cd player sound

2003-07-07 Thread Peter Ross
I think) and perhaps it altered the configuration in its setup. I have installed woody on 3 other machines and not had this problem. Thanks if you can help -- Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:05:26PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hi, Has anyone done any research into completely replacing an existing MS Exchange email setup ? I have Exchange 5.5 with PC and Mac clients, they use a mixture of Eudora or Outlook. [snip] Any ideas ? Suse sell

Re: Spamassassin tests help please

2002-04-25 Thread Peter Ross
patrick wrote: I have given up on using my .forward as a spam filter because I've now gone up to over 40 spam pieces a day and its a pain to keep adding conditions on each .forward on each account. Why don't you look into http://www.spambouncer.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: mutt/ssmtp From:

2001-12-19 Thread Peter Ross
Dieter wrote: What can I do/try? In the configuration file ssmtp.conf add the following line FromLineOverride=YES

Re: automate maildelivery

2001-10-31 Thread Peter Ross
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:31:42PM +0100, proftpd wrote: Hi, I would like to have my linuxbox sending me the /var/log/messages file on a regular bases. Creating the syslog correct is not the problem, neither to run cron. But how do i produce the mail including the attachment? cat

Re: Help needed getting mail working.

2001-10-19 Thread Peter Ross
I am running debian sid, and have fetchmail and exim installed. I collected my mail from an ISP's pop server using fetchmail, and it runs through and collects it OK, but then the mail seems to just vanish, as when I run mutt, all I get is '/var/spool/mail/stuart file not found' so

Re: Install only the needed *applications*

2001-09-06 Thread Peter Ross
Marco wrote: Which one of these methods is best for script use right after installation, i.e.: No net access yet Only the official debian CDs available Minimum manual intervention (hopefully just changing the CD when asked?) First you will need to tell apt to use the CDROMS to find

Re: gcc

2001-09-02 Thread Peter Ross
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- here's the error messages: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/test$ gcc myapp.cpp test1.o Try using g++ which calls the C++ compiler instead of the C compiler. Pete

Re: gcc

2001-09-02 Thread Peter Ross
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/test$ gcc myapp.cpp test1.o In fact I tried it out and using g++ works perfectly and using gcc gives you those error messages. Pete

upgrading to kernel 2.4.7 in debian

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, I am currently running Debian testing distribution and I am attempting to get kernel 2.4.7 to boot. It boots to a shell prompt and then nothing happens. I cannot even run ls. Here is the relevant section from my lilo.conf. image=/vmlinuz.new label=new

Re: upgrading to kernel 2.4.7 in debian

2001-08-15 Thread Peter Ross
Maybe someone could send me their lilo.conf file. I have a feeling it is just something stupid that I have missed.

Re: segmentation fault

2000-05-21 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:45:21AM +0200, Pocsaji Miklós wrote: Hello, I've got a problem with 'su': when I want to change to root, I type in a correct password I get a 'Segmentation fault' message. I am almost a beginner in the Linux world, so I am fully confused. A segmentation fault

Re: intellimouse/XF86Setup

2000-04-11 Thread Peter Ross
Check to see whether or not you have gpm installed, and if it is running. If it is, you should use /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device. If it isn't you could try installing gpm and let it auto detect your mouse. Also make sure that your kernel has PS/2 support compiled into it, by finding a line

Re: Web Browser

2000-04-10 Thread Peter Ross
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:45:27AM -0800, Dan Hutchinson wrote: Does anyone know of a web browser that displays jpg and gif images? I like the speed of lynx and don't like netscape. I am looking for something as fast as lynx that allows frames, gif images, etc.. I love lynx, but when I need

Re: Mouse and XF86Setup

2000-04-05 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:21:43PM -0400, Steve White wrote: I have tried all sensible combinations I can think of in trying to get movement out of the mouse while using XF86Setup. I have a Microsoft mouse which was identified as PS/2 under Windows, but which I also think might be an

