Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-07 Thread Thiago Jung Bauermann
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:43:50AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: sou Paulo Henrique ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) do Linux Club (http://linux.cos.ufrj.br). Nos so usamos a Debian e adoramos ela. Traduzimos a sua instalacao e mandamos para o Zanardi da Debian. Essa traducao vai

Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-07 Thread Adriano Freitas
Leandro Dutra wrote: A Debian e' muito superior a RH. Ano podemos continuar assistindo essa palhaçada da Conectiva. Tá aqui a minha justificativa por topar fazer até gratuitamente. Não agüento mais escutar falar em Linux e escutar o nome RedHat!!!, muito menos

Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-07 Thread Lalo Martins
On May 06, Leandro Dutra decided to present us with: Tá aqui a minha justificativa por topar fazer até gratuitamente. Não agüento mais escutar falar em Linux e escutar o nome RedHat!!!, muito menos Conectiva!!! Tá bom, agora me expliquem por que essa bronca toda. Nada contra a

Netscape

1999-05-07 Thread Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld
Aloha ë o seguinte eu tenho o netscape comunnicator instalado na minha maquina e numa bagunça parece que eu matei os diretorios do menseger... o problema é que eu não consigo arrumar (ja tentei desinstalar e instalar de novo como no ruindows mas não funciona) eu não uso(prefiro o kmail) mais não

Re: Netscape

1999-05-07 Thread Lalo Martins
On May 06, Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld decided to present us with: Aloha ë o seguinte eu tenho o netscape comunnicator instalado na minha maquina e numa bagunça parece que eu matei os diretorios do menseger... o problema é que eu não consigo arrumar (ja tentei desinstalar e instalar de novo como

Re: ENC: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-07 Thread Clovis Sena
O que eu gostoi do Linux eh isso: se vc nao gosta de uma coisa, tem toda a liberdade de ir por outro caminho. Tb acho que alguns estao ganhando mais destaques que outros, mas eh assim mesmo e vai continuar ate que os outros mostrem resultados melhores. Acridito que seja viavel criar outras

Re: gshutdown

1999-05-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Robert Kerr wrote: I'm using gnome with enlightenment, and I'd like to add the gshutdown to my panel. I've added it successfully, changed gshutdown to setuid root, You should know that this is a *huge* security hole. You're welcome to have such a hole if your system

ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-07 Thread Debian Mail
Once (Debien 1.3.1) I could use my ZIP drive by saying rmmod lp insmod scsi_mod insmod sd_mod insmod ppa After I installed Debian 2.0, ppa.o was not there any more. Now I installed kernel 2.2.5. So ppa.o is there again, but not the other two modules above. If I just say insmod ppa I get:

Re: Thoughts about winmodems

1999-05-07 Thread Kent West
At 05:01 PM 5/6/1999 -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Somewhat off-topic, but perhaps applicable If a modem is a device for MOdulating/DEModulation, and a winmodem turns that job over to the software (Windows), is that not grounds for a class-action fraud suit

Help on Intel PRO/100+ PCI Ethernet board

1999-05-07 Thread Javaherian, Benjamin
Any idea where I can get the driver for this board? It is based on Intel 82558 controller. Thanks, Benjamin

Lockup

1999-05-07 Thread Jim B
My Linux box locked up on me this morning. Running the stock Debian 2.1/Linux 2.0.36 kernel... and only two services, telnet (from xinetd) and SSHD1 (current version). It runs all the time over a dial-up PPP connection... but I couldn't log into it when I got to work this morning; I figured

booting with NT bootloader fails

1999-05-07 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I'm trying to make Linux bootable from a scsi harddrive using NT bootloader. I'm reasonably used to lilo, though far from understanding all the intricacies of the process. I've also read the Linux+NT HOWTO and think I have followed it appropriately. After choosing Linux from

LILO

1999-05-07 Thread Rahsheen Porter
I recently (this morning), had a power outtage. I started up my computer and LILO started going nuts. Not only did it just say LI, but the cursor was jumping all over the screen and the printer started to print. I used a rescue disk and ran LILO, then rebooted. Now it prints 01 over and over.

