OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Hartmut Figge
ed, i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back to pm? Ed Cogburn wrote: > A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those > Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The > important things ar

newbie: installing new drivers

1999-06-18 Thread David Brode
1. I just added an ethernet card to my system (3Com SC509TP) and I understand that I'm supposed to use the driver 3c509. My question is *how* do I get the system to load that driver? (If I were installing linux again I could use dbootstrap, but I have the feeling there's an easier way.) The

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread gla2
I've used the plain netscape-navigator 4.51, with out email/news support... With java turned off... I hardly ever have it die. 99.9% of the time, I really see no need for java (esp considering that I used lynx exclusively until acouple of months ago, due to owning a 486) --George

Re: ppp

1999-06-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: > > Is there a menu somewhere that I'm missing? > I don't normally use Window Maker but I do have it installed. A right click on the desktop should bring up the menu. Tom

Re: Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "AM" == Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AM> I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working fine. I'd like AM> to disable the power button in software so that the machine AM> effectively cannot be switched off without root access - `shutdown AM> -h now' would still halt and

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1999-06-18 Thread Jenny Maddox

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
A good email client would be worth lets say USD 35-50. I payed USD 39 for The Bat! when I ran Windows. A browser: Well, about the same I guess? On 18-Jun-99 Stephen A. Witt wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > >> I am not able to code, but I am willing to >> pay! :) > > Yeah,

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
I completely agree! But why does configurability exclude simplicity? It doesen't! You can have both, and you know what, this is what I would like to see in Linux: A stable OS for ALL. With a program like XFmail you can either use "normal" POP/SMTP setup, or you can configure it to use exim/sendma

RE: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Thorsten Manegold
>... Then there is email software connected to Gnome and KDE. I do not > want > that either. Is Linux going to become "worse" than Windows, because you will > have to choose a desktop environment you do not really like because it comes > with "must have" apps? I hope not Help me out here! :) W

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 18-Jun-99 Lazarus Long wrote: > On Friday, June 18, 1999 at 11:23:02 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > From: Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Getting there > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-UIDL: fcef7b12616779a931

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Robert Rati
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I am not a dedicated Linux lover. I chose Debian becuase I was tired of > Windoews > pissing me off by crashing and loosing my data. Some of the Windows > applications are brilliant pieces of software, and simple and stable to use. > Especially some

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > I am not able to code, but I am willing to > pay! :) Yeah, how much?

Re: [Q] Virtual hosts and routing...

1999-06-18 Thread The Doctor What
Since we are trading scripts, here is mine. I'd kinda like it if there were some functions like this in, or better yet, included from the network script. Ciao! -- "Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing 'Subtle Plan

Re: ppp

1999-06-18 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 04:48:34PM -0300, The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: > start up my ppp connection to the internet. Is there a menu somewhere > that I'm missing? I 'm not familiar with WindowMaker, but on the general issue of PPP: If you've configured your connection, type "pon" at a shell pr

about rc.sysinit

1999-06-18 Thread Alexander S Polyakov
hi all , what is analogue of Red Hat rc.sysinit on Linux/Debian ? thanks . the best, alex.

OPL3SAX SOUND BOARD

1999-06-18 Thread People
PLEASE GIVE-ME OPL3SAX SOUND BOARD ALL DRIVERS TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]   THANK YOU

Re: Frontpage extensions?

1999-06-18 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Corey Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking into the possibility of transfering an NT/IIS based webserver > over to apache on debian 2.1, the only thing I need to confirm is that the > frontpage extenstions will be available and equal to the NT versions. > > A couple things: > > I have re

Re: vim config question

1999-06-18 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Thanks for the help. But with the laststatus=2, I now have a bar, but only with the filename displayed. I would like to have as much as those in emacs... Is this possible?? Thanks. Shao. On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 03:46:45PM +0200, Andreas Persenius wrote: > Quo

Re: Window Maker

1999-06-18 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Window Maker Date: Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 11:38:06AM -0400 In reply to:David Teague Quoting David Teague([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > > Checkout XWindow-User-HOWTO. > > > > Jon > > Hi Jon > I can't find any XWindow-User-HO

