Problem installing 2.1 from multicd

1999-06-25 Thread Guy Jacobson
Here's the nature of the problem: I go through the Access, Update, and Install steps of dselect. Access works fine, Update works fine, but on Install I get this message: -- cut here -- Usage: mount [-hV] mount -a [-nfFrsvw] [-t vfstypes] mount [-nfrsvw] [-o options] special | node

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: >I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what >is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection >to the ISP. > >Before the error message in the subject line there were two other error >lines: > >request_modul

Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection to the ISP. Before the error message in the subject line there were two other error lines: request_module[block-major-22]: root fs not mounted VFS:

Re: dhcp server

1999-06-25 Thread Dpk
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Under your 'some other options', make sure you include: > > option routers xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; # This default gateway passed to clients > option subnet-mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # The subnet mask passed to clients Yes, I did this.

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-25 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:47:29 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you want to change the permissions of the volume's / directory, change >them with chmod once it's mounted. Under normal circumstances that would merely be an annoying inconvenience, but since the filesyste

Re: vpn(?) and firewall

1999-06-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: vpn(?) and firewall Date: Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 11:21:43AM -0500 In reply to:Gregory Merchan Quoting Gregory Merchan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'd like to use my old 486 box as a firewall. > > Here are my questions: > > 1) It's a 33MHz with 8Mb RAM, can it do the job? There

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: > Unfortunately, the filesystem ext2 recognises neither the gid= nor the > umask= options, and refuses to mount! I can find no similar options for Those options are only valid for MS-DOS and other filesystems which do not have provisions for permission

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-25 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:14:04 -0500 (EST), Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >mount -t ext2 /dev/hda6 /test -o suid,gid=,umask=002 Unfortunately, the filesystem ext2 recognises neither the gid= nor the umask= options, and refuses to mount! I can find no similar options for ext2. I really

Emacs psgml mode?

1999-06-25 Thread Timothy Hospedales
How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml mode? I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set sgml-set-face to '1' as specified in the psgml doc files, but html files are still quite normal looking:(. Any idea? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hosp

Re: Akkerman's idea of nonfree.debian.org

1999-06-25 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: > As a (busy) mirror maintainer, I can assure you that you are wrong. > Most users get packages from the mirrors, and the mirrors aren't going > to split off new hostnames. The distinction is an "official" one, made > on the "official" debian server(s)

SoundBlaster PCI128:Supported?

1999-06-25 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 card which works Ok with NT but I have be unable to get it working under Debian Linux 2.1. I compiled the kernel correctly I think, I get the Sound initialization started Sound initialization complete message, but nothing in between. cat /dev/sndstat gives the card c

Re: Akkerman's idea of nonfree.debian.org

1999-06-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Wyn Snow wrote: [ snip ] : I suspect that putting contrib and non-free on a different server : will make it harder for newbies like myself to get packages with : apt and harder in general to find things. If that's correct, I : think a different approach to making a clear

Re: changing default umask on useradd

1999-06-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Chad" == Chad A Adlawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chad> does anyone know of a way to change the default "useradd" or Chad> "adduser" behaviour in terms of giving permissions to the new Chad> users home directory ? that is, when u add a new user, the Chad> permission on his/her new home dir

problems with egcc

1999-06-25 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I've installed egcc as in potato, I get this error message, while trying to compile linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux-23/scripts' gcc -Wall -Ws

Re: Need help with Sound Modules

1999-06-25 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
>Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:02:02 +0200 >From: Jean-Philippe Gu?rard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org >X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/53589 >X-Lo

Re: Installation on Fujitsu B110

1999-06-25 Thread Ben Cranston
I don't know if this is relevant, but I also got reboot on the thirteenth dot of "Loading linux". I ended up using the tecra boot images which got me past this particular problem. My whole saga is in: "Linux on a Fujitsu 280dx" http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben/Linux/fuji200.html -- Charles B. (Be

looking for ssh debian2.0 package

1999-06-25 Thread Jan Krupa
Is there shh binary debian2.0 ( kernel-2.0.36) package? If so, where I could find it? Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance, Jan

