Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I don't suppose you would be so kind as to outline the steps you took? I really don't hate gnome or anything (prefer it to kde) and might want to put it back sometime... you sound like you have some experience at this... thanks! I just waded through the dselect package list, hitting "-

Re: your mail

1999-10-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
jh said: > Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and > missing it? Something like dos "/p"? By using a pager such as more. (There are others out there. I usually use less and there's also one I haven't gotten around to trying named most.) If you're just reading

yamaha sound card support in kernel

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
how do i include yahama sound card support in 2.0.36 (original kernel that came with slink)? I have a new yamaha 32-bit sound card that I want to use. -gnana

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble with it. -Todd ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and a entry in sources.list pointing to an unstable archive. At 04:33

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
> Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but > I have been using potato for a while now will little or no problems, > and it works a lot better in many ways, at least for me. I am running slink but I want to upgrade to potato. How do I go about? What is the best way? -gnana

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
Slink is the current stable debian release version, which is 2.1 Potato is the current unstable release version, which is due to be released before the end of the year, god willing. :) Often you will see Slink = Stable, Potato = Unstable, but I have been using potato for a while now will little

debian-sparc xfree

1999-10-17 Thread Marcin Kurc
Is there a way to change color depth and resolution on sparc station using debian? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

slink and potato

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Wong
Wha are slink and potato? -Ben Wong, Keeper of the Squish, Breaker of Sailboats, and Aggravator of Cysts "A closed mouth gathers no feet." -Lee Silva ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and fre

ok to move /home to /raid/home

1999-10-17 Thread Charles Lewis
Trying to set up a samba server for administrative use and since all my space is on the raid volume (/raid) I thought it would be a good idea to move /home to that volume, but being new to linux I'm not sure what kind of implications that would have. Anyone see any problems with this?

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread Samuel Varghese
you can turn it off by merely typing in the word "halt" when you are logged in as root. wait for the words "power down" to appear and then turn off your computer. sam On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Dean wrote: > Hi Jeff, > I'm rather new also, but in order to use you will > have to > enter that into so

Function Keys, MC and Telnet/SSH

1999-10-17 Thread Todd Suess
Greetings ppl, I have recently started to use Midnight Commander a lot on my consoles, but if I telnet/ssh into my box remotely, I can't seem to get a lot of the function keys to work. I have played with termtypes and such, but anything in the VT series in particular seems to function with PF1

Re: Compiling and using c librarys (.a and .so)

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I compile and use both static and dinamic libraries under linux? Static: gcc -c foo.c gcc -c bar.c ar rv libfoo.a foo.o bar.o Dynamic: gcc -c -fpic foo.c gcc -c -fpic bar.c gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.1 -o libfoo.so.1.0 foo.o b

Re: hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-17 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi > > Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of > your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there > any software which can measure hard drive performance? I've used it, and it worked well. I think I've maxed the performance out on my d

Re: nfs + setgid problem

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Dietrich Clauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a workstation pool with the home dirs shared over NFS. The home dirs > are sgid by default in debian, so if a user creates a directory readable by > himself only, it becomes sgid too. (KDE's "Desktop" directory is an example > for that, it gets m

Re: dselect can not allocate memory

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > # free > Swap: 1980 1320 660 This is *not* enough swap space, especially on a 16MB machine. > I suppose that I need to increase the swap space, but I am not sure. I > don't know how to do it without reinstalling the whole thing

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
Phil Brutsche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Another possibility: this thing has so much proprietary hardware, and > designed to work with Win9x so closely, you'd be fighting a lost cause to > get anything but Win9x running. I have Linux running on an HP Pavilion. But I'm using it as a server; I d

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

1999-10-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
John D Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone out thar, installed Linux onto a HP 8130, and if so, can they > perhaps enlighten me as to how to tell the BIOS how to manually address a > PCI network card. > You will appreciate that a eth0 is a handy thing to have nowadays :-) Is this an HP

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Please put plank lines between the quoted text and repies, it makes things easier to find On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, John wrote: > I've now discovered that my Debian CD-ROM contains kernel-source- > 2.2.1 under the devel directory. Can I not use this? I'd like to avo

Re: need a linux book

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
there is a new book from o reilley (sp?) based on debian. i ordered it last week (34.95 inc cd) and told the other admins i work with to do the same. there is an "online" version too..buy it! support the project(profits go to the project) nate [mailto:[EM

Re: your mail

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
try pipe to more i.e. ls | more nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://w

Re: Hello World!