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 18-Jun-99 Stephen Pitts wrote: > That's the point. Exim sends mail/sorts incoming mail, and fetchmail > provides a bridge from POP3/IMAP and who knows what else. If a new > protocol came out tommorow, then fetchmail would be the only program > that needed to be modified. MUA means just that

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 18-Jun-99 Andrei Ivanov wrote: >> And then I have to miss two essential tools: >> >> 1. A stable www browser. >> 2. A multi account email program. >> >> 1. Netscape doesn't even need many comments. It us unstable and full of bugs >> under Linux. It works, but it does crash, alot! Always has

Symbol for parameter not found - ethernet

1999-06-18 Thread Kent West
I searched the archives for this, and found the same problem, but no answer. I've lost my network card on a 2.0.36 installation. It's a 3C509B card, and on boot-up I see the error "Symbol for parameter io not found". After logging in I can do an "insmod 3c509" and the card appears to be recognized

ppp

1999-06-18 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
Hi! Thanks to the MANY people who took the time to respond to my question about getting Window Maker to work. It's now up and running fine, I think, or as far as I can tell. It's a bit of an odd window manager though because it doesn't have a menu where I can open and start my programs. If it

kernel panic after some days

1999-06-18 Thread Werner Reisberger
I am running a debian machine (PC PII 350 MHZ, 128 MB RAM) as an Internet server. Today the server crashed the second times after running one week without any problems. The crash was caused by a kernel panic. Nothing has been written to a log file. Below is an excerpt which I found on the console:

Re: ppp-conection

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jun, Alexander S Polyakov wrote about "ppp-conection" > > Hi all, > > I am connecting to Internet via ppp-conection. The problem is that my ISP > disconnect me each 4 hours and I have to reconnect each time . Of course, > I could write script to do so but is this possible to tell Debian

Re: Strange NFS/networking problem

1999-06-18 Thread Daniel Dorau
I tried fuser -n udp 800 but in this state even this doesn't work anymore. Even fuser /dev/xconsole doesn't respond until I shut down the outgoing packet filter on my nfs client system. During this I get the following in my console log: Jun 18 20:39:22 wds kernel: nfs: task 58 can't get a request

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Jason Willoughby
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > 1. Netscape doesn't even need many comments. It us unstable and full of bugs > under Linux. It works, but it does crash, alot! Always has under Linux. And I > do not want lynx! :) I've heard kfm, KDE's built in browser, is pretty decent, but I haven'

ppp-conection

1999-06-18 Thread Alexander S Polyakov
Hi all, I am connecting to Internet via ppp-conection. The problem is that my ISP disconnect me each 4 hours and I have to reconnect each time . Of course, I could write script to do so but is this possible to tell Debian automatically connect right after disconnection. I think yes but I don't kn

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Lazarus Long
On Friday, June 18, 1999 at 12:56:27 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > From: Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: e236d40fc7e3969470a62cf744eea703 > safe in the fact that 33 MB worth of email is safe inside of the > mbox-format files. A combo gives you a

Re: how can one upgrade from slink to potato?

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jun, Varga Robert wrote about "how can one upgrade from slink to potato?" > > where can I find an apt 0.3+ for slink? http://www.debian.org/~jgg/ dpkg -i apt*.deb > > and then, how can I upgrade to potato? > edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a potato mirror. apt-get udpate apt

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Lazarus Long
On Friday, June 18, 1999 at 11:23:02 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > From: Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Getting there > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: fcef7b12616779a93112136f95b9e553 > I am ready for you guys bein

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 11:23:02AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I am sitting here now on my Debian box listening to NetRadio having X11Amp > ready, all in all, I have a new envoironemt to work in that in many ways is > just as appealing as my Windows environment was, except for the fac

Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-18 Thread Brad
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Frankie wrote: > Brad wrote: > > > On my system, i put a script in /etc/init.d to automatically insert the > > proper sound modules on boot (after isapnp runs and configures the card) > > Brad, man modconf - does that for you. How about "man i-don't-have-the-time-to-break-s

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Marcus Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [XFree86 3.3.3.1] > They seems to work just fine. Anyone know how to test the glx-g200 > driver? The mesa-gl screensavers dont seem to be any faster etc... AFAIK, hardware acceleration is only available in some color depths. Check the docs. Cheers,

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Andreas Voegele
> Now it downloads the sane diff file as 17KB compressed, but I > have to add the .gz suffix to the filename in the netscape > dialog or rename after. Netscape seems to insist on stripping > the extension. > This is closer. Can anyone improve this? Add the following line to y

how can one upgrade from slink to potato?

