Re: OFFTOPIC: Carga del núcleo

2000-01-08 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On vie, ene 07, 2000 at 09:11:50 +0100, Antonio Beamud Montero wrote: Hola a todos: Escribo para ver si alguien me podria indicar donde buscar información acerca de como se carga el kernel en memoria (bootstrap), cuál es el proceso, etc. He buscado en algunos libros de Sistemas

Re: Ayuda con Samba

2000-01-08 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola El 07 Jan 2000 a las 01:06AM -0500, Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino escribio: Con NT esto funciona bien pues al conectar la unidad me pregunta por un usuario y una contrasena, la cual coinciden con un usuario que yo defino en Samba, pero en Win95 al querer hacer lo mismo el dialogo me

RE: OFFTOPIC: Carga del núcleo

2000-01-08 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Antonio Beamud Montero [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 7 de enero de 2000 21:12 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: OFFTOPIC: Carga del núcleo Hola a todos: Escribo para ver si alguien me podria indicar donde buscar

Re: Sobre la graficos

2000-01-08 Thread Ricard
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:57:17AM -0600, Mauricio E. Ruíz Font wrote: He realizado algunos programas en pascal y c, que utilizan graficos, esto lo hice em msdos, como puedo hacerle para que corran bajo linux, o donde puedo encontrar información. La cosa cambia mucho. Mirate svgalib,

Conexion PPP lenta

2000-01-08 Thread Luis Arocha data
¿Podría alguien comentarme que significan estos mensajes en el log durante una conexión PPP? Mi conexión va lenta y creo que esto es un sintoma de lo que esta pasando. --- LOG --- Jan 7 15:03:28 doramas pppd[201]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0xdf magic=0x208befd2] Jan 7 15:03:28 doramas

Re: Recomendación proxy

2000-01-08 Thread Manel Marin
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:25:12PM +0100, Andres Herrera wrote: ... ¿Un proxy de HTTP y FTP? Si es un equipo medio decente (32Mb, Pentium 100+) Squid es una maravilla. Wwwoffle esta muy bien para uso personal, pero tiene algunos problemillas y su rendimiento cuando se le da caña no es para

Re: Sobre la graficos

2000-01-08 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Mauricio E. Ruíz Font wrote: He realizado algunos programas en pascal y c, que utilizan graficos, esto lo hice em msdos, como puedo hacerle para que corran bajo linux, o donde puedo encontrar información. Creo que en Linux hay forma de acceder a la VGA parecido a

Re: Starx, xdm y manpages-es

2000-01-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 07 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 21:58:38 -, Miguel A. Abarca contaba: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions You should be using Xwrapper to start teh server or xdm We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! Prueba con

Re: Conexion PPP lenta

2000-01-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 08 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 11:03:09 +, Luis Arocha data contaba: Jan 7 15:03:28 doramas pppd[201]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0xdf magic=0x208befd2] Jan 7 15:03:28 doramas pppd[201]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0xdf magic=0x3373611e] LCP Echo request, LCP Echo reply. No es más que

RE: Ayuda con Samba

2000-01-08 Thread Avid El Fasih Santalla
Tienes que modificar el registro de windows y poner que envie las password con texto plano sin codificar. En la documentación de Samba está lo que tienes que modificar. Saludos. -Mensaje original- De: Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 7 de

CD completo

2000-01-08 Thread Raul Gonzalez
Acabo de comprarme el grabador de CD, y hablando con un amigo se nos ocurrió la idea de poner el kernel en un cd para poder arrancar más rapidillo que desde diskette (paso de lilo que si no papi se queja...) Y comentando más la cosa llegamos a cuestionarnos si era factible (aunque sea solo

Re: CD completo

2000-01-08 Thread eloy
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Raul Gonzalez wrote: Acabo de comprarme el grabador de CD, y hablando con un amigo se nos ocurrió la idea de poner el kernel en un cd para poder arrancar más rapidillo que desde diskette (paso de lilo que si no papi se queja...) Y comentando más la cosa llegamos a

Re: Starx, xdm y manpages-es

2000-01-08 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Miguel A.! El día Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:58:38PM - decías: 3)Tengo instaladas las manpages-es y no consigo visualizar ninguna de las páginas de manual en español; en el fichero /etc/environment tengo ´export LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1´ y la variable MANPATH apuntando en primer lugar al

OFFTOPIC: Carga del núcleo

2000-01-08 Thread hcl
El Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:11:50PM +0100, Antonio Beamud Montero dijo: Hola a todos: Escribo para ver si alguien me podria indicar donde buscar información acerca de como se carga el kernel en memoria (bootstrap), cuál es el proceso, etc. He buscado en algunos libros de Sistemas

Estar al día: APT por RTB?

