Re: the uninstall approach...

2000-02-11 Thread paul
> debs, > > i've been using a few boxes at work for learning and using > dlinux. before i roll out a new box (for myself), i need to > make the ones i had been using 100% windoze--or in other words, i > need to free-up the part of the hard drives linux was using. > with the rescue disk, i alrea

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Brad
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:32:16AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > I don't think Linux will adjust for Daylight savings unless the > hardware clock is in GMT, otherwise it would just end up being a race > condition with the broken OS also installed (why else would you have > your HW clock set to lo

Re: mgetty incoming fax question

2000-02-11 Thread debuser
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting debuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I've setup mgetty (from stable) to automatically print faxes when they are > > received. This works fine, but when faxes are recieved, it sends an email > > to root. Is there any way to disable the sending of a m

Re: the uninstall approach...

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
its reccomended you use the linux fdisk to work with linux partitions.. but you can still do it with dos fdisk .. make sure to delete any logical drives before deleting the extended partition. if possible, use partition magic...makes life easier :) nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, pplaw wrote: pplaw >

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
ok..yeah i understand more now :) i guess i do the same w/pine, even though it's POP3 mail i can ssh in from anywhere and the mail is always there.. nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: jemena >> what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? jemena > jemena >Try this: jemena > jemena >Set

Re: pid question

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
start it as root, or chown it to some group (say daemon) and start sockd as group daemon, and chmod g+w /var/run nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Pollywog wrote: pollyw >How do I allow an app to write a pid to /var/run ? pollyw > pollyw >Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: userid.libwrap: 0 pollyw >Feb 11 19

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Emenaker wrote: > All in all, this usually takes about 5 minutes of my attention per machine > per update. Also, since I always want my machines on the bleeding edge, I > always want the latest of whatever's available. If I just pointed dselect > and apt to "woody" instead of "unstable", then,

mh-style mail format and remote access?

2000-02-11 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! At work I´m using exmh (and mh therefore) to read my mail, if I have to access it from home (much too often :-/ ) currently I either open exmh on the remote machine via ssh´s port-forwarding (mainly because of the compression facility) or mh´s built-in tools scan, show, repl etc. Either opti

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? Try this: Set up two machines (for a completely implausible scenario, let's say that the two machines are at your work and at your house) to read from the same POP server. Now, you have two options when you configure your mail program: leave messages

Re: A tool to find the site with fewest hops?

2000-02-11 Thread John
Joe Emenaker wrote: > I have this dilemma every time I configure a new Debian box and am setting > up which mirror to point dselect and apt to. > > I want to find the sites that have fewer hops and lower ping times than the > rest so that I can use the sites that are "closer" (not geographical

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > Even if your drive can do UDMA33, it is only useful for transfers from > the drive's cache, since only they can reach that high transfer speed, > so that's where speed-ups come from, also this puts less strain on > your CPU. If I understand what you're

Re: PPPOE, ipmasq, and news (more info)

2000-02-11 Thread Marc Sherman
From: "Marc Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a debian box running pppoe and ipmasq set up as > a router/firewall for a home network. I have a Win98 > machine behind the firewall. > > I can't read news on the win98 machine (using my ISPs > news server, news1.sympatico.ca). I've tried a numb

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Shall I assume you don't really care. ;-) I care so much that using a deprecated back-door hack just won't do. I need some configurablilty that isn't going to just disappear out of the blue, forcing me to retrograde back to a previous version like I've just had to do when the default root moved

Sound Troubles

2000-02-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I mailed a little while ago, but I did not explain myself well enough. I have sound with CD and in Enlightenment, so I know it works. None of the games that Debian came with have sound. Why not? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

the uninstall approach...

2000-02-11 Thread pplaw
debs, i've been using a few boxes at work for learning and using dlinux. before i roll out a new box (for myself), i need to make the ones i had been using 100% windoze--or in other words, i need to free-up the part of the hard drives linux was using. with the rescue disk, i already deleted the

Re: ARGH! "Frozen" is back....

