Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-26 Thread Gareth
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloading

Re: module aliases

1999-08-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx for everyone's help on this! As you pointed out, the message relates to supporting a second sound card, which isn't present on my system. So I just need to alias it off. I appreciate the info!

Re: AWE64 Problems

1999-08-26 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Did you compile sound support directly into the kernel, or as a module. pnptools needs to initialize the card before the driver kernel grabs it, which means that you need to compile it as a module. On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:25:20AM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have a Creative Labs AWE64 (ISA

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the

ftp install base system?

1999-08-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
Is it possible to install the base system via ftp? I'm trying to install on a system without a CD-ROM drive (and each one I've tried to install won't work for some reason), and floppies aren't cutting it. I would think that it would be possible since the installer is prompted to set up the network

Re: debian/rules fails to form .deb packages

1999-08-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: Previously I used dpkg-source -x source.dsc and debian/rules to create .deb packages from files in potato/main/source for my slink system. The last few times however it failed and I had to do dpkg-buildpackage to

Re: Postgresql 6.5 - compiling errors

1999-08-26 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote: My effort to create a .deb package from the postresql-source failed with the following error message: dh_perl -p libpgperl make: dh_perl: Command not found make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 How can I correct

upgrade or not upgrade, that is the question

1999-08-26 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
Hi all, I wonder if I'm gonna upgrade my firewall from 2.0.36 to 2.2.10 kernel version. The helpz in menuconfig seems to say there's a lot of makenode, ipchains instead of ipfwadm... to do. But I read somewhere that 2.0.36 has security failures, so do you think I should upgrade or not? My net is

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-26 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:14:06AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each partition having equal

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-26 Thread Jor-el
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: Jor-el [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. It seems to me you didn't read my original query. I did read

Help! xdm not starting at boot

1999-08-26 Thread STrandahl
I have xdm configured to start when the system boots up. I changed my X configuration and now the system is in a loop trying to start X and failing. I am able to boot from my Debian CD, but don't know what to do when I get there. How can I: 1) prevent xdm from trying to run at startup OR 2)

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
I have the same mouse: Something like this ought to work: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Hmm, I don't know what that emulate timeout is doing in there! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO

Re: Postgresql 6.5 - compiling errors

1999-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:12:43PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: My effort to create a .deb package from the postresql-source failed with the following error message: dh_perl -p libpgperl make: dh_perl: Command not found make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 You need the potato version of

Re: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Ryan Chouinard
Kent West wrote: Greg Starkes wrote: Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the

trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

1999-08-26 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Recenltly, I repartitioned my harddisk. What I did is to delete the swap parttion(/dev/hda2), created a 2gig linux partition(/dev/hda2), then created a swap partition(/dev/hda3). My fdisk output looks like this: Command (m for help): p Disk

Updates

1999-08-26 Thread Ryan Chouinard
Hey It's me again, but this time with a question. Debian.org offers updates on software packages, but are there archives elsewhere with other packages? I hear people talk about using apt (Something I, regretably, have yet to play with) and using different sites and archives. I'd like to tap

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-26 Thread John Gay
I had a similar problem with my PII. My solution, though not eloquent, was to use 2.0 boot, driver and base disks to start the installation. I then had to upgrade one of the libs before I could then use dselect to install from my 2.1 CD's. dselect will tell you which lib needs updating. You then

Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

1999-08-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap Wrong. You created Swap as

Re: module aliases

1999-08-26 Thread Internet Business
Gregory T. Norris ha escrito: Thanx for everyone's help on this! As you pointed out, the message relates to supporting a second sound card, which isn't present on my system. So I just need to alias it off. I appreciate the info! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: diald and debian..

1999-08-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:02:02AM +1000, Michael Fox wrote: Anyone experienced problems with diald and debian.. is it possible that the paranoid stuff ran at system startup and the icmplogd will cause issues with diald? It's working fine for me on my potato+ipv6 router here. It would be

Re: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-26 Thread htaka
I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now. Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- Takanori Suzuki E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla M8, but compiled for slink

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

Re: Netscape

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

Gdm is evil!