1999-06-18 Thread Varga Robert
See subject... as far as I have seen, potato is glibc 2.1 based, glibc 2.1 needs apt0.3+ and vice versa... so far it seems to be impossible to me... where can I find an apt 0.3+ for slink? and then, how can I upgrade to potato? Robert Varga

Re: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> And then I have to miss two essential tools: > > 1. A stable www browser. > 2. A multi account email program. > > 1. Netscape doesn't even need many comments. It us unstable and full of bugs > under Linux. It works, but it does crash, alot! Always has under Linux. And I > do not want lynx! :)

Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am sitting here now on my Debian box listening to NetRadio having X11Amp ready, all in all, I have a new envoironemt to work in that in many ways is just as appealing as my Windows environment was, except for the fact that this one is much more stable and looks s much better than MS Wind

Re: Window Maker

1999-06-18 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > The correct way to setup what programs > > run when you start X is to make an .xsession file, like this: > > > > echo "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker" > ~/.xsession > > chmod +x ~/.xsession > > If you only wan

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> > - Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says the > debian upsd package > works quite well with their ups's in dumb mode. > However he uses an > older Back-ups 400 (not sold anymore) and I > think he made his own > cable (?). Do we have to make a cable to use > upsd? > I made m

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Carl Mummert
>Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it >refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me >clarify: > >My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it >possible (with sendmail or something else) to make b's message bouce

Re: Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alisdair McDiarmid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working fine. I'd like to > disable the power button in software so that the machine effectively > cannot be switched off without root access - `shutdown -h now' would > still halt and power-down. > > Is

Install query: Selecting Computer Role?

1999-06-18 Thread Revenant
I'm new to the world of Linux and am currently installing Debian 2.1 off CD. I was forced to reboot during install at the point where it asks what tasks/profile the computer is (Server machine, dialup, etc.). Does anyone know how to get this menu up again? I'm finding the option lists in dselect

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-18 Thread Brian White
> APC general comments (http://www.apcc.com/) > > - Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has a Back-UPS Pro and it works with > the genpower Debian package and the apc-pnp cable. He doesn't think > the Back-UPS works with apcd (no smart signalling) or with standard > genpower (different

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Fri Jun 18, 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it > refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me > clarify: > > My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it > possible

Re: Window Maker

1999-06-18 Thread Kirk Hogenson
David Teague wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > > Checkout XWindow-User-HOWTO. > > I can't find any XWindow-User-HOWTO on my system. X is > installed and works fine. Where do I look for this HOWTO? > It wouldn't be installed with X, it would be in the doc-linux-html a

Re: UPS anyone?

1999-06-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's what I have so far concerning this confusing UPS issue (prices in Canadian dollars). Thanks to all who contributed. Please email again if you have more info to add. Peter --- `Best Power' general comments (http://www.bestpower.com) - manufacturer has `free' Linux sof

Re: magicfilter for Epson FX-80

1999-06-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting David B. Karlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > I have a Panasonic (dot-matrix) printer which emulates an Epson FX-80, > and is working fine as an FX-80 under Win95. > > I'd like to install it on the Linux machine instead, but I've been unable to > locate a magicfilter for Epson FX-80. >

Re: Window Maker

1999-06-18 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Checkout XWindow-User-HOWTO. > > Jon Hi Jon I can't find any XWindow-User-HOWTO on my system. X is installed and works fine. Where do I look for this HOWTO? --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free

Re: Installing Potato

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Jun, Andrew White wrote about "Installing Potato" > I just downloaded the whole of the Potato main, contrib and non-free > dirs..and went through the install... > > When running dselect I get an error... > > ../base/libc6_2.1.1-12.deb containing libc6: > libc conflicts with apt <<0.3.0 >