Re: dhcp server

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Dpk wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > >Hi, > > I tried to setup the dhcp-beta (server) under slink. The machine >has two interfaces. I would like to serve only one, say eth1. > I edited the dhcp.conf file, the server w

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-25 Thread Greg Baker
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: > I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an > option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. Have a look at the 'mp3info' package (which gives you the command 'mp3info'). That should do everything you need. I

Re: cdrom and mnt directories

1999-06-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, Alex McCool wrote about "cdrom and mnt directories" > How does one create new mount point directories? > I have three CDROM drives I want to share via samba, but only one cdrom > directory. > There is nothing special about the 'cdrom' directory. You can mount your cdrom over the /f

Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-25 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. I have quite a few mp3 files with unhelpful filenames, I want to write a script to rename all the files according to the names of the groups and song names b

Re: apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?

1999-06-25 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:23:08 -0500 (EST), Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >*- On 23 Jun, Brian Greenfield wrote about "apt 0.3.7 breaks dselect?" >> Hi >> >> I've just installed apt 0.3.7slink0 from netgod.net and I >> can no longer use the apt method of dselect. Update and >> Select work

Firewall

1999-06-25 Thread [ Kaa ]
> 1) It's a 33MHz with 8Mb RAM, can it do the job? There will be two other > machines (Win98, Debian G/L) on my home network. Yes, but you'll be much happier if you spend $20 and buy more RAM > 2) How do I physically set this up? I've found info on the software > setup, but nothing about hardwar

cdrom and mnt directories

1999-06-25 Thread Alex McCool
How does one create new mount point directories? I have three CDROM drives I want to share via samba, but only one cdrom directory. TIA Alex

GNOME apps and CORBA.

1999-06-25 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey all, I'm using potato/slink mix all base files and libs are potato. Apps are a mixture. Anyway, I use WindowMaker and have no other window manger installed nor do I plan to. There are some gnome app that I like and want to try but am find problems with some. gnome control panel works - althoug

Re: XF86Config for Trident 3DImage975???

1999-06-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:56:31PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > does anybody has a working config file for this card? XF86Setup segfaults, and > with the result of xf86configure i get only a splitted screen in 640x400 Not sure, but that chipset may not be supported yet. http://www.xfree86.

Using gnome-terminal instead of xterm

1999-06-25 Thread Andreas Voegele
I always have to enter commands like "gnome-terminal -e minicom" in the GNU menu editor instead of simply activating "Run in Terminal", since GNOME seems to use "xterm" to start applications. How can I tell GNOME to use "gnome-terminal" instead of "xterm"?

smallest console font

1999-06-25 Thread John Haggerty
I want to get the most out of my text console screen real estate. I am wondering about what is the smallest console cont for linux that can be implimented with something easy like setfont. Currently I am using gr8x6 however I think that that is still too big for my screen. Any help would be ap

Re: dhcp server

1999-06-25 Thread Dpk
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I tried to setup the dhcp-beta (server) under slink. The machine has two interfaces. I would like to serve only one, say eth1. I edited the dhcp.conf file, the server was started but the clients couldn't get

vpn(?) and firewall

1999-06-25 Thread Gregory Merchan
I'd like to use my old 486 box as a firewall. Here are my questions: 1) It's a 33MHz with 8Mb RAM, can it do the job? There will be two other machines (Win98, Debian G/L) on my home network. 2) How do I physically set this up? I've found info on the software setup, but nothing about hardware. Mor

[Debian] linux on a Compaq proliant 2500

1999-06-25 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I believe this question has been asked before but I couldn't find it in the archives. I'm trying to install debian on a Compaq 2500 with multiple scsi disks. The first disk contains a small Compaq-specific partition and an NT server partition. The second disk contains Debian. I installed

