Re: Tamaño de las letras de XTerm

1999-03-26 Thread carlos saldaña
Mar 25, 1999 at 08:15:57PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Organization: toron.net El Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:15:57PM +0100, Andres Seco Hernandez decías: Me temo que ya se hablo de esto hace no mucho, pero no encuentro el mensaje donde se comentó. Tengo la pantalla de 1024x768 y

Re: Tamano de las letras de XTerm

1999-03-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Andres Seco Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me temo que ya se hablo de esto hace no mucho, pero no encuentro el mensaje donde se comentó. Tengo la pantalla de 1024x768 y el XTerm me queda muy chiquitito. Me mola conservar ese tamaño ya que cabe de todo dentro y los dibujos se

Re: Problemas varios

1999-03-26 Thread Antonio Iglesias Ibáñez;961180
Agustín Martín wrote: Jose Luis Guerra wrote: Recientemente he instalado la versión 2.5.6 de RPM, pero tengo un pequeño problema cuando lo uso. Me sale un mensaje de error que dice: failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm. He buscado el citado archivo y no lo tengo. Pensé,

Re: mirror de slink non-us en slug

1999-03-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 12:40:52AM +0100, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: ¿Puede ser que no este todavia el mirror de non-us de slink en Slug? He visto que si que esta el de hamm, pero no veo non-us de slink. La última vez que hablé con Luis Colorado me comentó algo sobre que la réplica de Debian

Re: Problemas varios

1999-03-26 Thread Antonio Iglesias Ibáñez;961180
Perdonad por la falta de cortesía, antes ni siquiera saludé. Lo hago ahora. Saludos a todos los miembros de la lista.

VNC+teclado

1999-03-26 Thread Jose Mari Mor Fabregat
Probando el otro día el vncserver, no conseguí que funcionase bien el teclado. Igual os ha pasado a alguien, o es un problema propio del vncserver. ¿Alguna idea? linux -- ejecuta vncserver win98 -- vncviewer. Lo he probado también con w95, y no hay manera. En las hojas del manual no pone nada al

nis

1999-03-26 Thread jon
hola... alguien ha instalado nis en debian,y que funcione.? he seguido el howto de debian nis.pero no me tira.Los comandos ypcat ypwhich si funcionan,pero al intentar acceder desde el cliente con una cuenta que este en el servidor...no.no pasa del login alguien me puede echar un mano..?

filtros ps

1999-03-26 Thread jon
tengo una impresora olivetti jp450.Alguien sabe si hay algun filtro para esta impresora?

Archivos Xenix

1999-03-26 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
¿Puedo leer archivos Xenix? ¿Que sistema de ficheros tendría que compilar en el nucleo? Gracias -- ===NaClU2\==Ignacio= _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ( @ @ ) _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ +-ºoO(_)Ooº-+ _/ _/ _/

Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-26 Thread Jay Barbee
Hummm... I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It is odd that I also run BIND but only in a caching mode. My resolve.conf does not point to my box as being a choice for one of the name services, but it still uses server 0.0.0.0 (mybox) as the name server. Very odd, but still not my problem. It

Printing problems

1999-03-26 Thread Mono
I wrote awhile back about some problems with my epson. Turned out, like someone suggested, that I hadn't compiled parallel printing support into the kernel, stupid me :). Anyway, I'm stumped again. According to /proc/parport/0, the printer is on lp. At startup I see something to the order of

Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-26 Thread Shao Zhang
I have the following entries in my /etc/resolv.conf nameserver domain search The bug # is 34263 At a moment, I am just confused how everything works, named, bind, /etc/resolv.conf Could someone please clarify on this?? Jay Barbee wrote: Hummm... I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for all your help with these questions. Much appreciated. Just one more query... 4. The HOWTO says: IMPORTANT: IP forwarding is disabled by default since 2.0.34 kernels, please make sure you enable it by running echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward This seems a

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-26 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 02:07:56PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever) And if possible, an

Re: X11

1999-03-26 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:33:22PM -0600, Kevin Lee wrote: I have just installed Debian Linux 2.1 from scratch. Everything is working properly except X11. I am currently using a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM graphics adapter. My problem is as follows: When Linux boots up xdm is

Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...

