Una duda sobre /etc/ppp/ip-up.d y otra sobre el comando clock

Hola, los scripts de /etc/ppp/ip-up.d con que usuario se ejecutan (¿root?)? Como puedo definir un usuario para una determinada orden? Los mensajes de error (y los normales) que abitualmente, si ejecutasemos los comandos a mano, salen en la consola donde salen? En /etc/ppp/ip-up.d tengo el

Socoorro! En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de funcionarme los acentos!!!

Hola, asta hace unas pocas horas estaba en mi NS Communicator 4.05 editando una web perfectamente, con todos sus acentitos, he apagado la máquina. Me he ido a dar una vuelta y la he vuelto a arrancar. Entonces he instalado el leafnode, me he bajado el correo y finalmente he arrancado el

dselect

Por fin logré hacer que el lilo me preguntase qué SO quería arrancar, gracias Roberto Ruiz por tu lilo.conf Ahora, he vuelto a instalarlo todo, pero estoy teniendo problemas con el dselect. Simplemente empieza a instalar, y de repente el no lee más del cdrom, se engancha. ¿A alguien le ha

Problemas con la red

Buenas: Acabo de instalar la Debian 2.0 (desinstalando mi RedHat 5.0) pero tengo un problema para arrancar la red. El caso es que yo estoy conectado a una red local. Mi tarjeta de red es PNP :( (y no muy buena) y no consigo hacerla funcionar. En RedHat si que lo conseguí. Utilizo las Isapnp, lo

Re: Debian 2.0 llego

El Sun, Aug 16, 1998, TooManySecrets... Por cierto, ¿cómo cambio el editor por defecto del mutt? Viene el Vi, pero me gustaría dejar otro, como el Pico, Joe, o por el estilo. He leído la documentaçao adjunta, pero no he encontrado nada de nothing. Seguramente que se tratará de algún dot-file,

Re: Problemas con la red

[EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]# lsmod Module PagesUsed by hisax 191 isdn 18[hisax] 1 ip_masq_irc10 ip_masq_raudio 10 ip_masq_ftp10 ne 21 (autoclean) 8390

Re: No me arrancan los programas delibc5

El lun, 17 ago 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon escribió: Ejem... que es eso de configurator.debian.org? Pues si te digo la verdad, ni idea. Resulta que envie el otro dia el mensaje por medio del Kmail, y como me dio la sensacion de que no llego, lo hice por 'mailx' en la consola. Y eso de configurator

inconexion Internet

Buenas. Resulta que por fin me he actualizado a la Debian 2.0, pero tengo el siguiente problema: Tengo todo configurado para la conexión a Internet; el archivo chat, el options, pap-secrets, etc. Pero no tengo puñetera manera de entrar. Por lo que he visto falla en la 2ª autentificacion, osea,

Re: No me arrancan los programas de libc5

Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 03:17:30PM +0200, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/lib:/usr/lib/:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib No se si dira esto algo ... Bueno, a ver que ideas hay (y gracias por lo menos por pensar). Quita

Re: No me arrancan los programas de libc5

Bueno, ya he solucionado este problema. Realmente era lo de LD_LIBRAY_PATH en /etc/profile lo he comentado, he logeado de nuevo y ha funcionado a la primera. Muchas gracias Marcelo, y a todos. Juan Carlos

Donde puedo dar ideas?

Hola. La cosa es que me gustaria aportar algunas ideas al desarrollo de Debian. ¿Me podeis decir en donde puedo hacerlo de manera que se enteren los desarrolladores (quiero decir gran parte o mediana parte de ellos)? O sea, que si existe algun lugar especifico para ello. Gracias. Juan Carlos

Re: Mailx me saca directamente del programa.

Bueno, otra cosa que tengo solucionada. Simplemente me he bajado el mailx de hamm y ya esta ;-) Perdon por las molestias y gracias: Juan Carlos

¿Como guardar los niveles de volumen de la AWE al salir?

Hola otra vez ;-) ¿Sabeis como puedo guardar los niveles de volumen de la AWE32 al hacer un 'halt'? Es decir, que me guarde el estado del mezclador de volumen (el chip awemix) al salir y lo restablezca al reiniciar el sistema. Es que siempre tengo que estar regulando cada vez que entro, y es una

Re: Donde puedo dar ideas?

