Re: Kernel 2.3.6 ¿Inestable?

1999-07-10 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:16:08PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi dijo: Ya hay 2.3.10. Yaho!!! -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.1 | www.linux.org

Telnet y root

1999-07-10 Thread Gonzalo
Hola ¿Puedo hacer un telnet contra mi maquina entrando como root? Hasta ahora no me ha dejado. Gracias.

Problemas con dselect

1999-07-10 Thread Sergio Blanco Cuaresma
Hola, mi nombre es Sergio, soy nuevo en la lista y quisiera realizar una consulta. He instalado slink y despues de varios dias intentando configurarlo todo, he intentado instalar nuevos programas que venian en los cd's de slink mediant dselect. El problema es que cuando llego al apartado de

Re: INCREIBLE PERO CIERTO!!

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Fri, Jul 02, 1999, Barbwired... Si estáis hablando de Linux Journal yo ya la he comprado. No puedo valorar el contenido porque no he podido más que hojearla, pero parece una traducción íntegra de la edidición americana. Con las ventajas/inconvenientes que ello implica. El aspecto

Re: XF86Setup no arranca

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Mon, Jul 05, 1999, David Charro Ripa... Estoy intentando aprovechar un 486 viejo. Quiero ponerle unas X sencillas para usarlas esporádicamente. Con modo VGA 600x480 me basta. Pero arranco el XF86Setup y se me bloquea totalmente. Si no puedes solucionarlo utiliza `xf86config', en

Re: Consultas sobre dosemu y xclipboar

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, Jul 08, 1999, Jose Luis Trivino... Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide wrote: Has comprobado que el SO que tienes instalado en DOSEMU sea el autentico MS-DOS y no el FreeDOS que trae la distribucion. lredir no funciona en FreeDOS. Una opción que funciona bien es instalar

Re: Telnet y root

1999-07-10 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Gonzalo wrote: Hola ¿Puedo hacer un telnet contra mi maquina entrando como root? Hasta ahora no me ha dejado. Gracias. No, no puedes entrar directamente como root a traves de telnet. Lo que puedes hacer, sin embargo, es entrar como un usuario normal y ejectuar el

Re: Problemas con paquete 'eterm-background'

1999-07-10 Thread Miquel
El vie, jul 09, 1999 at 02:34:28 +0200 RESET va dir: En el mensaje [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel escribió: [...] Yo también tengo problemas con el paquete 'eterm-background'. Me temo que la distribución de Citius lo trae corrupto. El problema no es que sea un paquete más o

Re: Framebuffer (y II): problemas svgalib y X.

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Fri, Jul 09, 1999, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez... Acabo de trastear un poco el kernel y entre otras he pobado el aclamado frame buffer al fin pero en consola me ha parecido una cosa mala de lento... de todas formas es un promer paso y una abstracción de hard bastante brillante.

Re: De nuevo acentos y teclado.

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Fri, Jul 09, 1999, Antonio Fernández Fernández... He perdido (borrado) la configuración del kbd por defecto y no sé cómo Lo que tengo yo es lo siguiente: # cat /etc/kbd/config CONSOLE_FONT=lat1u-14 CONSOLE_MAP=lat1u.uni (solo te pongo las líneas descomentadas). Cambiando el `14' por

Re: Cores

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Fri, Jul 09, 1999, IJAS... Me podeis explicar o decir donde encontrar información sobre los 'cores' ¿Que son estos archivos? ¿para que sirven? ¿como los puedo utilizar? ¿como los puedo evitar? ¿por qué aparecen? en definitiva... todo ... De lo poco que he leido me parece deducir

Re: Telnet y root

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Sat, Jul 10, 1999, Gonzalo... ¿Puedo hacer un telnet contra mi maquina entrando como root? Hasta ahora no me ha dejado. Creo que es suficiente con incluir las modificaciones convenientes en estos tres ficheros: /etc/login.acces /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny Saludos. -- Cosme

Re: Problemas con dselect

1999-07-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Fri, Jul 09, 1999, Sergio Blanco Cuaresma... slink mediant dselect. El problema es que cuando llego al apartado de instalar, me pide el cd con etiqueta Citius lite Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) binary-i386 (1 de 2) y cuando lo inserto me lo vuelve a pedir,... Hola Sergio, no se

Re: Problemas con impresora

1999-07-10 Thread Han Solo
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 02:41:16AM -0500, Alberto Ladron wrote: Hola: Instale lprng y apsfilter en un sistema con DEbian 2.1, pero al mandar a imprimir no pasa nada y no obtengo informacion de ayuda con lpr. La impresora es una HP laser creo que HP6L. Alguna ayuda? Gracias.

