Re: LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
> After setting up lilo on my MBR to allow me to dual-boot Debian and my > game-OS, everything worked well. I had to use the lba32 option in lilo.conf > to get this to work, so initially I was booting lilo from a floppy. > > Well everything is fine for a while, then one day, I reboot and get:

Re: [OT] debianHELP is down??

2000-12-05 Thread Jiri Klouda
> > No response from $ ping www.debianHELP.org. > > > > Anyone knows what happens to this good website? > It appears to be (a bit) up to me, though they seem to have some > diffuculties. > > Ping doesn't work for all sites. Some sites block icmp (like > microsoft.com for example :) > > debianhelp.o

X is dead

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Marlow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi People I've been having problems with X 4.0 in woody but I'm unsure what's causing it (so I'm unable to track it to a specific package and file a bug report). The problem is when X is started (usually I use gdm but the problem also occurs when usi

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:17:30PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: > > Anyone else seeing this? > > Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, > but I'd like to bring up a new point: is there anybody else > besides me that is a bit

Re: samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5

2000-12-05 Thread sc
On 12/4/00 4:55 PM, Phil Brutsche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If 2.0.5 works I would say stick with it. You only really need 2.0.7 if you have any Win2k machines that need to connect to the samba server. Ah. Actually, we're starting work with a few consultant types who come in with Win2K lapt

newbie XDM question

2000-12-05 Thread sc
I set up X on my ThinkPad T20, and although X works fine after some tweaking, I'm having troubles with xdm. The xlogin comes up after my laptop has booted, but I can't get past the login phase. When I enter the correct userID and password, the screen flickers, freezes briefly, and then send

Re: Kernel config questions: SCSI, Tux and letters

2000-12-05 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
On December 5, 2000 07:20 pm, Ignasi Tura wrote: > I have a SCSI card Symbios Logic 53c400. Searching list archives I > read that the kernel option for my card was the NCR 5380. > > But if I look the kernel options in SCSI low-level drivers I find the > following options: > > NCR53c7,8xx SCSI sup

Re: Non-root kernel compiling--Continue...

2000-12-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:29:55AM +0100, paolo massei wrote: > > Is there a reason to copy /tmp/kernel_image in /home/user/ before installing? > and yes, when you reboot everything in /tmp is deleted, you may want to keep the .deb around in which case you must move it out of /tmp > Do you know

Re: Debian/apache, update

2000-12-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Eireann Lewy wrote: > As for recreating that whole making-a-dir-with-bad-perms thing I don't > think I can do it because whenever I mkdir it has correct perms, > regardless of how I am logged in (i.e. my normal user vs. root vs. > anything else). Perhaps that was just a fluke. In any case, my peo

Re: Netscape Oddity ??

2000-12-05 Thread Digital Overdrive
"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > I just upgraded my Netscape to 4.76 and have this problem. > The "backspace" key now deletes the character to the right > of the cursor instead of the one to the left like it used to. > This happens un the URL line and in and forms that I type > into. The backspa

MYSQL backup question

2000-12-05 Thread John Griffiths
Hello all, How do i go about backing up and then recovering a mysql database i tried #mysqldump -p --all --add-drop-table foo >/home/john/foo.sql then to recover #mysqladmin create -p fooa < foo.sql it creates ok but then the php application i run yeilds bad results

Netscape Oddity ??

2000-12-05 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I just upgraded my Netscape to 4.76 and have this problem. The "backspace" key now deletes the character to the right of the cursor instead of the one to the left like it used to. This happens un the URL line and in and forms that I type into. The backspace seems to work OK in xterm and other plac

Fetchmail skips messages that Netscape Messenger does not

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hello list, I have the following problem with Fetchmail. Now it does skip letters that should be downloaded. It run appropiately in the past but now I don't know what happens. I've tried to download the mail with Netscape Messenger, and it behaves correctly.

