Re: Qmail

1999-08-06 Thread Michael Fox
I have to say I like qmail, suits my needs. Great! Stay with it. Learning a new MTA is enough of a pain that I would never tell someone to drop one they like just because I prefer something different. I learned qmail because I ran screaming from sendmail and I was attracted to the small size and

Port Scanning

1999-08-06 Thread Stephan Weaver
I was just wondering if portscanning was illegal? Stephan Weaver _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Qmail

1999-08-06 Thread debian
I agree even in source form installing qmail on debian is a breeze As mentioned earlier, do to it's license that does not allow the distibution of binaries it will problally never be a part of the qmail disttribution. The packager of qmail has done a wonderful job of setting up the compile

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1999-08-06 Thread alsq12
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Re: gtk-config

1999-08-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Stephen == Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen How so? I've been running unstable since last Dec and I have Stephen yet to have any serious problems. glibc2.1 broke java, and I Stephen had to rebuild liburi-perl to get netscape to install, but Stephen other than that, my system has

Re: Problem running Corel WP

1999-08-06 Thread jbouchar
I had the same problem and didn't fix it yet. I went to the Word Perfect web site a while ago and if you click around you will find a Linux support page with a newsgroup. In reading the postings you will find that several other people have the same problem. My recollection is that the experts

where is summary of rpm! No, .deb!! No, .rpm!!!?

1999-08-06 Thread Russell Nelson
Is there a cogent summary somewhere of the arguments for/against Debian switching to (and presumably fixing any problems with) .rpm packaging? -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant

vmware on debian

1999-08-06 Thread debian
Anyone managed to install vmware via the vmware install perl script and actually get it to work and make modules for its devices. I get erros on install about my kernel version.. Anyone care to give me some help/hints on getting it to install cleanly. And work.

Re: SoundCard [Bit of a Rant]

1999-08-06 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, camiel coenen wrote: I have been setting up my Debian 2.1 system (kernel 2.2.5), and have progressed quite well. The only problem is my soundcard, which is a soundblaster-clone: ES1869 from ESS Technology. I have read the HOWTO on sound, but I still don't know where to

Re: where is summary of rpm! No, .deb!! No, .rpm!!!?

1999-08-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Is there a cogent summary somewhere of the arguments for/against Debian switching to (and presumably fixing any problems with) .rpm packaging? I think it basically came down to two points - The only reason to use RPMs is to be able to install

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-06 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 11:28:28AM +1000, debian wrote: Anyone managed to install vmware via the vmware install perl script and actually get it to work and make modules for its devices. I get erros on install about my kernel version.. Anyone care to give me some help/hints on getting it to

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-06 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised

stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Daniel Yang
When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to stop it. Thanks Daniel

what's the difference of netscape and navigator browser

1999-08-06 Thread Daniel Yang
I looked around web browsers and found Netscape and Navigator. I don't what is the difference between them. Eventually I installed Navigator, but I still don't know if I installed the right one. Is there a document describing web browsers and configuration? Thanks Daniel

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote: When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to stop it. Be sure the following packages are not installed on your system: xdm gdm wdm kdm There are probably others, but unless you

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Patrick Olson
If you remove the package 'xdm' it will have to stop doing that. I'm not sure it that's the recommended way or not. Or you could hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 when X it starts. That leaves X running, but switches you to another virtual terminal that is not running X. On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote:

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Aug-99 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote: When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to stop it. Be sure the following packages are not installed on your system: xdm gdm wdm kdm

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exim as MTA for a ppp machine how?

1999-08-06 Thread Britton
I have been trying to get exim to work correctly to send mail again. When I do mh-send and eventually C-c C-c from the emacs interface to nmh I get: fsblk at aurora.alaska.edu: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator post: 1 addressee undeliverable send:

Re: what's the difference of netscape and navigator browser

1999-08-06 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:04:09PM -0500, Daniel Yang wrote: I looked around web browsers and found Netscape and Navigator. I don't what is the difference between them. Eventually I installed Navigator, but I still don't know if I installed the right one. Is there a document describing web

miror package in potato

1999-08-06 Thread Oz Dror
The potato mirror package is not up to date. apt-get insists on removing it becuase of dependency on perl is this correct? -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126