Re: More network setups

2000-04-04 Thread Peter Ross
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Radim Gelner wrote: I'm moving from network to network quite often and I carry my notebook with me. This leads to the need of more network setups (IP addresses, DNS, hostname, SMTP/POP server, etc). I thought, I can solve this easilly by

Re: Wrapping lines in VI

2000-04-04 Thread Peter Ross
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:47:07PM +0200, Radim Gelner wrote: This is a newbie question to vi: I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up

Re: installing on an old 486

2000-04-03 Thread Peter Ross
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:31:16PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an old 486 sx. From DOS, I put the Debian CD in the drive, then did a d:\install\boot and it loaded up the dbootstrap program as expected. The installation procedure works fine until I get to the

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-04-02 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:47:51AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:16:16AM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: Install the `ipmasq' package, it will automatically set up IP Masquerading for you providing the IP addresses you have chosen are private ie 10.x.x.x or 192.168.0.x

Re: firewall advice

2000-04-02 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:33:26AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I'm getting a wireless T1 feed tomorrow and I want to connect my network of windows and Linux machines to the internet securely. I will only have one IP of course. What is the best way to implement this using Corel Linux? I use

Re: ip masquerading

2000-04-02 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Philip Lehman wrote: I'm trying to set up IP masquerading on a slink/potato box which is supposed to route the traffic on my home LAN over an ISDN dial-up line. I have to admit that I have no experience with advanced networking of this kind. I

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-31 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:05:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fairly simple: Make sure your internal network interface is on one of the private networks. I usually use 192.168.1.1 for the interface (192.168.1/24 is the network) Make your kernel with the ipmasq options, install

Re: cable modem and LAN

2000-03-31 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:38:34AM -0600, matt garman wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:19:38AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: 1) Here's the contents of my files on newdebian.home (connected to internet) /etc/hostname: newdebian ... After doing these things, I noticed something else:

Re: ipmasq and howto

2000-03-31 Thread Peter Ross
Install the `ipmasq' package, it will automatically set up IP Masquerading for you providing the IP addresses you have chosen are private ie 10.x.x.x or 192.168.0.x or 172.15.x.x where x can be anything. On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:52:23PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I read the IP-Masquerading

Re: installing slink onto laptop

2000-03-28 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:32:23PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya How can I install slink onto my laptop given that the laptop only has a floppy and no cdrom? Goto http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and read section 5.6 installing from floppies. Part of the base

Re: PC wont shut power off after poweroff-command

2000-03-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 11-Mar-2000, J.H.M. Dassen Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 18:31:41 +0100, Klaus Drews wrote: Is there something to configure for it ? Yes. You need to run a kernel compiled with Advanced Power Management BIOS support. I am not sure about this, but the newer debian

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-11 Thread Peter Ross
On 10-Mar-2000, Debian Linux User Gary L. Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:22:38AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse 2.2.14. On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-11 Thread Peter Ross
On 10-Mar-2000, Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, when compiling a kernel version 2.2.14 my PS/2 mice won't work any more, having the same kernel options as with 2.2.12. The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all.

Re: Surecom EP-427X PCMCIA card problems

2000-03-07 Thread Peter Ross
On 02-Mar-2000, Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However when I attempt to use my 10/100 Surecome EP-427X PCMIA card, I get the following errors (using potato with kernel 2.2.14): eth0: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 im=0x0 and a horrendous ping time. This is after

Surecom EP-427X PCMCIA card problems

2000-03-02 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, I just bought a Compaq Armada 1500c and have installed both the Debian 2.1 and 2.2 base systems on it. However when I attempt to use my 10/100 Surecome EP-427X PCMIA card, I get the following errors (using potato with kernel 2.2.14): eth0: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=0x0 im=0x0

