Re: Hello

2000-02-03 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
fnice wrote: I have been using linux for a little bit now, and I am trying the different versions out like redhat 6.1, and mandrake 7.0 , So anyway I would like to know if there is a ISO download for debian's latest version ? the ISO would be the full download of the software :o) ... I'M

Re: ZIP drives

2000-02-03 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Michael Meskes wrote: Do I have to be careful when buying a ZIP drive or does it just work? I was thinking about a parallel port ZIP with 250MB cartridges. AFAIK parallel ZIP-drives are *dead* slow! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: hard disk error

2000-01-30 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
take a look the helptext for Use multi-mode by default in the Block devices section of the Kernel-configuration. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: licq question

2000-01-28 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options dialog with the command echo -e '\a' so my machine would beep when I get a new message. The strange thing to me is that

Re: Very frustrating

2000-01-22 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
. The format is: prog PROGRAM-NAME ICON-NAME EXEC-STRING This is an example for an rxvt with 9x15 font (white on black) and a green cursor and 500 lines scrollback-buffer. prog rxvt xterm rxvt -bg black -cr green -fg white -C -fn 9x15 -sl 500 You can find all this in the icewm-docu. - Konrad

Re: Lilo

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Mats Johansson wrote: And the problem is that the LILO prompt comes up on the on screen and the boot prompt also comes up becouse i use the prompt option but i can't typ anything it is very strange and when scroll look is down it come up alot of *interrupted* messages as it should but i

Re: max processes

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
something wrong. Hope it helps! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: how many users per apache proc?

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
aphro wrote: thanks for all the replies ..i have a better idea ..sorta :) earlier i caught my server with 18 active connections running on only 2 processes(18 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ idle servers) running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21

Re: Question: how to use an LDAP backend for logins

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
. If you know any webpages on the topic you could also send them to me. Thanks in advance! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Ethernet card dies unexpectedly

2000-01-20 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
the newest driver version (1.08 as opposed to 1.06 in the kernel) and will try with that. I will also try to compile the kernel with just -O to see if it survives :). Once I could trace a similar error back to a bad cable. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Installation problem: how to recognize hard drive?

2000-01-19 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: max processes

2000-01-19 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
2.0.36+securelinux patch My common sense tells me that that depends on your hardware. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: ppp/chat: BLACKLISTED after (many) tries

2000-01-18 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: Some modems can be configured to believe they're in the wrong country and ignore the blacklisting thing. ALMOST ALL modems can be switched off and on again :-) And this is legal! A german user who has made good experiences with switching off/on his modem before

Re: To which package belong files?

2000-01-15 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Bruce Sass wrote: dpkg --help | less I must have been blind!

Re: [Off-Topic] Pentium Motherboard

2000-01-15 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
of everything except a 1.44 floppy and the chip. Now I want to rebuild this machine so I don't have to run slink on the 386 (sloow...). My questions were: Please tell me *which* ASUS board you have. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: [Off-Topic] Pentium Motherboard

2000-01-15 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: After installing slink on my old 386, I salvaged a Pentium box from work that was to be sent to the trash. I have very little experience with Pentium motherboards since I've only owned a 486 and 386. The problem is the motherboard (and ASUS motherboard)was stripped

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
easily if they are stupid enough to remove *truly* essential packages. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Kernel error?

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
that might have been found already. - Konrad Mierendorff

To which package belong files?

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Hi, I'd like to query the dpkg-database to which packages some files on my system belong. Thanx in advance! - Kornad Mierendorff

File registered but not installed

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
). And the files I'm talking are not created by programs in normal operation, but were *installed* with the packages. Especially concerning config-files there is no difference between deinstall and purge with some packages. How come? - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Carel Fellinger wrote: Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered. But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent, then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the

Re: max open files kernel 2.2.10

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt

Re: samba copy permissions

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Paul McAvoy wrote: I personally run into problems with samaba when a user will create a dir and I want to put/remove files into it and have problems. I then have to telnet into my linux box and fix the permissions. Kindof a bummer, but at least the unix box is visible from windows. It is

Re: segmentation fault

2000-01-12 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
If it were reproduceable (maybe you should ask someone else to reproduce it -- not me though as I'm not running potato) I would suck and install the latest deb and report a bug if the seg-fault is still there...

Setting up 20 equal linux boxes -- More questions

2000-01-12 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
;-} If you there are HOWTOs, FAQs, manuals or other resources on the web that answer all these question, please tell me! Thanks a lot!! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
the root partition: # mount -o remount,rw / Then change the runlevel again: # init 2 If you follow this procedure you don't have to reboot _at_all_! Hope it helps... - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-07 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Robert Waldner wrote: I'm on a P166 w/ 32 MB RAM and the situations the same, personally I think that the problem is with the ATAPI-CDROM, which heavily puts forth io-load (not cpu-utilization, this could be fixed via the priority), behaving like a interrupt-generator when ripping, of

Re: man -k doesn't work

2000-01-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
I'm sorry to ask this question, but did you run mandb as root?

Re: screen green; no icons

2000-01-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Steve Winston wrote: I get only a green screen in X with no icons. I configured X in slink for my voodoo3 card. When I type startx, I get a screen the color of a typical win95 green, nothing else. Any suggestions anyone? Help. thanks, sTeve W. Is this the first time you use X or did you

Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

2000-01-05 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
in advance! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Module query.

2000-01-04 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Hans wrote: Why are all modules used by 0 only snd used by 1? What does this mean? Start playing some sound and this will change. BTW if all modules were used you couldnt unload them -- see? Sound is working except the mixer. Devices are not showing up, except master volume and tone control

Re: man -k doesn't work

2000-01-04 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
I have no MANPATH set on my slink-r4 and everything works fine and when I set it to what you mentioned in your mail, it works as well. Maybe that means that the error is something else. Hope it helps ... - Konrad

Re: How do I install additional modules?

2000-01-03 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
about that ... Hope it helps ... ... write again if not! - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Lilo

2000-01-02 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
but not in any case. - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Navigator on slink

1999-12-31 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
the old files manually otherwise you should just remove the netscape4 package and install it again with the right communicator archive in /tmp. The user specific data should not be affected. Hope it helps ... - Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Upgrading slinkr1 -- r4 -- It worked !!!

1999-12-30 Thread Konrad Mierendorff

Upgrading slinkr1 -- r4

1999-12-29 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
the output of dpkg --info executed in a for loop over all packages in one file, but that didn't work :-( ) Please help me if there is an easy to build Packages.gz files or give me a pointer to some usable information. Thanks in advance - Konrad Mierendorff