Re: Kernel 2.3.6 ¿Inestable?

1999-07-10 Thread Netman
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 04:28:15AM +0200, Barbwired wrote: Acaban de ponerme los pelos de punta con historias para no dormir sobre kernels inestables, filesystems corruptos... y yo no sé. Nada, ni caso... Eso es como el cuento del coco o el hombre del saco... XD ¿Por qué tengo el 2.3.6

Memory Recognition Problem

1999-07-10 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I've just installed Slink (using low memory disk) on a 486 with AMIBIOS V1.1 The bios reports 3716k RAM with 1M memory checking enabled there's 4 30pin simms installed. Linux sees 1936k available (free and top). Anyone know what can be causing this? TIA, Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE

1999-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
I got it from there several months ago but when I went back to look for any updates, the kde stuff was gone. I guess I should try again. Thamks. Bob On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:55:38PM +, Bradley Bell wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200,

Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)

1999-07-10 Thread Nate
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 07:41:14PM -0400, Roger Rabbit wrote: Thats interesting that you found dselect easier to navigate than the ports collection, I found it just the opposite, and I did d/l FreeBSD over the net as well. I migrated to both Debian and FreeBSD from SuSE/RootHat at about the

Re: KDE

1999-07-10 Thread Bud Rogers
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, Bradley Bell wrote: aptable KDE is here: deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com slink kde contrib rkrusty or deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty Change the hostname to kde.tdyc.com. Ivan has moved everything to a different box and snowcrash doesn't answer

Re: install can't read from cd

1999-07-10 Thread Kris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (d:\install\boot) and successfully mounted the root directory, init swap. When it came to selecting media to install from I chose cd-rom, /dev/hdf but a message returned saying that the mount was unsuccessful. Use: /dev/hdc if your CD drive is Secondary Master

R: raid-problems

1999-07-10 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
hello after a reboot (caused by a power fail) my raid was checked with ckraid and brought back into sync, but e2fsck sais, that the md-device-partition has zero length?? you have to restart md-device in /etc/init.d using mdutils just a tip: use ckraid --fix configfile the problem is, that my

Slow rsh performance linux-solaris

1999-07-10 Thread Morgan Fletcher
I posted previously about slow rdump times from linux to solaris. I later tried dumping a local partition to another partition on the same linux box, and it was blazing fast with no errors. So then I just tried sending packets from linux to (a pipe to rsh to) solaris and timing it. In this

Sendmail-anything else

1999-07-10 Thread Brian Schramm
I am trying to learn sendmail but it is not working the way I am expecting or wanting it to. I have tried everything that I can think of to no avail. Maybe someone can tell me why or maybe I should try something else. I am running Debian Slink with sendmail running and bind working. I use

Re-installation

1999-07-10 Thread maxalbert
To All: Btw, I finally did get my Debian 2.1.8 to re-install. It was, as some of you suggested, a problem involving the proper initialization and mounting of dev/hda5. It seems that when you have another OS on hda1 (DOS drive C; bootable), as I do, and three Linux partitions with only hda2

Re: what's a checksum?

1999-07-10 Thread Bryan Scaringe
What is the name of the file? Is is a zipped tar file (usually *.tgz or *.tar.gz) if it's zipped, try 'tar xzvf filename' Bryan Marlon Urias wrote: I downloaded a tar file an tried to unpack it and got this: % tar xvf uri.tar tar: directory checksum error what's this mean? --

Bleeding edge install: mysql, perl (also apache)

1999-07-10 Thread David H. Silber
Hi folks, I'm trying to install Apache, PHP3 MySQL on a potato system. I'm getting some weird dependancy problems, which I cannot seem to get around. Currently I have: $ dpkg -l *perl* *mysql* *apache* | grep -v ^[up]n Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

Re: Huge hard disk...how to partition

1999-07-10 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Ray wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 07:03:27AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My idea was to partition as follows: #1 ext2 /boot containing only the boot image ~ 100mb #2 ntfs or vfat 4-5gb for windows #3 swap (128 -256mb) does 2.X support max swap size 128mb now? #4 ext2 / rest

Re: Bleeding edge install: mysql, perl (also apache)