1999-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Quoc Nguyen writes: > I am a very novice linux user. I don't want to be a nuisance if this > mailing list is not for novice users. It is. You are allowed to ask anything, as long as it is relevant to Debian (or at least Linux). Ask away. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the pub

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing > dependencies for program design. > Any good programs available for the job? You could try the old and trusty xfig or the new and flashy dia. Xfig is already available for slink and potato in ever

hdparm - hard disk tuning

1999-10-17 Thread zdrysdal
Hi Has anyone had any experience using hdparm to increase the performance of your ide hard drives? Does it work and are there any drawbacks? Is there any software which can measure hard drive performance? thanx

Re: dselect

1999-10-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 11:18:35AM -0700, Quoc Nguyen wrote: > I am trying to install apache with dselect. I get an error message like > this: > > ERROR: apacheconfig could not be run. It may be the wrong version, or > perl may not be fully configured yet. > > Any insights? as root: chmod +x

Re: motif qt and gtk

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Just to clarify: GTK is C based, but language bindings/wrappers exist for several languages (check http://www.gnome.org) , including C++. The C++ wrapper is called GTK--. Bryan On 17-Oct-99 Salman Ahmed wrote: >> "MF" == Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MF> I am looking

Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing dependencies for program design. Any good programs available for the job? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slink to potato

1999-10-17 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
is it time for potato? If yes, how? apt-get? I am running debian 2.1r3. -gnana

Re: kernel upgrade options - follow-up

1999-10-17 Thread John
on 16 Oct 99, Brad wrote... > >On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, John wrote: > >> It seems an opportunity to upgrade to 2.2.7, and etc, etc > >i'd recommend 2.2.12 (the latest), although 2.2.7 might be my second >choice. > I've now discovered that my Debian CD-ROM contains kernel-source- 2.2.1 under the devel

motif qt and gtk

1999-10-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking to start some graphic programing and the folowing toolkits are those that look most apropraite for serious user interfaces and graphics. I was wondering how apropriate each of them is for writing serious programs, and if anyone can give me a comparison, or point me to information conce

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread kaynjay
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/17/99 at 09:37 AM, "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend >on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those >packages too (generally gnome-*) to really purge GNO

Oops!

1999-10-17 Thread Quoc Nguyen
Hello All: I made a mistake. I tried to install apache development. Disregard the dselect email sent out earlier. I will try to find some documentation on dselect and figure it out. Thanks again, Quoc

Re: dselect

1999-10-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Have you tried adding the CD to /etc/apt/sources.list and then just apt-get install apache?

Re: problem with sound-module

1999-10-17 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: > It's driving my crazy. Why doesn't it work anymore? > warande1124:/etc# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=1 mpu_io=-1 > /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io > /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o > failed

Compiling and using c librarys (.a and .so)

1999-10-17 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I compile and use both static and dinamic libraries under linux? Any good tutorial on the subject? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect

1999-10-17 Thread Quoc Nguyen
I am trying to install apache with dselect. I get an error message like this: ERROR: apacheconfig could not be run. It may be the wrong version, or perl may not be fully configured yet. Any insights? Thanks in advance, Quoc

RE: problem with sound-module

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Just fixed this one! It turns out, that during a routine "apt-get upgrade", the packages kernel-source and kernel-headers were updated from 2.2.12-3 to 2.2.12-4. Since the module loading depends on the header files (I believe), and those had changed (slightly), I had to rebuild the kernel. All is

need a linux book

1999-10-17 Thread jh
Just a brief question. Do you guys think it is necessary to buy a debian specific book on linux or just a linux book in general? Do regular linux books cover topics like dselect? I live in a very small community and will need to buy online, so I can't browse. Thanks, Jeff

problem with sound-module

1999-10-17 Thread Michiel Meeuwissen
It's driving my crazy. Why doesn't it work anymore? warande1124:/etc# modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=1 mpu_io=-1 /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: ins

Hello World!