Juan Carlos Muro decía: Hola. La cosa es que me gustaria aportar algunas ideas al desarrollo de Debian. ¿Me podeis decir en donde puedo hacerlo de manera que se enteren los desarrolladores (quiero decir gran parte o mediana parte de ellos)? O sea, que si existe algun lugar especifico para

Re: No me arrancan los programas delibc5

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 12:02:50PM +0200, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: Pues si te digo la verdad, ni idea. Resulta que envie el otro dia el mensaje por medio del Kmail, y como me dio la sensacion de que no llego, lo hice por 'mailx' en la consola. Y eso de configurator tiene que ver con lo de la

Modulo ppa para Iomega ZIP más modulo lp para impresora

Hola, tengo el la unidad ZIP y la impresora compilados como modulos (el modulo para la ZIP es el de http://www.torque.net/parport). Para no tener problemas a la hora de montar el lp lo quiero poner en /etc/modules para que lo cargue al arrancar la máquina y luego cargar el ppa cuando quiera. El

Abilitar tecla insert en bash y fuente para la consola

Hola, se puede abilitar la tecla insert en bash de forma que actue como tal? Hay alguna fuente para la consola que no de muchos problemas con los caracteres gráficos? Un saludo, J. Parera

Re: Modulo ppa para Iomega ZIP más modulo lp para impresora

J . Parera decía: Hola, tengo el la unidad ZIP y la impresora compilados como modulos (el modulo para la ZIP es el de http://www.torque.net/parport). Para no tener problemas a la hora de montar el lp lo quiero poner en /etc/modules para que lo cargue al arrancar la máquina y luego cargar

Prueba definitiva

Prueba definitiva

Otra vez yo

Otra vez yo

Re: inconexion Internet

Hola, has probado a usar el pppconfig? Te crea los archivos automáticamente. Un saludo, J. Parer

No consigo conectar al puerto 119 corriendo el leafnode

Hola, acabo de instalarme el leafnode para poder leer las news offline, el problema es que no consigo conectar el cliente (krn y netscape es con los que he probado) al servidor, es decir a localhost. En el /etc/inetd.conf tengo la línea correspondiente al leafnode y el puerto 119. He probado a

Re: Uso de fuentes TrueType con xfstt e impresión con Ghostscript

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:31:46PM +0200, J.Parera wrote: Ahora viene la duda, para instalar las fuentes (*.ttf) que debo hacer? Meter las fuentes en /var/ttfonts o ejecutar xfstt --sync nombrefuente.ttf? lo copias y $ /etc/init.d/xfstt reload Estoy en lo cierto o falta alguna operación?

Re: Problemas con la red

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:29:13AM +0200, Pedrote wrote: ¿Donde está toda la configuración y arraque de la red? Porque en RedHat existe un directorio /etc/sysconfig donde se reúne toda la configuración del sistema (incluída la red). será /etc/init.d/network lo que buscas?

definitive answer on legality of apache-ssl for U.S. commercial use?

I've read in the SSLeay FAQ (http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/) that it is probably illegal to use it for commercial use in the U.S. Apparently, in order to make it legal, one would have to license the RSA algorithms. I read in a Usenet post (attached below) that Debian has somehow licensed

Re: pathchar documentation

Guenther Koerbler wrote: Who has a description or documentation about pathchar, the program from Van Jacobson ? Especially what means the last output: pipes ? I don't know the answer specifically to your question but I remember attending a talk which Van gave on pathchar last year. I've

Linux Firewall

First, I want to thank everyone for their assistance, and I hope that I've added value to the team as well. I'm trying to figure out ipchains, however, haven't found any documentation upon the www.debian.org website, or two of the mirrors I have checked to date. Does anyone know where I might

x wont go higher than 4bpp!

y0: x wont disply higher than 4bpp. i'm use to typing 'startx -- -bpp 16' in slack, but when i type that in debian, i get 'error: bpp: unknown option'. i've alao tried changing my defualt line in /etc/XF86Config to 8, or 16, but it always stays at 4bpp ...any ideas?

identd

Are there any other identd programs? I'm looking for one that will allow users to modify their handle (in a secure way) so they can have multiple bots on IRC servers. Maybe something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Paul