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
> Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want? > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free > > This way you don't have to worry about it. Well, you see, my sysadmin sty

PPPOE, ipmasq, and news

2000-02-11 Thread Marc Sherman
I have a debian box running pppoe and ipmasq set up as a router/firewall for a home network. I have a Win98 machine behind the firewall. I can't read news on the win98 machine (using my ISPs news server, news1.sympatico.ca). I've tried a number of news clients (OE5, Free Agent, etc) on the win98

Don't use gcc 2.95 with 2.2.x kernels, revisted

2000-02-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
Recently folks here pointed out to me that it was known that gcc 2.95 is not to be used for 2.2.x kernels. Others said that it was OK with 2.2 kernels but not 2.0 kernels. Looking at various kernel and gcc deb packages in potato, I saw hints of the latter statement, but it didn't seem real clear

Re: Problems with DSELECT

2000-02-11 Thread Bruce Sass
Well, there is "http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages"; Choose the distribution you want (stable, unstable or frozen), then snoop around until you find what you need. All the dependencies are shown for each package and you have the opportunity to download those packages you need/want. Use "dpkg

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-11 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:53:43PM -0700, Rick Macdonald generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > > > > > Check out my interesting timings: > > using_dma= 0 (off) > The reason why my dma is turned off is because there's no official Ali Alladin 5 chi

Re: Problems with DSELECT

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Meredith Dixon wrote: dixonm >I would, however, like to have an *updated* working text-based dixonm >system, with Pico, the Unix editor I like best. I would also dixonm >like to be able to run X and to use Netscape. (The one-CD kit dixonm >included only the main, stable dist

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-11 Thread Dan Melomedman
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:53:43PM -0700, Rick Macdonald generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > > > > > Check out my interesting timings: > > using_dma= 0 (off) > > If I turn off "using_dma", my 9.4 drops down to 5.2. None of the other > switches m

Re: [OT] FBI's find_ddos

2000-02-11 Thread rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > aphro writes: >> i'll tell ya i trust the FBI a lot more for binaries then most other >> people's binaries. > > They're your computers. > >> i have no doubt that if the FBI distributed some kind of backdoored >> binary or something similar there would b

Re: Firewall or router

2000-02-11 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On 10 Feb 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Then I'm trying to ping 192.168.1.1 from the laptop, and > can't. Traceroute to that address stops at 192.168.2.1, so I guess > that the request is routed correctly, but the Debian box wouldn't > forward it. I would check to see if you have IP Forwarding ena

fetchmail/procmail and mbox type spools

2000-02-11 Thread aaron
Hi all - I've recently been trying to make fetchmail/procmail filter all mails into a set of mbox-type mailspools. However, when procmail puts a mail into one of these spools, a number of important header lines are missing (including the customary beginning 'From'). Mutt complains when I try

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > > Check out my interesting timings: > using_dma= 0 (off) If I turn off "using_dma", my 9.4 drops down to 5.2. None of the other switches make much difference except this one. ...RickM...

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Dan Melomedman wrote: > Well, then I guess your IDE can't do it any faster. How fast is the > machine, what chipset? P200MMX, Triton 430TX, IIRC (ASUS TX97-E). It seems like it must be the machine (motherboard). Surely UDMA2 (33MB/sec) 7200 RPM should be faster than the 5200r

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread Bart Szyszka
> ahhh, it's humour I believe: > "Day-bee-enne" is spelled GNU/Debian. I called my Debian system "Debby Anne". : ) I do pronounce it as debby-in, though. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to sur

What sends IGMP packets?

2000-02-11 Thread Anton Emmerfors
Hello, I have a problem: Since a few days something is sending out IGMP packages to 224.0.0.1 and this is bad for several reasons. First, 224.0.0.1 is in the private range of multicast addresses[1] (IIRC) so something must be incorrectly configured. Second, I can't find the program responsible fo

apt-get source question

2000-02-11 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello; Is there a way to do an "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" but have it download the source, build it, then install it? I can do this just fine specifying the package I want, but is there a way to do a complete upgrade? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = ===

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, lsk wrote: lsk >Hello debian-user, lsk > lsk >I gote a problem with login, and could not find any reference to lsk >solution in man and FAQ. After entering password i saw lsk >"Unable to cd to /home/MyHomeDirectory." lsk >and then disconnect. login as root, and mkdir /home/M

pid question

2000-02-11 Thread Pollywog
How do I allow an app to write a pid to /var/run ? Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: userid.libwrap: 0 Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: method(s): Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: open(/var/run/sockd.pid): Permission denied (errno = 13) Do I need to allow it to start as root in order to do this? -- Andre

A tool to find the site with fewest hops?