1999-10-17 Thread Quoc Nguyen
Hello everyone: I am a very novice linux user. I don't want to be a nuisance if this mailing list is not for novice users. So, if(novice_users != usethismailinglist){ reply_with_aGET_the_hell_out_email; } else{ let_a_noviceKNOW_what_he_is_allowed_to_ask; } Thanks, Quoc

RE: Smail help needed from newbie

1999-10-17 Thread Paul McHale
Abdul, I had a similar problem with exim. It complained about relaying mail when I tried to send mail through it using Outlook on a networked PC. I would recommend re-running exim.conf. Try selecting another option at the first question, server type. This took care of the problem for me. -pau

Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH

1999-10-17 Thread David Coe
Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent > a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up > empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU > docs. What I quoted is from the 'gnus' package docs. gnus is an

Mail message-id uniqueness filter?

1999-10-17 Thread Bruce J. Perens
I have my debian system forwarding filtered mail to the Palm VII. I would like to have the filter discard duplicate messages. Does a meseage-ID filter implementation exist? ?Thanks ?Bruce

Re: Mounting problems

1999-10-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote: : This is confusing the hell out of me: : : I want to allow a user, AND ONLY THAT USER, to mount CD's and floppys. : We'll call him 'bob'. I added 'bob' to the groups floppy and cdrom. : adduser bob floppy : adduser bob cdrom :

Re: X server crashes....

1999-10-17 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Fatal server error: > > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > Signal 11 is a segmentation fault. This is what I suggest: > > 1) Re-install the X server binary. It might have gotten munge

Mounting problems

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
This is confusing the hell out of me: I want to allow a user, AND ONLY THAT USER, to mount CD's and floppys. We'll call him 'bob'. I added 'bob' to the groups floppy and cdrom. adduser bob floppy adduser bob cdrom my mount points are: /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0 vfat de

Re: where are the word processor debs

1999-10-17 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Charles Lewis wrote: > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 15:51:35 -0500 > From: Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Subject: where are the word processor debs > Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:52:30 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipi

Re: Problems with SB 64 AWE

1999-10-17 Thread Gregory T. Norris
You probably need to install and/or configure isapnptools to handle the plug 'n pray portion. Most likely you'll need to setup some module parameters as well. I can email you the configuration settings I'm using for both of the above, if you'd like. You'll probably have to adapt them somewhat, b

Re: Smail help needed from newbie

1999-10-17 Thread Abdul Aziz
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > How far does the mail get before it bounces? (does it get to your ISP's mail > server?) It could be that your machine name is not a valid domain name, and > therefore DNS confirmation fails. Thanks for the reply - it does not get to the ISP's mail server but

hwclock and fear of rebooting

1999-10-17 Thread David J. Kanter
I'm nervous about rebooting my machine because I have used the hwclock program to set the RTC to an atomic clock, and am waiting a couple of weeks to set it again and calculate the drift. (Eventually, I'll set up the hwclock to make adjustments to the system clock using adjtimex.) Anyway, if I reb

My broken iceconf

1999-10-17 Thread David J. Kanter
I have Slink, but update the icewm and iceconf packages. Now when I run iceconf, I get this error message: Can't locate object method "add_with_viewport" via package "Gtk::ScrolledWindow" at /usr/bin/iceconf line 312 Until I updated iceconf and icewm, this didn't happen. -- David J. Kanter [EMAI

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread iehrenwald
> If you have an ATX case and motherboard, "shutdown -h -p now" or the > shorter "poweroff" also turns power down. You should have compiled > your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work. Note: If you are on a SMP machine, APM will break things badly. So don't use it then.