Re: Akkerman's idea of nonfree.debian.org

1999-06-25 Thread Wyn Snow
RE: Subject: dselect and contrib/non-free - DWN-6/22 > > Wichert Akkerman has proposed splitting non-free and contrib out to a > > new server, nonfree.debian.org. The impetus for this is to emphasize > > that they are not part of Debian, since "the distinction isn't as > > visible as it used to be;

soundblaster no longer working with 2.2.10

1999-06-25 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.6 to 2.2.10. And my soundblaster stopped working since. When it boots up and started londing the sb module, it produced the following error: init_module: resources busy. Any ideas?? Thanks. Shao. -- ___

dhcp server

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I tried to setup the dhcp-beta (server) under slink. The machine has two interfaces. I would like to serve only one, say eth1. I edited the dhcp.conf file, the server was started but the clients couldn't get dynamic IPs. Both, Win98 and Linux clients. The conf file ha

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: > I only have the base system installed. Then you have pppconfig. > ...I get some garbage text on my screen,... That is pppd sending LCP packets to the console. This what it will do when you start it without telling it what serial port to use. The only place you have

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-25 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Brad wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > What if /etc/environment comprised of a series of variable=value > > > statements > > > that each shell would read and use to set the environment? > > > > I would li

Re: Potential solution to netscape crashing?

1999-06-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, John Foster wrote about "Re: Potential solution to netscape crashing?" > ___ > I have a true type server also, and I am curious: should the font path > lines in /etc/X11/xfs/config match exactly those in /etc/X11/XF86Config > ?? Includi

Re: Potential solution to netscape crashing?

1999-06-25 Thread John Foster
Geordy Korte wrote: > > > [never ending netscape crash discussion] > > > > > >> > > >> > I'm using Netscape Communicator with RedHat 6.0 on my box and it just > > >> > dies > > >> > anytime it has to view a Java applet. Is there any work-around for > > >> > this? > > >> How > > >> > about insta

XF86Config for Trident 3DImage975???

1999-06-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
as the title says does anybody has a working config file for this card? XF86Setup segfaults, and with the result of xf86configure i get only a splitted screen in 640x400 i am using potato thus i have XFree3.3.x -- ciao bboett =

RealProducer...Anyone get it to run under Debian?

1999-06-25 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I just downloaded RealProducer from Download.com. I untared and placed it in the appropriate location and read the readme and did what it told me to do. But, it doesn't run. I'm using potato and have recently install java1.2pre from blackdown.org. I think this may be the problem? Is anyon

Re: MP3 --> WAV

1999-06-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Thanks, bedankt, merci, gracias, xie xie. It worked, but alas the header of the MP3 file was corrupted, so even Sox couldn't help out here. -- Hans At 04:18 PM 6/24/99 +0200, Remco van 't Veer wrote: >The following will create "a.wav" from "a.mp3". > > mpg123 -s a.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -w -

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jun-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > Please post a solution to the list. I have spent a lot of time > trying to make fetchmail/exim 3.02 work, but no go. I rely on my MUA's pop > abilities right now. The author of Exim says it is an ipv6 issue and he is looking into it now. -- Andrew

error in installation script for xaw-wrappers

1999-06-25 Thread Johan Ur Riise
I run a potato system an came over this while upgrading vi apt, in the configure phase: S syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ");" syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ");" BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappe

Splitting swap onto two hard drives

1999-06-25 Thread [ Kaa ]
Frankie writes: > What I am about to say probably isn't appropriate to a newbie, but depending on your > competence it may be useful, or you may remember this a few months down the line... > In my experience this seems to speed up my computer by about 40 to 50% when I am > running lots of apps

Re: [wtopa@mindspring.com: Re: New windows]

1999-06-25 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote > - Forwarded message from Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:02:36 -0400 > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: New windows > Reply-To: [EMAIL P

Re: MP3 to WAV?