2000-01-08 Thread Alexandre Maneu i Victòria
Hola. Soy usuario de hamm y conecto por la RTB de forma bastante penosa. Veo como gente con conexiones buenas (es decir, cable y demás) puede tranquilamente hacerse apt-get para estar siempre al día de los contenidos. Sin embargo yo veo cada vez más lejana esa opción... si yo hago ahora un

Re: Estar al día: APT por RTB?

2000-01-08 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 08:51 PM 2000-01-08 +0100, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: Hola. Soy usuario de hamm y conecto por la RTB de forma bastante penosa. Veo como gente con conexiones buenas (es decir, cable y demás) puede tranquilamente hacerse apt-get para estar siempre al día de los contenidos. Sin embargo yo

latex y lyx

2000-01-08 Thread Pablo Faúndez Hoffmann
He instalado la version de lyx 0.12.0 que viene en non-free de debian (slink), he instalado el tetex-base, tetex-bin y tetex-nonfree pero no puedo visualizar mis archivos *.lyx ni en view dvi ni en view ps. He hecho todas las combinaciones posibles de instalacin pero no puedo solucionar el

¿Como instalar múltiples paquetes?

2000-01-08 Thread IJAS
Hola Con la instalación del Kde que venia en el cdrom de una revista me ha surgido la siguiente duda ¿cual es el mejor método para instalar un conjunto de paquetes simultaneamente? Por ejemplo en este caso concreto todos los paquetes de kde junto con las qt venian en formato deb en el

Modem ¡estoy desesperado!

2000-01-08 Thread IJAS
Pues nada que como os he contado en mensajes anteriores mi modem ni se entera Es un modem externo conectado a Stty1 (Com2) existe /dev/modem como enlace a /dev/stty1 es más hasta hace poco (creo que hasta que hice una actualización de la bios) funcionaba perfectamente (en windows lo sigue

OT: Kde

2000-01-08 Thread IJAS
Siento el off topic pero soy mi única lista de linux O:-) 1) Como hago para que el wm de Kde sea el que sale por defecto (ahora sale el fwm95). 2) ¿Se puede usar kde sin usar kdm? ¿Como hago para quitar kdm? ¿y luego para arrancar kde? 3) Si entro en kde como root puedo oir sonidos, es decir la

Re: Modem ¡estoy desesperado!

2000-01-08 Thread Pookie
Pues nada que como os he contado en mensajes anteriores mi modem ni se entera Es un modem externo conectado a Stty1 (Com2) existe /dev/modem como enlace a /dev/stty1 es más hasta hace poco (creo que no sera /dev/ttyS1? Si no, podria ser que fuese un modem PnP? Por otro lado, busca en la

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux? My Umax Astra 1200S came with a piece of crap $5 SCSI card that worked under Windows only. I picked up an Adaptec AHA1520 for $20 at a local used computer place and it works fine. I

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Hartmut Figge
AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: Welcome to (10 second pause) ISP Name (10 second pause) Username (10 second pause) etc. I'm running on a old 386-33Mhz with 8megs RAM so is it possible my that probably means, that you dont't have a 16550A uart. try dmesg | less and watch the lines beginning with

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: umount - URGENT Date: Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0600 In reply to:Dave Sherohman Quoting Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Wayne Topa said: | Try a paper clip, strightened out, and inserted into the little hole | in the front of the CDROM drive. Works on

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread Sean Johnson
So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux? My Umax Astra 1200S came with a piece of crap $5 SCSI card that worked under Windows only. I

Re: cron reports re: suidregister

2000-01-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 01/07/00 02:22PM, Brian Servis wrote: If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be there, even if you don't use it. If you have removed emacs20 from your system and it left the line in your

Re: quake 2 3.20

2000-01-08 Thread Sean Johnson
If you're using the lastest quake2 package in potato, it's broken very badly. You'll need quake2_3.20-3.deb. Sean Simon St-Pierre wrote: hi my name is simon st-pierre and im not able to find a patch for quake2 v3.20 and my computer crash over the internet i dont know if you have a 3dfx

Re: powstatd problem

2000-01-08 Thread Mary Honeycutt
Peter S Galbraith wrote: `powstatd -t` (test mode) should _not_ shut down the computer even if it thinks power is low. I gather you are sure it's not running in plain daemon mode? Actually, I mistyped that paragraph. What I meant was, that powstatd, watching ttyS1, reports low power and

Re: cron reports re: suidregister

2000-01-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about Re: cron reports re: suidregister On 01/07/00 02:22PM, Brian Servis wrote: If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be there, even if you don't use it. If

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-08 Thread Fish Smith
Use in every console 'cd' to take the user to 'the home'. CD insn't anybodys's home at your computer? Then using 'su' umount it by giving 'umount dev/hdd' (assuming that your cd is at hdd as mine...) A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom, since this will almost always be a symlink