Re: Roxen

1999-05-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PM == Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PM Since you're running debian and (de)installation is so easy, why PM not just replace Apache with Roxen and see how it goes. You can PM always change back easily if something breaks. I would leave apache for now, and install roxen in addition to

Re: Newbie cd installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread Dean
Hi Paul: I'm a newbie also and as I recall I used the rescue floppy to install kernel and modules. Could be all wet tho as I'm still trying to get x windows up and trying to get a game to work. ( I dont think config liked my answers for my card and unless I missed my guess thats what I need

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
My real problem is, I called CTX, which is the manufacturer of the notebook, and they honestly told me they didn't know what they put in their notebooks themselves. They even suggest that I open the notebook to try my luck. Does any one know the probability of ruining the display if I take

smail problem

1999-05-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified. Thanks. Shao. --

Re: smail problem

1999-05-07 Thread Michael Fox
You'll have to find docs to make your email headers be rewritten with yoour qualified domain name -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Mail List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, 7 May 1999 11:41 Subject: smail problem Hi, Some sites block the

What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error

1999-05-07 Thread mxu1
Hi, I tried several utils to debug one C program ( hoc from Software Tools ) which gives me segmentation error but got no clue from them. The most hopeful one gccchecker failed to compile it in the linking stage: reporting undefined reference to `chkr.__sigsetjmp'. Anyone knows how to deal

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I don't know where it is? The device section is at the end of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Just scroll down past the modelines, and you will run across the graphics device section that looks like this: # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Standard VGA Device: Section

Re: OFF TOPIC: Solaris x86, WABI and Linux.....

1999-05-07 Thread Adam Shand
Any one have any experience with using this. Is it worth installing on a 133 pentium? probably not. solaris is a pretty big memory pig and from what i hear wabi isn't all that lean either. That is question 2, has anyone ported any solaris software to linux? I like to use WABI and JAVA

Re: What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error

1999-05-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried several utils to debug one C program ( hoc from Software Tools ) which gives me segmentation error but got no clue from them. gdb is the tool, but you will need source code and a binary with debugging symbols to get anywhere. gdb comes

Can't get fetchmail to fetch.

1999-05-07 Thread Monte Copeland
I have recently installed Debian slink. I have successfully configured Exim and I can send email out to my isp mailhost using Mutt but I can't get fetchmail to successfully retrieve any email from it. When I run the following command : % fetchmail -a -k -vfetchmail.log % cat fetchmail.log

Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Robert Kerr
I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are working nicely, now I'd like to add my laptop into the system. I don't have a network pcmcia card, but I do have a null modem cable. I think I should be able to use it to network my little laptop into the system, can someone

Re: Can't get fetchmail to fetch.

1999-05-07 Thread debian
Well I don't really know exim, but if you were using sendmail, you'd have to tell the sendmail config (/etc/sendmail.cf) to accept mail for you domain and as well as localhost. So I guess it would apply to exim config too. Find the config file and tell exim to accept mail for localhost

Re: Can't get fetchmail to fetch.

1999-05-07 Thread Ian Peters
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 12:07:09AM -0400, Monte Copeland wrote: I sent a test message from my account at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my icx.net account. My machine is named 'dharma' . The problem seems to be the @localhost . I don't know if it is fetchmail that is doing it or if it is Exim. Any

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Robert Norris
I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are working nicely, now I'd like to add my laptop into the system. I don't have a network pcmcia card, but I do have a null modem cable. I think I should be able to use it to network my little laptop into the system, can

mutt with mailing list

1999-05-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I use mutt to create a mailing list?? I can only find the command alias but nothing else. I tried to use alias to create a mailing list. But when the mail is sent, it displays all the usernames in the mailing list. I would like to have

Re: posgresql postmaster would not start

1999-05-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: Are you running an edited version of /etc/init.d/postgresql? The distributed version (6.3.2-10 onwards) contains these lines: My version is 6.3.2-8. Thank you for the information. I will put it in my /etc/init.d/postgresql. Johann

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 May 1999, Debian Mail wrote: Once (Debien 1.3.1) I could use my ZIP drive by saying rmmod lp insmod scsi_mod insmod sd_mod insmod ppa After I installed Debian 2.0, ppa.o was not there any more. Now I installed kernel 2.2.5. So ppa.o is there again, but not the other two modules