1999-07-10 Thread Brad
Check the archives WRT Perl problems in Unstable (especially the thread titled Brave New Perl). The short version is that they changed the versioning scheme on the perl packages in unstable, so anything in that depends on perl will be very unstable until all such packages are upgraded to the new

tape backups and backup software

1999-07-10 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to have 2 colorado 1400 tape drives in one machine? I'd want to use 2 FC-10/20 cards (or can I put multiple drives on one card?) and be able to use them both at the same time. If the above is possible, what are some good backup software packages? I'm looking for something that's

Re: Lilo version problem

1999-07-10 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:52:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Debian Slink on a system that previously had a Caldera system on it. Then when I attempted to run lilo I got an error message that said something like The first somethingorother is version 18. Version 20 expected

Re: Bleeding edge install: mysql, perl (also apache)

1999-07-10 Thread David H. Silber
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 10:22:10PM -0500, Brad wrote: Check the archives WRT Perl problems in Unstable (especially the thread titled Brave New Perl). The short version is that they changed the versioning scheme on the perl packages in unstable, so anything in that depends on perl will be very

Re: Power failure

1999-07-10 Thread Didi Damian
Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, A fuse blew last night taking out the power supply to the server with my new debian linux installation.:-( On reboot this morning, the second NIC wasn't present so I had to modprobe /lib/...tulip.o, then ifconfig eth1, then route add, then

Re: Bleeding edge install: mysql, perl (also apache)

1999-07-10 Thread Brad
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, David H. Silber wrote: Weren't you warned that following unstable could cause problems? ;) Yup. That's why my workstation server run slink. But I need the latest versions of PHP3 MySQL for a project, which means potato, so I am using a 486 to support this project.

RAID (Linear Mode)

1999-07-10 Thread Dan
All right, this may be more appropriate for the RAID mailing list, but I don't want to subscribe unless I really have to. I am setting up a RAID in linear mode. I tried looking for more info on this, but even the latest RAID document isn't quite clear with this topic. I already have my main

Re: Lilo version problem

1999-07-10 Thread dmacdoug
On 9 Jul, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:52:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Debian Slink on a system that previously had a Caldera system on it. Then when I attempted to run lilo I got an error message that said something like The first somethingorother is

Apt: local URIS must not start with //

1999-07-10 Thread fairfax
I have the Debian slink CD's, and I have a mirror of non-free on a local partition. However, I cannot get Apt to recognize the non-free mirror. Whatever line I put in sources.list, when I run apt-get update, it gives me the error message local URIS must not start with // I've tried using

Re: Apt: local URIS must not start with //

1999-07-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point out the error of my ways? Upgrade to 0.3.11, little oopsie in 0.3.9 there. Jason

Re: Slow rsh performance linux-solaris

1999-07-10 Thread Morgan Fletcher
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so my guess is that whatever the problem is, it is fixed in a newer version of one of the following: linux kernel netstd package One thing I forgot to mention is that the machine is running slink 2.0.36. I was considering an upgrade to potato, and

Re: Toshiba Mouse Problem

1999-07-10 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 03:22:17PM -0500, Stanley J. Benes wrote: Hi all. I'm using 2.1 (slink?) on a Toshiba satellite pro 410CDT laptop. It has a built in mouse-like device called an accu-point. I've been trying to use gpm with the built in device without success. I read a few web

Re-install question.

1999-07-10 Thread Hans van den Boogert
I messed up my system again, so I want to do a re-install. I still have access to the partition, so can I move the /home and /usr directories to another partition, then re-install Debian and move back /home and /usr to their original places? -- Hans

Re: Re-install question.

1999-07-10 Thread Brad
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: I messed up my system again, so I want to do a re-install. I still have access to the partition, so can I move the /home and /usr directories to another partition, then re-install Debian and move back /home and /usr to their original places? --

chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!

1999-07-10 Thread Robbie Huffman
Has anyone out in debian-userland managed to get chos to boot Win98? I have it installed on a small drive at /dev/hdc1. If I set my bios to boot drive D Win98 works great. But the following entry with chos gives me errors. bootsect Windows 98 { color=lightblue image=/dev/hdc1 } I would go

Re: chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!

1999-07-10 Thread Dan
That config doesn't really sound right... I mean, image=/dev/hdc1 would imply that the image IS that drive. Shouldn't it be something more like root=/dev/hdc1 or something like a lilo config? I would seriously just go to lilo. Can you not remove the ``chos'' package through dselect? If not,

Does Netscape 4.61 work for you?