1999-08-26 Thread John Haggerty
I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my system and it never will! I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window popping up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that gdm and xdm are isolated in

Re: backing up IMAP mailboxes

1999-08-26 Thread stick
Daniel Quinlan said hi, Howdy Daniel. I need to backup the IMAP mailboxes on one of our clients servers. It has a local DAT drive and i'm familiar with using tar. I have a couple of horror stories related to using tar to save important data... I now use BRU... as do all of my clients...

Re: Help! xdm not starting at boot

1999-08-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:46:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have xdm configured to start when the system boots up. I changed my X | configuration and now the system is in a loop trying to start X and failing. | I am able to boot from my Debian CD, but don't know what to do when I

RE: apt-get KDE?

1999-08-26 Thread B. Szyszka
I wonder if http://kde.tdyc.com is down now. When I did an apt-get update with that added, it wasn't able to connect to the server. I hope the site will be back up soon because Gnome has given me problems and is doing the same right now. I've never had a single problem with KDE. Does anyone

RE: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread B. Szyszka
I run Window Maker, and I always have. My dad (who alo uses this machine) uses KDE, due to it's simplicity and user friendly interface. Even he has no problems. I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem. I've found several problems with Netscape and all of them

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Kent West
Ryan Chouinard wrote: snip -- Netscape crashes, maybe due to insufficient resources --Ryan Chouinard (I just noticed all my lines start with I. Heh...) Including that one :-)

Re: problems with defrag 0.73

1999-08-26 Thread Jonathan H. Wheaton
That's correct. I've had filesystems for years that never get more than a few percent fragmentation. If you *really* want to do this, you need to copy e2fsck and defrag to a floppy and boot off the rescue disk. When the installation screen comes up, go to the option to start a shell (or switch

Wierd compile error with libpthread.a

1999-08-26 Thread Rupert Brooks
Hi, Please note to CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't follow this list all that regularly - thanks I am having problems compiling a c program under Debian-Potato. I have traced it this far: If I compile any C program, and link in the library /usr/lib/libpthread.a

E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-26 Thread John Gay
I've been having a look around for general info about X, to get a better feel of how it all works, and had a look at www.x11.org. They have a comparison of window managers, and E seems to have more capacity that all the others. Right now I'm using fvwm95, as it installed directly from the CD, as

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-26 Thread Seth R Arnold
(I reformatted this to use 76 chars.. if you are in an xterm, I suggest you check to make sure it is 80 columns wide -- if using netscape or similar, please make the window smaller. :) On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: E's website, but I take anything with a grain of

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-26 Thread Patrick Olson
There are several solutions to your problem: 1- Buy a new and better computer(i know that might an expensivesolution) Wish I could :) 2- Add more RAM and change your motherboard. At the same time reduce the size of swap memory(this is to force the applications to use any free

w output all screwed up

1999-08-26 Thread Navindra Umanee
Hi, this is on slink: (M-x auto-fill-mode) aseq:/usr/local# w 1:13am up 3 days, 22:27, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT ttyp0dak..ca 11:15pm 13:45 0.33s 0.24s tcsh

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-26 Thread ferret
I don't know if this was mentioned or not. I have about 200 unred messages for yesterday. : You mentioned that GPM was working correctly? Try starting GPM in 'repeater' mode (add -R to your switches), then tell X to use /dev/gpmdata for the mouse device and 'MouseSystems' for the mouse type. I'm

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Godric
Ryan Chouinard wrote: I was just wondering what other people thought of the Netscape problem. I am unaware of any other great browser for Linux, although I don't doubt thier existance. I use Amaya 2.1 for browsing (currently running Slink) - it lacks some of the bells and whistles of

how to create a dummy /dev/dsp

1999-08-26 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hi, I have slink installed on an old Pentium 75 box, WITHOUT a sound card. When I installed the system, it apparently didn't create a /dev/dsp. How do I create one that doesn't do anything? Thanks, Stefan.

SQL engines

1999-08-26 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, I am to write a home application for Linux that uses an SQL database. I can not decide which library to use, my two ideas are: Postgres and Mysql. Which is the best solution and why? (The database is planned to be about maximal 10-15 Mbyte) Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT

Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

1999-08-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap Date: Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:57:58PM -0500 In reply to:Andrei Ivanov Quoting Andrei Ivanov([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *1 4063 2047720+

any gif animator for linux!!