Re: Connection closed

Hi, Did the telnet to the site work before you upgrade to 2.0? Are you using Xwindows? When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a messgae like this: Connected to site.whatever.edu Escape character is '^]'. which is as usual then followed by:

arguments against Linux I have heard and just my two cents worth

I have been recommending Linux to many people sense I first found out about it, and I point them to Debian because it seems to have the most open and supportive access I have found. I also point them to the Linux home site so they can form there own opinions about the different distributions. The

Turtle Beach Fiji

I looked through all the FAQ's but didn't find an answer for this one: Can I use the Turtle Beach Fiji soundcard with Linux? It's a stellar sounding 20-bit card (much better than Creative Labs) that also includes a digital I/O (S/PDIF) interface for connections to DAT/CD equipment. I'm sure the

Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 12:10:15PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:32:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean that intel byte order is the same as host byte order? Yes. The man page for mpg123 says its output with the -s switch is host byte order, but

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Thanks for the insight everyone! I take it that the slink version doesn't require any library changes to work (like some of the stuff post BO upgrade. (I just upgraded last week so I have not figured everything - or much of anything - out yet :). Yes, slink

RE: New Debian user needs help: Problems about partitioning, booting from harddisk, etc.

PMJI -- but my install prints out LI on reboot. I'm reinstalling just for the heck of it -- but any thoughts would be appreciated Hank -Original Message- From: Jens Ch. Lisner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 11:15 AM To: Huang Yan Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Network printing in linux.

Is there an easy way to setup my linux box at work to print through an NT printer server? Can samba do that, or is samba just a server? pgpc9Nr2sJ1MQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: x wont go higher than 4bpp!

do you have the correct xserver installed? if you only have xserver-vga16 installed then 16 colors is the maximum. you probably want to install xserver-svga, and then make sure the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver points to the correct server (i.e. /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA) -brad On Mon, 17 Aug

Re: Network printing in linux.

norbert asks, Is there an easy way to setup my linux box at work to print through an NT printer server? Can samba do that, or is samba just a server? I solved this by bypassing the server entirely (though it's a DU, not NT, server). If the printer has an IP adress, simply set up your own

Re: Large Paritions... advice?

I just got through partitioning a 9 gig disk myself. I found that fdisk worked better than cfdisk for me. I rebooted after partitioning, as suggested by the fdisk prompts. I had no trouble making and formating a 7 gig partition. (I was unable to format large partitions using cfdisk and not

Re: [2] AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, I have try to do that. When i run the install script linux said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/awedrv -- ./install.sh Linux source root directory [/usr/src/linux] checking the version of installed sound driver.. sound driver is USS

apm charging thinkpad battery

I'm getting stumped here. My battery is not charging on this thinkpad (755c) since I've put linux on it. I assumed that i needed an apm kernel, which i did this eveneing, but still no. Do I need to boot into windows just to tell the battery to turn on? or use wine to run some of the

Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

Hi debian, Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. Here could exist very better app. that for win/Mac. Linux is much more

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 08:08:32AM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: On 15 Aug 98 09:13:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Thistlethwaite) wrote: I have been trying to dig up information on installing XFSTT on my upgraded HAMM system so my Netscape will look better. I downloaded the relavent

Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:46:11AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 12:10:15PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:32:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean that intel byte order is the same as host byte order? Yes. well its not

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

[stuff snipped] bring over the windows fonts and put them in /var/lib/ttfonts yikes no...ok=20 package version 0.9.7 : /var/ttfonts latest packages of 0.9.9: /usr/share/fonts/truetype then run xfstt --sync then run xfstt then just edit XF86Config to include that font server and

Meta-Backspace in Xterms?

Hello, After a clean install of Hamm, and also after moving to Slink, Alt-backspace now sends a simple DEL rather than M-DEL when I'm in an xterm[*](either at the command-line or when running emacs -nw.) Other alt commands (e.g., Alt-D for delete-forward) do work. [*] i.e., xterm-debian. It

Lowmem Installation problem

Dear Brave Debian Users: With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my HD for Linux; I can't install. After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk, initializing swap, copying

Re: Network printing in linux.