RE: success for the mitsumi cdrom painintheneck guy

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Sorry I didn't post sooner. I'm trying to get caught up with my mail. You didn't need to set the jumpers back to their defaults. you could have them set to anything. you just need to know what they're set to. I have my mcd at 0x340, IRQ 10. In my /etc/modutils/modules I added the line:

Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH

1999-10-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent > a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up > empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU > docs. This documentation isn't part of any 'GNU

Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU docs. Bryan On 17-Oct-99 David Coe wrote: > Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd like to create a

RE: proftpd/wuftpd bug - my first post

1999-10-17 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Aaah, Now it makes sense. I would suggest gettin on the proftpd mailing list. They've been cranking out a new release about once a week. If you submitted a bug a week or more ago, it's probably already implemented. The debian package maintainer for proftpd is usually pretty good about getting u

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread Patrick Kirk
Just typing "halt" works on slink. It seems to have all the correct aliases in now. - Original Message - From: jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, 17 October 1999 2:51 Subject: turning your computer off > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read >

Re: HELP: Free space zero no matter what

1999-10-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:57:39PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: >> Okay, I'm back and running, and I figured out my problem. ext2 filesystems >> have reserved blocks, though I don't know what they're for. It see

Re: X server crashes....

1999-10-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > My X server crashes on a consistent basis without any apparent > reason. > > Here is the output(useful parts) of my 'startx -- -bpp 16 >& errors' > command , [snip] > (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1152x864 > (--) SVGA:

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread David Z. Maze
tf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: tf> Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four tf> of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those p

Re: anyone use FireMail?

1999-10-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Oct-99 George Bonser wrote: > > Yes, you can use lookups from external files in the rules, you must have > had the syntax wrong. I know I can have external files for lookups done from exim.conf but I attempted it from my system and central filters and it did not work, not for the "Receive

Re: nosuid option for '/'?

1999-10-17 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> > And if nosuid is -> > a good thing for this system, can it be implemented for the -> > /home directories only, without doing it for the whole / directory? -> -> Being that nosuid is a mount option, this would be quite easy to do if -> your /home was a separate partition, which I assume it is

nfs + setgid problem

1999-10-17 Thread Dietrich Clauss
Hello. I have a workstation pool with the home dirs shared over NFS. The home dirs are sgid by default in debian, so if a user creates a directory readable by himself only, it becomes sgid too. (KDE's "Desktop" directory is an example for that, it gets mode "rwx--S---".) The nfs server (I user kn

EsounD trouble (second try)

1999-10-17 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
(repost of my previous message -- accidentally used reply-to to an unrelated thread in the mailing list -- probably missed everyone who has a threaded mail reader.) Can I use EsounD without GNOME/Enlightenment? I installed the esound package but I can't get anything to play via esd. The only thin

user{add,del} with PAM and LDAP

1999-10-17 Thread Tuomas Toivonen
I have succesfully configured user authentication on a potato box against an LDAP directory with libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap. I was able to transfer existing users to LDAP ok, but adding or deleting users is a problem. Apparently user{add,del} do not support PAM (maybe this adding and deleting use

Re: my root filesystem is 21.6% non-contiguous...

1999-10-17 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> Is that bad? most of my other filesystems are in the 1.5% range. This -> seems to have happened after I through my /usr directory onto its own -> partition... shortly thereafter, I noticed that it was 20.9%. I thought -> that it may have been because I just moved a large chunk of it, but -> afte

Re: Problems with SB 64 AWE

1999-10-17 Thread Jonathan Heaney
Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hello! > > I've got a problem setting up a SB Awe 64 under Linux (kernel 2.2.5). I've > compiled the following support into it: > > Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support (CONFIG_SB) [Y/n/?] > Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support (CONFIG_ADLIB) [Y/n/?] > /de

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
jh wrote: > > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > in an online guide that you should press . When I do > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? Yo

Problems with SB 64 AWE

1999-10-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I've got a problem setting up a SB Awe 64 under Linux (kernel 2.2.5). I've compiled the following support into it: Sound Blaster (SB, SBPro, SB16, clones) support (CONFIG_SB) [Y/n/?] Generic OPL2/OPL3 FM synthesizer support (CONFIG_ADLIB) [Y/n/?] /dev/dsp and /dev/audio support (CONFIG_AUD

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
tf wrote: > >[snip] > > What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? Was this flame-bait really necessary? If you don't like it, don't use it. Either way, don't make a big deal about it. -- Ed C.