1999-07-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
$ netscape ERROR: /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/med.so: undefined symbol: __setjmp Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/med.so. Ignored. /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 93: 12598 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $netscape $@ This is all I get since I upgraded to the version

Re: chos, lilo, linux, win98, oh my!

1999-07-10 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 06:21:19AM +, Dan wrote: That config doesn't really sound right... I mean, image=/dev/hdc1 would imply that the image IS that drive. Shouldn't it be something more like root=/dev/hdc1 or something like a lilo config? I would seriously just go to lilo. Can you not

libtool troubles

1999-07-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I think that I have found the basilar problem with my egcc installation that doesn't work: While I upgrade libtool I get this error: Configuring libtool... ltconfig: cannot guess host type; you must specify one Why does the script fail at recognizing my host type automatically? What is the

Re-install question 2

1999-07-10 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Okay then on the /usr/local and /home, I'll backup those. But isn't there a way to tell dkpg what packages were installed and reinstall them? Ah, I remember there was a discussion on that a while back, so I'll check the archives first. Thanks -- Hans

Re: Memory Recognition Problem

1999-07-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:59:52 -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bios reports 3716k RAM with 1M memory checking enabled there's 4 30pin simms installed. Linux sees 1936k available (free and top). Anyone know what can be causing this? The memory reported does not include

fvwmrc_convert

1999-07-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, The script fvwmrc_convert supplied by the fvwm package in potato seems not working. Any ideas?? THanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18:37:13 ~ $ fvwmrc_convert fvwmrc-to-fvwm2rc /usr/bin/X11/fvwmrc_convert: line 45: syntax error near unexpected token

Re: xircom pcmcia card

1999-07-10 Thread P. van Tilburg
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:38:39PM -0400, Bob C. Ruddy wrote: Hello, Hi I've got a problem getting my xircom Ethernet+Modem multifunction card working right. The first problem is that I can't get the card manager to automatically load the modules for the card. The second problem is that

Re: Toshiba Mouse Problem

1999-07-10 Thread P. van Tilburg
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 03:22:17PM -0500, Stanley J. Benes wrote: Hi all. I'm using 2.1 (slink?) on a Toshiba satellite pro 410CDT laptop. It has a built in mouse-like device called an accu-point. I also have such a device on my Toshiba Satellite 320CDT I've been trying to use gpm with

Instalation decisions

1999-07-10 Thread Walter Logeman
I have a Debian 2.0 disk (installs kernel 2.0.34) and am wondering if it would be best to install that, and then upgrade from the web or purchase the latest book and disk. My first time on an AMD K6 200, on a second 2Gig HDD. The machine has win 98 on a 6gig Hard disk and i will wan to be

Re: tape backups and backup software

1999-07-10 Thread Laurent Martelli
Paul == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Is it possible to have 2 colorado 1400 tape drives in one Paul machine? I'd want to use 2 FC-10/20 cards (or can I put Paul multiple drives on one card?) and be able to use them both at Paul the same time. Paul If the above is

Re: Slow rsh performance linux-solaris

1999-07-10 Thread Gerhard Kroder
George Bonser wrote: I am wondering if there might be some giant delay in resolving the hostname (so a .rhosts lookup might work). A test of this would be ... does the total real time stay about the same if you double the transaction size. since installing ssh, i found that simple r*

multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to a network card configured to use multiple IP address (ie, 4 static + 4 dynamic = 8 IPs) at once? All of the IPs are on the same network and netmask. If this is possible, where can I find more information on how to do this? Thanks -Paul

Fax

1999-07-10 Thread Cuno Sonnemans
Hi, I've installed efax and it works fine Only as root. When I try to send a fax message as user I get the following message in my fax log. /bin/bash: sefax: command not found I put myself as user into the group dialout and fax. Does anybody know how I can solve this problem. HTH Cuno

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:44:06AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: struct foo { char text[3]; int num; }; sizeof would return 6 and not 5. 6? Are you sure you're using Linux/gcc? Yes, 6, it will insert a single extra character at the end of text to place the

Re: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Is it possible to a network card configured to use multiple IP address (ie, 4 static + 4 dynamic = 8 IPs) at once? All of the IPs are on the same network and netmask. If this is possible, where can I find more information on how to do this?