1999-03-26 Thread Jay Barbee
I have the following entries in my /etc/resolv.conf nameserver domain search I assime you know what these entries do... specify you nameserver, domain and also allows you to specify the order the domains are searched. The bug # is 34263 At a moment, I am just confused how everything

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-26 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such thing. George Bonser writes: Tell Stallman that, http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=n/zdnet/technology/19990325/19990325301 So? This is old news. So RMS has his opinion. I have

X libs not found

1999-03-26 Thread scratch
Hi, I'm experiencing problems running mxaudio: intra:/etc# ldd /usr/local/bin/mxaudio libXt.so.6 = not found libXmu.so.6 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found libXext.so.6 = not found libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000b000) libm.so.5 =

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #528

1999-03-26 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office for most of the day on Thurs. March 25, 1999.

postscript printing packages

1999-03-26 Thread wax_man
What packages are needed for postscript printing? Someone said that I may need to install them to fix my printing problem. TIA, chris

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-26 Thread Kevin Dalley
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I am currently running Linux on a Compaq laptop with a Neomagic NM-2160 video card. I would like to use Debian 2.1. Could I use XFree86 3.3.1 with Debian 2.1, even though the distribution

Re: Some questions about IP Masquerading

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
It's easy to create one in /etc/init.d and run update-rc.d. Actually I thought that was only needed for 2.2.x and late 2.1.x kernels. I'm not using it for ip masquerading with 2.0.36 and am not having any problems. Bob On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Thanks for all your help with

Re: postscript printing packages

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
lpr or lprng, gs or gs-aladdin, gsfonts, probably magicfilter or apsfilter. If you have a postscript printer, you won't need the gs stuff. Bob On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What packages are needed for postscript printing? Someone said that I may need to install them to fix

Re: Epson Stylus Color 740

1999-03-26 Thread mike shupp
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Roy-Anders Larsen wrote: Sad with all this windows driven HW these days.. Yup. I actually saw windows-driven harddrives this past week, when shopping for an extra for my system. -- [EMAIL

Re: [PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

1999-03-26 Thread Jor-el
John, I think you will have seen Peter's proposed solution on debian-user to my problem. The trouble is that I cant figure out how it will work : nothing in ppp or the current Debian PPP setup seems to allow differentiation of the PPP daemon's behaviour depending upon the user that

tclmidi

1999-03-26 Thread robbie
Hi Does anyone here use tclmidi? I have not been able to get it to work. I am using recent potato, glibc2.1. Script started on Fri Mar 26 02:41:17 1999 $ tmplay syntax error in expression catch midifeature $dev smpte_timing err (if test expression) while compiling if {catch midifeature

Re: [PPP] Mulitple userids at one ISP

1999-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Jor-el writes: I think you will have seen Peter's proposed solution on debian-user to my problem. Not yet. The trouble is that I cant figure out how it will work : nothing in ppp or the current Debian PPP setup seems to allow differentiation of the PPP daemon's behaviour depending upon the

Upgrading X to 3.3.3 and missing files

1999-03-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all- I just received my slink CDs (yay!) and installed without any problems (that I know of yet). I purchased a Matrox Millenium G200 video card and I was informed from an response that I needed to upgrade my X packages to 3.3.3 and that the .debs were at

K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread ESP
I have a couple of questions, and I haven't been able to find a FAQ for debian-users so you're JUST GOING TO HAVE TO LUMP IT. :-) First, background (skip down for questions if you wish). I'm a fairly sophisticated Debian GNU/Linux user. I've done a few i386 installs, an Alpha install, and I've

Problem configuring X

1999-03-26 Thread Eber de Castro Diniz
Hi guyz... It's my first time here in this list And I have a question... everytime I'm trying to start the X the xinit show me that libXmu.so.6 doesn't found a shared object.. so the X doesn't start... So... someone can help me?! Looking forward to your answer Eber Diniz

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
ESP wrote: 1) PGCC isn't in slink or potato. I can't find it on FreshMeat, either. Is it available as a .deb anywhere else? or am I going to have to build it from scratch, or use the RPMs from the PGCC site? It's worth checking if the gcc in unstable can do the optimizations well

Re: tclmidi

1999-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
Does anyone here use tclmidi? I have not been able to get it to work. I am using recent potato, glibc2.1. I package it, but only because it's used by rosegarden (which I also package). I've not tried to actually use it for much -- what's in the package is pretty much a straight-out-of-the-tarbal

