Re: external modem problem

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
More info on the problem. If I completely shutdown the computer, i.e. shutdown -h instead of shutdown -r, wait a little, then restart, I can use the modem a few times (sometimes only once) before it again becomes unresponsive. One time I tried this it hung Minicom on exit until I turned the mo

Wordperfect 8 woes again

1999-10-20 Thread Philip Lehman
I know that this must have been beaten to death, but after spending a lot of time browsing Corel's site, the list archives, and deja it still segfaults on my slink/potato (running libc6 2.1). I know it's libc5 based, so I installed libc5 and the libc5 versions of xlib6 and xpm4 - to no avail. In de

starting with data bases

1999-10-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I am planning to start learning working with data bases. I was wondering what systems exist on linux, and which of them will also work on windows. Also, any sugestion on where to start, and of any good books and/or tutorials? Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ttysnoop

1999-10-20 Thread Kris
Ben Lutgens wrote: > I am trying to configure ttysnoop. Whenever i try to login with telnet I get: [snip] Sorry, not an answer to your question, but a question of my own to do with ttysnoop (or any other suitable software): Would it be possible to log _all_ telnet traffic (including usernames an

Re: can I list just the directories, executables?

1999-10-20 Thread Charles Lewis
>>> alias ls='ls --color=tty' >> >> What is the equivalent of this under bash? I've implemented this alias on my > >Well, this *is* bash :-) Doh! Sorry, didn't notice the '=', which I did not realize was the difference between bash and csh. > >Just stick the alias line into /etc/profile, that e

Re: Trident T 9750 2 MB AGP Card

1999-10-20 Thread Frank Copeland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >'Allo there, has anyone successfully configured the Trident T 9750 2 MB My 9750 claims to have 4MB, but I trust this makes little or no difference. >AGP Card under Debian ? I've tried all that I can , and I still cant >achieve anything worth looking at...and would apprec

Re: staroffice - multiuser? [SOLVED!]

1999-10-20 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hello all, I removed the installation and re-installed as root. Then logged in as normal user and I am now able to install as many workstation installs as I need (depending on users' numbers). Thanks all. -gnana

xemacs21 and auctex

1999-10-20 Thread Ingo Reimann
Hi there, i got some problem with xemacs when upgrading from 20 to 21. How do i activate auctex? There seems to be some trick, that i can't figure out. The needed files are there... Ingo I. Reimann [E

Help

1999-10-20 Thread Santucci Davide
Volevo sapere se esistevano dei pacchetti .deb sia per l'xfree86 3.3.5 o 3.3.4 e kernel 2.2.12 poi in cosa consiste la lista debian-user.   Rispondere a [EMAIL PROTECTED]      Ciao davide

Re: Purging mozilla

1999-10-20 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:54:16PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home > directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred. I ran > which according to my understanding of the > manpages should eliminate all traces of its existence - it

Re: I goofed: No floppy module

1999-10-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > When installing Slink today, I must have neglected the floppy module, > because now I cannot use /dev/fd0. (Was the module even listed in the > block devices?) That means I couldn't make a boot floppy. > > What I've been doing is bootin

Re: staroffice - multiuser? [still prob]

1999-10-20 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
David Blackman wrote: > I installed as root in /opt/office with ./setup /net Then, I executed /opt/office/bin/soffice and the install prompted for worstation install or local install. I choosed workstation install and some 1.7mb was copied into /root/office51 and then on it worked fine. So far s

Debs for Enhydra?

1999-10-20 Thread Lindell Alderman
Are there any debs for enhydra available? -L

Purging mozilla

1999-10-20 Thread David Jardine
It appears that mozilla creates a subdirectory in the user's home directory with the user's name, eg /home/fred/fred. I ran which according to my understanding of the manpages should eliminate all traces of its existence - it didn't say that exactly, but this seemed the most radical option. Howe

Re: printing specific pages

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:43:12PM +0300, Paul Huygen wrote: > Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it possible? > > Probably. How to do it depends on the format of the pages that you > want to be printed. Are the pages

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:39:53PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Sounds like you want to install wwwoffle ("World Wide Web Offline > Explorer"). If you don´t, the newest version of pavuk > (http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/) can use files from the Netscape > cache (I haven´t tried this, I just r

I goofed: No floppy module

1999-10-20 Thread David Kanter
When installing Slink today, I must have neglected the floppy module, because now I cannot use /dev/fd0. (Was the module even listed in the block devices?) That means I couldn't make a boot floppy. What I've been doing is booting off of CDROM1 and typing rescue root=/dev/hda5 at the boot: promp

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread eric k. wolven
Jean-Yves: Usually netscape asks which directory you want it to download to. Just choose (I tend to use tmp) and remember the directory. Eric

Can Debian, Novell, Token Ring and DHCP all get along?