2000-02-11 Thread Joe Emenaker
I have this dilemma every time I configure a new Debian box and am setting up which mirror to point dselect and apt to. I want to find the sites that have fewer hops and lower ping times than the rest so that I can use the sites that are "closer" (not geographically, but as far as net traffic

RE: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-11 Thread somogyil
Do you have rights for that directory??, (with that user)... -->-Original Message- -->From: lsk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -->Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 6:57 PM -->To: debian-user@lists.debian.org -->Subject: Unidentified subject! --> --> -->Hello debian-user, --> -->I gote a problem

Problems with DSELECT

2000-02-11 Thread Meredith Dixon
A few weeks ago, I purchased the one-CD Debian starter kit that includes a copy of O'Reilly's Learning Debian. I managed to install the files on the CD, and at the moment I have a working text-based Debian system. I would, however, like to have an *updated* working text-based system, with Pico, t

unix98 pty

2000-02-11 Thread rsood
I have compiled a 2.2.14 kernel with Unix98 pty support. Is there a package that will create the appropiate files/links under /dev ? I don't want to boot the kernel until the tty's are created, else I may not be able to get a console after booting. Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slink -> Frozen = No Internet

2000-02-11 Thread Chris HOOVER
HELP, I finally took the plunge and upgraded my linux server from slink to frozen last night. After running apt-get dist-upgrade and moving from 2.0.36 to 2.2.14, I can no longer dial out to the internet. When I try to run pon, syslog reports that /dev/ttyS2 (my modem) is locked. I tried doin

Unidentified subject!

2000-02-11 Thread lsk
Hello debian-user, I gote a problem with login, and could not find any reference to solution in man and FAQ. After entering password i saw "Unable to cd to /home/MyHomeDirectory." and then disconnect. How to fix this?? Best regards, lsk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xconfiguration for ATI Rage mobility AGP

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Watcharee Jumpamule wrote: jumpa >Hi, jumpa > jumpa >i just bought a nex laptop Compaq Presario 1926. I had installed linux jumpa >RedHat6.1. But i could not success in configurate Xconfig. My graphic card jumpa >is ATI 3D Rage Mobility AGP, constructor : ATI Tech -enhanced

Re: CONVERTING EFAX FILES TO WORD FILES

2000-02-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:39:22AM -0500, Otero, Arnaldo wrote: > WHERE CAN I FIND SUCH AN ANIMAL???...OT WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING? Sorry. You can't. What eFax sends are bitmapped images, not text documents of any kind. You have the choice of OCR (Optical Character Recognition, essentially a progr

Re: Mouse has a mind of its own...

2000-02-11 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-02-11 18:14:52, Heikki Henriksen wrote: > Are you using gpm (mouse support for virtual consoles)? If so, switch to a > terminal-window using Ctrl-Alt-F1, login and for now do "/etc/inid.d/gpm > stop". There are options to make gpm support X or vice-versa, but I > haven't got them in my hea

Xconfiguration for ATI Rage mobility AGP

2000-02-11 Thread Watcharee Jumpamule
Hi, i just bought a nex laptop Compaq Presario 1926. I had installed linux RedHat6.1. But i could not success in configurate Xconfig. My graphic card is ATI 3D Rage Mobility AGP, constructor : ATI Tech -enhanced vs 100, processor type is Mach64LT., ASIC ID 4c4d, SDRAM 8M, monitor 1024x768 and 8

RE: Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread Owens, Jerry
I seem to be getting closer. I mounted the dos partition using vfat and that seemed to work fine. I installed the standard workstation package. Dselect installed a lot of packages but also came up with an error at the end that it was exiting because of too many errors. After I exite

Re: Mouse has a mind of its own...

2000-02-11 Thread Heikki Henriksen
Rajesh Radhakrishnan skrev: > I just installed Debian 2.2 (freeze). Everything is fine except the > mouse which is moving very haphazardly ie. it moves very fast and > doesn't go beyond the bottom of the screen. > I can't use xmseconfig as I can't use the mouse on that window. > Any suggestions..