Re: Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-05 Thread Willy Lee
"Rogerio" == Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: >> Anyone else seeing this? > Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, > but I'd like to bring up a new point: is there anybody else besides > me that is a bit annoyed with the fact

Re: Sawfish 0.34

2000-12-05 Thread Bill Stilwell
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:14:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > > Hi, does anybody else have the problem where this version of Sawfish > > won't save your personal settings anymore? Know of a fix? Thanks. -Jeff > > I thought it was something b

Re: Debian/apache, update

2000-12-05 Thread Eireann Lewy
Okay. An update: 1) the /etc/profile is in fact profile and not .profile. This is what happens when one e-mails when running on a negative amount of sleep and such. As for recreating that whole making-a-dir-with-bad-perms thing I don't think I can do it because whenever I mkdir it has correct per

Re: auto load root window image

2000-12-05 Thread ktb
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:24:06AM +, John Carline wrote: > > I seem to get exactly what you want - the jpg in the upper left corner on a > black > background. > > I tried both of the lines below in my post.hook file and they both worked the > same. > > Exec xsetbg -at 0,0 -border black >

Re: auto load root window image

2000-12-05 Thread John Carline
ktb wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:27:21PM +, John Carline wrote: > > > > > If I understand you correctly, you're running fvwm and want to paint the > > root > > window with your .jpg when you boot the window manager. > > > > I use fvwm95, but I suspect it's basically the same. If so,

Adaptec 2940U2W

2000-12-05 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
I have a selection to make and, unfortunately, I have to make it fairly quickly. There are two different Adaptec 2940U2Ws that I can get. One of them is standard whereas the other one is OEM and has a 50 pin external connector compared to the normal 68pin. I would really like to connect it t

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-05 Thread kmself
Please use postfix response format. Please respond to list. Response redirected to list. Reply-to set to list. on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:57:26AM -, Robert Feri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: kernel panic > >Date:

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-05 Thread Quietman
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:19:19PM +0100, Raphael Deimel wrote: > btw. woody is unstable, so 2.4.0 will probably be the standard-kernel very > soon How do you come to that conclusion? Cheers, Tom -- Houdini escaping from New Jersey! Film at eleven.

Kernel config questions: SCSI, Tux and letters

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Hello list, I have a SCSI card Symbios Logic 53c400. Searching list archives I read that the kernel option for my card was the NCR 5380. But if I look the kernel options in SCSI low-level drivers I find the following options: NCR53c7,8xx SCSI support NCR53C8XX SCSI support and a final SY

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Erik Steffl
the overhead of the second (data) connection is close to zero, considering the size of data apt transfers. and you only need to make additional connection once for all files from/to given host (that of course depends on application, the web browser probably opens separate connection for each file

Re: WM for GNOME

2000-12-05 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi: If you haven't uninstalled WindowMaker, you must be able to switch your WM by opening Gnome Control Center window and in window manager section you just choose one of WMs listed. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: "Marcin Landowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, Decemb

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, Package: debconf Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (>= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 ^^^ -- see shy jo

Re: kernel panic

2000-12-05 Thread kmself
on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:08:59AM -, Robert Feri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What can i do (unless reinstall the system) if a message kernel panic > appears while booting the system (debian 2.2) ? Report the message in detail, and try to find related information online or in other references

Re: kernel crash.

2000-12-05 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:50:55PM -, Diarmuid Drew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to share my PCMCIA multifunctional card (Psion Gold Card > Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb CardBus, PCMCIA 3.1.22, debian 2.2r2, kernel 2.2.17) > with an another debian computer on my network (2 machines on netw

Re: page copy

2000-12-05 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:02:34PM -0200, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I copy a html page completily ? > Because I`m need copy the install manual of the debian 2.2 from Debian page. My preferred solution is to print to file. Rather than using the PtF function of Nutscrape, I replace t

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:53:57AM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote: > Re: apt: http vs. ftp? > > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not > > a proxy involved. > >> why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it > >>better? AFAIK they are about e

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > itself is less for http. This makes me curious .. why would a hypertext > transfer protocol have less overhead on file transfers for one designed > for transferring files? Because the design goals of FTP were never to have a low cost file connection?