Re: using power save and power down features

2000-02-19 Thread Peter Ross
On 18-Feb-2000, Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) For X I have in the Section Screen of /etc/X11/XF86Config the lines StandbyTime 2 SuspendTime 3 OffTime 4 You might need other/more configuration if you

Re: using power save and power down features

2000-02-18 Thread Peter Ross
On 16-Feb-2000, Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using windows my computer move the screen automaticly to standby mode to save power after a certain time ( a bit after the screen save starts), and when I shut down it turns the computer of automaticly. Is it posible to perform these

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Feb-2000, davidturetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am executing a Linear Program program I wrote and compiled. It terminates without generating output (but creates the output file) with a Segmentation fault A segmentation fault occurs when you attempt to access memory that you are not

Re: Trident 3Dimage 9750 problem

2000-02-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Feb-2000, Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every now and again my system will boot and nothing is output by the graphics card, so the monitor doesn't turn on. I have a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with AMD K6-2 350. Any ideas on how to fix it? Problem solved, the Gigabyte 5AX M/B has

Trident 3Dimage 9750 problem

2000-02-03 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, Every now and again my system will boot and nothing is output by the graphics card, so the monitor doesn't turn on. I have a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with AMD K6-2 350. Any ideas on how to fix it? Pete

Re: TV Cards....

2000-02-02 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Feb-2000, Cyrus Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS I'm in Oz so quoting prices probably wouldn't help ;-) I am in Oz and would like to know some prices.

Re: netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)

2000-01-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jan-2000, J Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. Any chance of having this fixed? This is a netscape bug, I believe the work around is

Re: scsi-ide module

2000-01-19 Thread Peter Ross
On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi for ide-scsi.o Pete

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition any time I want and still have all my important stuff. Pete

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

2000-01-18 Thread Peter Ross
On 18-Jan-2000, Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Ross wrote: Currently I have two partitions. 1. / 2. /mnt/wally/hdc2 which contains my /usr/local and /home setup by using symlinks. The advantage for me, is that I can trash the root partition

Re: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4

2000-01-16 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Jan-2000, Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each package I need once. However, I really don't have the space or time for a full mirror.

Re: Booting Linux and Win 98

2000-01-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Jan-2000, Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, My dad got me a job at his work (I just need to install linux and win 98 on the same hard drive). I've done this on my computer, but I have to use a boot floppy to get into linux. My dad's company wants it so that you can

Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much

Re: NIS passwords

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 11-Jan-2000, Robert Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello ppl how do i tell if my NIS passwords are working correctly? atm i have passwords on both the local machines and the NIS server but i can't tell if user logins are being authenticated by the local machine or the NIS server.

Re: scan large files

1999-12-24 Thread Peter Ross
On 24-Dec-1999, Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul J. Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, How can I use 'find' together with other shell tools to scan the directory and print the filename if it is over a certain size. From find(1)

Re: Installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation

1999-12-21 Thread Peter Ross
On 20-Dec-1999, Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried installing Debian-2.1 on a Compaq DeskPro EN Series Workstation ? I am trying to get a workstation at the office so that I can install Debian on it, and there's an offchance it might be a Compaq workstation. This machine

latest nethack packaged yet?

1999-12-16 Thread Peter Ross
Does anyone know if nethack 3.3.0 has been packaged yet. Pete

packages for new distributed net clients

1999-12-16 Thread Peter Ross
Has anyone packaged up the new distributed-net clients for slink?