RE: Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread Bruce Sass
Dpkg itself doesn't need to know the `proper' (long) name of the package, but the frontends to it (dselect, apt) may. You can use wildcards with dpkg. e.g., "dpkg -i *" will try to install all the packages in the current working directory, "dpkg -i */*.deb" will attempt to install all the .deb fi

Re: Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread Bruce Sass
Tell dpkg about them at the same time. You could have done: dpkg -i g++* libstdc++* Since they are already installed, do: dpkg --configure --pending or dpkg --configure g++ libstdc++2.9-dev -- On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Charles O. Hartman wrote: > (would-be new user!) > > Ha

Re: libc problem in potato

2000-02-11 Thread dinakar desai
Hello Aaron: One of the braces is reversed in that file. If you go through script, I am sure, you will find it. Just replace it with correct brace and you are set. Hope it was of some help Dinakar On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 02:48:00 -0500 > From: Aar

Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > > > Potato is newer. > > > You want to get potato. > > > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > so that it contains only the line

Re: Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Charles O. Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > (would-be new user!) > > Having found that dselect wouldn't work right for me (it marks packages > for installation but never actually installs many of them), I've been > doing it by hand with dpkg. I have found that these two package files >

Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > Potato is newer. > > You want to get potato. > > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list > > so that it contains only the lines > > > > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato

Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread Charles O. Hartman
(would-be new user!) Having found that dselect wouldn't work right for me (it marks packages for installation but never actually installs many of them), I've been doing it by hand with dpkg. I have found that these two package files g++_2.91.66-0slink2.deb libstdc++2.9-dev_2.91.66-

More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Potato is newer. > You want to get potato. > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list > so that it contains only the lines > > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non

Re: [OT] FBI's find_ddos

2000-02-11 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: > i'll tell ya i trust the FBI a lot more for binaries then most other > people's binaries. They're your computers. > i have no doubt that if the FBI distributed some kind of backdoored > binary or something similar there would be hell to pay for them. They'd claim 'hackers' did it

Re: [*}How to install LyX

2000-02-11 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, debian_hurd wrote: > hello everybody; > > i had try to install LyX from my Debian CDs, use "deselect", deselect told me > LyX need > "libforms.so.0.88", but i can't not find this in my Debian CDS.I have two > Debian CDs, > one is :Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1_r4) 1/4 main

CAR TECHNOLOGY

2000-02-11 Thread aps
WE ARE SENDING YOU THIS MESSAGE IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE YOU TO A NEW WEB SITE ABOUT CAR TECHNOLOGY. THIS IS THE ONLY MESSAGE WE ARE WRITING TO YOU. WE HAVE GOT YOUR E-MAIL FROM THE WEB PAGE ON THE INTERNET. If you want to resell products concerning cars, do not hesitate to contact us! Do you wan

Mouse has a mind of its own...

2000-02-11 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I just installed Debian 2.2 (freeze). Everything is fine except the mouse which is moving very haphazardly ie. it moves very fast and doesn't go beyond the bottom of the screen. I can't use xmseconfig as I can't use the mouse on that window. Any suggestions Thanks in advance Rajesh

[*] aabout ldconfig

2000-02-11 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D5=C5=CF=FE=C0=DA
debian-userhello everybody; when i executd ldconfig, it give me lots of warings,about "*** is not symlink", what do these mean? and what can i do? thank you very much maths 2000.2,21

[*] how to install LyX

2000-02-11 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D5=C5=CF=FE=C0=DA
debian-userhello everybody; i had try to install LyX from my Debian CDs, use "deselect", deselect told me LyX need "libforms.so.0.88", but i can't not find this in my Debian CDS.I have two Debian CDs, one is :Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1_r4) 1/4 main binary-i386 section 1 SAM19991218 the other

[*] about ldconfig

2000-02-11 Thread debian_hurd
hello everybody; when i executd ldconfig, it give me lots of warings,about "*** is not symlink", what do these mean? and what can i do? thank you very much maths 2000.2,21

[*}How to install LyX

2000-02-11 Thread debian_hurd
hello everybody; i had try to install LyX from my Debian CDs, use "deselect", deselect told me LyX need "libforms.so.0.88", but i can't not find this in my Debian CDS.I have two Debian CDs, one is :Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1_r4) 1/4 main binary-i386 section 1 SAM19991218 the other is Debian

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-11 Thread webmaster
> Onno> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Onno> >SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: > Onno> >host mx1.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.249]: > Onno> >552 qdirdel.1 error 100:User is over the quota. You can try again > later. means that your disk space is full -^ maybe

RE: Install problem

2000-02-11 Thread Owens, Jerry
I have been able to get past my previous problems with the base system loading. Now when I reboot the machine and it starts to load the packages, it doesn't like the fact that they ate stored on a dos drive which limits the file names to 8 characters. Is there any way to get around

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:33:03 +0100, Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was crying out from somewhere about: Re: Check This Out! Onno> > Onno> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Onno> >SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: Onno> >host mx1.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.249]: Onno> >552 qdirdel.1 erro