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Chris Kenrick
Re: apt: http vs. ftp? > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not > a proxy involved. >> why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it >>better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file >>transfer... Presumably the level

Re: auto load root window image

2000-12-05 Thread ktb
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:27:21PM +, John Carline wrote: > ktb wrote: > > > I've got a command I run as a regular user that works just fine > > from the command line but when I put it in my ~.xinitrc it > > doesn't work the command is - > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetb

Re: Monolithic kernels and init scripts

2000-12-05 Thread scr
Ethan Benson schrieb: > > odd that it didn't apply cleanly, i made it against a potato kerneld > script... (maybe your not following security updates, modutils was > upgraded about 5 times to fix the same bug recently...) Yup. You got me. No security updates applied. (Definitely not a -pnum argum

Re: samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5

2000-12-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 05 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > Shouldn´t samba 2.0.7 depend on a kernel >= 2.2 then? This seems > like a bug to me (I ran into the same problem but have put samba on > hold since then). Well, that would be a problem for people that don't use a Debian packaged kernel (or ke

tcpserver (was: Re: xinetd vs. inetd)

2000-12-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 05 2000, Sam TH wrote: [About tcp-server] > Sadly, that means it is non-free since djb doesn't believe in free > software. > :-( Yes, this is indeed the case. If you can't have free software in your computers, then that is indeed a pity. But if you can, then you m

Quality of Helixcode's Debian Packages (was: Re: spidermonkey.helixcode.com down?)

2000-12-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 04 2000, Willy Lee wrote: > Anyone else seeing this? Well, I don't have any problems connecting to spidermonkey, but I'd like to bring up a new point: is there anybody else besides me that is a bit annoyed with the fact that many of Helixcode's packages are n

Matrox, X4 and potato (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 packages and Potato)

2000-12-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Dec 05 2000, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Indeed, if you get it to work, PLEASE tell me too, 'cause I've been > trying for days now, to no aval. What exactly is your problem? A while back, I got a G400 to work with packages from woody (X 4.0.1-7, if I remember correct

Re: Matrox G450 and XF4.0.1: solved

2000-12-05 Thread mikpolniak
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:27:08 +0100 (CET), Frederik Vanrenterghem said: > Well, it turned out one has to do some nasty trick to get X up: after > entering startx, all output is delivered to the second monitor port on the > Matrox G450 card, so you have to hot-swap your monitor (if you're working

Re: second try: exim/smartlist

2000-12-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:54:09AM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: ... > can anyone tell me how to have exim not add a resent-to header on > each of smartlist's messages? i don't want people on the list to be > able to see who is on the list. I don't know what your setup is, but if it's possible t

exim+logrotate

2000-12-05 Thread chiappa
Hello! I have a few questions, and I will appreciate very much any help: 1) I have entries for exim in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. I can understand the last entry, it starts exim when I dial-up my ISP. Why the first two? 2) I have an entry for logrotate in /etc/cron.daily

kernel panic

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Feri
What can i do (unless reinstall the system) if a message kernel panic appears while booting the system (debian 2.2) ? Robert _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Non-root kernel compiling--Continue...

2000-12-05 Thread paolo massei
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:53:30PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > I have read a very different way to compile a new kernel. > > $ cd /tmp > $ tar -xIvf /usr/src/kernel-souce-2.2.17.tar.bz2 > $ c cd 2.2.17 > $ make-kpkg clean > $ make menuconfig > $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=9:mykernel kerne

GNOME aplications background?

2000-12-05 Thread Marcin Landowski
Hi :-) I've take a look at GNOME. During working as a root all is OK. But when I'm simply user many GNOME aplications start running... background! For example, when I start a gnome-terminal or gedit as an user, the aplications never opens their windows. I can see using top/ps they

WM for GNOME

2000-12-05 Thread Marcin Landowski
Hi I have never used GNOME before but I have taken an interest in possibilities of this environment and plane to learn and use GNOME. I very like WindowMaker, but GNOME in Potato uses icewm or sawmil. How can I integrity GNOME and WindowMaker to use it together? best rigards PS.

Re: php4 status update

2000-12-05 Thread John Griffiths
>Hi, >as many of you noticed php4 (and php3 probably also) is really busted >nowadays. ummm is this in woody? php4 is working well for me on potato

CD Image debian 2.1

2000-12-05 Thread Anand Angad Gaur
Hi, It's quit easy to make a CD image for Debian 2.2 from files downloaded from the Internet. The whole procedure for 2.2 is described on www.debian.org. But I could not figure out from which site I can download a CD image for Debian 2.1 Does anyone know from where to download or how to make an

kernel crash.