Re: can't login after package installation

1999-05-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Werner Reisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to install TCL on my machine (hamm) but had to install first libreadline and libncurses. I made a fault and tried to install first libreadline (with dpkg) the package complained that libncurses are required first. After this installation

Merge of .html or .ps files into a single one

1999-05-07 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hello everybody! I'd like to print some documentation I have found in disperse html files. Now I convert .html files into .ps files with Netscape 4.5 and print them with a booklet script (4 pages per sheet), but in order to save more paper and get all documents together I would like to merge .ps

システム起動時に固まる症状について

1999-05-07 Thread Masashi KUSUNOSE
linux japan5月号の付録CDでインストールしたのですが、ブートフロッピー が作成できない 起動させると starting PCMCIA services :modules で固まります。 どなたか、対策方法をご指導いただけませんでしょうか?   version: debian 2.1 model : 日立 フローラ PR−NL cd-rom : tohsiba xm-1402b aipi pcmciaソケット: cirrus logic pcic conpatible pci topcmcia brige bios: phoex bios 4.0.5

Re: PCI Soundblaster card?

1999-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: PCI Soundblaster card? Date: Thu, May 06, 1999 at 09:18:06PM +0100 In reply to:Andrew Holmes Quoting Andrew Holmes([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Thanks, I'm using 2.2.0, so I'll recompile and keep my fingers crossed. The current stable is 2.2.6 or 7. 2.2.0 .1 had

disk power down

1999-05-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My compaq deskpro at work (running NT 4.0) spins down it's ide drives after some period of inactivity. Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?

disk power down

1999-05-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My compaq deskpro at work (running NT 4.0) spins down it's ide drives after some period of inactivity. Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?

disk power down

1999-05-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My compaq deskpro at work (running NT 4.0) spins down it's ide drives after some period of inactivity. Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS?

Re: disk power down

1999-05-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS? My Linux box uses an AZZA AT socket 7 motherboard with an Intel TX chipset and an AMD K6-233 cpu. I

Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it first then remove it. I cannot install the said package (gnotepad+) as the installer (dpkg) refuses. And finally I am in the chicken and egg problem. I have

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread Andrei Ivanov
If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can make some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't X just set the values for you? No idea why it can't. The whole purpose of xf86config is to configure system the way you want, if you can. It is

Debian Maintainers Food for thought

1999-05-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
Subject: Help with apt I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it first then remove it. I cannot install the said package (gnotepad+) as the installer (dpkg) refuses. And finally I am in the chicken and

Re: Help on Intel PRO/100+ PCI Ethernet board

1999-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Javaherian, Benjamin wrote: : : Any idea where I can get the driver for this board? : It is based on Intel 82558 controller. As a guess, `modprobe eepro100' should help. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity

1999-05-07 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Hi HELP! I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719) sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and

Re: What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error

1999-05-07 Thread Min Xu
Hi, Havoc: gdb is the tool, but you will need source code and a binary with debugging symbols to get anywhere. gdb comes with a reasonable manual. I tried that. It gives me: GNU gdb 4.17.19981224.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free

Re: LILO

1999-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: LILO Date: Thu, May 06, 1999 at 08:36:00PM -0400 In reply to:Rahsheen Porter Quoting Rahsheen Porter([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I recently (this morning), had a power outtage. I started up my computer and LILO started going nuts. Not only did it just say LI, but the cursor

[debian-user] configure a printer

1999-05-07 Thread Jean-Marc Bourdaret
After i have installed the 2.2.0 kernel, my printer stopped to work . magicfilterconfig didn't solve anything, i read somewhere that the new kernel implements a new kind of support for the parralel port, is it related to my problems ? how do i have to do in order to have my Canon BJC 4000 working

Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread Sudhir P
Hi, Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now). My present set up: -- I have an i586 system in which I have dos,

ftp via proxy?