1999-10-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: "David Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer because of the free tools I'll need to do some Web page designing. Currently we use Windows NT and are hooked up through a token-ring network using DHCP and Novell's Netware/GroupWise. The basic

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread David Blackman
about 2 megs --dave On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > Hi, Thanks for the reply. > > > Yes, it has changed. The free version allows multiple users to use it now. > > Install it as root with "./setup /net". Any user who wants to use it > > should switch to the directory it was insta

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-20 Thread eric k. wolven
Ingo: Get the "kernel package" (dselect or apt-get) & install unpack kernel-source. etc. make menuconfig or xconfig then: make-kpkg clean then: make kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image then: cd /usr/src then: dpkg -i kernel-image(etc).deb Everything will install. No muss, no fuss Got

Re: printing specific pages

1999-10-20 Thread Paul Huygen
Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. Is it possible? Probably. How to do it depends on the format of the pages that you want to be printed. Are the pages in Postscript, TeX, Troff, Word, Wordperfect, or something else? Paul Hu

Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-20 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out > the route add lines. Apparently they are not needed. Although why they were > needed in slink and not potato I don't know. --^^^-^^-- --ke

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) Sounds like you want to install wwwoffle ("World Wide Web Offline Expl

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) Okay, I think I got you wrong in my other mail, and John´s advise is

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Ok. I got it. I am going to install now. Thanks all for your quick replies. -gnana > Each user 'only' takes up a couple megabytes in their home directory for > configuration files ('only' could get huge if there are a large number of > users). > --

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, Thanks for the reply. > > > Yes, it has changed. The free version allows multiple users to use it now. > > Install it as root with "./setup /net". Any user who wants to use it > > should switch to the directory it was installed in

Re: Help

1999-10-20 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:44:53PM -0500, John Franck wrote: > I have a Savage4 graphics card. I am trying to run X on my computer, but > don't want to use VGA16. I downloaded the latest version of X 3.3.5, which > was supposed to support Savage4 for Linux, but was unable to find it in the > s

Re: upgrading to potato problem

1999-10-20 Thread Jacob Schmude
I think we are looking at a package problem, a compiler bug in the package, or maybe both. Maybe its emacs, maybe its the new compiler that comes with potato. Either way, there's a package problem. On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 19/10/99 Jacob Schmude wrote: > > >I'm a new user t

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
Hi, Thanks for the reply. > Yes, it has changed. The free version allows multiple users to use it now. > Install it as root with "./setup /net". Any user who wants to use it > should switch to the directory it was installed in and type "./setup". So, that means every user has to install himself

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-20 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I tried that, and it sends to the list and the *recipient* of the message, not the sender. Do you know how to get it to reply to the sender, instead of the recipient? On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:28:41AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:41:57AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberg

Re: gcc in potato

1999-10-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 22:26:13 -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > gcc version 2.95.2 19990906 (prerelease) > > Seems to be pretty damn buggy. There is a great store of code I have that > compiled under the last one I used: > > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 Debian GNU/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

Re: XML tools/info in Debian ?

1999-10-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 13:42:59 -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > are there packaged docs/info/tools in Debian in order to start learning > XML and related technologies? Check out the debian-sgml mailing list; it covers xml as well. We already have a number of tools, and there's a HowTo whose URL I

local delivery agent

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
Hi, I'm setting up mail on my machine using, among other packages, exim and procmail. As I understand it, either exim or procmail can be used as the local delivery agent. It seems like it might be easier to let exim act as the local delivery agent and simply use a .forward file to get procmail s

Help

1999-10-20 Thread John Franck
I have a Savage4 graphics card. I am trying to run X on my computer, but don't want to use VGA16. I downloaded the latest version of X 3.3.5, which was supposed to support Savage4 for Linux, but was unable to find it in the supported card list. Does anyone know what I can do to get this to wo

exim's .forward ulimit

1999-10-20 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Does anybody know how to limit the resorces available for the program that runs when somebody uses the ability of the .forward file to pass the contents of the email onto a program? TIA! -- p.

Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi

1999-10-20 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 19 Oct, 1999 à 08:17:40PM -0700, esoR ocsirF wrote: > greetings all, > I have read and searched and sighed... > but I can't find anything on how to get dvips to generate 2400dpi > output. I believe the fault lies with the default printer selection but > when I changed config.ps (for texmf?)

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-20 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:12:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell me, what do do, if i don't want to do the complicated > debain way to install a new kernel? > > in former times (SuSE <=6.1 ) i got the sources, and did the > make menuconfig > make dep && make clean && make

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Brant Wells
HI all... Jean Yves BARBIER wrote Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > The only way I found is to watch the modification time of the > cache dir

Re: Does exim work with fetchmail?

1999-10-20 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:24:11PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail. > I imagine there's something I should change in /etc/exim.conf but the Add localhost in the line: local_domains = : localhost

RE: xserver connection refused

1999-10-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I have an xserver for windows on my winbox and I can > connect to my debian system by: > > start xserver on windows box... > > telnet 'url-of-linux-box' > login: > password: > > xterm -display 'url-of-windows-box':0.0 > > ... now running > > > But this doesn't work the other way. > I get a

Does exim work with fetchmail?

1999-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail. I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail. There's a fetchmail error message saying something like: "Can't even send to ac" [my username}. It se

Re: tetex-nonfree -- Potato -- foils.cls is gone?

1999-10-20 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Thanks for you comment, I reported a bug. Sasha. > Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I used to prepare transparencies with foils.cls. Apparently it's gone from > > potato release of tetex-nonfree. It worked fine on my slink computer. > > > > Should I

xserver connection refused

1999-10-20 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have an xserver for windows on my winbox and I can connect to my debian system by: start xserver on windows box... telnet 'url-of-linux-box' login: password: xterm -display 'url-of-windows-box':0.0 ... now running But this doesn't work the other way. I get a 'connection refused by host' me

Re: MTAs and dialup connected machines

1999-10-20 Thread Oskar Liljeblad
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:47:09PM +0200, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > I have a little bit of a problem getting EXIM to work on > a dialup-connected computer. For everybody's information, I could solve this problem by the following line to the Rewrite section of /etc/exim.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: SIOCADDRT

1999-10-20 Thread Charles Lewis
The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out the route add lines. Apparently they are not needed. Although why they were needed in slink and not potato I don't know. === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing So

Re: Making a local debs directory

1999-10-20 Thread Joe Block
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:22:24PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > Have a look at dpkg-scanpackages out of the dpkg-dev package... thanks, that was exactly what I needed to know. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: Making a local debs directory

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Joe Block wrote: > Hi. > > I've decided that I want to make some local debs of stuff (mainly debs > I've used dpkg-repack to incorporate local config changes) and add a > deb line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file. > > My question is, how do I generate the Packages.gz file?

Can Debian, Novell, Token Ring and DHCP all get along?

1999-10-20 Thread David Kanter
I'd like to use Debian (Slink) on my work computer because of the free tools I'll need to do some Web page designing. Currently we use Windows NT and are hooked up through a token-ring network using DHCP and Novell's Netware/GroupWise. The basic question is: Will I be able to hook my Slink box

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > The only way I found is to watch the modification time of the > cache director

Making a local debs directory

1999-10-20 Thread Joe Block
Hi. I've decided that I want to make some local debs of stuff (mainly debs I've used dpkg-repack to incorporate local config changes) and add a deb line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file. My question is, how do I generate the Packages.gz file? I looked through the dpkg man page and dpkg --help a

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-20 Thread Ingo Reimann
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:32:38PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > can anybody tell me, what do do, if i don't want to do the complicated > > debain way to install a new kernel? > > > > in former times (SuSE <=6.1 ) i got the sources, and d

Re: where is my memory going?