Re: Console messages and commands

1999-10-17 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! The "re-enter" command is the up-arrow-key. If you miss any messages, you can scroll up and down the console by shift+Pgup/Pgdown (don't really know how these keys are exactly called on an English kb-sorry), or you type | more. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message -

RESTORE YAHOO MESSANGER

1999-10-17 Thread sdd
I am trying to restore my yahoo messanger.PLEASE ADVISE

"etho: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000."

1999-10-17 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hello again! :) While trying to setup a dual celeron machine to run MASQ with a friend, we ran into an insurmountable problem. He has two D-LINK 530TX network cards, which are listed as supported on the SuSE.com webpage, and they seem to take the via-rhine module in 2.0 and 2.2 just fine, except

SOLVED: Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > I don't know what is happening exactly, but this is my setup: > > drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff1024 Oct 14 10:42 /home > drwxr-s--x 66 dwon dwon 5120 Oct 15 15:20 /home/dwon Amazing. Setting my permissions & owner on /home and /

Re: LaTeX? (was: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions)

1999-10-17 Thread shaul
> > Okay, where can I find a good tutorial on LaTeX? I want to get started in > it, but I don't know where to start. [10:27:15 /tmp]$ ls /usr/doc/texmf/latex/general/ a.ps guide.dvi.gz l2kurz.dvi.gz lshort.dvi.gz essential.dvi.gz guide.ps.gz latex2e.dvi.gz symbols.dvi.gz [10:

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-17 Thread shaul
I had a similar problem and I found the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO to be much helpful. I hope that such a reference is acceptable by you, though it is not a direct answer. Some few weeks ago someone replied to me quite rudely when I answered him this way. I find such references to be of much

Re: CDROM problem, solved? Yes, I think

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, The "dselect" program will mount the CDROM for you. I assume you wish to get the "rest" of the debian SW on your machine and that is why you wish to use the CDROM at the moment. You can brave dselect now, chose the Multi-CD option in ACCESS. When it asks you for the device, specify /dev/mcd

success for the mitsumi cdrom painintheneck guy

1999-10-17 Thread jh
I have good personal news. I got the kernel to accept my cdrom module for my old mitsumi. I pulled the interface card and discovered that nothing seemed to be set to default. I tried changing the I/O jumper to default and the IRQ switches to default and modconf recognized the first time. I am jubil

Re: scrolls too fast

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, I also posted a reply to your CDROM problem, to get you a little further, but it has not shown up yet. Anyway use the "more" command followed by the file name. This will not help you with "dmesg" though, unless you output it to a file, or pipe the output directly to "more"... more foo.txt

Re: scrolls too fast

1999-10-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Oct, jh wrote about "scrolls too fast" > Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and > missing it? Something like dos "/p"? > | less or | more or | most less, more & most are all called pagers. More is part of the base system so it should already b

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "jh" == jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > in an online guide that you should press . When I do > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > installs. Is this the recomme

scrolls too fast

1999-10-17 Thread jh
Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos "/p"? Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3?

Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?

1999-10-17 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Aaron" == Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did it. Thanks, although that seems like something I should have tried... > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Is gpm running? if so kill it and startx and see if your mouse works. >> Anyway, gpm shoul

Re: your mail

1999-10-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, jh wrote: > Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and > missing it? Something like dos "/p"? You'll want to pipe the output to 'more' or 'less'. In the Unix world, programs generally don't worry about formatting their own output. > Also, is

[no subject]

1999-10-17 Thread jh
Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and missing it? Something like dos "/p"? Also, is there a keyboard combination that will re-enter the last command? Like dos F3? Thanks, Jeff

Re: X server crashes....

