On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> I have an HP ScanJet 5100C parallel port scanner. I would love to make
> this thing work. Does anyone run a parallel port scanner? Please give
> me your war stories... =)
Check out http://www2.prestel.co.uk/hex/scanners.html
Hope this helps,
Nels
Hi all,
I don't know if this is some kind of DoS attack, and I haven't been able
to grab apache-1.3.0-5 yet; as a matter of fact, I tried switching to
the debianized 1.3.1 from slink, with no success.
Sometimes, one (or more) of the apache processes grows abnormally in
memory (from around 1.3Mb t
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Chris Ulrich wrote:
> I can think of many reasons why bash should not be used as /bin/sh:
> [...]
> Compatibility: People are tempted to (and in fact do) write scripts that
>use bash specific extensions when explicitly calling /bin/sh.
>On all other unix sy
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 17-Jul-98 Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
> > I want to edit a 700MB text file.
>
> Ehh?? Are you sure it's 700MB?? And are you sure it's a pure plain text file?
> And, if so, have you thought about what that corresponds to?
How about this po
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote:
> I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is
> too long, and xemacs tells that "maximum buffer size something.." :)
> There is a way to view this file?
I never tried, but you may want to check the "beav" or the "le" e
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, phillip Neumann wrote:
> [...] but when i log to my ISP it is extreamly slow. i must wait about 1
> minute to write my login and password!!
This is most likely an interrupt problem. You probably had isapnp set
your modem at COM3, IRQ5 just like windows (that is, 3E8, IRQ 5). N
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am wondering if anacron is the right package for me? My primary
> concern is the proper execution of the /etc/cron.*/ scripts.
Anacron is a script that does this:
1. Checks a list of tasks to see when each was last run;
2. For the tasks that have
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Rod Troch wrote:
> The real question I pose after all of this dribble is, has Dselect been
> revised or changed with the advent of 1.3.1 or 2.0?
Dselect is a very powerful tool, but is really hard to understand. I went
through more than 5 debian installs before I felt reason
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, peter wrote:
> hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older
> release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that
> one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB.
Try using an older kernel; The 1.2.13 is smaller than
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Mark Panzer wrote:
> While running netscape ver 4.05 I commonly run out of memory after two
> hours. I have 32Mbytes of RAM and a 50Mbyte swap.
Netscape for linux leaks memory like hell; you may want to install
netscape using the debian installer package, it preloads (or use
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, pirusta wrote:
> me sale el error
> hdd:irq timeout:status 0x50 cuatro veces, luego hdd:ATAPI reset
> complete, y
> despues de salir otras cuarto veces el otro, me sale end_request:I/O
> error,dev 16:40,sector 0.
> En principio parece ser problema del CD(hdd), pero no se porqu
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
> >I'm
> >not sure about RH or Debian. It's because here in Brazil Debian is not
> >used a lot. No local support or consultant.
>
> Perhaps we could set a local mailing list?
I don't think that's really a good ide
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, cleto wrote:
> Please do not forget that there are users who access the site
> using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site
> more difficult to navigate for them.
>
> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Thomas Apel wrote:
>
> > To make it more clear what I mean
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Wesley Hart wrote:
>
> > And Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella spake, saying:
> > > 2.B) he is lying
> > > To lie is a bad thing, but people do it. Things that make me
> >
> > Let'
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Wesley Hart wrote:
> And Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella spake, saying:
> > 2.B) he is lying
> > To lie is a bad thing, but people do it. Things that make me
>
> Let's not forget how close we are to April 1st - I think we've been
> the victims of a (fairly sucessful) April Fools
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I would counsel against panic. There are 300 developers, and some of them
> are _smart_. Nobody was essential, especially me.
Ok, I tried not to get into this, but I feel the need for some information
on the issue.
I'd like to know if what Remco Blaakme
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Norbert Veber wrote:
> ok, how about this:
> someone try it, and tell us if it works, I would but I erased w95 from my
> computer about 6 months ago, and I don't want to re-install unless someone
> confirms this..
As I said: it works for some people and doesn't for others (di
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:41:52PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
>
> > I think win95 will accept to run
> > under DMPI, which dosemu emulates, and that's the "trick".
>
> Could you elaborate a bit on the term
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote:
> >
> >> I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth
> >> in this?
> >
> > Th
Hi,
I've found out that neither portslave nor cistron radiusd are packaged in
debian format; they are not in debian's ftp and are not packaged on the
original site. Since the author is a debian developer and the changelog
file is in debian's format, this surprises me. Am I missing something or
sho
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and
> > > conf
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote:
> I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth
> in this?
The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a
Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running
win95 under DOSEMU, a
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
> /dev/hda1: 37745/208896 files (6.0% non-contiguous), 733081/833584 blocks
>
> Does this mean that 6 percent of the files are fragmented, or that 6
> percent of my total disk space is fragmented? I presume this means my
> disk is not too bad?
I don't
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which
> I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish
> to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could
> be more difficult than I first thou
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility which will take a time-zone dependent date
> string
> such as
>
>Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:33:00 -0500
>
>Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:12:00 EST
>
> and convert either to GMT/UST?
date -d "Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:33:00 -0500" will
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote:
> Question: How do I set the X mouse to see the third button (now I am
> using the emulation, but I don't like that) ?
When running xf86config, it asks you:
"Do you want to enable ClearDTR and ClearRTS?"
I guess that's the trick, though I never needed i
First of all, thanks a lot for the clarification (and for all the work on
linux/debian!).