Re: help

2000-02-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:25:54PM -0500, Dennis Howard wrote: : I am trying to install Debian Linux onto one of my computers. This one is : an Intel 486DX-33 with 8MB ram and 170 MB harddrive. I am using an ALI vga : video card ( I also tried an ATI vga card). : When I boot it using the rescue di

Re: Opera

2000-02-11 Thread m_shapiro
On 06-Feb-00 Johann Spies wrote: > > I have tried opera but I am not impressed by it. I have trouble to read > local files using it and it just fails on some web sites > eg. http://24.com (which I can browse easily with netscape and even > mozilla). Opera certainly does require X. Check the Ope

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread mheyes
ahhh, it's humour I believe: "Day-bee-enne" is spelled GNU/Debian. cheers "Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/11/2000 09:51:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Junichi Uekawa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org (bcc: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/Be

Fw: Mail sent to PLUG

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick Kirk
Oh come on! - this adds insult to injury. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 2:50 PM Subject: Mail sent to PLUG > Your mail to 'PLUG' with the subject: > > Re: [PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick Kirk
> > -- - > Junichi Uekawa, a.k.a. dancer > a member of the Dept. of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Science, >Doshisha University. > ... I pronounce "Linux" as [Day-bee-enne] > What is day-bee-enne? > > -- > Unsubscrib

Re: [PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick Kirk
Gosh - I just asked him to limit local interest stories to a local mailing list:-( Is Corel now to be supported by this mailinglist? I hope so in some ways because it is a superb installer and by supporting the Corel newbies we can help Linux and the GNU message. Patrick - Original Message

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread hawk
brian belabored, > People with Asian names > usually just give up and adopt a new name because the pronunciation of > their given name was impossible for non-Asians to reproduce. :) Living in graduate student housing, I was stunned to find (after more than a year) that my friend whose name

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:52:35 -0800 (PST), George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was crying out from somewhere about: Re: pronunciation of daemon grep> > can download the recording of him saying it from sunsite. grep> > The same applies to Linux. grep> grep> No, Hammish. I have heard Linus pronounc

CONVERTING EFAX FILES TO WORD FILES

2000-02-11 Thread Otero, Arnaldo
WHERE CAN I FIND SUCH AN ANIMAL???...OT

RE: ftp, inetd.conf, & potato

2000-02-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
I seem to recall that lots of services were broken out into their own packages. ftpd was one of those. There are at least 3 different ftpd packages. Just pick one and install it. rsh-client, rsh-server and others were in that group also. The list of what got broken out into separate packages

Re: [PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood

2000-02-11 Thread CHAN Kin Poon
Greetings to all, I'm facing many problems installing Corel Linux. Would really appreciate it very much if the notes from the meeting be posted in this forum. Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Chris Fearnley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-11 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 04:58:33AM +, Lars Sander-Green wrote: > I installed the latest version of the base Debian system on an old 486 today > (clean system). The installation seemed to work fine, but when I tried to > boot from the hard disk, the letters LI appeared and the system froze. I

RAID

2000-02-11 Thread webmaster
Hi there, does anybody know what better do use for making a RAID-1 Mirror with V2.1.9 kernel 2.0.36: mdutils - or - raidtools Thanks in advance, Uwe H. Kueke

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2000-02-11 Thread kberisso
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Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-11 Thread David Teague
Carl: I set the date in the BIOS directly, now all that stuff, appartenly icluding mktime, all seem to WORK! Many thanks! David On 10 Feb 2000, Carl Johnson wrote: > David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Kevin and Nate: > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll live with the problem

Syslog and kern.log after upgrade

2000-02-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
Ever since I upgraded to potato my syslog and kern.log has grown to huge sizes: -rw-r-1 root adm154798 Feb 11 14:46 /var/log/syslog -rw-r-1 root adm395234 Feb 11 07:40 /var/log/syslog.0 -rw-r-1 root adm 15666 Feb 10 06:16 /var/log/syslog

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ed Cogburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it > sets it with local time, which is wha

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lars Sander-Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I recently installed the most recent version of the Debian base system on an > old 486 (with a clean system) from floppy disks. Everything seemed to be > working fine and the base was installed, but when I tried to boot it from > the HD it returne

logfile trouble, syslogd-listfiles

2000-02-11 Thread Alexander Koch
I have the problem of having (for example) /var/log/radius/nas.log and it gets rotated with all the other files I have by the syslog file in /etc/cron.daily/ and stuff. This is local0.* and stuff like that... and I cannot help it, it gets rotated, obviously. How do I make an entry invisible to /us

