Smail hosed.

1999-06-05 Thread Dan Willard
I've apparently hosed smail. Mail still comes in, but doesn't get put into my mailbox, it just sits in /var/spool/smail/input. I must have killed it while getting a Wascom tablet to work last weekend, played with libs. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Should I just kill smail and use

RE: Changing IP address

1999-06-03 Thread Dan Willard
'k you are using a special case :). Normally ISPs like to seperate networks into subnets, guess they think that its too much of a hassle. Pipeline does have a configuration program that makes it easer to play with the router. With only getting three ip addresses you're kinda screwed, and have onl

RE: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Dan Willard
How old is the computer? It sounds more like a hardware issue then software. If the power supply is freaking it can kill hard drives or a good spike can cause damage to the hard drive's circuit board. The clicking noise is usually associated with the drive heads being reset (slaming into park),

RE: Changing IP address

1999-06-01 Thread Dan Willard
Samba sends out broadcast packets saying what services it has available to the network. If the netmask is set incorrectly the other machines on the network don't get the broadcast and don't see the machine in network neighborhood. Your router is dialing out 'cuse it thinks that the machine is on

RE: No screens found

1999-05-27 Thread Dan Willard
Two things that would help, which version of debian are you running and which version of X? --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Jens Vogel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 4:24 PM > To: Debian-User Mailinglist > Subject: No screens found > > Hi all! >   >

RE: Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-22 Thread Dan Willard
I had the same thing happen. I ended up having to check my i/o, irq. and dma(s) for my system to get what was free. Here is what I did, I have no idea if its correct but it works. isapnp with whatever conf file pnp came up with. modprobe sound insmod uart401 (in reality this probably isn't neede

RE: strange msg in bootup

1999-05-21 Thread Dan Willard
The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the route commands and it should go away. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Ali Onur UYAR [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 5:47 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: strange msg i

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Willard
Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Pollywog [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu

System has become unstable

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Willard
My machine has started to reset itself. No warning, no errors, resets like someone hit the reset button on the case. Is this a feature of 2.1? Or something wrong with 2.2.5 and SMP? I've noticed that it happens whenever the memory used hits around 125 megs. Is there a way I can clean out the

RE: Want Debian mail pkg to replace MsOutlook (to MsExchange)

1999-05-13 Thread Dan Willard
MS Exchange won't accept this type of connection unless it is told to. And it won't route smtp unless really, really told to (I found a 2x4 to works rather well). As who ever is in charge of the mail system if exchange is setup to handle pop3 (you can usually send mail to the level above, normal

RE: wordperfect

1999-05-12 Thread Dan Willard
Hmm, I'm using 24 bbp with the s3 xserver and haven't had any problems with netscape or wp. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 9:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: wo

RE: Config multiple ips on one linux box

1999-05-04 Thread Dan Willard
Don't the kernel version >2.2.0 require that a netmask be added with the ifconfig command? Just add the netmask. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Shao Zhang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:10 AM > To: Debian > Subject: Config multiple ips on one linux b

RE: Samba completely crash my system!

1999-04-29 Thread Dan Willard
I'd say that it was most likely to be a scsi problem, check you logs and see if the are any messages about scsi being reset. Personally, I have had very little trouble with samba but my one of my scsi drives would occasionally spaz and kill whatever transfer I had been doing. Also what kind of c

RE: lost sound after changing video card

1999-04-28 Thread Dan Willard
Having just gotten an SB16 to work yep. Irq 7 io 220 dma 1 dma 5 There are also io's for 320? and 388. (I think, I had to change mine around alot, so I might be wrong with these two). I had to recomple the module using the values I needed before the card would work. And activate the thing using

RE: Installation

1999-04-27 Thread Dan Willard
ent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dan Willard; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Installation > > At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was > something &

RE: Installation

1999-04-26 Thread Dan Willard
Provided that scsi loaded the cdrom should be /dev/scd0 (that a zero, I miss the ones with a dot/slash). Just enter that at the prompt and hopefully it will work. If write back to the list and someone will let you know whatever more is needed. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL

RE: X Windows installation

1999-04-25 Thread Dan Willard
A good start would be xbase, xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbase, and an xserver depending on what type of video card you have. If you use deselect it will let you know what other packages (I'm sure that I'm forgetting several) are needed to run xwindows. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: [EMAI

RE: LOG messages

1999-04-25 Thread Dan Willard
Should be under /var/log/messages although I have noticed that not everything gets logged there, probably just a setting thing (as usual) ... --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Fethi A. Okyar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 1999 8:07 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debi

RE: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-04-24 Thread Dan Willard
(I wasn't going to but...) Think of it as a record (ya' know those old odd looking vinyl things). It spins at 33.3 rpm but the sound/music doesn't change from outer to inner. Same deal with hard drives although the outside is 'spinning' faster, it still picks up the same amount of data per rotati

RE: What are the Bogomips for a P166?

1999-04-23 Thread Dan Willard
I get the same number with my P5 166s. Is your 225 a P-Pro? They changed something (I can't remember off hand, I want to say bus size) and that could account for the difference. Can't think of anything for the X problem tho'. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Pedro Guerreiro [SMTP

RE: The case of the missing 64 meg...

1999-04-22 Thread Dan Willard
Linux won't recognize memory above 64 megs by itself. You need to add 'mem=128m' in your lilo.conf file. (or rather append = 'mem=128m'). Check out the lilo.conf man page for better details, I can't remember the exact syntax at the moment. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Ernie Pasv

RE: Client side DHCP

1999-04-20 Thread Dan Willard
nday, April 19, 1999 2:09 PM > To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: Client side DHCP > > On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 10:25:54AM -0400, Dan Willard wrote: > > >I need to set up a box to get a dynamic ip from a NT server over the > lan. > > Eve

Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Willard
I can't seem to find anything on this subject and am wondering if ya'll could help. I need to set up a box to get a dynamic ip from a NT server over the lan. Everything that I've managed to find on dynamic ip is for ppp, will the same methods work for ethernet? Or is there some other obscu

RE: VNC

1999-03-03 Thread Dan Willard
I just got the VNC to work by setting the font paths in the vnc.conf file to use ';' instead of ',' . Once that change was done it thing accually worked, now I just need to figure out how to use it... --Dano > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

Re:Samba (or at least it was a while ago)

1999-02-16 Thread Dan Willard
I seem to remember someone last week mentioning that they would like to create a 'dump' that people could write to but not view/retrieve. I might have stumbled across the answer, make the share directory's permissions write execute, and add the line create mode = 0222 in the smb.conf file. This

Curious Question.

1999-02-16 Thread Dan Willard
Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think I already know the answer but would like confirmation. Thanks. --Dano

RE: reconfiguring a serial port -- please help

1999-02-09 Thread Dan Willard
Does linux allow you set i/o and interrupts for each serial port? Win/dos has a tendecy to share com1/com3 and com2/com4 in a way that you can't use paired coms at the same time. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Richard Black [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999

RE: wine question

1999-02-04 Thread Dan Willard
There is a tool/program that allows linux to read ntfs (and dos to read it too). I need to check around to find it again. I've never used it so I don't know how well it works. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Rob Mahurin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:

RE: dual boot?

1999-02-02 Thread Dan Willard
Its possable with winnt 4.0. Winnt 4.0 and 95 react the same way to lilo, but this is with installing Linux after the win (I haven't tried the other way yet). Winnt 5.0 spazes if it detects linux (something about detecting another os. I really don't remember what it says), makes me wonder if Mic

RE: Invisible files smbfs W95

1999-02-02 Thread Dan Willard
It could be, there were problems with the orignal win95 tcp/ip stack. Supposedly service pack 1 takes care of this (or just install one of the later versions, there are five versions of 95). --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February

RE: DeskJet 870

1999-01-22 Thread Dan Willard
I have a Canon 4200 setup on my linux box and print to it from win98. The shared printer doesn't have any local filters on it and the win98 box uses the driver for the printer. Works just fine (and all the setting , ie color et al). You might want to try just setting the samba shared printer wi

RE: lilo.conf~ syntax question??

1999-01-22 Thread Dan Willard
Also don't forget that win98 writes its own stuff to the MBR during the install process and will take out lilo. --Dano > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Ivanov [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 12:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: lilo.conf~ syn