1999-10-20 Thread aphro
its supposed to. i'd stick with 2.2.10 unless there is something specific in the newer ones you want. in my experience 2.2.10 is BY FAR the best 2.2.x kernel(although i never tried a few, missed .3 .4 .6 .7 ..) the reason(i read it, could be wrong)for the problems in 2.2.11 -.12 is there was a l

implications in removing portmap

1999-10-20 Thread Charles Lewis
We were trying to figure out what the 'webster' service that was running on my samba server, and came to the conclusion that that it was somehow connected with rpc and portmap. I'm not sure, but it doesn't look like we need portmap. However, since we can't uninstall the package, we inserted an 'exi

Re: de4x5 is_not_dec

1999-10-20 Thread aphro
that should use the tulip driver. all cards based on the DECchip 21040/21041/21140 are tulip series chips. of course maybe 2114 is not the same as 21140 if its not then sorry :) (got that info from the help section of the 2.0.36 configuration) btw eth0 will not be in /dev so dont be suprised if

Remote printing?

1999-10-20 Thread peter karlsson
Okay, got local printing (with lpr and magicfilter) to work, but I can't seem to get remote printing (from the other Debian box) to work. I ran magicfilterconfig on that one, saying the same thing, except for entering the host name of this machine as the printer device. That seemed okay. But, when

Re: XF86 probs on IBM Thinkpad 360Cs

1999-10-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:31:01PM -0700, Brant Wells wrote: > Hi all... It's me again... :( > > When X comes up (XF86_SVGA) it comes up in 640x480 mode (which is good), but > the screen is not right... If I move the mouse to the right edge of the > screen, I can see another one come out on the

Re: where is my memory going?

1999-10-20 Thread Aaron Solochek
Yeah, 2.2.12. Is 2.2.13 going to fix this, hopefully? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] aphro wrote: > what kernel are u running ? 2.2.11 and 2.2.12 both have pretty bad memory > leaks (2.2.11 is the worst) > > nate

Re: de4x5 is_not_dec

1999-10-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:08:15PM +0100, Hugh Denman wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Kingston PCI NIC, using the dec 2114 chipset. When I try to > install debian, I'm told that I need to specify is_not_dec = 1 to modprobe. > Unfortunately, I'm told that the symbol is_not_dec is not defined in > de4

Re: where is my memory going?

1999-10-20 Thread aphro
what kernel are u running ? 2.2.11 and 2.2.12 both have pretty bad memory leaks (2.2.11 is the worst) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://w

Re: reg exp question

1999-10-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) said: > If `Foo' does contain `}' (like \textsc{\Foo{\Bar}}) then I don't know > how to handle that. IIRC, ORA's Mastering Regular Expressions has an example along these lines of how to capture parentheses, with nesting both possible and respected, but it's pretty ugly. If yo

Re: where is my memory going?

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I recently switched to potato. I run accelerated X, netsacpe > communicator 4.7, gnumicu, gaim, a few xterms, gnome midnight commander, > gnome panel, and 1 or 2 other misc apps. Tahtis my usual load. And It > does just fine with 128mb or ram, and a

Re: writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:35:51AM -0400, Evan Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program > from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause > my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 06:35:28PM +0530, T.V.Gnanasekaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i remember when i downloaded staroffice 5 from stardivision (before > sun's buyout), it used to work only in for a single account, the > account from which it was installed. But has it changed now after > sun's

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread John Foster
"T.V.Gnanasekaran" wrote: > > hi, > > i remember when i downloaded staroffice 5 from stardivision (before > sun's buyout), it used to work only in for a single account, the > account from which it was installed. But has it changed now after > sun's buyout of staroffice? Because, I don't see 'pers

Re: writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Evan Moore wrote: > > I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program > from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause > my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can't not > figure it out with c. Thanks

Re: problem: floppy access

1999-10-20 Thread John Foster
"T.V.Gnanasekaran" wrote: > > > 1.44 MB ... then you have it in the kernel, if not, then you can seek > > the module in /lib/modules/kernel.version.number/block/ if it's in, then > > you can load it in with insmod command. > > dmesg | grep "fd0" shows: > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

Re: ip-up.d

1999-10-20 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:23:47AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > show the problem - no script with a "." in its filename will run. > Nothing I did worked, I changed the name as I learned the run-p?rts thing > before I recieved you message. Still no av

Re: netscape 4.7 and download

1999-10-20 Thread John Foster
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > Hi, > > I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded > (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? > (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) > > The only way I found is to watch the modification time of the > cache director

de4x5 is_not_dec

1999-10-20 Thread Hugh Denman
Hi all, I have a Kingston PCI NIC, using the dec 2114 chipset. When I try to install debian, I'm told that I need to specify is_not_dec = 1 to modprobe. Unfortunately, I'm told that the symbol is_not_dec is not defined in de4x5.o. I grepped for is_not_dec in all the .o files, and had a look with a

Re: Ftp problem.