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread ESP
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me 1) PGCC isn't in slink or potato. I can't find it on Me FreshMeat, either. Is it available as a .deb anywhere else? Joey It's worth checking if the gcc in unstable can do the Joey optimizations well enough. EGCS specifically does

XFmail - question

1999-03-26 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, since the XFmail mailing list is dead, and there is no activity on the XFmail home page, I try to post here since XFmail after all is part of the Debian distribution. What I wonder is how to get replied messages marked A for answered? XFmail help says this is supposed to happen, but it only

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian 2.1 has the neomagic driver. If you MUST have the 3.3.1 version, install Debian's X like usual, then go to master.debian.org/~vincent/ and grab the temporary 3.3.1 debs. or you can simply place xfree86.orgs xserver binary in /usr/local/bin and

Re: CD-ROM

1999-03-26 Thread ivan
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 08:51:30PM -0300, Henrique Esteves Fazzio wrote: As a user of Windows98, I've been having some frequent problems (common problems) with it. So I thought about changing my os, but what system to choose? So I found Linux for FREE, a plattaform that is growing

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #529

1999-03-26 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office for most of the day on Thurs. March 25, 1999.

modem refuses to talk to chat

1999-03-26 Thread Jason Willoughby
First off, this is a potato system, kernel 2.2.4, up to date as of 3/24. When I upgraded to the new ppp package, things went majorly boom. I cleaned up a few problems related to /etc/ppp.chatscript and the changes in pppd's connect option (probably relics of my crufty and idiosyncratic ppp setup.

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-26 Thread JW Park
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:44:25 -0500 (EST), you wrote: Also, does linux handle the cd-rw's? If so, are they worth the extra money to get? IMO, no. A CD-RW blank costs upwards of 30$ while a CD-R blank costs 1$ to 1.80$ so you would need to blank a disc about 30 times before it's worthwhile

Re: Printing problems

1999-03-26 Thread Conrado Badenas
Mono wrote: thinks that it's been printed and nothing turns up in the spool. Where, exactly, is my printer? In order to know which /dev/lp* is connected actually to your printer you can use a simple test as root (or user pertaining to group lp) in order to have write permission to the device:

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such thing. Tell Stallman that, Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating system GNU/linux (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html). Since Linus acknowledged that

Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Richard Harran
I have had to reinstall debian on my system, and am having trouble with the sound module. I have a sb awe63 pnp card. I've run the install script from the awedrv package, configured the kernel (make menuconfig), amd run make dep; make clean however, when I try make modules I get

Re: Converting RH to Deb

1999-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Just wondering if there is anyone here familliar enough with the Red Hat system to know if this is possible with a reasonable effort: Convert the RH rpm database to a proper dpkg database but with packages all set to a -0 version so that they would be selected for

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Richard Harran
OK, I replying to myself. I didn't select /dev/dsp as one of the sound options in the kernel. Now I've sorted this, I still have a problem: I can't use /dev/dsp, because it doesn't exist. What should have created this, and how do I fix it? Thanks Rich Richard Harran wrote: I have had to

Debian 2.1 Installation a mess

1999-03-26 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I just got my slink CD in the mail. Unfortunately it is not going very well. I think that I am doing it right. 1.) Boot up from 1st CD. 2.) Install base and set up everything fine. 3.) Get to install the rest of the system in dselect. 4.) Put 2nd CD into CD-ROM drive. 3.) Update.

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote: Could someone please tell me either what I might be doing wrong, or how I could do the 'configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option' thing. have you done either make config, make menuconfig or make xconfig before the make dep; make clean ? if

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote: I've run the install script from the awedrv package, configured the kernel (make menuconfig), sorry - didn't notice that bit when I first read it. still, it sounds like you've missed the audio section out. try it again, and look for the audio section.

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread David B. Teague
On 25 Mar 1999, ESP wrote: I have a couple of questions, and I haven't been able to find a FAQ for debian-users so you're JUST GOING TO HAVE TO LUMP IT. :-) [snip] 4) Is anyone else interested in a K6-optimized version of Debian (which I've dubbed K-Rad Debian in my own head, just

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote: OK, I replying to myself. I didn't select /dev/dsp as one of the sound options in the kernel. Now I've sorted this, I still have a problem: I can't use /dev/dsp, because it doesn't exist. What should have created this, and how do I fix it? cool.