Re: Fax

1999-07-10 Thread dyer
Cuno Sonnemans wrote: Hi, I've installed efax and it works fine Only as root. When I try to send a fax message as user I get the following message in my fax log. /bin/bash: sefax: command not found I put myself as user into the group dialout and fax. Does anybody know how I can solve

'last' is slow

1999-07-10 Thread Mattias Axelsson
The 'last' command is incredibly slow on my Linux machine. All logins from the same day appears without delay but the processing of logins from other days take several seconds for each day to show. The computer is a 486 with 24 MB where approx. 22 MB is used, but I don't think it's lack of memory

RE: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to have Linux split up the bandwidth automatically on aliased IPs? The HOWTO only covered static IPs, it is possible to use dynamics as well? Thanks -Paul -Original Message- From: Leen Besselink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 9:41 AM To:

Re: Instalation decisions

1999-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 10:32:54AM +, Walter Logeman wrote: I have a Debian 2.0 disk (installs kernel 2.0.34) and am wondering if it would be best to install that, and then upgrade from the web or purchase the latest book and disk. Either way would work. Debian 2.1 requires two CDs

RE: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Is it possible to have Linux split up the bandwidth automatically on aliased IPs? hmm... I think the question is, do you really want to ? I think it would be better to have the networkcard do as much as possible, and not leave bandwidth unused. The

Re: Problem with removing package.

1999-07-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dave == dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dave geko:/home/geko# dpkg -i python-base_1.5.2-4.deb dave (Reading database ... 28377 files and directories currently dave installed.) dave Preparing to replace python-base 1.5.2-4 (using dave python-base_1.5.2-4.deb) ... dave Unpacking replacement

RE: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread Leen Besselink
Is it possible to have Linux split up the bandwidth automatically on aliased IPs? hmm... I think the question is, do you really want to ? I think it would be better to have the networkcard do as much as possible, and not leave bandwidth unused. The HOWTO only covered static IPs, it

Debian Drivers Disk: Install Probs

1999-07-10 Thread Marco Nuessgen
Hello. I bought the new Debian 2.1 (slink) Distribution and installed on my workstation: everything fine! Than i wanted to install Debian to my Server, but I have problems with the drivers diskette. I boot from the rescue floppy disk, mount the disks= everything OK. At the next step Installing the

Re: Re-installation

1999-07-10 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Max; Happy to hear that you got things working. I can tell you that I have certainly turned the air blue a few times while trying to do something with Linux/Unix (mostly with Unix come to think of it). One of the biggest and most frustrating things that you will likely experience in the

Re: KDE

1999-07-10 Thread Bill West
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:55:38PM +, Bradley Bell wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: I don't want it in non-free, I want it in main. = So, it'll be in main and nowhere else :-) But KDE packaging

Re: Telephony Apps

1999-07-10 Thread Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union
Alex McCool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, Anyone know of any telephony apps, possibility to replace an aging automated answer service? The mgetty-voice package will get you started, but it appears to me that it takes a fair bit of work make it useful. There's an answering machine

Boot disks -- don't

1999-07-10 Thread John Carline
Hi All, Would anyone by any chance know what would make boot disks stop working? I've got several small hard drives that I plug into my computer as /dev/hdd1 and have been playing with different configurations and kernels. After testing some modems for a friend, none of the boot disks that were

Re: multiple IPs on one netcard

1999-07-10 Thread eg
I know some people who are working on this in relation to security concerns with static IPs and 24/7 use of Cable Modems. I forwarded the beginning of this thread, and am sure any and all references would be greatly appreciated. : = ) Leen Besselink wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Paul Miller

Re: Squid hogging memory with children

1999-07-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded Squid (to 2.1.2-1, the newest in stable). It's started to spawn a bunch of (16) child processes that consume a lot of my memory. Despite my best efforts with the config file, I can't change the number of

Where did my disk space go?

1999-07-10 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I got a strange problem. I was running gimp processing quite big image, at some point I got impatient and killed the program. To manipulate with image GIMP has quite big buffers allocated on hard drive and now all that space is gone. Effectively du reports that my home area occupies 150

fwconfig suid

1999-07-10 Thread Jeroen Bulten
Hi, I ran into a problem yesterday when i tried to install fwconfig on my debian slink box. Basically, i followed all the instructions in the README, chmodded and suid'ed as indicated, but Apache keeps giving me Premature End of Script Errors. The error.log says the script cannot suid, and i get

Re: Problem with removing package.