Installing Potato

1999-06-18 Thread Andrew White
I just downloaded the whole of the Potato main, contrib and non-free dirs..and went through the install... When running dselect I get an error... ../base/libc6_2.1.1-12.deb containing libc6: libc conflicts with apt <<0.3.0 conflicting packages - not installing libc6 and then I get and Error in

Re: I want to verify that binaries have not been changed

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jun, Matt Folwell wrote about "Re: I want to verify that binaries have not been changed" > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:31:56AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 18 Jun, Jesse G Warford wrote about "I want to verify that binaries >> have not been changed" >> > How do I ask dpkg to displa

Re: I want to verify that binaries have not been changed

1999-06-18 Thread Matt Folwell
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:31:56AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 18 Jun, Jesse G Warford wrote about "I want to verify that binaries > have not been changed" > > How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ? > > > > > > Once the package has been installed and the actu

Re: Use MD5 to check packages

1999-06-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:43:18AM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > The only caveat is that about half of the packages I have installed > actually contain md5 information. For those that do, you can check very > easily, by doing "cd /; md5sum -cv /var/lib/dpkg/info/.md5sums" Or you could install the

Re: Anyone had any success compiling Voodoo Tracker, Funk Tracker Gold, soundtracker, xsoundtrack?

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:16:35AM +0100, Frankie wrote: > cos I haven't. I have got debian's latest gtk libraries etc, but each of > these trackers refusers to compile for some reason or another. I just > want to know if anyone has got any of these to work with debian (or for > that matter any oth

Use MD5 to check packages

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:20:41AM -0400, Jesse G Warford wrote: > How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > As others have mentioned, dpkg doesn't keep track of file sizes. Another method o

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
> > You can use the access database feature: > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html > > With this feature enabled, you can use the file /etc/mail/access: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 We do not accept spam. > spamming.domain.com 550 We do not accept spam from your domain. > > I'm not su

Re: vim config question

1999-06-18 Thread Andreas Persenius
Quoting Alisdair McDiarmid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:57:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Is there anyway to configure vim to have a status bar just like in emacs?? > > :set laststatus=2 > :set showmode Ever nicer with this setting: :set ruler -- Andreas Persenius [EMAI

Re: Frontpage extensions?

1999-06-18 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 04:30:04PM +1000, Corey Ralph wrote: > I am looking into the possibility of transfering an NT/IIS based webserver > over to apache on debian 2.1, the only thing I need to confirm is that the > frontpage extenstions will be available and equal to the NT versions. > > A coupl

Installing Linux 1.3.1

1999-06-18 Thread Hector Garcia
Hi friends I'm a beginner in the Linux World and as my first step I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 in a PC 486 / 100 MHz through the floppy drive. My PC lacks of CD-ROM or network connection. Now , I'm trying to install some aplications such as graphical user interface (XFree86) , etc.

Re: I want to verify that binaries have not been changed

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Jun, Jesse G Warford wrote about "I want to verify that binaries have not been changed" > How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ? > > Once the package has been installed and the actual .deb has been removed there is no way. The only way to see the size of t

Re: Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread shaleh
> > I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working fine. I'd like to > disable the power button in software so that the machine effectively > cannot be switched off without root access - `shutdown -h now' would > still halt and power-down. > > Is this possible? I can't find an option similar

Re: PAM (pluggable auth. modules)

1999-06-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Varga Robert wrote: > > What do I need to do to enable PAM on slink? > > Is it enough, to install the pam libraries and other related packages, or > do I have to recompile/reinstall/replace some files/packages? PAM is only enabled for sudo, netatalk, and

Re: [Q] Virtual hosts and routing...

1999-06-18 Thread David H. Silber
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:17:56AM -0400, David H. Silber wrote: > Since I have a large number of virtual addresses, I wrote a little > function to perform the ifconfig & route operations together. As a > bonus side benefit, I no longer have to manually number the virtual > interfaces. I'm postin

Re: [Q] Virtual hosts and routing...