1999-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Bernhard Rieder writes: > I'm also having this problem. I think its a PAM problem. It looks that way, doesn't it? I fixed it by installing wu-ftpd. I don't have time to mess with it, but someone should try to track it down and file a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing H

RE: writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Lewis, James M.
> I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program > from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause > my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can't not > figure it out with c. Thanks in advance > > Evan. > There is a very

Re: ip-up.d

1999-10-20 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ben Lutgens wrote: > I am having a stubborn ip-up.d. I have some scripts in there that I would like > run when I connect to isp. here are the perms: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root dip34 Oct 19 09:49 mailer.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root dip34 Oct 14 16:

where is my memory going?

1999-10-20 Thread Aaron Solochek
I recently switched to potato. I run accelerated X, netsacpe communicator 4.7, gnumicu, gaim, a few xterms, gnome midnight commander, gnome panel, and 1 or 2 other misc apps. Tahtis my usual load. And It does just fine with 128mb or ram, and a pII400. However, when I go to bed, I lock my scree

external modem problem

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
Aaargh. I had posted about a problem I was having with my external modem a few days ago and then it suddenly started working. Well now, without my having done anything much, it now seems to have stopped working. I'm running Potato with a 2.2.12 kernel. The modem is a US Robotics 56k Fax modem.

Re: writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Evan Moore wrote: > I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program > from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause > my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can't not > figure it out with c. Thanks i

Re: X Debs?

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my X server from a default Slink installation so it'll > work with my voodoo banshee card here at work. Is there a place where I can > find the 3.3.5 debs? All the Debian page seems to have is the 3.3.2 ones > and to my knowledge tha

Re: sendmail

1999-10-20 Thread aphro
is localhost in your classw ? i use a self compiled version of sendmail ..localhost is in my classw ..and i can send to localhost ..(give more info on how yours is configured if this isnt the case) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Admi

writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Evan Moore
I am writting a Daemon in c, I need to know how to disconnect the program from the terminal so that if that terminal is destoyed it will not cause my server to shutdown. I have done this with perl scripts, but can't not figure it out with c. Thanks in advance Evan.

Re: [Linux: SCSI-Controller] LILO with aha152x

1999-10-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello and thanks to all, which had helped me. > (7 and some doubled Mails). > > Please one more time: I am on the List and I do not like if > I get all Answers as CC two times. > It's the kind of Courtesy Copy that is no courtesy, right? ;-)

Re: How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-20 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 07:41:57AM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Does anyone know how to get mutt to, when replying to list, also reply to > the sender of the message? If you hit "g" to reply (instead of "r") it will do a group reply. You may want to take some people out the list of reci

Trident T 9750 2 MB AGP Card

1999-10-20 Thread RAVIKANT K RAO
'Allo there, has anyone successfully configured the Trident T 9750 2 MB AGP Card under Debian ? I've tried all that I can , and I still cant achieve anything worth looking at...and would appreciate any help/guidance Thanks -Ravi. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X Debs?

1999-10-20 Thread Jon Hughes
I'm trying to upgrade my X server from a default Slink installation so it'll work with my voodoo banshee card here at work. Is there a place where I can find the 3.3.5 debs? All the Debian page seems to have is the 3.3.2 ones and to my knowledge that doesn't support Banshee very well. Thanks

Re: syslog configuration trouble

1999-10-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote: : : Hi, : :I had my router sending syslog messages to my NT workstation with a : syslogd running there. I changed the router to send messages to my debian : server and added the following line to the /etc/syslog.conf file: : : local7.*

Re: Parallel CDROM on an old PS/2 machine

1999-10-20 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Oh yeah, and the DOS drivers work where the Linux kernel doesn't find it on another PS/2 workstation. On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:56:33AM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:48:36PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > I've made some custom Debian install disks (2.2 ke