Re: first-time exim

1999-03-26 Thread Paul Slootman
Did you get an answer already? you write: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ ll /var/spool/mail total 2 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Feb 1 07:42 ./ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Mar 10 11:27 ../ Note the conspicuous absence of /var/spool/mail/dbroseme! What does 'mailq' say? If

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
humbug% ll /dev/dsp crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 21 1998 /dev/dsp I think the default permissions are crw-rw, but I couldn't access it as a user that way (and putting me in the audio group didn't work). anybody got any ideas why that is? Did you logout/login

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Graham Ashton
On Friday 26 March, Maarten Boekhold wrote: (and putting me in the audio group didn't work). anybody got any ideas why that is? Did you logout/login again after you added yourself to the audio group? I don't think so - I tried using the newgrp command instead. It works fine now with

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Richard Harran
Great. Thanks a lot: this pointed me in the right direction. I couldn't actually run MAKEDEV dsp, but I had a look at MAKEDEV, and found MAKEDEV audio worked ok. I've got the default permissions, and added myself to audio group using adduser username audio as root, and this worked fine.

Netscape

1999-03-26 Thread L Brooks
How do I install Netscape 4.08 Communicator into Debian 2.0, downloaded it from ftp.netscape.com, followed the insructions, but no go, and can find no refferences anywhere in debian.com, help. My registration number is 0040840, on the card addressed to Linux Press. Clive

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread ktb
ESP wrote: 4) Is anyone else interested in a K6-optimized version of Debian (which I've dubbed K-Rad Debian in my own head, just because it sounds good)? I'd think it'd be great for pre-install on low-end PCs, a lot of which use the K6. 5) Is this interesting enough to become an

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
ESP wrote: 4) Is anyone else interested in a K6-optimized version of Debian (which I've dubbed K-Rad Debian in my own head, just because it sounds good)? I'd think it'd be great for pre-install on low-end PCs, a lot of which use the K6. 5) Is this interesting enough

Re: Netscape

1999-03-26 Thread ktb
L Brooks wrote: How do I install Netscape 4.08 Communicator into Debian 2.0, downloaded it from ftp.netscape.com, followed the insructions, but no go, and can find no refferences anywhere in debian.com, help. My registration number is 0040840, on the card addressed to Linux Press. If you

NIC card install problem

1999-03-26 Thread David Bartholow
I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 but I'm running into problems with the Ethernet card install. When I get to the screen for installing the card it gives me a choice of two command line parameters: io = 0 irq = 0 I enter io=0x300 irq=10 and it comes back with this message:

Re: tclmidi (again)

1999-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
It doesn't build from the source. It stops with something like: ld: -lg++: no such file or directory. I tried to build it from the source, and discovered that it now needs a dependency on libg++2.8.2. You can build it if you install libg++2.8.2 and libg++2.8.2-dev. It's now giving me an Out

qpopper is dead..

1999-03-26 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Upgraded a few programs on my mailserver, went from inetd to xinetd. qpopper no longer works. Can't seem to open a socket on port 110. It is in the inetd.conf file, it is also listed in the xinetd.conf. Still not working. Any insight would be appreciated. Anthony

Re: Can't get sound module installed

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
cd /dev ./MAKEDEV dsp Bob On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Richard Harran wrote: OK, I replying to myself. I didn't select /dev/dsp as one of the sound options in the kernel. Now I've sorted this, I still have a problem: I can't use /dev/dsp, because it doesn't exist. What should have created this,

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #530

1999-03-26 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office for most of the day on Thurs. March 25, 1999.

problem with ulimit on HP-UX 10.20

1999-03-26 Thread System Administrator
Hi, We are having a problem with submitting batch jobs using the at command. When the batch job is submitted by a user whose name is in /var/adm/cron/at.allow the following error is displayed and the command does not get executed. But when the same job is submitted by root the command gets

Re: The GNU thing

1999-03-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : : On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: : : : Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such : thing. : : Tell Stallman that, : : Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating system :

Re: Netscape

1999-03-26 Thread Kent West
L Brooks wrote: How do I install Netscape 4.08 Communicator into Debian 2.0, downloaded it from ftp.netscape.com, followed the insructions, but no go, and can find no refferences anywhere in debian.com, help. My registration number is 0040840, on the card addressed to Linux Press. Clive

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-26 Thread Michael Stenner
I think it says in ip-up (the sript, not the directory) that all of the scripts are run with minimal (or even no) environment. So DISPLAY probably IS set, but ip-up is run without any of these variables. The wierdness here is not X or linux in general. It's the way pppd and ip-up work.