1999-06-18 Thread David H. Silber
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 12:28:37PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 04:57:30PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote: > > However, if I log into the system (usually at 216.178.140.240, eth0:0) and > > try to ping any of my other virtual ips, I get no response. I hav > > included the r

I want to verify that binaries have not been changed

1999-06-18 Thread Jesse G Warford
How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ?

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Dpk
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me clarify: My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-18 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:31:39PM +0200, Marco Maggesi wrote: > I saw a file /etc/environment > who reads it ? It is automatically read by X11 on startup. You can also add something like : [ -f /etc/environment ] && . /etc/environment in /etc/profile to have bash read it automatically for lo

Re: Need help with Sound Modules

1999-06-18 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 11:08:45AM +0100, Frankie wrote: > "Andrew C. Gronosky" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My new PC has a Creative AWE64 card and I've been pulling my hair out > > trying to configure it. :) I am running the 2.2.1 kernel with all the > > correct modules according to the kernel docu

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > > > > > For Slink XFree86 3.3.3.1, use > > > > > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ > > I just bought a Diamond Viper 550 video board and needed the xfree86 > 3.3.3.1 SVGA xserver so I installed the slink xfree86 3.3.3.1 from >

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Jun-99 Damon Muller wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:33:40 +0100 (WET DST) > Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now, whenever I want to shut-off the computer, I do a shutdown at >> Linux, >> them I must!!! (the switch-off button does not work, it is only a >> switch-

Re: RCS documentation

1999-06-18 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 10:25:17AM +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: > I'm writing an RCS tutorial in Hungarian and I would like to read a > somewhat official RCS documentiation. Any texinfo, latex or similar link > should be wellcome. I believe the first place to look at is : man rcsintro Hope it helps

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-18 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:48:58 +1000 >From: Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:33:40 +0100 (WET DST) >Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now, whenever I want to shut-off th

PAM (pluggable auth. modules)

1999-06-18 Thread Varga Robert
What do I need to do to enable PAM on slink? Is it enough, to install the pam libraries and other related packages, or do I have to recompile/reinstall/replace some files/packages? Robert Varga

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming all your users are using bash, > put your global environmental setting in > /etc/profile > > Marco Maggesi wrote: > > > I am looking for the appropriate place where to put some > > basic environmental definition like: > > > > PAGER=less >

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-18 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: Assuming all your users are using bash, put your global environmental setting in /etc/profile Peter Marco Maggesi wrote: > I am looking for the appropriate place where to put some > basic environmental definition like: > > PAGER=less > > so that they take effect to every user (unless e

/etc/environment

1999-06-18 Thread Marco Maggesi
I am looking for the appropriate place where to put some basic environmental definition like: PAGER=less so that they take effect to every user (unless explicitly overwritten) WHATEVER LOGIN SHELL they use. is that possible? I saw a file /etc/environment who reads it ? thanks marco

Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me clarify: My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible (with sendmail or something else) to make b's message bouce b

Re: [PHP3] IMP and folders

1999-06-18 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > > Quoting Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm installing IMP on our mail server. Most users read mail using some > > POP3 client but some still use pine (don't ask, it's a long story). My > > problem is that i can't configure imp to read the folders th

Re: can anyone access this site?

1999-06-18 Thread Norbert Bous
I got access to http://www.be-ca.com with Communicator 4.6 running on potato 2.0.36 without any errors. -- (__) (oo) /---\/ Norbert / | || Bous * |||| ^^^^

Re: Can't boot linux anymore from HD

1999-06-18 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Hello, thanks for your replies. Yesterday night I finally had time to try your suggestions. I really still don't know what I did to mess up the kernel, because it wasn't deleted, all the necessary files in /boot where present and lilo -t -v didn't show something suspicious (well, to me) either. Fin

Re: [Q] Virtual hosts and routing...