1999-06-25 Thread Dpk
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Michael Meskes wrote: Is there a tool that allows me to transform MP3 files back to WAV? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on your answer since I'm not subsribed here. If you are not subscribed it might be beneficial to check the mailing-list archives, as many a ti

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Max wrote: > > > > Did you make sure that you have an entry like > > > > tapetype DAT > > > > before all the tapetype definitions. Also, you should have a line > > that says something like > > > > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > > > If this doesn't help, e-mail me your

Re: multi-cd help

1999-06-25 Thread ktb
Dselect automatically asks for the first or second cd as it needs it when installing programs. At least that has been my experience. You have to choose 'multi cd' in 'access.' hth, kent Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I'm attempting to install stuff using dselect off the double cd image > that I d

Installation on Fujitsu B110

1999-06-25 Thread Dieter Faulbaum
I tried to install a Debian system on a Fujitsu B110 without success. I use the resc1440-safe.bin Disk form the slink dir and the notebook restarts while loading the the kernel `Loading root' works but then after the 13th point of `Loading linux' it restarts the notebook. The Linux on Laptops pa

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-25 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Use the -X switch. On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 20:06, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's > > why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from > > less when you quit, but

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
I just downgraded to 2.11. Reinstated my old exim.conf, and everything is back to normal working order. So, guess it will not be 3.02 on my box until this is fixed. On 25-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 25-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: >> >> Hmm, looks like you have enabled ipv6 support in some thi

Paralell Port problems

1999-06-25 Thread Algernon NG
Hi everyone! My problem is that I have a Linux computer without CD, and a Lost98 with a 32x. I don't want to change anything in the hardware config, so I tried to connect the 2 computers with FastLinx (a DOS program to connect 2 computers via COM or LPT). It worked fine until I used it on the L

Re: named.local

1999-06-25 Thread Varga Robert
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Attila Csosz wrote: > I'd like to refer to my computer not only as localhost but > mycomputer.mydomain.com also. I've installed the bind package because of some > reasons. I'd like to solve this with it. I studied it the named.local file > seems to be good to do that. How c

samba/win95 network over ip-masquerading

1999-06-25 Thread Paul Miller
I'm running Debian/Linux "potato" kernel 2.2.10 with Samba 2.0.4b and I'm trying to setup a Linux box to masquerade and allow browsing across the Linux box. Currently, IP Masquerading is working and I'm using the default Debian auto-configuration. More specifically, I want the machines on the loc

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-25 Thread David Teague
Hi Isabelle I had this error. I did not have the last line of my negotiation right. You will need to know what your isp expects to be told to start the negotiation to set up a ppp connection. If the ISP isn't sent the signal to commence negotiating, your ppp thinks the ISP isn't 8 bit clean, and

Potato on ThinkPad 600E

1999-06-25 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, I'm trying to get all the features of a ThinkPad 600E to work with Debian potato. What I have: - all my PCMCIA-cards (xircom, fritz, adaptec) work - sound (cs4232) works - X (neomagic, 16bit) works What I want: - serial interface is detected but cannot be used - irda-port?! - internal mo

MP3 to WAV?

1999-06-25 Thread Michael Meskes
Is there a tool that allows me to transform MP3 files back to WAV? Michael P.S.: Please CC me on your answer since I'm not subsribed here. -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Us

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread David Teague
Revenant: Great that you should contribute back to the liet! congratulations. The package you mention is WABI, "Windows Application Binary Interface" or something like that, it is commercial, and as I recall it only works for 3.1 applications. It has been a long time since I looked. This is the

[OFF-TOPIC] spammers on this list

1999-06-25 Thread Frankie
Has anybody ever extracted the $1999 or whatever from anybody who has spammed this list? frankie -- ,-. > Frankie |Drum'n'Bass tunes, samples and links. < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ww

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Frankie
Will Lowe wrote: > > floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second > > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im > > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive, > Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted unde

Re: Amanda tape definitions

1999-06-25 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Max wrote: > > Did you make sure that you have an entry like > > tapetype DAT > > before all the tapetype definitions. Also, you should have a line > that says something like > > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > If this doesn't help, e-mail me your amanda.conf file and I'll see if > there are any obvi

Re: Potential solution to netscape crashing?