1999-08-26 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
is there any gif animator available for linux...if so pls tell where to get... === Chastity is Fountain of Power, anyway I have Cure for Virginity--ZEN MYSTIC _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Re: SQL engines

1999-08-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Urban Gabor wrote: Hi, I am to write a home application for Linux that uses an SQL database. I can not decide which library to use, my two ideas are: Postgres and Mysql. Which is the best solution and why? (The database is planned to be about maximal 10-15 Mbyte) PostgreSQL has more

Re: Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem

1999-08-26 Thread Ian Redfern
Your primary SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter; your secondary (with the CD) is an Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter (according to one of my PowerEdge 2300s running Debian 2.1). You need to search the mailing list archives for the aic7xxx SCSI driver and its

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-26 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I figured out a way to get it to work, but it's kind of a PITA. I have to log in as root, fire up KDE, then use the menu editor to assign icons for each application that isn't a KDE app, or just doesn't have an icon associated with it. Mark, I'm afraid

xfree86 3.3.4

1999-08-26 Thread Robert Varga
Are there debian packages for xfree86 3.3.4? My video card (Trio3d) is supported only in that version. However I cannot find them anywhere, although someone mentioned about them being in existence. Oh, and I use slink :-) Thanks in advance, Robert Varga

Oracle

1999-08-26 Thread ICON ICON
Does anyone know of any free software for oracle development?? Icon __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-26 Thread vw
Hi John I think Seth is right, probably the easiest solution to your colour problem will be to get a new video-card. I've had much succes using an old Tseng ET4000-based card in my slightly archaic 486/100. Gives me up to 1024x768 and plenty colors, with no troubles whatsoever. These cards are

postgres

1999-08-26 Thread rnewton3
Hallo all, I've just installed the postgres stuff ok, but I thought I'd check out a thought before I upset something. I understand that user 'postgres' is the dba for postgres. It is user postgres who adds and deletes users and databases. Is it safe to change the password for user postgres?

Re: xfree86 3.3.4

1999-08-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: Are there debian packages for xfree86 3.3.4? My video card (Trio3d) is supported only in that version. However I cannot find them anywhere, although someone mentioned about them being in existence. Oh, and I use slink :-) I had the similar problem:

Help: Wierd networking problem

1999-08-26 Thread Roger So
Hi all, My machine was running fine until I had to reboot because it had to be physically moved. After that I'm having some wierd problems: - ping and traceroute from the machine doesn't work, although ping and traceroute to it does. - running ip (from the iproute package) produces the error

Re: any gif animator for linux!!

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:56:01AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: is there any gif animator available for linux...if so pls tell where to get... Try grabbing a newer (1.1.x) version of the gimp from http://www.gimp.org. I'm pretty sure it has support for some types of animations. -- Stephen

Re: how to create a dummy /dev/dsp

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:01:19AM -0400, Stefan Langerman wrote: Hi, I have slink installed on an old Pentium 75 box, WITHOUT a sound card. When I installed the system, it apparently didn't create a /dev/dsp. How do I create one that doesn't do anything? Thanks, cd /dev; MAKEDEV audio

Re: Oracle

1999-08-26 Thread Robert Varga
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, ICON ICON wrote: Does anyone know of any free software for oracle development?? Icon You could be more specific.. Would you like to develop in pl/sql or just plain sql for oracle? Robert Varga

Re: any gif animator for linux!!

1999-08-26 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:56:01AM -0700, ZEN MYSTIC wrote: is there any gif animator available for linux...if so pls tell where to get... try whirlgif, it should be part of the Debian distribution. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL

Re: Wierd compile error with libpthread.a

1999-08-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 12:13:34AM -0400, Rupert Brooks wrote: Hi, Please note to CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't follow this list all that regularly - thanks I am having problems compiling a c program under Debian-Potato. I have traced it this far: If I

installation hang up at SCSI card

1999-08-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I couldn't install Debian because the boot kernel hangs up at the SCSI card(2940). There are thousands of bug reports about this. Are the debian people still working? Why didn't they try to do anything about it? Is there anyone know the solution? Thanks. The problem is that the default kernel

Re: more RAM = more speed?

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

Re: more RAM = more speed?

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

Mozilla

1999-08-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
How many bits of encryption does Mozilla use for secure documents? If I am to use Mozilla as a replacement for netscape I'd like to see the 128 bit version, so I can use it for on-line purchases for e-merchants with a credit card. The us version of Netscape is available with 128 bit encryption

xemacs's shell mode

1999-08-26 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, When I use the shell in xemas, the filenames does not display properly. The filename is actually displays as ^[[0mfilename^[[0m What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang -

Re: Weird slow network problem...