2000-12-05 Thread Diarmuid Drew
I'm trying to share my PCMCIA multifunctional card (Psion Gold Card Netglobal 56K+10/100Mb CardBus, PCMCIA 3.1.22, debian 2.2r2, kernel 2.2.17) with an another debian computer on my network (2 machines on network, my laptop and duron based machine with crossover cable). PPPd seems to die and then t

Re: page copy

2000-12-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Tom wrote: > > How can I copy a html page completily ? > Because I`m need copy the install manual of the debian 2.2 from Debian page. if the page is just one file, you can 'save as...' the page, otherwise use one of the mirror tools, I like pavuk (think it's debianized). erik

php4 status update

2000-12-05 Thread Petr Cech
[ObUser - I don't read -user so replies please to debian-devel or to me] Hi, as many of you noticed php4 (and php3 probably also) is really busted nowadays. It looks like it's the LFS[1], which was enabled in apache 1.3.12-2.1 and now in 1.3.14. I'll try to do something with this, but in the mean

Re: PPP connection.

2000-12-05 Thread John Hasler
junaedi writes: > My /etc/ppp/resolv/ contains files. Each contains: > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > Any suggestions what I should do? Tell us what your /etc/resolv.conf contains. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: auto load root window image

2000-12-05 Thread John Carline
ktb wrote: > I've got a command I run as a regular user that works just fine > from the command line but when I put it in my ~.xinitrc it > doesn't work the command is - > /usr/X11R6/bin/xsetbg -onroot -at 0,0 /home/kent/img.jpg > The file also contains "fv

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:24:33PM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > HTTP has less overhead, IIRC. For example, resumable FTP transfers > require passing additional data. No such thing for HTTP. By > stripping out all the overhead, HTTP has fewer features, but is > faster. HTTP definitely has less over

Re: Sawfish 0.34

2000-12-05 Thread iehrenwald
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, does anybody else have the problem where this version of Sawfish > won't save your personal settings anymore? Know of a fix? Thanks. -Jeff I thought it was something broken here. I guess not. If I change a key-binding it doesn't seem to stick.

Re: PPP connection.

2000-12-05 Thread Junaedi Kartawijaya
Hi, I need some help too. > >I did that already... No results... pon starts the connection, > >seems to make the "transaction" and dies. After that, poff doesn't > >even find any pppd... So, I don't know whats going on. > > "plog" is your friend. It will give you some debugging info. If you

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not > > a proxy involved. > > why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it > better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file > transfer.

Sawfish 0.34

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi, does anybody else have the problem where this version of Sawfish won't save your personal settings anymore? Know of a fix? Thanks. -Jeff

Re: sources.list

2000-12-05 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:34:53PM -0500, thus spake urbanyon: > i'm installing from a cd-rom (downloaded from linuxiso.org). do you know > what my sources.list should read? man apt-cdrom Use this to add cds to your sources.list HTH Glyn -- So here we are then

Re: kernel-module confusion

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:29:01PM +, maart wrote: > Hai all. > This is my first ever post to a newsgroup, so please forgive me if I do/say > something weird... > > I use potato, and have been trying the 2.4test-kernels for a couple of > weeks. > > I have trouble using modules that I compi

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Green
Where things differ in my experience is where the mirrors get busy. If there are too many ftp connections you cannot connect. This is either good or bad, it is good if you are one of the connected it means you get a faster transfer. Obviously it is bad if you aren't, you get nuffin. Generally I hav

kernel-module confusion

2000-12-05 Thread maart
Hai all. This is my first ever post to a newsgroup, so please forgive me if I do/say something weird... I use potato, and have been trying the 2.4test-kernels for a couple of weeks. I have trouble using modules that I compile with the kernel. Whenever I compile a kernel that uses modules I ty

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Sam TH
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:59:41PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > > > > > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get > > > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that > > >

No screensaver panel in Gnome C. center??

2000-12-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I'm running Woody, and have Gnome over X v.3 with xscreensaver installed. When I call up the control center to set xscreeensaver's properties (including Gnome's DPMS function for my monitor), I get a blank page. All other parts in the control center seem fine. Does anyone know what is going wron

Re: X4 and my Voodoo Banshee

2000-12-05 Thread Erik Steffl
debianplanet has nice howto on this, you need new kernel, either 2.2.18 or 2.4 (I think botyh are in test/pre state now) erik Scott Patterson wrote: > > >I'm having a hell of a time getting this to work. > > Ahhh, the painful process of learning. > > >I'm running a mostly-clean in

modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > this relates to a problem i've been having as well - > > do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x module (if > any)? i have a 3CSOHO100-TX card. modinfo -p 3c59x -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan tod

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Erik Steffl
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > > > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get > > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that > > http might be faster. > > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in al

Re: Problems with apache.