1999-10-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi y.. the X messges is saying... a. it did not recognize any legal display for sync 1024x768, 1280x1024 800x600 etc... nothing... - you do NEED to know the horizontal sync and vertical refresh values ( or the manufacturers model number ) b. run Xconfigurator or XF86Se

PCI512 Card

1999-10-17 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, I am trying to use a Creative PCI512 card under slink. The accompanying literature says that it is identical to the SBLive. So I tried the driver downloaded from Creative site (0.2b) under kernel 2.2.5 as per the docs. But the module does not load with a message 'Device busy' and/or something

Re: anyone use FireMail?

1999-10-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Oct-99 George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > >> I have done it that way (in a central filter), but FireMail will let me use >> an >> external file and Exim won't AFAIK. > > Sure it will. Each user can use their .forward as a filter file OR you can > have a central

X server crashes....

1999-10-17 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, My X server crashes on a consistent basis without any apparent reason. Here is the output(useful parts) of my 'startx -- -bpp 16 >& errors' command , XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: July 15 1998 If the s

Re: keymap error when closing X

1999-10-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Ookhoi; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > How do I fix it? > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp " > " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" > keymap/xfree86 /var/t

proftpd/wuftpd bug - my first post

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
found the first post in the archives http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9909/msg00200.html To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ProFTPD patch for exploit? From: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:42:07 -0700 (PDT) from the thread output on the archive site t

Re: Mailbox types: MBOX or MH

1999-10-17 Thread David Coe
Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to create a new mailbox folder. My MUA, XFmail, > supports both MH and MBOX style mailboxes. Which is > better? Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each? > I would like to start using Mohogany, once its a little > more stable. Will my

Re: turning your computer off

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
i usually do shutdown -h now to shut it down. and wait for the message from the kernel to power down. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http:/

Re: dselect can not allocate memory

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
is this right in i see only 2MB of swap on a machine with 14MB of ram ? i make it rule for myself to have 128MB swap for every physical hdd installed, even with 256MB ram i still have 256MB swap (only using 4MB of it though) MemTotal:253164 kB MemFree: 5664 kB MemShared:70652 kB Buf

RE: security flaws in proftpd/wuftpd ?

1999-10-17 Thread aphro
i dont have the date of the post..i rm my mail weekly ..didnt know about the weekly news thing i knew it existed but never read it yet.. i did/do check freshmeat/linuxtoday/linuxweeklynews/bugtraq/(others?) regularly and never saw a mention. nate [mailto:[E

Re: How's the CDROM problem, solved?

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hi, Yes, I read that post. You need to determine what the IRQ and IO address of your board is currently. Then tell linux about it. By looking at the current switch settings on your board, use the tables in the manual to determine what IRQ and IO address the board is set for. Don't trust anythi

makefile managers

1999-10-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for a program that can manage/generate makefiles for projects. Preferably something that will work under xemacs. Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCI Bus inquiry HP8130 , PCI eth0 set to irq0 ...Yup Zero that is

1999-10-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Has anyone out thar, installed Linux onto a HP 8130, and if so, can they > perhaps enlighten me as to how to tell the BIOS how to manually address a > PCI network card. > You will appreciate that a eth0 is a handy thing to have nowadays

Re: newt0.30 - a potato problem

1999-10-17 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Brad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Do we just wait for new packages to appear, or have I missed something? > > This appears to have been fixed already. The latest whiptail (version > 0.50-4) depends on libnewt0. modconf and pppconfig would only have been > r

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? I have only seen the gnome that comes on the Debian 2.1 CD, I have not seen later versions. I believe gnome is in its infancy stage at present. From what I have read about it on the web, the big deal appears to be that a "full set" of

Sound Module for 2.0

1999-10-17 Thread bwarsing
Hi, Can someone tell me what the name of the kernel module for sound is in version 2.0.36? Thanks, bw

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