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi 3) Is there an easy way to build ALL the packages in slink from source? i've heard about such idea(s) before. The real question is - do you need to rebuild ALL packages? I doubt rebuilding ls and such will do any difference. The only visible difference might be if you rebuild FEW

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/26/99 4:44:41 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, does linux handle the cd-rw's? If so, are they worth the extra money to get? IMO, no. A CD-RW blank costs upwards of 30$ while a CD-R blank costs 1$ to 1.80$ so you would need to blank a

Bash buffer size

1999-03-26 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
When I do an ls -l in a directory such as /etc, it lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see about 150 of them because of my limited buffer size or whatever that might be called ! Question : What is the variable that controls this, and how can I change that? P.S. I played

help to repair my systems

1999-03-26 Thread Tarcisio Praciano Pereira
I had to dismount my machine (a P200, 32Mb RAM,2 HD summing 6GB running exclusively LinuX), and when I mounted it againg all I could have at boot prompt was LI. Well I have to say that previously /dev/hda which in fact is 3.2Gb was recognized only to be 2Gb and I had partioned it with a first

Re: Bash buffer size

1999-03-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
When I do an ls -l in a directory such as /etc, it lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see about 150 of them because of my limited buffer size or whatever that might be called ! This has little to do with bash. It is a setting of the terminal you use. For an xterm,

pine/ssmtp

1999-03-26 Thread Angus Claydon
MTIA perplexed why does pine put `To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' instead of `My Name' in the `from' column of my mailbox index when I test post to myself (and presumeably other recipients on receipt of mail ) /perplexed note using 2.0.34 on

Re: Bash buffer size

1999-03-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/26/99 10:14:31 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I do an ls -l in a directory such as /etc, it lists down about 300 entries but I can only go back and see about 150 of them because of my limited buffer size or whatever that might be called !

Unable to open initial console

1999-03-26 Thread Andre Luis Cardoso
Hi, I´m getting this message when i was booting to install. It occurs booting with the official cdrom or from floopy disks. The message is: Unable to open inital console. Can somebody help me? Thanks, ATTENTION: Here are some of my opinions, just it.  I'm not speaking for my

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kevin Dalley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You may also need the 2.2.x kernel. My Neomagic servers were broken until I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1, from 2.0.36. Both the older Neomagic specific server was broken and the newer svga server By the way, I am now using the svga server. I'm

Re: Unable to open initial console

1999-03-26 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I do think that this problem is related to /dev/console file. This file should exists and should be pointing to /dev/tty0 (usually.) Bye, Giuseppe Andre Luis Cardoso wrote: Hi, I´m getting this message when i was booting to install. It occurs booting with the official cdrom or from floopy

Help for Installing Linux

1999-03-26 Thread Bala Iyer
On Dos partition when I ran Install the following message came up. Image File not found. Please enter name of kernel image file follwed by optional command line parameters for Linux (e.g. root = ) or @file (file = param file) or empty string to abort. Thanks for the help.

Re: qpopper is dead..

1999-03-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: Stopped working here too, had to switch to cucipop. I just ordered a slink disk. Will I have this problem when I upgrade Debian if I leave inetd alone? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: qpopper is dead..

1999-03-26 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Got it working again, but I had to go back to inetd instead of xinetd. On 26-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: Stopped working here too, had to switch to cucipop. I just ordered a slink disk. Will I have this problem when I upgrade Debian if I leave inetd alone? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID

Spliting messages between different mail-boxes?

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, For the last few weeks I've been following the list and have messages from the list going to a seperate pop-mail box at my ISP. At the moment I'm reading the list from Outlook Express and have a filter that puts all messages from this mail-box into a seperate mail folder in Outlook. I would

Re: pine/ssmtp

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Angus Claydon wrote: MTIA perplexed why does pine put `To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' instead of `My Name' in the `from' column of my mailbox index when I test post to myself (and presumeably other recipients on receipt of

Zombies

1999-03-26 Thread Chris Brown
I had a few cpio scripts running in background, noticed an error with one of my scripts (it was recursive) and tried to stop it. kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the zombie status, and kill wouldn't touch them. I finally rebooted. Can someone explain what a

Re: qpopper is dead..