On 4 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Nelson Posse Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >that while all debian programs
> >(or all
Hi,
Quite some time ago (somewhere around debian 1.1 and 1.2), it was pointed
out (by Miquel Smoorenburg, I think) that while all debian programs
(or all mail related programs?) agree in using dotfile locking, many of
them used the "wrong" function to implement that, since the commonly used
functi
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 1997 at 01:27:32PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > The Sportster Si (I think only 14400 versions exist) is a RPI model, and
> > therefore doesn't work under linux as well.
>
> I doubt USR would be mak
On Tue, 6 May 1997, ychim wrote:
> The only modem from US Robotic not works under Linux is WinModem :)
The Sportster Si (I think only 14400 versions exist) is a RPI model, and
therefore doesn't work under linux as well.
See ya,
Nelson
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Hi,
I've setup debian on a friend's box and syslog puts the message:
syslog: don't-remember-what Bad File Number
on /var/log/messages, then it says "last message repeated 437835 times"
several times and keeps the load average at around 1. Anyone knows what
is this? This is a 486 with an ide dis
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support
> and get rid of a bunch of scsi, cd-rom and ethernet drivers. anyway,
> after the first boot, i checked /var/adm/messages and found some
> unexpected diagnostics regarding th
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On the second of Jan Kendrick wrote ..
>
> >When I boot my machine, I get LI and a blinking cursor, and it locks up.
> >The machine boots fine from floppy, though. My system is set up with
> >/dev/hdb1 as the / slice, booting from there. It gave
Hello there,
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
> with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
> been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
> me that all the problems I've encounte
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, HongYun Kim wrote:
> my video card spec : chipset->trident 9660, videoram -> 2048k,
> ramdec->sierra sc1148
> my monitor spec : vendor-> samsung electronics, model -> sycnmaster 15 gle
> For 2 weeks, I tried to setup X window. But I failed.
> Common error maeesge is " SVGA :
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Roy C Bixler wrote:
> I checked to see if this is the problem by logging into the server
> directly and changing my password to the same thing I attempted to change
> it to with Eudora and 'poppasswd'. That worked just fine the first time.
Hmmm... I really think the probl
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Roy C Bixler wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with the
> 'poppasswd' package. I have tried setting it up on a Debian 1.2 system,
> but it just freezes up when I try to change the password from Eudora. A
> list of all the processes shows th
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Karl Ferguson wrote:
> makes me think of Win95 when you say that - let's install svgalib
> and a gif viewer and instead of watching linux detecting everything we can
> watch a wonderful Debian logo spinning or something :-)
Hey, this would be a nice thing to have! (of cour
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote:
> Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I
> make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be
Yes.
> pretty sure that I can at least boot the thing with a floppy?
Yes.
Unless there's some kind of craz
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Indeterminate behavior is generally an indication of a hardware problem.
I already checked, doesn't seem to be the case. Besides, it's not
indeterminate behaviour, it's very consistant. The error is always the
same, even after I erased the disk
Hi all,
I know this is not debian specific, but anyway...
I really can't believe my eyes, but I'm under this situation:
I have 2 identical (Quantum IDE, 1.7Mb) hard disks. I divided one of
them in several partitions and installed different debian configs on each
in order t
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > What do I need to consider when copying "/" to another partition? Reason
> > I ask is I would like to put it in partition which had dos. Here is what
> > I would like to do:
> >
> > Old setup:
> >
> > hda1 -- dos
> > hdb1 -- swap
> > hdb2 -- /
>
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Alexandre Lebrun wrote:
> Hi.
> I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem :
> when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is
> erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft
> environment). I
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Robert Stone wrote:
> is there a shadow passwd system available for Debian 1.1?
It's not official, but you can find a debianized version of shadow
passwords at
ftp://serek.arch.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/shadow
This is the home of shadow passwords for linux. I haven
On 25 Oct 1996, Bill Vinson wrote:
> 1) Does anyone know if an Axel ISA 8/16 bit Combination Ethernet card is
> any good?
> It is supposedly NE2000 compliant... It supposedly free w/ any purchase
> Datacom Mall mail-order.
If it's NE2000 compliant, it should work with linux. NE2000 are
On Mon, 14 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have noticed some of those 33.6kbps internal modems for pretty
> cheap at the local electronics outlets, and I was wondering if anyone
> knows if any of these will work with Debian. The hardware
> compatibility list seems to suggest that just
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
>
> How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other
> day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or
> command?
Try reset :-) (no joke, the command exists and does exactly what you
want; other
Hi all,
I'm seriously considering changing to sendmail or perhaps qmail, or
whatever. One of the reasons is that I need virtual e-mail domains. Does
smail handle this? Is is reasonable to use it for this? How about qmail?
Are there plans to packaging it in .deb format?
I'm reall
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Zebedee Mason wrote:
> Just tried installing linux from Infomagics LDR 6CD set it reconises my
> Creative Labs CD-ROM on boot but there appears to be no driver for it -
> presumably dselect wants hd1 for the CD-ROM, but in the /dev directory
> there is no ide-cd which it pre
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A Q. Q. is anyone out there using still using a 386 dx-40 (running
> Linux) and if so could you let us know what problems you are having if any
> I am considering the purchase of one..
It runs fine. Of course, depending on the amount of
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, ciccio wrote:
> Is there a package that allows a device dependent and table-based conversion
> of RGB to CMYK? (to prepare RGB-graphics for output on a typesetter)
I believe that Gimp has a plug-in that converts RGB-CMYK. Don't know
if this is exactly what you want.
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