1999-06-18 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 04:57:30PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote: > I have a network, 216.178.140.xxx, which my box is part of. My box, > bunny, has a main ethernet (eth0) ip as 216.178.140.4. It's gateway is > 216.178.140.1, This is all class C of course. > > In addition, I have the whole block

Disabling the power button

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I've got an ATX system with APM enabled and working fine. I'd like to disable the power button in software so that the machine effectively cannot be switched off without root access - `shutdown -h now' would still halt and power-down. Is this possible? I can't find an option similar to this in the

Re: vim config question

1999-06-18 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:57:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Is there anyway to configure vim to have a status bar just like in emacs?? :set laststatus=2 :set showmode -- alisdair mcdiarmid `nothing i say is absolute. i just make it sound that way :)'

Re: Need help with Sound Modules

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
"Andrew C. Gronosky" wrote: > Hi, > > My new PC has a Creative AWE64 card and I've been pulling my hair out > trying to configure it. :) I am running the 2.2.1 kernel with all the > correct modules according to the kernel documentation. The card is PnP > and I believe I have it configured proper

Re: Auto Shut-off

1999-06-18 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:33:40 +0100 (WET DST) Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, whenever I want to shut-off the computer, I do a shutdown at Linux, > them I must!!! (the switch-off button does not work, it is only a > switch-on button) go to ms-windows to do a shutdown th

RCS documentation

1999-06-18 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, I'm writing an RCS tutorial in Hungarian and I would like to read a somewhat official RCS documentiation. Any texinfo, latex or similar link should be wellcome. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-18 Thread Ed Cogburn
Hartmut Figge wrote: > > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > > > my communicator 4.6 insists of unpacking certain types of files before > > > > > saving to hd. this behaviour is not acceptable, therefore i have to > > > > > use > > > > > another v

kernel problems (NFS and lockd)

1999-06-18 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi ! We have the following 2 problems with NFS: ( Clients and Server running Debian Linux 2.1 with kernel 2.2.6 ) 1) When a user edits a file on one client and then changes to another client to edit the file again , it takes about 10-15 seconds until the second client recognizes that th

Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink

1999-06-18 Thread Marcus Johansson
> For Slink XFree86 3.3.3.1, use > > deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ > > in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You'll get X 3.3.3.1 in addition to > other updates for Slink. > > Note: I don't believe the debs are official. The only official stuff for > XFree86 3.3.3.1 is in Potato. They seems to wor

Re: Kernel 2.2.9 and soundblaster module

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
Brad wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is there something about soundblaster support that I should > > have known by now? Seems that my irq, ... settings get lost > > when I compile soundblaster support as a module. (Sound works > > when compiled in, but I get "de

Re: Hoping for some help with this kernel error

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
Incidentally, on the subject of kernel 2.2.10 and make-kpkg, has anyone had a compile problem just after patching to 2.2.10? Normally when I install a patch, I use a modified version of the patch-kernel script, and then I run make-kpkg kernel_image. However, when I upgraded from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10,

Anyone had any success compiling Voodoo Tracker, Funk Tracker Gold, soundtracker, xsoundtrack?

1999-06-18 Thread Frankie
cos I haven't. I have got debian's latest gtk libraries etc, but each of these trackers refusers to compile for some reason or another. I just want to know if anyone has got any of these to work with debian (or for that matter any other linux)... frankie PS has anyone got round to packaging up

Frontpage extensions?

1999-06-18 Thread Corey Ralph
I am looking into the possibility of transfering an NT/IIS based webserver over to apache on debian 2.1, the only thing I need to confirm is that the frontpage extenstions will be available and equal to the NT versions. A couple things: Is it available as a deb package? Is it in the distribution

Re: Using more than one ISP

1999-06-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jun 1999, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > > > Is there any easy way of maintaining access to more than one ISP without > > re-writing the config files for smail and ppp? At present I use a spare > > computer for this but it's not very convenient. > > Try just using pppconfig and choose two d

Re: Window Maker

1999-06-18 Thread Brad
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > The correct way to setup what programs > run when you start X is to make an .xsession file, like this: > > echo "exec /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker" > ~/.xsession > chmod +x ~/.xsession If you only want to change the default window manager (and you have r

Re: 2.2.10 and SMP

1999-06-18 Thread Brad
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Gareth wrote: > I have 2 LINUX systems (one redhat one DEBIAN )that I recently > upgraded to kernel 2.2.10 the DEBIAN one will not compile unless I have > SMP enabled. if I don't have it enabled I get an error and make exits with > an error 1. What's the specific error

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