1999-06-25 Thread Geordy Korte
> [never ending netscape crash discussion] > > > >> > >> > I'm using Netscape Communicator with RedHat 6.0 on my box and it just > >> > dies > >> > anytime it has to view a Java applet. Is there any work-around for this? > >> How > >> > about installing a Java VM? Anything would help. I want

ip-up with 2nd isdn interface

1999-06-25 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, I user two syncppp isdn interfaces ippp0 and ippp1 for dialin at the ISP (ippp0) and my office (ippp1) respectively. The first one works fine. When I ping the ip address for ippp1 dialing works, but the /etc/ppp/ip-up script is not executed so there is no network setup with the new IP address

multi-cd help

1999-06-25 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm attempting to install stuff using dselect off the double cd image that I downloaded and burnt from debian.org. I have no idea how to do this. I put the second cd in first, and had it scan to look for the files it wanted, but I don't know when or how to put the other cd in. Is there a apge tha

still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-25 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello everyone. I'm sorry to post this again, but I'm having new problem now. I made some changes to those files I sent before and now when I type pppd at the command prompt I get some garbage text on my screen, and after a little while(30 seconds or so) I get the prompt back. I tailed d my /v

scsi-emulation error message

1999-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
My kernel is a 2.2.9. dmesg gives the following error message: -- ide-scsi scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: RICOH Model: CD-R/RW MP7040A Rev: 1.1j Type: CD-ROM ANSI S

multisession RW-CD's?

1999-06-25 Thread Johann Spies
Cdrecord can write multisession CD's. I want to use that function for making backups on a RW CD. My problem is that after such a backup, I can only read the first file that was written on to the CD and not any other. Is there anybody who do write multiple data-sessions using cdrecord? I would l

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1128

1999-06-25 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://reidster.dhs.org

Re: Can't log in - Help!

1999-06-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
Sounds like a permissions problem. If you moved your 'dden' directory while logged in as root, it is possible that it is now owned by root and as user dden you dont have access to it. Can you do an `ls -la /home` and email the result? or alternatively you could try this... 1. log in as root 2. c

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-25 Thread Lazarus Long
On Friday, June 25, 1999 at 12:40:33 +1000, Revenant wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win98; I) > X-UIDL: 9569986813774c33b6403a623e7a5f5b > I configured PSAUX in XF86Setup. This worked before I deleted the > How do I kill gpm and try again? You appear

Re: Support/Help software database

1999-06-25 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Try MySQL. It's a free database server. It is supported by Linux. got to www.mysql.org. You 'll also need DBI. Sounds like a good Perl/MySql project. You can also download DBI from the web. Check out www.perl.org and search for DBI. You'll also need a MySQL module. You'll find all the info

Re: Can't log in - Help!

1999-06-25 Thread Brad
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, David Densmore wrote: > When I try to login to my normal user account I get this message: > > Unable to cd to "/home/dden" > > I can still log in as root, but I don't know how to fix the problem. > I used the adduser command to create a new account and couldn't > get into th

Re: X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
rathon wrote: > Hi, > > I installed the Xserver for this Matrox Millennium using the > xserver-svga_3.3.3.1-2_i386 rathon's x.log says: XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System This is your problem here... I'd say that the svga server v3.3.3.1 that you said you installed is not being used, t

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Please post a solution to the list. I have spent a lot of time trying to make fetchmail/exim 3.02 work, but no go. I rely on my MUA's pop abilities right now. Right now exim 3.02 and fetchmail is a no go combo. TIA. On 25-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: > > On 25-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: >> >> Hmm,

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: > > Hmm, looks like you have enabled ipv6 support in some things but not > others. ;) It looks as though I will have to stick with version 2.11 of Exim, or else build from source instead of a Debian package, so that I can keep the ipv6 stuff out. -- Andrew

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: > > Hmm, looks like you have enabled ipv6 support in some things but not > others. ;) YES :) It looks that way, but I did not do that. I will look at the docs to see if perhaps I did so in error and how I might fix that. I have returned to version 2.11 until

RE: Package upgrade "classes" in dselect - It happened again!