Re: squid

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Dec-1999, Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've got the squid proxy server installed on a newly installed box. I presume I point my proxy entry for http to the server, but what port? 3128 or check the http_port option in /etc/squid.conf Pete

packages for the latest distributed net clients

1999-12-15 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, Does anyone now if the latest distributed net clients have been packaged up anywhere? Pete

Re: only half of physical memory showing up

1999-12-13 Thread Peter Ross
On 13-Dec-1999, Hey Tom I Changed My Name! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the bios shows that all the memory is there when it boots, but i only have 64 megabytes available in linux. does anyone have any ideas what the problem is or what i can do to fix it? add the line append=mem=128M to your

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 10-Dec-1999, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? thanks -- Andrew On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but amusing . . . Mutant

Re: the perils of software re-use

1999-12-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 10-Dec-1999, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very interesting. Do you have a URL where I can read this article? thanks -- Andrew On 10-Dec-1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhat off-topic, and as likely to be urban legend as not, but amusing . . . Mutant

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 09-Dec-1999, Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, Peter Ross wrote: I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I really could use StarOffice about now. I

Re: WordPerfect 8 Floating Point Exception

1999-12-09 Thread Peter Ross
On 09-Dec-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, probably a common problem. Related to libc5. HOW do I fix it??? Libc5 and glibc are loaded (Slink + proposed-updates) I really could use StarOffice about now. I couldn't find the Archives, think it was down. Please

Re: hard drive not found

1999-12-08 Thread Peter Ross
On 08-Dec-1999, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Dunnivan wrote: I have a Gateway PC with a PIII 450 and a 9GB western digital hard drive. When I boot up with my Debian cd, my hard drive is not found. I see in the install documentation that IDE-SCSI drives are not supported.

Re: Fortran, Lapack

1999-12-07 Thread Peter Ross
On 07-Dec-1999, Igor Mozetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one compile a Fortran program with Lapack library ??? I tried: # g77 File.for -llapack You don't need the lib at the start because it is automatically added. # g77 File.for /usr/lib/liblapack.a would probably also work. Pete

Re: Trying to install X-windows

1999-12-05 Thread Peter Ross
On 04-Dec-1999, csager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get all of the error message into a file so that I can make a reasonable attempt at solving my problem? If you are using bash for your shell startx 21 filename or if you are using t/csh startx filename or if you

Re: File permissions when copying CD's?

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Dec-1999, Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When copying a CD to a writable CD the source file gets mounted read-only, i.e. all files do not have a write flag set. Writing this image to a new CD results in a corrupt copy. How to change this behaviour? I'm using gtoaster,

Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, To get Netscape movemail working on my NIS server, I did: adduser hazelsct mail so NS could write a lock file to /var/spool/mail. However, when I try to do this on the NIS clients, I get # adduser hazelsct mail

Re: Help with ethernet printer

1999-12-01 Thread Peter Ross
On 01-Dec-1999, jchawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then went about trying to configure my printcap file manually, but I'm a little confused about all the settings it needed. Here's what I have in it: lp|x4520mp|Xerox 4520mp:\ :sd=/var/spool/x4520mp:\ :rm=jchawk5:\

Re: sudo problem

1999-11-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 29-Nov-1999, Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't get any replies to this, so am sending it again. However, I noticed an additional message after the prompt returns: $ sudo ls sudo: unable to lookup nielsen via gethostbyname(): Resource temporarily unavailable Segmentation

Re: deleting files

1999-11-23 Thread Peter Ross
On 23-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi does anyone happen to know of a quicker way of deleting 4 files out of a directory other than the command find . -exec rm {} \; will rm -r directory be as quick? rm -rf * Just make sure that you are in the correct

Re: +64 mb ram

1999-11-22 Thread Peter Ross
On 21-Nov-1999, Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, luis wrote: hello everybody: which are the options to have recognized by linux more than 64 mb of ram? i have put a line in /etc/lilo.conf, stating :

Re: keybard doesn't work after upgrade

1999-11-22 Thread Peter Ross
On 21-Nov-1999, Ben Lutgens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o.k. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday, after I rebooted my keyboard doesn't work in x, the bad part is I am using gdm and can't get to a vc. The machine is not on a network and does not dial automagically on boot up. When I try to boot

Re: Linux names (Re: Strange file names)

1999-11-17 Thread Peter Ross
On 15-Nov-1999, Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my server) is safe. Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it to Debby. :