1999-05-07 Thread Karola Risto
Hi, We have here a LAN with full of Windows PCs. My secondary PC is the only Linux machine in the LAN, and it has served well as an intraner server. And as a toy for myself. I tried to use apt for installing some new packages into it, but ftp (nor http) didn't work. My question is how Debian

Re: What is the good tool to debug for segmentation error

1999-05-07 Thread David B.Teague
On Thu, 6 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried several utils to debug one C program ( hoc from Software Tools ) which gives me segmentation error but got no clue from them. And any better tool than gccchecker? Bruce Perens wrote the electric fence. It helps with arrays, and i

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are working nicely, now I'd like to add my laptop into the system. I don't have a network pcmcia card, but I do have a null modem cable. I think I should be able to use it to network my little laptop into the

proxy and Apache

1999-05-07 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hey, did someone know if the proxy of Apache will work only to my localhost or to all url ? more clearly : if I use my browser on my computer is apache-proxy see in its cache ? or apache-proxy will work only to the request on my http://localhost In fact I want to know if I have to

Re: disk power down

1999-05-07 Thread Bill Wilson
Can I configure my Linux system to do the same? Most modern IDE drives should support this feature, is support required on the Motherboard or Bios to make this work, or is it all in the OS? My Linux box uses an AZZA AT socket 7 motherboard with an Intel TX chipset and an AMD K6-233 cpu. I

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 5/7/99 8:08:40 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can make some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't X just set the values for you? No idea why it

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Help with apt Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:04:48PM +0200 In reply to:Daniel Mashao Quoting Daniel Mashao([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it first

RE: Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Jonathan J. Lupa
Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt? If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato. Of course, I can always just go download the deb and run dpkg on it, but is there a better

Re: [debian-user] configure a printer

1999-05-07 Thread Ian Peters
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 04:09:42PM +0200, Jean-Marc Bourdaret wrote: After i have installed the 2.2.0 kernel, my printer stopped to work . magicfilterconfig didn't solve anything, i read somewhere that the new kernel implements a new kind of support for the parralel port, is it related to my

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: If X can detect that you don't have any valid modes, it obviously can make some decisions on what settings are valid for your card - so, why can't X just set the values for you? When X says no valid modes, what it means is, based on the

Bad author when using pine

1999-05-07 Thread Clyde Wilson
When I send a message (or reply to one) using pine and then receive the message, the author field looks like: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of Clyde Wilson Any ideas?

Two printers under lp

1999-05-07 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi! I was wondering whether it's possible to have to printers attached to two parallel ports in one Linux machine being served by lp (*NOT* lprng). I have this set up right now, and one of them prints fine, the other gets stuff if I cat myfile.txt /dev/lp2. Files are copied to this

R: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Bob If your laptop is a Winzoz box you have to use a terminal emulator because it's the easiest way to link it to the net. if it is a Linux box you can use slattach. It works fine to me too. I've got my two desktop computers networked using 10base2 and they are working nicely, now I'd like

Motif headers?

1999-05-07 Thread Stefano Stabilini
Hello world! I friend of mine wrote a small C program and compiled it for a Silicon Graphics machine. He passed me the binaries (useless) and the C source code. I'd like to run it on my Linux system, but it needs a number of Motif header files to be compiled. Is there something like a free

Time Keeps A changin'

1999-05-07 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok guys, I've asked this before, but I try again. I upgraded to libc6 in potato and it hosed my JDK and a few other thing I use, so I downgraded to libc6 from slink. Then my time got screwed. I reinstalled timezones and set the date a time and everything seemed fine. Except that when I need to

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hey Bob, how are things in happy valley? Anyway, I've done what you're talking about many times (for head-to-head linux Quaking!). Here's whatcha do: I'll assume your network uses the 192.168.1.0 network and your setup is this: BoxA (192.168.1.1) BoxB (192.168.1.2)BoxC

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: Network and serial port #!/bin/bash while true do /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 nodetach noauth proxyarp passive asyncmap 0 192.168.1.2:192.168.1.3 done Just curious. Why are you using an infinite loop and not the persist pppd

Re: LILO

1999-05-07 Thread G. Crimp
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:00:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] # Generated by liloconfig # Specifies the boot device boot=/dev/hda1 boot should be the drive not that partition, ie boot = /dev/hda What do you mean by should ? I have several computers booting

Debian Keeps rebooting

1999-05-07 Thread Javaherian, Benjamin
I have installed Debian 2.0 on my toshiba 510, it starts loading, but then reboot the system and start everything over again. Any ideas? Thanks, Benjamin

Re: disk power down

1999-05-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Bill Wilson wrote: Running hdparm is not the only thing to consider. If you want a real powerdown and not a periodic cycle of disk on and off, you must shutdown stuff that dings the disk. When I want to powerdown, I exit all such apps (this includes Netscape, ppp, etc)

zgv (fwd)