2000-12-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
If order to get the apache to find your index.html file in /var/www, you have to set DocumentRoot to /var/www Go to /etc/apache and edit httpd.conf file. You need to set DocumentRoot to directory where you want to serve hte default pages from. Andrei ---

Re: Debian apache woes

2000-12-05 Thread Ernest Johanson
> Except I suck at it. I'm running debian potato (I run woody at home but > I wouldn't trust it on a server till it's distributed officially) and > apache 1.3.9. (I know, it is old, but it's the latest version in potato > as far as I can see.) Keep trying. It really does get better. > I'm hav

Re: page copy

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Edit-> select all or just File->Save As. -Jeff Tom wrote: How can I copy a html page completily ? Because I`m need copy the install manual of the debian 2.2 from Debian page.

page copy

2000-12-05 Thread Tom
How can I copy a html page completily ? Because I`m need copy the install manual of the debian 2.2 from Debian page.

Re: Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread cls-c/s
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:31:26PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: > Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? yesbeen using for a month or two.. > > I get a crash when downloading > http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm > > Do anyone else get that? If so, can you > email me with your version of

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Green
surely you cannot have a truly portable system that enumerates "cpus" after all who says there has to be one? Do numerical or I/O co-processors count as cpus? unless the architecture is defined it makes no sense, and if the architecture is defined you may as well define something like /proc and if

Re: 3Com network card

2000-12-05 Thread urbanyon
this relates to a problem i've been having as well - do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x module (if any)? i have a 3CSOHO100-TX card. On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:12:32AM -, Robert Feri wrote: > > Thank you guys for a

Re: instalation manual

2000-12-05 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Tom wrote: > My computer is 586 IBM CyrixInstead. Which Intall manual (in the page > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst of the Debian page) do I use > ? > > -Intel x86 This one. (For all practical purposes, x={3,4,5,6,...} and Intel={Intel,AMD,Cyrix} Damian Men

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Ray Percival wrote: > That would be backwards ftp is faster but sometimes it is easier to get > http through a proxy and with some proxies it would be possible that > http might be faster. Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is not a proxy invo

apache woes.

2000-12-05 Thread Jim Lynch
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so I thought I bounce it off of this group. I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the install, but I can't get pages to display

instalation manual

2000-12-05 Thread Tom
My computer is 586 IBM CyrixInstead. Which Intall manual (in the page http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst of the Debian page) do I use ? -Alpha -ARM -Intel x86 -Motorola 680x0 -PowerPC -SPARC

Re: sources.list

2000-12-05 Thread urbanyon
i'm installing from a cd-rom (downloaded from linuxiso.org). do you know what my sources.list should read?

Problems with apache.

2000-12-05 Thread Jim Lynch
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so I thought I bounce it off of this group. I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the install, but I can't get pages to display

Re: LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-05 Thread Scott Patterson
>After setting up lilo on my MBR to allow me to dual-boot Debian and my >game-OS, everything worked well. I had to use the lba32 option in lilo.conf >to get this to work, so initially I was booting lilo from a floppy. > >Well everything is fine for a while, then one day, I reboot and get: >LI-

Matrox G450 and XF4.0.1: solved

2000-12-05 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
Well, it turned out one has to do some nasty trick to get X up: after entering startx, all output is delivered to the second monitor port on the Matrox G450 card, so you have to hot-swap your monitor (if you're working in single-head mode like me) to get X up and running. Dual-head has same "featur

Re: Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread Ignasi Tura
Netscape 4.73 from Potato r0 works well here. Best, Ignasi On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:31:26PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: > Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? > > I get a crash when downloading > http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm > > Do anyone else get that? If so, can you > email me

Re: autorestart pppd

2000-12-05 Thread Richard Klinda
> "Se" == Sebas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Se> pppd[90]: Serial link appears to be disconnected Se> pppd[90]: Connection terminated. Se> Is it possible that when something like this happens, pppd will Se> automatically reconnect? In that case, my down time will be Se> minimized af

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Nope. We have to use some "C" or "C++" system/function call. Our > programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being > available. If you're looking for an OS independant way