Kick Bill's Butt

1999-08-06 Thread Alan Snider
Right now Linus Torvalds is #15 in Time Mag's Survey person of the centory, Bill Gates is #16 Kick Bill's Butt .. log in and vote for Linus Torvalds at: http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html Alan Snider

Guile/gnucash install problem

1999-08-06 Thread Bek Oberin
Trying to install gnucash, this is what happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# apt-get install gnucash Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, gnucash is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 125 not upgraded. 2 packages not

Fetchmail and Exim - 554 SMTP service not available

1999-08-06 Thread npardo
: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PD:: I can collect mail via smtp from Demon Internet, I can also PD:: collect mail from Demon and other IPs using fetchmail and PD:: Procmail. I can't seem to get Fetchmail to hand mail on to PD:: Exim

damn glib

1999-08-06 Thread wonko
i installed glib1.2.3 but gtk+ says cannot find glib1.2.3 anyway what do i do?

Re: slink problems

1999-08-06 Thread goswin . brederlow
From: Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: Many other suggestions have been made to solve the problem. It is not easy. You have to find: - a good scheme (think of X11-only installers, without a tty), - implement it (i.e. modify 3000 packages'

Re: apache-ssl and virtual hosts

1999-08-06 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, How can I use virtual hosts on the SSL port in apache? here is a snipplet from my httpd.conf that works for me. Regards, Thomas # Port 443 Listen 137.248.9.9:443 Port 80 Listen 137.248.9.9:80 NameVirtualHost 137.248.9.9:80 VirtualHost

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-06 Thread Keith001
Hi, The problem basically is that I want to be able to specify three things: - root filesystem after Linux has booted - the device to write boot table to - the device for lilo to use at booting to read the kernels etc. And I only have `root=' and `boot=' arguments to specify all three.

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I wrote: Does anyone know how fast is a PIII, say 500MHz? How does it compare to PII or Celeron? http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,391810,00.html says it's only 8% faster than PII at same clock speed when running business apps on Windows. If anyone has Linux

Re: Fetchmail and Exim - 554 SMTP service not available

1999-08-06 Thread Phillip Deackes
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uhm try: exim: ALL in /etc/hosts.allow and then kill -HUP `pidof inetd` Note that those are ` (backticks) not ' (single quote). And then try again. If that fails, see if there s ia reason noted in /var/log/exim/mainlog,

Re: Fetchmail and Exim - CRACKED IT!!

1999-08-06 Thread Phillip Deackes
George - I've cracked it! I have been scoring my /etc/exim.conf file just changing odd things and remming out others, and I noticed the following: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 300 # Option rewritten by convert4r3 host_reject = ! 192.168.1.0/24 : \ ! 194.217.242.0/24 : \ * No

Re: most: cannot display *.gz files

1999-08-06 Thread Matthias Murra
I came in in the middle of this thread, I don't know who I should be talking to here. I was the one who originally started the thread. :) I can view any file with most file, except for gzipped files. Whenever I try that, I get file: failed to open for reading. Hmm, I'm

printing again

1999-08-06 Thread Jocke
I am sorry to ask again but I am really stuck here. If anyone has a working system with an epson stylus color 740 printer I would be very grateful for some help. I would like something like 4 settings. 1: draft text mode 2: high quality text 3: draft pictures 4: high quality pictures I really

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Keith001 wrote: BTW, does anyone have an idea about how to use different fstab at bootup - by using a boot parameter for instance? The idea is to be Not possible. /etc/fstab is read by mount, which is called by the startup scripts. You can, of course, modify the scripts

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complet

1999-08-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyways, I want to set up something, so that whatever apt-get downloads is stuc k into a proper hierachy like the mirrors do, and possibly a package file as well. That way, when I want to reinstall, I just install whatever off the CD, and upgrade to

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complet

1999-08-06 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:09:55PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyways, I want to set up something, so that whatever apt-get downloads is stuc k into a proper hierachy like the mirrors do, and possibly a package file as well. That way, when I

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:48:05AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software. IIRC, the 2nd level

Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager

1999-08-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I verified it: my .xsession-errors stays empty :-(. Under gdm/Gnome your errors go to .gnome-errors and/or .gnomerc-errors (couldn't figure out when which file is used ...) instead of .xsession-errors. You should set debugging on in the gdm.conf

Support for ADAC ultra 2 pci RAID controller

1999-08-06 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi Anyone knows if the upper mentioned beast has any supoprt in linux. I tend to believe that it hasn't but maybe someonehas got it to work with some other controller's drivers... Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Install problem...