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 26-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: Stopped working here too, had to switch to cucipop. I just ordered a slink disk. Will I have this problem when I upgrade Debian if I leave inetd alone? I've upgraded two systems with qpopper to slink. No

Help with Smail, please

1999-03-26 Thread homega
Some time ago I started noticing a slowdown with outgoing mail. I usually run `runq -v' to send outgoing mail. The logs on screen are usually long, and it sometimes hangs, as if it tried to reach the destination by itself. This is how long they usually look like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: K-Rad Debian?

1999-03-26 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:50 -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: hi 3) Is there an easy way to build ALL the packages in slink from source? i've heard about such idea(s) before. The real question is - do you need to rebuild ALL packages? I doubt rebuilding ls and such will do any

Backup using ZIP drive?

1999-03-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm currently thinking about choosing a way to back up my laptop. An Iomega ZIP drive sounds like the best and least expensive solution. Does the panel have any comments or other suggestions? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Jeff Katcher
Hi all I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from the command line? I am trying to write a batch (Sorry my old DOS stuff coming back) program that tars and gzipps up some directorys and then emails them to me. All this for the purpose of backing up my config files.

Re: Spliting messages between different mail-boxes?

1999-03-26 Thread Carl Mummert
Here is a procmail recipe that I use to (successfully) filter several debian lists. This goes in your ~/.procmailrc You also need to set up a .forward file in the form below. Look at 'man procmailex' for more examples. You will need to tell your mail user agent about the locations of these

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hi all I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from the command line? I am trying to write a batch (Sorry my old DOS stuff coming back) program that tars and gzipps up some directorys and then emails them to me. All this for the

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have gotten CD-R disks for as low as 10 cents each (after a rebate on a 10 pack.). Also I think you can't even buy a CD-R drive anymore, all the new ones are CD-RW (which also write CD-R's). Compusa and best buy have periodicly had IDE CD-RW drives on sale for $149-$199 after rebate. I havn't

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Will Lowe
I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from the command line? I am trying to write a batch (Sorry my old DOS how 'bout: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] foo.tar.gz Will

Sorry, it's sound again, pls. help

1999-03-26 Thread O. Niepolt
Sorry if I'm just the zillionth user to ask how to configure the soundcard, but this one doesn't seem to be a regular problem, I'm really stuck and don't know where to look further. Rather, it looks like the 2.0.34 sound module or isapnp 1.15 are broken: I have two Linux dists on the same

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Mar, Will Lowe wrote about Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from the command line? I am trying to write a batch (Sorry my old DOS how 'bout: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] foo.tar.gz

Re: Zombies

1999-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 01:21:49PM -0500, Chris Brown wrote: I had a few cpio scripts running in background, noticed an error with one of my scripts (it was recursive) and tried to stop it. kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the zombie status, and kill

MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-26 Thread G. Crimp
What do people on this list do when there local name is not the same as there login at their ISP ? My mail doesn't make it to some mailing lists because of the SMTP ident thingy. I'm talking about dial up users like myself, not those who are running servers and have their own domains,

Re: very stable AGP or PCI video card

1999-03-26 Thread Christophe Clapp
Have you tried to upgrade to the new stable X packages ? My S3 GX/2 crashed a lot but it's now stable with the new X packages. On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 06:02:43PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I need a very stable and cheap AGP video card for my system. I currently have a S3 Virge

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-26 Thread Kevin Dalley
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Kevin Dalley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You may also need the 2.2.x kernel. My Neomagic servers were broken until I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1, from 2.0.36. Both the older Neomagic specific server was broken and the newer svga server By the

Re: MTA and SMTP ident

1999-03-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
With sendmail, I use the MASQUERADE_AS line in sendmail.mc which works for me on restricted lists. Bob On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote: What do people on this list do when there local name is not the same as there login at their ISP ? My mail doesn't make it to some mailing lists

Re: first-time exim

1999-03-26 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Paul Slootman wrote: Did you get an answer already? you write: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ ll /var/spool/mail total 2 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Feb 1 07:42 ./ drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024

Netscape

1999-03-26 Thread Kevin Lee
I just installed Netscape 4.08 using dselect on debian 2.1. When I try to start Netscape I get the following error: ./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I appreciate any help you all can give. Kevin Lee Vulcan Industries (205) 640-2433 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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