How to Cc: mailing list with mutt

1999-10-20 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Does anyone know how to get mutt to, when replying to list, also reply to the sender of the message? -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm GnuPG

Re: printing specific pages

1999-10-20 Thread niff-iff
"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote: > If the postscript file is well-formed (which many are not), you could > use psselect from the psutils package. > > HTH, > Eric Thanks Eric, I'm gonna try this at once :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * * * * THIS TERMINAL IS IN USE * * * * *

Re: tcp_wrapper config

1999-10-20 Thread aphro
ALL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] i believe is the most strict, but still the same as ALL : ALL i dont think ALL : 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 is valid (0.0.0.0/0 would be though, i imagine) if your that paranoid setup a firewall. somewhat harder to break past a firewall then tcp_wrappers. nate ---

Re: New Kernel: make-kpkg vs. make bzLilo

1999-10-20 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell me, what do do, if i don't want to do the complicated > debain way to install a new kernel? > > in former times (SuSE <=6.1 ) i got the sources, and did the > make menuconfig > make dep && make clean && make bzLilo && make modu

Re: Parallel CDROM on an old PS/2 machine

1999-10-20 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:48:36PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > I've made some custom Debian install disks (2.2 kernel, basically), that > > has support for an EPAT parallel-port cdrom drive (HP CDRW-7200e). When I > > boot it at home, it works fine, and successfully detects the CD,

syslog configuration trouble

1999-10-20 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I had my router sending syslog messages to my NT workstation with a syslogd running there. I changed the router to send messages to my debian server and added the following line to the /etc/syslog.conf file: local7.*-/var/log/router/router.log When I type: logger -p

Still trying to backup...

1999-10-20 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi In one of my most recent attempt's to backup our mailserver i used afbackup. I defined a set of 5 tapes but used only 3. I did a full backup and everything went (apparently) ok. To test that everything was reaaly ok i did a afverify and it only complained on the files that had changed size,

Re: PCMCIA modem not identified

1999-10-20 Thread Richard Weil
I made the suggested change but I'm still experiencing the same problem. Dave Thayer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:59:21PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: > > > > I'm running Potato on a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I've compiled a 2.2.12 > > kernel and the PCMCIA modules using kernel package. The sys

RE: KDEDIR

1999-10-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Oct-99 Biciunas, Paul John wrote: > > anyone know what the KDEDIR variable should be set to? > > My KDEDIR is set to /usr/local/kde (though this is on my Sun box at work). >>From http://www.kde.org FAQ, > "set the environment variable KDEDIR to the base of your KDE tree" on my

RE: KDEDIR

1999-10-20 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
> anyone know what the KDEDIR variable should be set to? My KDEDIR is set to /usr/local/kde (though this is on my Sun box at work). >From http://www.kde.org FAQ, "set the environment variable KDEDIR to the base of your KDE tree" -Paul "We all agree your theory is crazy. The quest

staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread T.V.Gnanasekaran
hi, i remember when i downloaded staroffice 5 from stardivision (before sun's buyout), it used to work only in for a single account, the account from which it was installed. But has it changed now after sun's buyout of staroffice? Because, I don't see 'personal edition' anymore along with staroffi

RE: $PATH in X ?

1999-10-20 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
Try starting the xterm with the -ls option (think it was this option) that should start a boot-seesión who gets the environment variables from /etc/profile. The normal behavior is to start the xterm as child-process and it gets his PATH from some other file. luck Lorenz von Krosigk SAP Consultant

Re: Did Mutt eat my mail?

1999-10-20 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It's due to your MTA. If you're using exim, look into the `smtp_accept_queue_per_connection' setting in /etc/exim.conf. Setting it to `0' will cause all messages to be delivered immediately. I'm not sure what the equivalent setting is for the other MTAs. On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 07:40:48PM -0500

Font renaming (was hebrew font for xemacs)

1999-10-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I managed to fined a hebrew font that works with xemacs, which is ort. Its a pfa font. That font is the only one that doesn't have an english font with the same Family installed on my machine. I guess that maybe xemacs defaults to the english font in the family (I am using xemacs21 which describes

Re: printing specific pages

1999-10-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:11:38PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > I did not found anything about printing only certain pages. > Is it possible? (I'd like to print odd pages, then even on > the forms verso) > > I mean from the command line, not from a word processor. If the postscr

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