1999-08-06 Thread Umut Ceyhan
I have 2 Debian CDs. Can anyone tell me how I can install Debian with them. The two CDs are Rescue CDs ??? None of them can boot properly, it cannot pass the step of recognizing ATAPI CDROM drive. Where is install CD ??? I need help... Thanks lot... Umut Ceyhan

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:27:25PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:48:05AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful for 3D stuff and

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
The only difference between a PII and a PIII at the same clock speed that I know of are the extra `SSE' instructions that are mainly useful for 3D stuff and maybe some other floating point intensive software. IIRC, the 2nd level cache of the Pentium III is running at the same speed as the

Re: 2.2.x kernel and PCI eth0 problem - the answer

1999-08-06 Thread Rupert Brooks
Thanks Jor-el, I upgraded dhcpcd and netbase and it works like a charm. The fact that 2.2 kernels require an upgrade is documented in the release notes section on www.debian.org. (Yes I am embarrassed - I should have caught that myself) Thanks also to Paul Wade, who also dropped me a helpful

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The PII is built on an older process than the PIII. The PIII-450 is the slowest member of the PIII family, while the PII-450 is the fastest. As a result yields on the PII450 are much smaller than that of the PIII450.This will explain why the PII-450 costs a little more than the PIII-450.

Re: Support for ADAC ultra 2 pci RAID controller

1999-08-06 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: Hi Anyone knows if the upper mentioned beast has any supoprt in linux. I tend to believe that it hasn't but maybe someonehas got it to work with some other controller's drivers... Found it! It's the Ami megaRAID driver -- Mario Filipe

Re: exim as MTA for a ppp machine how?

1999-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 07:30:50PM -0800, Britton wrote: fsblk at aurora.alaska.edu: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prohibited by administrator post: 1 addressee undeliverable send: message not delivered to anyone Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? I

Re: Install problem...

1999-08-06 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Umut Ceyhan wrote: I have 2 Debian CDs. Can anyone tell me how I can install Debian with them. The two CDs are Rescue CDs ??? None of them can boot properly, it cannot pass the step of recognizing ATAPI CDROM drive. Where is install CD Hi, could you anyhow give us the

Re: [OT] How fast is a PIII?

1999-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:21:09AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The PIII streaming MMX instructions were designed for realtime video. Don't know if the gcc compiler supports them yet, or if any mpeg or They're supported by binutils and you can use them in inline assembly, but gcc has no

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote: When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to stop it. On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: If you remove the package 'xdm' it will have to stop doing that. I'm not sure it that's the recommended way or not.

SB16 PnP CD-ROM - proprietary or IDE?

1999-08-06 Thread JARDINE, Jeff
I apologize for the consumption of bandwidth. I have queried the distributor from whom I purchased Debian for support, but this particular problem appears to be quite specific and I'm hoping someone on the list may have already encountered it. Here are two lines from the CD-ROM howto: If you

Re: Install problem...

1999-08-06 Thread Umut Ceyhan
Opsss... 1. CD : /.disk /boot /dists /doc /install /tools debian Readme.1st README.CD-man... etc. 2. CD : /.disk /boot /dists /doc /extras debian Readme.1st README.CD-man... ... Release-Notes When I boot with them, I saw that these were RESCUE CDs. Where are the install CDs ??? On Fri, 6 Aug

Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Julian Stoev
Hi! I want to ask if it is safe to upgrade slink's libc-2.0 to potato's libc-2.1. Are there some slink packages dependent specifically on libc2.0, which would not work with libc-2.1? I installed kernel 2.2.10 and I would like to be able to grab some sources from potato and compile them. But

Re: Install problem...