Re: Telling Emacs how to use Alt as Meta

2000-12-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Alson" == Alson van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alson> I've got a IBM non-winkey keyboard, but if i press alt+x under X, Alson> emacs recognizes it as A-x, not M-x like the console does. Alson> keyboards without windoze key don't always solve the problem... Are you

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Nope. We have to use some "C" or "C++" system/function call. Our > programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being > available. Any reasonable Linux system will have the /proc file system. There is no way to do it in C. If ther

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Chad '^chewie' Walstrom
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's that a machine has > using the "C" programming language?Any URL's on the subject? This is specific to the kernel you are talking to. DOS has different API than Linux for retrieving this information. Of course, you

Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-9

2000-12-05 Thread Brian Boonstra
> Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-9) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: [: -eq: unary operator expected I've been getting that too, but without the hang. And my X Window system is completely screwed up, which I suspect may be related, so please let me know if you get the solu

LI- Lilo just stops working

2000-12-05 Thread Robert Guthrie
After setting up lilo on my MBR to allow me to dual-boot Debian and my game-OS, everything worked well. I had to use the lba32 option in lilo.conf to get this to work, so initially I was booting lilo from a floppy. Well everything is fine for a while, then one day, I reboot and get: LI- And t

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:53:01PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > > Nope. We have to use some "C" or "C++" system/function > call. Our programmers don't want to depend on the > /proc file system being available. I doubt there is such a system

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: -|On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -|> Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's -|> that a machine has using the "C" programming -|> language?Any URL's on the subject? -| -|There's probably can easier way

Re: fetchmail problem

2000-12-05 Thread Rick
yes, I just had this problem too. Be sure we're on the page by doing the following: telnet localhost 25 if the connection is refused or similar, smtp is not running. To solve the problem I installed sendmail (I know it better than exim): apt-get install sendmail do the configs, I'm not sure

Re: Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread Mathias Wiklander
I run "Netscape® Communicator 4.75" on my Machines abd it works fine for me at that page. /Mathias Timothy Bedding wrote: > > Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? > > I get a crash when downloading > http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm > > Do anyone else get that? If so, can you > email me w

Re: LILO installation

2000-12-05 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:24:27 +0100, Franco Vecchiato wrote: >Hi, > >I had a problem when installing Debian 2.2 rev 0. >During the installation of LILO, the program asked me where to install it; >when I chose /dev/hda, the reply was: "The boot partition is a logical >partition ... Please select th

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > A little off topic... > > Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's > that a machine has using the "C" programming > language?Any URL's on the subject? > > Thanks you... > What about parsing /proc/cpuinfo? (this r

NIS / NIS+?

2000-12-05 Thread Mathias Wiklander
Hi! I want to knew if there are anyplans to add NIS+ to Debian? I want help to configure NIS for my network. For the moment I have this computers in my net at home that I want to use NIS for. ComputerNIS TypeOS =

Re: Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
he he, good one. Crashed a recent build of Mozilla! -Jeff Timothy Bedding wrote: Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? I get a crash when downloading http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm Do anyone else get that? If so, can you email me with your version of Netscape? Does Netscape 6 have thi

Netscape

2000-12-05 Thread Timothy Bedding
Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? I get a crash when downloading http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm Do anyone else get that? If so, can you email me with your version of Netscape? Does Netscape 6 have this problem? I am considering upgrading, particularly if crashes have been fixed.

Re: 3Com network card w/ Caldera (=? Debian)

2000-12-05 Thread Myles Green
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 11:14, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > Is Caldera Open-server Debian? I think they say this. > But, /etc files are not the same, setup looks different. No, Caldera eServer 2.3 is definately not based upon Debian :) > > If so;-) > > I am running with a 3C509b card, which I use

LILO installation

2000-12-05 Thread Franco Vecchiato
Hi,   I had a problem when installing Debian 2.2 rev 0.During the installation of LILO, the program asked me where to install it; when I chose /dev/hda, the reply was: "The boot partition is a logical partition ... Please select the partition to use.  (/dev/hda2: DOS Extended)".   I think my

gmc package status

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. It has slowly dawned on me that, since I installed Debian almost 2 months ago, gnome midnight commander has never worked properly. When I installed I copied my home dir over from my previous red hat system. In my profile I experience only a couple of the symptoms of the problems with gmc:

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