1999-05-07 Thread David B.Teague
Hi I posted this to the Debian Users Mailing List around May 1, but to date, I have received no reply. If someone would help me configure vgalib and zgv, I'd appreciate it. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,

Re: LILO

1999-05-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Rahsheen Porter wrote: I recently (this morning), had a power outtage. I started up my computer and LILO started going nuts. Not only did it just say LI, but the cursor was jumping all over the screen and the printer started to print. Your disk got corrupted. The

Re: zgv (fwd)

1999-05-07 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 7 May 1999, David B.Teague wrote: I posted this to the Debian Users Mailing List around May 1, but to date, I have received no reply. If someone would help me configure vgalib and zgv, I'd appreciate it. I dunno about zgv, but I've got one possibly useful suggestion. locate

Re: R: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread Hans Dumbrajs
I have my win95 laptop connected to my linux box via a null modem serial cable and dial-up networking on one side, pppd on the other side. Works like a charm. I had to write myself a custom modem.inf file for win95, and a couple of perl scripts for linux, but everything works beautifully now.

Unicode/Netscape

1999-05-07 Thread Michael Laing
How does one display a UTF-8 encoded web page in Netscape 4.51? I can display a mixed language web page OK in yudit using UTF-8 encoding and the gnu unicode font, but I can't successfully associate this font with UTF-8 or unicode-2-0 in Netscape's Edit/Preferences/Font setup. So Netscape just

Re: Network and serial port

1999-05-07 Thread John Hasler
Brian Servis writes: Just curious. Why are you using an infinite loop and not the persist pppd option? I have never used ppp over serial so I may be missing something, but it just struck me as odd. It is. I used to use pppd as a poor man's LAN. Persist works fine. Try (all on one line, of

Re: Debian Keeps rebooting

1999-05-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 7 May 1999, Javaherian, Benjamin wrote: I have installed Debian 2.0 on my toshiba 510, it starts loading, but then reboot the system and start everything over again. Any ideas? I believe this is kernel related. You could try using the boot disks

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote Thanks for the info. I did used xf86config, repeatedly, but didn't seem to set up everything correctly. Here's what I think is crucial, but not sure how to do it correctly: 1. hsync in kHz: I choose 31.5: standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz, as mine is a 640x480

2.2.7

1999-05-07 Thread jason
I'm trying to get kernel 2.2.7 going on my slink box.. but i keep having problems getting the network to work.. it seems to have problems with dhcp.. i get .. May 6 19:46:02 TheCave dhcpcd[136]: ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot ass ign requested address and i'm not sure what this is

sendmail config

1999-05-07 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
hey, I have a probleme to configuring smail. If I say to smailconfig to send mail to root, all thing work, but if I set it to send them to a user khaezzar (he is in mail group) a get this mail : === !root !0 1001 !-oem !-f !+ !-oMs !localhost !-oMr

Re: 2.2.7

1999-05-07 Thread shaleh
I'm trying to get kernel 2.2.7 going on my slink box.. but i keep having problems getting the network to work.. it seems to have problems with dhcp.. i get .. May 6 19:46:02 TheCave dhcpcd[136]: ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot ass ign requested address 1) you need PACKET

Re: X server crash.

1999-05-07 Thread Seth Golub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having X detect all the valid modes There are an awful lot of valid modes, most of which are completely unusable.

Screensaver in X

1999-05-07 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: Which program will I be looking for to get the subj. working? I'm really interested in just blanking display after some inactivity (w/o locking it) under X. Is xscreensaver the standard utility for that? FWIW, I'm using Slink+Windowmaker+wdm. Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin

Copy - Paste problem

1999-05-07 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have a strange problem with copy and paste. When I copy from XFmail to, and paste to GXedit or X-Chat, XFmail crashes. When I do the same from XFmail to other apps it's working fine. Both X-Chat and GXedit are GTK apps. Is that just a conicidence or ? TIA

newbie Question:Dynalink IS64PH

1999-05-07 Thread R.Feenstra
Hello Did anyone get the Dynalink IS64PH ISDN card ( isa ) working in Slink ? And if you did could you please tell me how you did it :) Rene

converting

1999-05-07 Thread bishoy hanna
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Re: converting

1999-05-07 Thread shaleh
i want to convert fromfat32 to fat16 And you are asking us this because?

processes spawned by usr 'nobody'?