1999-08-26 Thread John Pearson
Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: If its not too much of a pain in the ass you might want to try switching the oomputers around to see if the problem is in the campus infastructure. Are you in the same dorm? Are they switched or shared

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:34:34PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in

Re: ftp trouble - cannot chroot

1999-08-26 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:24:14PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote Hi, I am having some trouble to chroot all the users when they ftp. Using the standard in.ftpd from netstd package, I created a file /etc/ftpchroot with one line: shao. But when I ftp as shao, I can log in

Re: Mozilla

1999-08-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:52:24AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: How many bits of encryption does Mozilla use for secure documents? If I am to use Mozilla as a replacement for netscape I'd like to see the 128 bit version, so I can use it for on-line purchases for e-merchants with a credit

Files: Debian-to-dos.

1999-08-26 Thread vw
Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...) Please don't flame a

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I don't run KDE (I run IceWM), but I often have Netscape crashes. But I'm running on a 1MB older video card and only 32MB RAM and am always getting messages from Netscape about not having enough resources (or memory?) to set color pallettes (or somesuch --

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Gay wrote: 1: Most .deb's I've installed went rather well. Sometimes I have to look for other requirement first. Are there any requirements I should get BEFORE installing the Enlightenment.deb's? If you are using the dselect tool,

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Aug, Peter Ross wrote about Re: Netscape Clicking on a mailto link causes 4.51 to crash for me everytime. This is a known bug. The workaround is to have the messenger window open/iconified before hitting a mailto link. -- Brian

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, John Pearson wrote: I've had Netscape crash on me while JavaScript was enabled, but otherwise it's been just fine *until* yesterday, when it crashed (occasionally and unreproducibly, using version 4.5) several times while loading pages

Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.

1999-08-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 03:30:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a

Re: Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem

1999-08-26 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
Thanks, I was able to place a 2.2.5 kernel with the aic7xxx driver on the rescue disk and it boots now. K On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ian Redfern wrote: Your primary SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter; your secondary (with the CD) is an Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI

Re: Configuring printer (HP 870Cxi)

1999-08-26 Thread Gene Schafhauser
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:06:47PM +, you wrote: Hi to all I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire system crashes with strange errors). However a big problem I'm having is about printing.

Libraries

1999-08-26 Thread Guilherme Balena Versiani
Hello, I want to know how to make the name_pic.a format libraries found in Debian distribution. I want to create reduced shared libraries with these ones to make a small filesystem image for a boot/root disk. I need to know at least where I could find these files: -

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-26 Thread Marc Haber
On 25 Aug 1999 14:35:49 +0200, you wrote: Does http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=filelocation=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ.gz work? Yes. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions

Strange behaviour of Apache JServ

1999-08-26 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi! I'm currently running a Java servlet that I wrote on Apache JServ. I'm getting this strange behaviour that every time I restart Apache, and then access the servlet, Apache returns a page complaining of an internal configuration/ runtime error. However, if I persistently reload the page, at

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-26 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mouse type with it and the mouse cursor simply jumps to the top left corner of the screen as soon as it is touched. Found the very similar problem today on my friends box. He's running 3.3.4 binary obtained from Xfree86.org on

Files: debian to dos

1999-08-26 Thread mcclosk
| Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a | dos-readable way? You can use the mtools package. It provides a set of commands that lets you read, write and manipulate files on an MSDOS system. Its most typical use is to transfer files between a linux system and a diskette.

Re: xfree86 3.3.4

1999-08-26 Thread Alec Smith
deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ == X 3.3.3.1 .debs for Slink To install 3 3.4, downloading the Linux-glibc-ix86 (or similar) binaries, then edit the X config files as needed. On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Martin Fluch wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: Are there debian packages for

Re: xemacs's shell mode

1999-08-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
Use ls --color=none [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) writes: Hi, When I use the shell in xemas, the filenames does not display properly. The filename is actually displays as ^[[0mfilename^[[0m What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Shao. -- ***

Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.

1999-08-26 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? [snip] Vitux: Use mtools: mcopy -t filename a: will put the file on the floppy with cr-lf fixed for dos. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Files: Debian-to-dos.