On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 10:34:03PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: Is there an easy way to setup my linux box at work to print through an NT printer server? Can samba do that, or is samba just a server? Samba is SMB-server but has an example in docs that solve yopur problem:

gnome problems

Hello, when trying to run any gnome programs, i get the following error about gdkfont.c. Currently I'm using gnome 27-1... although the error is present no matter what version I'm using. Also using the latest wmaker. Am I just stupid or is there something wrong? Thanks for any help! ** WARNING

Re: lots of man errors...

When I do a man something the man command works okay, and displays the information I am looking for, but only after several pages of errors. Here is a copy of the last page of errors; errors coming before this are of a similar nature: Yes - I get similar as well, although generally only

wrong time!

I find that my system clock in debian is 8 hours more than that in my win98. I know that my time zone should be +08:00. How can I correct this?? Thanks. Joseph

Re: xemacs error with ctrl-z!

On: 17 Aug 1998 12:02:21 +0200 Eric Marsden writes: This is a known bug with XEmacs running with gpm on the console. Uninstall gpm, or use Emacs (or X11!). Or, even better, fetch the source package for XEmacs, extract it using dpkg-source -x xemacs*dsc, add the --without-gpm option to the

Re: arguments against Linux I have heard and just my two cents worth

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been recommending Linux to many people sense I first found out about it, and I point them to Debian because it seems to have the most open and supportive access I have found. I also point them to the Linux home site so they can form there

Re: x wont go higher than 4bpp!

y0: x wont disply higher than 4bpp. i'm use to typing 'startx -- -bpp 16' in slack, but when i type that in debian, i get 'error: bpp: unknown option'. i've alao tried changing my defualt line in /etc/XF86Config to 8, or 16, but it always stays at 4bpp ...any ideas? It sounds like

runaway man processes and cron emails

Dear all, when I leave pick for a while (which is often necessary, given it's still in cambridge), the load gradually increases, due to processes like: 24227 man 17 10 624 624 484 R N 0 93.3 4.4 2975m sh They only start after I've read a man page (I think), and I also

Re: wrong time!

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 03:18:00PM +0800, jc wrote: I find that my system clock in debian is 8 hours more than that in my win98. I know that my time zone should be +08:00. How can I correct this?? - Make sure /etc/timezone is set correctly (Asia/Hong_Kong) - Edit /etc/default/rcS and set GMT to

Re: runaway man processes and cron emails

Dear all, when I leave pick for a while (which is often necessary, given it's still in cambridge), the load gradually increases, due to processes like: 24227 man 17 10 624 624 484 R N 0 93.3 4.4 2975m sh They only start after I've read a man page (I think),

Re: identd

- Are there any other identd programs? I'm looking for one that will allow - users to modify their handle (in a secure way) so they can have multiple - bots on IRC servers. Maybe something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites using such

dialog!!

Hello everyone, Something odd happens when I 'dialog --command 200 100' can anyone reproduce this Thanks -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University,

How do I configure two ethernet cards ?

Hello I have two 3Com Etherlink III 3C509B !! I do not know how I configure the cards ??? With the normal installation I have only the opportunity to install 1 card ! Can anyone help me, please !!! Guenther Koerbler

how do I add a kernel?

I want to add an additional kernel so that I can switch between them at boot time depending on which SCSI adapter the hard drive is connected to. How do I do this? I searched within dpackage for kernel but did only find two binary images without mentioning if and which SCSI stuff they support.

Re: how do I add a kernel?

In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/18/98 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to add an additional kernel so that I can switch between them at boot time depending on which SCSI adapter the hard drive is connected to. Keep both kernels on the drive. Set up /etc/lilo.conf for

Re: wrong time!

On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:18:00 +0800 (HKT) jc writes: I find that my system clock in debian is 8 hours more than that in my win98. know that my time zone should be +08:00. How can I correct this?? If your debian box is not correctly configured regarding to time zones just run the tzconfig

Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:43:23 -0400 Stephen J Carpenter writes: Little endian = intel byte order = host byte order (if its an intel) big endian = network byte order = host byte order (on 64 bit boxes)? I dunno if ALL 64 bit boxen are big endian. I know SUN systems are big-endian...I don't

Sound Problems

Hi! I've tried to get my AWE64 PnP to work, but there seem to be massive problems with the sound driver. I configured the card with isapnptools as suggested in the HOWTOs (the parameters are set to the same values as in w95, and it works fine there). After insmod sound I get immediatly a fast

Re: How do I configure two ethernet cards ?