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean-Yves BARBIER said: You could enlarge it a bit, and use it to make your images for CDz Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alisdair McDiarmid said: The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: there's no free space left at the end of the drive. Why's that? I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system with a

Re: Debian CDs

1999-11-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 12-Nov-1999, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: Since an executable for one architecture can not, in general, be executed on another you must have 2 separate sets of binaries. Of course. But I don't think that all 4 Debian CDs (for an architecture) are full of the

Re: web mail

1999-11-09 Thread Peter Ross
On 09-Nov-1999, Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality? www.horde.org/imp/ I have no idea how well it works under lynx (I would recommend twig, if IMP doesn't

Re: CD-ROM error (i think i found the cause)

1999-11-07 Thread Peter Ross
On 06-Nov-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible that the reason my CD-ROM drive has trouble reading the CD is because the CDs are CD-Rs??? My CD-ROM drive is a CR-563 made by a division of Panasonic (I think). It is 2x and uses the sbpcd driver. It is not an IDE

Re: Lynx and .deb

1999-11-07 Thread Peter Ross
On 06-Nov-1999, Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

1999-11-05 Thread Peter Ross
On 04-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Schultz said: Netdate will sync your computer clock with that of a Network Time Protocol server (NTP). An example is time.uh.edu What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is a separate package)?

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

1999-11-05 Thread Peter Ross
On 05-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Ross said: There is no difference between netdate and ntpdate, however the xntp package provides some more services that allow a clock to be kept in sync with another clock continuously. Right, but, as I said in my original

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 28-Oct-1999, Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PR == Peter Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PR Yes it does, but it lacks some of the advanced features of apt. What advanced features of apt are you referring to ?? Some of the points I listed at the start of the email message. Pete

Re: is debian eating my memory?

1999-10-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 28-Oct-1999, Jacob Schmude Your Jacob Schmude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-28 Thread Peter Ross
On 27-Oct-1999, Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * apt (the tool to keep your distribution up to date), it is by far the best part of Debian. The best bit about it is its ability to get packages from multiple sources and always pick up the latest one. What

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-28 Thread Peter Ross
On 27-Oct-1999, aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have yet to even touch apt ..whats so good about it ?? You can mix and match the locations where you get the .debs from (including multiple CDs), and it will automatically pick up the latest version. You don't have to use dselect, you can do it

Re: any need to upgrade kernel

1999-10-27 Thread Peter Ross
On 27-Oct-1999, aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: depends .. if your running SMP you may want to upgrade if you want access to NTFS drives you may want to upgrade if you use a TV card you may want to upgrade 2.2 provides some pretty good overall perforamnce boosters, but its clear to me its

Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat

1999-10-27 Thread Peter Ross
On 26-Oct-1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used both Debian (at home) and Redhat (at work). Both have reasonable tools for managing software (dpkg for Debian, rpm for Redhat). I've also done upgrades for both Debian and Redhat. The upgrade I did for Debian took several

Re: lp1 out of paper

1999-09-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 11-Sep-1999, Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My /var/log/messages file has some 36000 entries like this in the last few days. (Well, 6000 some messages saying this message has repeated four to six times..) Sep 5 23:47:33 amidala kernel: lp1 out of paper I haven't gotten the lpd

Re: Zombie process using pppd

1999-09-09 Thread Peter Ross
On 09-Sep-1999, Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 09:47:19PM +0200, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: Hi, On Wed, 08 Sep, 1999 ? 08:30:35AM -0400, Mark Buda wrote: Alex == Alex V Toropov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex In what situation process becomes

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread Peter Ross
Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote: I'm trying out Wordperfect 8.0. First of all, the installer couldn't find libXpm.so.4, I fixed this by linking the library in /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib. I installed wp with the text-mode install, however, it segfaults when i try to run it. Has anybody

Re: Memory management

1999-08-30 Thread Peter Ross
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Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink

1999-08-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Aug-1999, Peter Mickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:25:53PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: On 24-Aug-1999, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: http://pandora.debian.org

Re: StarOffice 5.1

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Ross
On 28-Aug-1999, Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB system. But it does a decent job

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-29 Thread Peter Ross
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Is there any way to clear console window (text mode) before login promt ? clear /tmp/clear.txt cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue HTH, Pete. PS. clear is in ncurses-bin

Network hangs with 2.2.x kernels

1999-08-27 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, I have a P90 (with 20M of memory*) which is the server for our home network. It has Debian 2.1r2 installed onto it. When I try and use the 2.2.x series kernels on the machine and FTP after downloading about 20-30K it just stops. I have tried .1,.5,.7 and .9 and they all have the same

Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink

1999-08-26 Thread Peter Ross
On 24-Aug-1999, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people, You can find mozilla .debs compiled for glibc2.0 (slink version) here: http://pandora.debian.org/~joy/slink/ They worked on a mostly-slink system I tried them on. I guess I should put a recompiled libgtk1.2 and

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Peter Ross
On 24-Aug-1999, Ryan Chouinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? Clicking on a

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-26 Thread Peter Ross
On 25-Aug-1999, Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the free output above, do you think 96MB would be enough to keep swapping to a minimum with StarOffice thrown in? If you're not sure, I'd be happy to wait a week or so until you have StarOffice installed. In my experience

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-26 Thread Peter Ross
On 24-Aug-1999, Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is it a bad idea to buy RAM for a P-133 since it only takes 72-pin? Instead, should I upgrade to a motherboard that can handle a newer type of RAM? You need to consider the fact that the latest SDRAM (132 pin?) now runs at

Re: Mounting Windows Partition as /home

1999-08-22 Thread Peter Ross
On 22-Aug-1999, John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Hatton wrote: I'd like to share user files on my machine between Windows 98 and Linux; since Linux can read and write Windows partitions, I was thinking of achieving this by mounting a Windows FAT32 partition as /home in my Debian

Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?

1999-08-16 Thread Peter Ross
On 15-Aug-1999, André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to connect my win95 pc to my debian linux system via tcp/ip but don't know if there will be compatibility issues. In theory it seems it should work smoothly since we can connect all kinds of OS's via the internet. On the

Re: HELP! Frontpage Extensions

1999-08-12 Thread Peter Ross
On 12-Aug-1999, Rick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I am hosting web sites that have been made with Front Page and I have eliminated my NT server and went with All Debian servers and needless to say some of the pages are not working correctly and I was wondering if any one could help!

Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Figuring out module-parameters

1999-08-02 Thread Peter Ross
On 01-Aug-1999, Jonas Steverud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just built a 2.2.10 kernel on my own (banging my own chest like Tarzan[1]) and compiled fat-fs-support as a module (and nls_cp437, vfat, hpfs, msdos, ...) but modprobe (or whatever reads /etc/conf.modules) complains when I boot.

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-06 Thread Peter Ross
I have the Panasonic CW-7502 SCSI CDROM drive, with an AMD K6-2 350 and 128Mb of PC100 memory. I have compiled the kernel, watch updatedb start running in the middle of a burn and compiled the Mercury compiler (much more memory, cpu and disk intensive then the kernel) during CD burns without any

Re: Where's Apt?

1999-07-02 Thread Peter Ross
On 02-Jul-1999, per_adua32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently received an E-mail from this mailing list in response to a question about installing netscape. It was suggested that I make changes to: /etc/apt/sources.list It seems that this file does not exist on my system. Moreover I

Re: Updating the system - Debian newbie needs help

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Ross
On 01-Jul-1999, Carley, Jason Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am considering switching over from SuSE 6.1 to Debian. I guess I am an average linux user but I am not really familiar with Debian's way of doing things. I am concerned to understand the process that I will need to

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that for DOS before there was IDE, but

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