1999-06-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, too funny! Right after I posted this I upgraded to exim 3.02. AFTER the upgrade dselect gave me this message: Important! Exim configuration file format has changed! == Your old configuration file has been renamed to /etc/exim.conf-pre-v3. An

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-25 Thread Revenant
I configured PSAUX in XF86Setup. This worked before I deleted the device. I don't understand what you mean by "What says the driver?". How do I kill gpm and try again? Thanx. Robert Pintarelli wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:05:53PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > > I've now tried this and it did

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's > why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from > less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses > the alternate screen, and you can switch

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, Revenant wrote about "Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux" > > I believe there is a UNIX win emulator called WAPI, but it's commercial > and I don't know how much it would cost. It's WABI. There is also VMware(www.vmware.com) which is an amazing piece of sof

Slink => Potato breaks Dosemu?

1999-06-25 Thread Curt Daugaard
After upgrading to Potato and Dosemu 0.98.1-7, the latter fails with the following message: ERROR: slang_keyb_close(): failed to restore keyboard termios settings! This happens when starting from the console or under X. The only change was the upgrade itself and the updating of the new co

Package upgrade "classes" in dselect

1999-06-25 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, one thing I would like to see is some kind of "warning" when a package that can be upgraded using dselect if the upgrade means the software needs to be majorly reconfigured after the upgrade. An example would be if for instance program-x could be upgraded and /etc/program-x.conf would have t

RE: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Pollywog
This is what Fetchmail says: ~$fetchmail 1 message for shadypond.com/pollywog at mercury.he.net (4589 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (4589 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mercury.he.net fetchmail: Query status=10 If this

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Jun-99 Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > I had the same sort of problem > Did you run eximconfig? > The .fetchmailrc should also have a line > mda "/usr/lib/sendmail -oem $USER" or something like that: > do a man fetchmail > > My problem was that that it fetched the mail but would not deliver

Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I had the same sort of problem Did you run eximconfig? The .fetchmailrc should also have a line mda "/usr/lib/sendmail -oem $USER" or something like that: do a man fetchmail My problem was that that it fetched the mail but would not deliver it to me. Your problem may be a little more serious. In t

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Revenant
Mounting an MS-DOS filesystem should work - I was doing that until I realised you could do VFAT. You'll just be without your long filenames. There is a Windows 'emulator' called "WINE" for Linux but it's not 100% reliable and is still listed as a developer's-only alpha release to the best of my k

Re: Name of "Select and Install Profiles" program?

1999-06-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:16:31PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > >> "KS" == Kevin Septor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KS> program pops up allowing you to choose between tasks or profiles > KS> and it then passes that info on to dselct so that you don't have > KS> to tool around with 200

problems with new Exim and Fetchmail

1999-06-25 Thread Pollywog
I cannot get Fetchmail to deliver mail now that I upgraded Exim to 3.02. The problem is with Exim or my DNS but I cannot figure out how to fix this. Any ideas? 1999-06-25 00:41:27 connection from [:::127.0.0.1] refused (:::127.0.0.1 does not match any IP address for localhost) 1999-06-25 0

Re: Accidentally deleted mouse! Please help!

1999-06-25 Thread Robert Pintarelli
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:05:53PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > I've now tried this and it didn't work. The drivers reappear, but when > I configure the mouse in XF86Setup the pointer refuses to respond. > > Does it make a difference that it is a PS/2 mouse? > > Thank you. > what says the driver,

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's > why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from > less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses > the alternate screen, and you can switch

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Kent West
Gentleman Loser wrote: > I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive with > linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my > webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell me one thing it > would be how i could carry these things over to linux. I

Re: SV: Getting there

1999-06-25 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, Except for people who try to understand the workings of computers, most computer users treat them as a tool. They learn how to use their applications, maybe to only 1/10th of capability, but enough for what they want to do. How many car drivers will do a full overhaul on the e

Re: X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
rathon wrote: > > Hello, > I never got a response for this request. Sorry for re-posting one more > time. > Rathon. I have the same card and I'm using version 3.3.3 of X and the G200 is supported. To upgrade place the following in your sources.list file is /etc/apt/: deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/