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Guenther Koerbler wrote: I have two 3Com Etherlink III 3C509B !! I do not know how I configure the cards ??? Ain't hard at all: Have a look at /etc/init.d/network, then copy the three last lines, change the eth0 to eth1 for the second card and use the right IP address,

Is this list still active?

Hallo, I did not receive any messages from this list for 3 days now. Thinking that I may have been unsubscribed because of email problems as has happened in the past I send a message to subscribe again and I also did not get any reply from that source. Johann

Re: Sound Problems

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: Hi! I've tried to get my AWE64 PnP to work, but there seem to be massive problems with the sound driver. I configured the card with isapnptools as suggested in the HOWTOs (the parameters are set to the same values as in w95, and it works fine

Can apt-get do proxy-http req?

Hi! Newbie here struggling with updating. And I never did get dselect to work consistently during the bo installation. Anyway: I manually collected the packages demanded by autoup.sh and ran it. Now the readme says I need to update ALL installed packages. For that volume, it should be

route

Hello, I have moved my computer to a new subnet and need to reconfigure, but I have forgotten how route works. First I set my new ip with ifconfig, then I tried to set up the routing with route, without success. Can any one please tell me which commands to issue. /Tomas Petersson

Re: Sound Problems

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Lars Steinke wrote: Well, I configured my kernel for SB 16 first, then patched it with awedrv, redid make menuconfig with AWE32 support (see auxiliary devices at the bottom). Then I did a pnpdump and uncommented the normal Soundblaster settings I set before when going

OK so maybe I should have stayed in bed today - but where is the source for packages kept on the ftp sites?

Sorry guys, Header says it all - flames to /dev/null and the obvious answer (I just have forgotten, and didn't write it down) please. Thanks Matthew :( -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

Re: Latex Postscript

Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Does anyone know of any program/method to convert M$ PowerPoint slides to decent ps or eps files I do not know M$ Powerpoint but Wordperfect's Presentations has an export facility that can create .eps

DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a rather crude and quick hammered FAQ list for the DEBIAN GNU/Linux System. Version: Tue Aug 18 13:00:00 CEST 1998 (C) 1998 Jens Ritter. You may want to apply one of the Gnu Public Licenses to this document. Questions: 1) Soundbalster AWE/16/32

Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

Michele Bini hat gesagt: // Michele Bini wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said: [...] Slab seems an interesting program. A Debian user recomend me this program. Might have been me ;) I forgot his name. but i didnt forgot the addres where i got slab, its

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi debian, Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. Here could exist very

Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

Hi! Some of my programs have to work on big-endian and little-endian systems, knowing what kind of system they are runing on (they are exchanging data in binary format). To recognize the kind of the system I use the following routine: int TestByteOrder() { union { unsigned char c[2];

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

phillip Neumann wrote: Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. Here could exist very better app. that for win/Mac. Linux is

Re: Kernel-WhyTo

Matthew Myers wrote: I am curious about why there are 9 Million different kernels. I was examining the 2.1 kernels and they number all the way up to .115. What is the point of this? If .95 is obviously an improved and better version than .94, why are people still trying to work bugs our

Re: Linux as OS course.

Liran Zvibel wrote: Hi. The OS course here is going to become more OS specific. If professors didn't decide yet whether they want it to be Linux or NT (blahh...) specific. If I can find some course material about Linux, they'll probably take it (and make the course Linux specific.) Do

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: phillip Neumann wrote: Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this

Where's the mouse (in X-windows)?

In trying to start up the X server, I get the following error output: -- XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type:

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 06:36:08AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote: [stuff snipped] bring over the windows fonts and put them in /var/lib/ttfonts yikes no...ok=20 package version 0.9.7 : /var/ttfonts latest packages of 0.9.9: /usr/share/fonts/truetype then run xfstt --sync

Re: Where's the mouse (in X-windows)?