1999-05-07 Thread Person, Roderick
I have noticed that every so often my HD would start to whine like it was being search. It made me curious and a ran a top and I found the a the find utility was started by user 'nobody'. Is this a normal thing to have processes spawned by the nobody user? Or is this a problem as I think it to be?

Re: Pico.

1999-05-07 Thread Bruce Sass
You can get pine/pico/pilot binary .debs (3.96 and 4.10) from: http://www.ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html [Thanks to Santiago for making the source packages, and to Paul for compiling and making them available.] - Bruce -- On Thu, 6 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi all,

Re: processes spawned by usr 'nobody'?

1999-05-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 May 1999 15:33:11 -0400, Person, Roderick wrote: I have noticed that every so often my HD would start to whine like it was being search. It made me curious and a ran a top and I found the a the find utility was started by user 'nobody'. Is

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread John Foster
Sudhir P wrote: Hi, Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now). My present set up: -- I have an i586

Re: Screensaver in X

1999-05-07 Thread Ian Peters
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 02:38:17PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Which program will I be looking for to get the subj. working? I'm really interested in just blanking display after some inactivity (w/o locking it) under X. X can do this. Try typing xset in an xterm, and looking at the output

Re: xosview

1999-05-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 May 1999 15:42:50 -0500 (EST), Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: Has anyone been able to get xosview to run on a 2.2.x kernel system? I It was running on my 2.2.1 kernel but when I upgraded to 2.2.6 it started failing in the manner you

Re: ftpd and nis

1999-05-07 Thread erakeon
Michel Kaempf wrote: On Mon, May 03, 1999, Kenneth Johansson wrote: I have a problem with ftp to debian when it is configured to use nis. Everything works OK as long as I have a normal user entry in /etc/passwd but when I take the user account infomation from nis fptd wont allow the

Re: xosview

1999-05-07 Thread John Foster
Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: Has anyone been able to get xosview to run on a 2.2.x kernel system? I currently have a Dual P200 system with Debian 2.1. Since updating to the 2.2.5 kernel I have not been able to use xosview at all. It starts but does not display anything at all and I have to

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread Michael Procario
On a i586 system, your cdrom is probably connected to the second IDE controller and it will be on /dev/hdc or less likely /dev/hdd. Try using that during the installation. /dev/cdrom is usually a link that points to /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. If Redhat works, boot into Redhat and look at

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt? If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato. Of course, I can always just go download the deb and

Re: Time Keeps A changin'

1999-05-07 Thread add|ct|on
- Original Message - From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: Time Keeps A changin' Then my time got screwed. I reinstalled timezones and set the date a time and everything seemed fine. Except that when I

Re: Bad author when using pine

1999-05-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
In pine, choose Setup, Configuration and edit personal-name. Bob On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 08:42:55AM -0700, Clyde Wilson wrote: When I send a message (or reply to one) using pine and then receive the message, the author field looks like: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of Clyde Wilson

Configuring Epson Stylus Photo Ex?

1999-05-07 Thread Marc Lepage
Hi. I'm trying to configure an Epson Stylus Photo Ex on a Debian 2.1 machine. I can cat text to the device and it prints as ASCII. Magicfilter is installed, I picked the stylus_color_720dpi-filter, is that correct? I tried gs, even when I ran the command manually and cat'd it do the device, all

Re: Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 11:20:12AM -0400, Jonathan J. Lupa wrote: Question: So how do I, running from a slink CD, get and install potato's apt? If I add entries for 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then go into dselect, it wants to upgrade my world to potato. Of course, I can

Help on Installation

1999-05-07 Thread rafarley
Hi... I'd love to install Debian on my computer and give it a whirl. I want be able to use Windows also.. anyhow.. when i clicked on the Intel x86 installation manual ( Under 'New Installations' at this adress: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/) it didn't work.. the others work fine

Re: Help on Installation

1999-05-07 Thread Matt Folwell
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 05:34:51PM -0400, rafarley wrote: Hi... I'd love to install Debian on my computer and give it a whirl. I want be able to use Windows also .. anyhow.. when i clicked on the Intel x86 installation manual ( Under 'New Installations' at this adress:

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