1999-08-06 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Umut Ceyhan wrote: Opsss... 1. CD : /.disk /boot /dists /doc /install /tools debian Readme.1st README.CD-man... etc. OK as far I can see, they are the ones You will need. 1) Now in the directory /install you will find for example: install.html which is a

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
dpkg --purge xdm works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm. Hmmm... I was thinking of a workaround that *may* work fine... what if you just remove the ¨xdm¨ script from the /etc/init.d folder (and the links in the /etc/rc.# folders, also)? This should do the trick *without*

Re: SB16 PnP CD-ROM - proprietary or IDE?

1999-08-06 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Here's a scenario. I boot up DOS, along with the PnP drivers, so my soundcard and CD-ROM work fine. Then I soft boot using my Linux boot disk. During boot up, I observe these messages: hdh: Matshita CR-581 ATAPI CD-ROM drive ide3 at 0x168-0x16f, 0x36e on irq 10 These messages do *not*

Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Julian Stoev
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Julian Stoev wrote: Hi! I installed kernel 2.2.10 and I would like to be able to grab some sources from potato and compile them. But some package sources depend on kernel headers for 2.2.x and don't compile

Re: Problem running Corel WP

1999-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
WordPerfect requires libc5, while Debian uses libc6 in version 2.1 and up. However, for compatibility with libc5 applications, Debian also provides libc5 packages in such a way that they will not break your system. To run WP (I use WP7, but this applies to WP8 also), you need to install three of

Diald Setup

1999-08-06 Thread Charles Gates
I've installed the diald package, but I can't get it to work properly. There are two problems: 1) diald won't dial unless I have previously started the connection with pon (it gives an error, www.whatever.com not found). Once I have started the connection with pon (and closed it with poff), diald

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just install it with the install.pl script. It complains about the module versions and then creates new ones. I didn't have to do anything special, as I recall. I just upgraded last week and it also went smoothly, with the new modules being created by the script. I am running it on potato.

Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
I want to ask if it is safe to upgrade slink's libc-2.0 to potato's libc-2.1. Are there some slink packages dependent specifically on libc2.0, which would not work with libc-2.1? Well... I'd say for 99% of the people I know the glibc2.1 worked wonderfully, and they're very happy with it...

Re: vmware on debian

1999-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 05:26:27AM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 11:28:28AM +1000, debian wrote: Anyone managed to install vmware via the vmware install perl script and actually get it to work and make modules for its devices. I get erros on install about my kernel

Re: miror package in potato

1999-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
Not all of the potato packages have been updated to the latest perl, which causes a few headaches. It's almost there. Check the archives for more information on this. Bob On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:33:05PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote: The potato mirror package is not up to date. apt-get insists on

Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Julian Stoev wrote: Do you want run 2.2.10 in slink? Or you want other packages from potato, that aren't related to kernel? If you want just 2.2.10, go to Debian page and look for Installation instructions. There are instruction on how to run 2.2.10 on Slink as well

RE: damn glib

1999-08-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Aug-99 wonko wrote: i installed glib1.2.3 but gtk+ says cannot find glib1.2.3 anyway what do i do? Make sure it is really installed: $ dpkg -l | grep glib Did you install it from source or a deb package? -- Andrew

using ccmalloc

1999-08-06 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i use ccmalloc to track memory leaks? I tried to use it as writen in the file USAGE in the docs, on a new with no delete (to see how it works). But i got nothing. I tried: gcc -lg++ -stdc++ -lccmaloc -ldl test.C gcc -lccmalloc -ldl test.C g++ -lccmalloc -ldl test.C trying -lccmalloc.o or

WYSE-50

1999-08-06 Thread MRCE
Hi, Not a very sophisticated question, but does anyone know how to stop the beep that comes with every keystroke on the WYSE-50 dummy terminal? [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS!

Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Julian Stoev
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Julian Stoev wrote: Do you want run 2.2.10 in slink? Or you want other packages from potato, that aren't related to kernel? If you want just 2.2.10, go to Debian page and look for Installation instructions.

lp.o and HP 540 Printer

1999-08-06 Thread Dave Dash
I'm using the 2.2.10 kernel with the parport module running, but I have no clue as to how to get the lp.o module running so I can print. Currently I can't do echo test /dev/lp0 (or lp1 or lp2) because it results in an error and says those devices don't exist. Thanks, -dd ===

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting dpkg --purge xdm works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm. Hmmm... I was thinking of a workaround that *may* work fine... what if you just remove the ¨xdm¨ script from the

Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Julian Stoev
Thank you. This is OK for me. BTW, which applications you use, which depend on libc20? Is it matlab or what? Mathematica people were wise to compile their 3.0 version static. --JS On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: I want to ask if it is safe to upgrade slink's libc-2.0 to

Re: Is it safe to upgrade slink to libc-2.1 from potato

1999-08-06 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Thank you. This is OK for me. BTW, which applications you use, which depend on libc20? Is it matlab or what? Mathematica people were wise to compile their 3.0 version static. Well... unfortunately (did I REALLY say that? ;-) it's not a commercial suite, but a freeware group-developed suite

RE: damn glib

1999-08-06 Thread Allan Neal
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 06-Aug-99 wonko wrote: i installed glib1.2.3 but gtk+ says cannot find glib1.2.3 anyway what do i do? Make sure it is really installed: $ dpkg -l | grep glib Did you install it from source or a deb package? -- Andrew -- If you are

Java 'n' Netscape

1999-08-06 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, all. Well, after gritting my teeth about the java40.jar not found message I see every time I hit a Java-fied website, I decided to investigate. Forsooth, there wasn't a java40.jar anywhere on my Debian installation. It shows up on my (dusty) RH 6.0 dist, but not on the Debian side of

X window resolution extremely low

1999-08-06 Thread Lev Lvovsky
hello, I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems with the resolution of X...it's horribly low. I'd say 300x240. I've run xf86setup multiple times (with different setups) to no avail. I think that hte problem may lie in the fact that it's a non-standard vid card,

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): *- On 6 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting dpkg --purge xdm works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm. Hmmm... I was thinking of a workaround that *may* work fine... what

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Aug, David Wright wrote about Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): *- On 6 Aug, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote about Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting dpkg --purge xdm works for my 2.1 system. Then you must

Dial in server

1999-08-06 Thread David Warnock
Hi, We want to setup a machine on our lan so I can dial in from home and gain access to my mail, cvs etc. I will also want to access the internet in this way (calls from home to office are free, home to internet is not). My wife will also want to be able to connect from home but she will be

V toolkit

1999-08-06 Thread Micha Feigin
How is the V toolkit for writing graphical apps? Is it better to use it to write apps under gnome to maintain portability? Any other toolkits that are also portable to windows? Is it also portable to other unix platforms? Can the code be staticly linked so it will run on platforms not having it

Re: X window resolution extremely low

1999-08-06 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems with the resolution of X...it's horribly low. I'd say 300x240.(...) the vid card unit is a SiS620 (if I'm correct)...with, what I believe is 8MB RAM (anyway for me to check this?) Welll... good and bad news... the

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Matt Kopishke
It's really pretty simple, just coment out the 'start-xdm' line in your /etc/X11/config You don't need to remove xdm, and I actuly would not recomend it, who knows you might want it someday... -Matt-

Re: WYSE-50

1999-08-06 Thread David Kane-Parry
MRCE wrote: Not a very sophisticated question, but does anyone know how to stop the beep that comes with every keystroke on the WYSE-50 dummy terminal? I guess the not-very-sophisticated answer would be to rip out it's speaker. - d.

Re: Install problem...

1999-08-06 Thread Thomas
Also, if you have a dos boot disk you can run the install directly from the CD without making install floppies by booting into DOS and then running [debian_cd:]\install\boot.bat - Original Message - From: virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Umut Ceyhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian

SoundCardKernel: Problem 2

1999-08-06 Thread Camiel Coenen
I managed to get my SoundCard to work, by loading the sound module (with modconf) and configuring the isapnp.conf file.Then Irebooted my computer and ,surprisingly, thebooting of the modules hampered when it tried to load the sound module,so I was stuck in the middle of the booting process.