I did previously go to /dev and run MAKEDEV mouse. Even though this must be something very basic and obvious, can someone please shed some light on what to do? Yes - but /dev/mouse needs to point to wherever your mouse really is - probably a serial port (try /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttys1). An

Re: Network printing in linux.

I solved this by bypassing the server entirely (though it's a DU, not NT, server). If the printer has an IP adress, simply set up your own print spool. Mine happily coexists with the university spool. The difference is that mine is usually up :) Having worked in universities and non-profit

Re: Little/Big endian discussion (was: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 09:38:54AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:43:23 -0400 Stephen J Carpenter writes: Little endian = intel byte order = host byte order (if its an intel) big endian = network byte order = host byte order (on 64 bit boxes)? I dunno if ALL 64

Re: DEBIAN 2.0 FAQ Tue Aug 18

What happened to the FAQ-O-MATIC? Did it die? Jens Ritter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a rather crude and quick hammered FAQ list for the DEBIAN GNU/Linux System. Version: Tue Aug 18 13:00:00 CEST 1998 (C) 1998 Jens Ritter. You may want to apply one of the

mbr package

Thanx to everyone who responded to my request about removing mbr. Since Linux is the only OS installed on the machine in question, I have reconfigured LILO to install in the MBR. Seems to have had the intended effect. Thanx!

Re: newest distribution?

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: : What is the newest unstable Debian distribution? I've lost trake of : everything since all the ftp sites were trashed... : : Where should I point apt? Here is what I'm currently using: : : deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

Re: Why am I no longer on this list?

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Howard S. ('Sherm') Ostrowsky wrote: : As of about a week ago, I have stopped getting any new messages from the : Debian-user digest, to which I have been subscribed for over a year now. : I sorely miss my daily fix of information and interesting odds and ends. : I

Re: /var/spool/mail -- ~/Inbox migration: how with smail?

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote: : I have a pretty vanilla Debian 2.0 setup as of now. I installed smail as : my mta (or is it mda?). I would like to change the default inbox from : /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Inbox. Smail is a MTA (Mail Transport Agent). procmail/deliver

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:03:11PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi! Some of my programs have to work on big-endian and little-endian systems, knowing what kind of system they are runing on (they are exchanging data in binary format). To recognize the kind of the system I use the

Debian Knowledge Base ?

re: a place to search for software What I think would be helpful would be a Keyword search which then provided the title and link for results; on the order of the gasp! MSKB. That way, when you searched on kernel you'd come up with 'make-kpkg' in a couple of locations. I responded to RMS on his

Re: Linuxmusicface=0 was ( Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff] )

phillip Neumann wrote: Well i have be searching about a long time for sound application. And i get to the conclusion that for musicans, linux is crap. Music people cannot do music on computer with this OP. I found this pretty bad. PLEASE have a look at Dave Phillips's wonderful page

Re: Big-endian/little-endian (WAS: Re: can I burn the output of mpg123 -s?)

Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you do the swapps... I suggested a union first (like below) but...whats the proper way of doing it? The

Re: Kernel-WhyTo

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: I am curious about why there are 9 Million different kernels. I was examining the 2.1 kernels and they number all the way up to .115. What is the point of this? If .95 is obviously an improved and better version than .94, why are people still

trouble with Debian 2.0 installation

Hello there! My problem is that I can' t install Debian 2.0. .Every time i boot the Kernel from CD, the display shows a lot of messages and suddenly the it keeps black. I think the installation works, but I do see the black display. When I shut Linux down, than the display shows me an

saint netscape

Dear Debian Users, i just tried to get saint running. It tells me that I should run it as root (what is ok) and it will start netscape (which seems to be not okay). The problem is, that netscape will not be started as root saying /usr/bin/X11/netscape: Cannot be run an root (for security

Lowmem Installation with Hamm

Dear Brave Debian Users: With a lowmem installation [4 meg.s RAM], 2 MB temporary partition [ Type 81], 16 MB Swap Partition [Type 82], and the rest of my HD for Linux 2.x; I can't install. After booting from lowmem.bin, partitioning my disk, initializing

Re: Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

On Sun 16 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonderful. I'm happy that Cheap*Byte is there. They are cheap, and I heard many good things about them (I also heard bad things about other CD vendors). They are also sending free CD's to Debian developers (I hope they are

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