Re: your mail

2000-02-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
Good for you.. (Tip: check out the debian ftp site main/binary-i386/sound) (Tip2: use subjects when posting something) (Tip3: you could write a little more than just: i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ... (eg where have you looked)) Ron

eepro and ipaliases problems

2000-02-11 Thread Peter Arien
adapter: Intel 82557 EtherExpressPro100B kernel: Linux version 2.2.13 eepro module: eepro100.c:v1.09l 8/7/99 eepro module config: eepro100 debug=1 options=48 (48 meaning Full-Duplex + 100mbps-only) The switch is also configured 100Mbs/full-duplex (no auto-config). I have 13 ipaliases defined. Ev

[no subject]

2000-02-11 Thread Shadow_OF_Darkness
i want to get a wav to mp3 convertor ...

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:52:47AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: I wrote: > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. [...] > ^^ > > This isn't

Re: time/date problems

2000-02-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:23:36AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > > > i am running slink 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36 on a Dell Power Edge 2100 and i > > am having problems with the time. Basically what happens is that once i > > set up the correct date/time in BIOS.

Re: Problems with vncserver in debian...

2000-02-11 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:17:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:54:17PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny generated a > stream of 1s and 0s: > > Hi All, > > > > When I connect from a DOS computer to vncserver running on my Debian box, > > the keyboard works in completly cr

London not = GMT/UTC (was Re: time/date problems)

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. personally i just > set the broken OS's (in my case MacOS) timezone to London, England > (GMT) so it won't corrupt the hardware cl

Re: mgetty incoming fax question

2000-02-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting debuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've setup mgetty (from stable) to automatically print faxes when they are > received. This works fine, but when faxes are recieved, it sends an email > to root. Is there any way to disable the sending of a message to root > upon receipt of a fax? When a fa

RE: [PADS] The Corel LINUX Install Process: Under the Hood

2000-02-11 Thread Maarten Stolte
Hi, if it's advantage is it's ease of install, and that doesn't work, why bother installing it the hard way?? Maarten -Original Message- From: Chris Fearnley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 4:24 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; debian-user@lists.debian.org;

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-11 Thread Onno
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Re: libc problem in potato

2000-02-11 Thread Bruce Sass
It is a known problem. There is a "{" that should be a "}" in one of the short functions near the start of the devpts.sh script, you can correct it with your favorite editor. Check the debian-user archives if you need more info. -- On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > ok, I was trying

Re: Check This Out!

2000-02-11 Thread Onno
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RE: oracle 8i

2000-02-11 Thread Onno
At 09:35 AM 2/10/00 -0800, debian wrote: >I have oracle 8i running under potato 2.2.14. > >The installer required JRE which I had to get from elsewhere(not dselect). >Additiontally the installer required you to install under X (visually java). > >But It runs great! What JRE did you use? (and ofcou

I get a lot of swapping with woody

2000-02-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
After a dist-upgrade a week or so ago I have found that on starting Gnome I get 5% of my swapfile used and the percentage increases slowly to about 15% within half an hour or so. I have 128MB SDRAM and am using an AMD K6-II 500 CPU. I wouldn't have expected the swap-file to have been used so quick

Re: 7200 RPM udma33 same speed as 5400 PIO mode 4

2000-02-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
Just throwing in my timings: /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.11 seconds = 12.52 MB/sec /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.27 seconds = 12.14 MB/sec /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on

libc problem in potato

2000-02-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
ok, I was trying to install some stuff, and I got this. /etc/init.d/devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 Does anyone h

Default /etc/nsswitch.conf in Slink

2000-02-11 Thread Howard Mann
Hi, I am having trouble with the " /etc/nsswitch.conf file" file. If you are using Slink, and have not modified this file, would you please send me a copy of your file. I am posting this at 2345h Mountain Time, U.S.A. Thanks, Howard Mann.

XFree86 3.3.6 installation problems

2000-02-11 Thread davidturetsky
Following recent posts I got out of my inelegant screen with a Ctl-Alt-F1, logged in, copies over the XFree dowloads to a new directory "x" and proceeded to install it   When I ran sh/x/postinst.sh, I got: line 33: 223 Segmentation fault $RUNDIR/bin/mkfontdir $RUNDIR/lib/X11/fonts/misc   It i

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