mirroring a part of the archive

1999-08-06 Thread Sami Dalouche
I want to grab the entire debian archive except the arch which are not i386. So, I want to take the binary-i386, binary-all, the source and all the unecessary stuff (readmes, tools...) What's the best way to do that ? -- |. ICQ : 25529539 || |\ | |

difference between /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin

1999-08-06 Thread Sami Dalouche
I don't understand the difference between these 2 directories. Thinking logicaly, I could say that /usr/X11R6/bin is for the executables that need X and /usr/bin is for the others executables running under the console. But there are a lot of X programs under /usr/bin : ex. : gnome-* imlib_config

SoundCardKernel: Problem 2

1999-08-06 Thread Camiel Coenen
Subject: SoundCardKernel: Problem 2 I managed to get my SoundCard to work, by loading the sound module (with modconf) and configuring the isapnp.conf file.Then Irebooted my computer and ,surprisingly, thebooting of the modules hampered when it tried to load the sound module,so I was stuck

Esound and vmware

1999-08-06 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I tried to start vmware with the esddsp wrapper, but vmware still complains that it can't access /dev/dsp. Did anyone find a solution to this? Thanks and have a nice weekend! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key

RE: Java 'n' Netscape

1999-08-06 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Which communicator did you install? I got got ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_l ibc5/complete_install/communicator-v461-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz, and it properly created all the java stuff for me. Move it to

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Matt Kopishke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's really pretty simple, just coment out the 'start-xdm' line in your /etc/X11/config I think you may not be running slink, but hamm or previous. That file disappeared in the Great X Reorganisation. (Sorry, -zation.) You don't need to remove

Re: Port Scanning

1999-08-06 Thread Nathan Duehr
Depends on where you live. Usually yes. In Colorado, USA it's a misdemeanor crime. On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Stephan Weaver wrote: I was just wondering if portscanning was illegal? Stephan Weaver _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Nathan Duehr
You probably have the XDM package installed, which defaults your system to starting an X server and running XDM for you. On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote: When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to stop it. Thanks Daniel

Re: X window resolution extremely low

1999-08-06 Thread Andrei Ivanov
hello, I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems with the resolution of X...it's horribly low. I'd say 300x240. I've run xf86setup multiple times (with different setups) to no avail. I think that hte problem may lie in the fact that it's a non-standard vid

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

1999-08-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Aug, Matt Kopishke wrote about Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting It's really pretty simple, just coment out the 'start-xdm' line in your /etc/X11/config You don't need to remove xdm, and I actuly would not recomend it, who knows you might want it someday...

can't mount CR-563 cdrom

1999-08-06 Thread damiaan
hi, when i try to install the sbpcd-module in the installation program i get following message: eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution script:cd /dev rm -f cdrom ln -s sbpcd0 cdrom eval:1:syntax error: eof in backquote substitution installation succeeded i have no

Re: difference between /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin

1999-08-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Aug, Sami Dalouche wrote about difference between /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin I don't understand the difference between these 2 directories. Thinking logicaly, I could say that /usr/X11R6/bin is for the executables that need X and /usr/bin is for the others executables running

Re: Fetchmail and Exim - CRACKED IT!!

1999-08-06 Thread Mark Wagnon
George, I haven't been following this thread too closely, but I too decided to set up mail using the LG tutorial. My goal was to be able to use Netscape Mail to read and compose messages. All I did (after completing the tutorial) was make my local machine my smtp and pop3 server. Netscape would

Re: dselect dependencies

1999-08-06 Thread Paul Nesbit
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 01:31:42AM -0400, Paul Nesbit wrote: ... I've tried continuing anyways but I get this message: Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies libc6-dev: depends libc6 (libc6 IS installed!) perl:

Perl without DB and NDBM

1999-08-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, (2nd try) I'm needing a perl binary w/o -ldb and -lndbm in order to run Sybperl. Should be possible to use the deb sources to do this? I would like to have a perl.deb and not a /usr/local/bin/perl. If yes, how? And, if I do this, are there some essential programs that

Re: Fetchmail and Exim - CRACKED IT!!

1999-08-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Aug, Mark Wagnon wrote about Re: Fetchmail and Exim - CRACKED IT!! send a message, I couldn't. I can't remember the exact error message (and I'm not logged into my Debian box at the moment), but I think it may have been related to not being able to relay the message. Would adding

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