1999-08-26 Thread Ernest Johanson
Vitux, You can use unix2dos, in the sysutils pacakge. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:30:43 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Files:

HP 8100 CD-Writer under Debian

1999-08-26 Thread Alexandre Roque Henrique
Anyone knows if this hardware works in Debian? Thanks, Roque

Re: Netscape

1999-08-26 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Well... The only somehow 'reproductable' crashes I remember of comes when: 1) I try to delete HTML-ized e-mails from the messager window... It won't happen 100% of the times I do it, but, say, 10%... 2) I press 'enter' after entering my username password for some sites; this happens quite

Re: SQL engines

1999-08-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: PostgreSQL has more features, especially transactions; Mysql does not have these and is therefore faster, but less suitable for applications which need to guarantee informational integrity. Look at www.postgresql.org for more information on

Re: xemacs's shell mode

1999-08-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:45:07AM -0500, W. Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use ls --color=none [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang) writes: Hi, When I use the shell in xemas, the filenames does not display properly. The filename is actually displays as

dselect/apt via non-NAT firewall

1999-08-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
Is it possible to use dselect/apt via a non network address translating (proxying) firewall? Available are socks and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp. (i.e. to connect to ftp.debian.org as ftp, I 'ftp proxy' user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' password whatever.) Unfortunately our system administrator only

X with kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
Has anyone else had trouble getting X to work with kernel 2.2.12. The same setup I use with 2.2.11 won't work. For some reason it wants to limit my dot-clock frequency to half what I have with 2.2.11 and that doesn't leave any valid modes. System is potato with xserver-svga 3.3.1-10. Bob --

Re: Apt-get source question

1999-08-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Apt-get source question Date: Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:17:18AM -0200 In reply to:Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira Quoting Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Debian users, anyone knows if with apt-get source package I can see

Re: X with kernel 2.2.12 (solved)

1999-08-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
In looking further, I found that it didn't detect my video ram correctly and set it to 512k. Specifying 2048k in XF86Config cured the problem. On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:54:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: Has anyone else had trouble getting X to work with kernel 2.2.12. The same setup I use

Inchon International Airport Information Delivery

1999-08-26 Thread han
Dear Madam and SirI am Billy Ahn from PR team of Inchon International Airport Corporation. First of all, apologize the mail without your permission.We are now constructing Korea's new airport on a reclaimed tidal land off west coast. Inchon International Airport will be born as an

Files: Debian-to-dos.

1999-08-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Is there a way to save a linux-file to a dos-diskette in a dos-readable way? (Say I wanted to show you guys a config-file or something when I'm mailing from an NT-box, not wanting to type the whole thing, or I wanted to take a file from f. x. StarOffice with me to work...) Please don't flame a

ipx printing, the parallel port, and ipx collisions

1999-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I had the deskjet attached to this thing working, at least for postscript printing. I then installed ncp to use the novell laser printers, successfully printed to one, and now I can't print to the deskjet by my side. Even printing something trivial, I get hawkinsttyp0:hawklpq waiting for lp

Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-26 Thread Sami Dalouche
I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian, when we type a command that don't exist, it

Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM

1999-08-26 Thread Kent Andersen
Thanks to all who helped me on this problem, it appears the problem was EXIM was thinking that the domain was local Thanks again Kent

Re: dselect/apt via non-NAT firewall

1999-08-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: Available are socks and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp. (i.e. to connect to ftp.debian.org as ftp, I 'ftp proxy' user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' password whatever.) You need APT from potato (can get a slink version at

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-26 Thread Frankie Fisher
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 02:13:59AM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be

[SQL] a newbie's question on language syntax

1999-08-26 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: Thanks for reading my problem. I got MySQL installed a while ago. My problem is how to display database(or table) content with proper syntax of SQL language. The following is a quote from the interactive mode of MySQL, under which I've tried several commands. The database I was working

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-26 Thread Ashley Clark
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It installs automaticly new software from the CD when you want to start a non-installed function. It could be great if under Debian,

mounting problems

1999-08-26 Thread Jocke
Hi all, Been recompiling my 2.2.10 kernel to be able to use hp 8100+ CDRW. I think I got it all right but some strange things did happen. I can't mount my ordinary cd anymore! mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems Where do I start

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