1999-07-10 Thread Stephen Pitts
dpkg -r --force-depends --force-remove-reinstreq --purge python-base dpkg -i python-base_1.5.2-4.deb That should work. If not, reply with the error message. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org

JDK and HotJava

1999-07-10 Thread J Horacio MG
I installed the JDK (jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz) from http://www.blackdown.org/ like follows: # cd /opt # tar zxvf /tmp/jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz and added the following lines to my ~/.bash_profile: export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk116_v5 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export

Re: Where did my disk space go?

1999-07-10 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 01:53:51PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, I got a strange problem. I was running gimp processing quite big image, at some point I got impatient and killed the program. To manipulate with image GIMP has quite big buffers allocated on hard drive and now all

GNOME (slink) not working

1999-07-10 Thread Chris Frost
I just apt installed gnome (the actual packages told apt to grab are below), and apt didn't give a hint anything went wrong. However, when I try to open a gnome app (ie eeyes, gnomeicu, xchat, gnome-session, panel, etc) nothing happens. There is a bit of cpu usage/disk usage real quickly and then

vmware

1999-07-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm starting to use vmware, and I love it. However, I can only get 16 colors with it. Does anyone know how to get the color depth to increase (win98)? I'm running it on an amd k6-2 300 with a creative labs RIVATNT card (which it does not seem to see). It tells me that I have a Standard Display

Re: GNOME (slink) not working

1999-07-10 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:48:29PM -0500, Chris Frost wrote: I just apt installed gnome (the actual packages told apt to grab are below), and apt didn't give a hint anything went wrong. However, when I try to open a gnome app (ie eeyes, gnomeicu, xchat, gnome-session, panel, etc) nothing

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:26:19PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Or even 8, since an int is 32 bits. int can be anything from 16 bits up. In fact, I believe we have architectures where int is 64 bits. Do *not* depend on the size of int! -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] %

Re: GNOME (slink) not working

1999-07-10 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:48:29PM -0500, Chris Frost wrote: I just apt installed gnome (the actual packages told apt to grab are below), and apt didn't give a hint anything went wrong. However, when I try to open a gnome app (ie eeyes, gnomeicu, xchat, gnome-session, panel, etc) nothing

Re: screwed up dselect! help needed!

1999-07-10 Thread Tor Slettnes
Everytime you [U]pdate, your old 'status' list gets replaced. If you had information on packages you installed on your own (either built by you locally, or obtained from sources outside your Debian CD), this information is lost next time you look at the [I]nstall menu. This is not a problem, if

Re: vmware

1999-07-10 Thread Matthew McFarlane
I can't seem to fdisk a partition everytime with dos fdisk or cfdisk I get a no fixed disks error... any help? Matthew McFarlane - Chris I'm starting to use vmware, and I love it. However, I can only get 16 colors Chris with it. Does anyone know how to get the color depth to

Re: vmware

1999-07-10 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:37:23PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote: I'm starting to use vmware, and I love it. However, I can only get 16 colors with it. Does anyone know how to get the color depth to increase (win98)? I'm running it on an amd k6-2 300 with a creative labs RIVATNT card (which it

Re: Toshiba Mouse Problem

1999-07-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jul 1999, Stanley J. Benes wrote: Hi all. I'm using 2.1 (slink?) on a Toshiba satellite pro 410CDT laptop. It has a built in mouse-like device called an accu-point. I've been trying to use gpm with the built in device without success. I read a few web pages about the toshiba and

RE: Power failure

1999-07-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Didi, I did exactly as you suggest except I added the ipfwadm commands to /etc/init.d/network itself. I love seeing my linux box get up over 100 days without needing a reboot so it was with some misgivings I simulated a power failure. All worked a treat. Thank you! Patrick -Original

Re: Networking help

1999-07-10 Thread Robert Rati
I pulled everything out of my machine but the video card and the nic and the nic still wouldn't work. Usually I wouldn't have asked the mailing list about such a simple thing, but this has me baffled. Do you, or anyone else, know of anything else to try to get my nic working correctly?

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 11:54:32PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: to use ssh which encrypted everything and ran really really slow. I was not impressed when I found out that the powers that be behind Debian had Does scp -c none do much for performance? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

cat /dev/dsp

1999-07-10 Thread - -
right. just out of randomness, I tried to do this: cat /dev/dsp now that process is showing 100% processor usage. why? and why can't I kill it? I am presuming that's because it's stuck in the kernel somewhere. __ Get Your Private, Free