Using dselect With a Proxy Server

2000-01-08 Thread Misanthrope
Hello, I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having a few slight difficulties...At present I am running the stable distribution, or slink, and I can't seem to get dselect's asp package selection method working with my home network. My machine is a an i586 166 connected via

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-08 Thread Fish Smith
Disclaimer: Some of this can probably be interpreted as flame bait. So let 'er rip =) I've hever been able to open a CD drive without unmounting the volume -- the drawer won't open. Along the same linesthis is the one mechanism of mac/sun/other(?) floppies that I would like to see

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Hartmut Figge writes: that probably means, that you dont't have a 16550A uart. I have a 386/33 with a 16550A. old uart's cannot handle such speed. However, that is not the symptom. The fact that he sees anything at all indicates that the UART is ok. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

make-kpkg error

2000-01-08 Thread Paul Biciunas
Greeting, I'm running a 2.2.13 kernel, that I patched to 2.2.14. The patch processing went fine, no errors were detected. ( I ran zcat patch_2.2.14.gz | patch -s -p0 ) I then ran the make-kpkg --rev eggplant.2 kernel-image command, and it generated no errors building the tree, and no errors

Perl5 is looking for termcap?

2000-01-08 Thread Shaul Karl
As far as I know, by default Debian does not use termcap. There for, I consider the following a bug somewhere. Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 Am I right? Whose package is responsible? The more complete picture is the

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Frank Copeland
Scott Au wrote: After installing and running minicom, I've noticed that my modem, a BOCA ISA 28.8 modem is incredibly slow. Dialing my ISP shows text being received with periodic pauses. From personal experience one possibility is that serial interrupts are not being serviced quickly enough,

Re: make-kpkg error

2000-01-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On 7/1/2000 Paul Biciunas wrote: I then ran the make-kpkg --rev eggplant.2 kernel-image that is supposed to be an underscore, so it should be kernel_image. -- Ethan Benson

error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Mike Werner
Greetings everyone. I'm having a problem trying to install debconf. I just did a full upgrade to potato this evening. I then tried to install a new package (everybuddy) that relied on debconf. When apt-get went to install debconf I got the error: HAL9000:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i

How to customize the keyboard under X ?

2000-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi to all ! I need to customize the keyboard under X, but I am not able do it. Without X (bash or csh), I usually use 'loadkeys keys's binding file', and it works fine. But when I start X, the loadkeys command loses his settings, and the keyboard has got different keys's binding. The only one

Re: Perl5 is looking for termcap?

2000-01-08 Thread Todd Suess
Install termcap-compat and that will eliminate the error message. Not sure why it occurs, but that fixes it. Todd On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: As far as I know, by default Debian does not use termcap. There for, I consider the following a bug somewhere. Cannot find termcap:

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Todd Suess
I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows: tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 28 packages not fully

Re: Using dselect With a Proxy Server

2000-01-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Misanthrope wrote: Hello, I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having a few slight difficulties...At present I am running the stable distribution, or slink, and I can't seem to get dselect's asp package selection method working with my home network.

Living la video loca

2000-01-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
I spent this afternoon tweaking my home computer. I've got some nice stuff which is basically working but could be optimized more. Case in point, I have a 32MB Diamond Viper V770 AGP video card which is based on the Riva TNT chipset. I used SVGATextMode to set up my consoles for 80x50. With a

The sound of silence

2000-01-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
The card in question is an Aureal Vortex 3D. After some fruitless kernel-wrestling I discovered the only Linux support is with OSS. So I got an eval license of that and compiled it for my system (kernel 2.2.13 SMP) However when I execute soundon and try and play something, there are no errors

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 01/07/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] addressed Re: UMAX Scanner: So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) --Ian Ehrenwald My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Nathan York
so am i but mine is with apache-common -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows: tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Dave Erickson wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to get the SCSI card that came with my Umax Astra 600S to work under Linux? I have this scanner and I seem to recall that it did work. The big problem was that without the Windows-only Magic Match software it came

What does this mean?

2000-01-08 Thread Mark Symonds
Saw this in the logs: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40 What does it mean? VFS might mean Virtual File System but what about the rest of it? And does VFS = swap? -Mar

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Michael Stenner wrote: : On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: : I've just fallen into serious trouble: can not umount my CD-ROM - it : is reported as beeing used. I'm sure it is not, what may have : happened is that I was examining it's

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package sudo with nondirectory

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: : On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:40:56Nico De Ranter wrote: : : At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' : because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. : How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: : run man fstab. Then search for fs_passno. : : You have to set the 6th field of fstab to 1 for the root fs and 2 for : the others. This still doesn't force a fsck run if the filesystem is marked clean on shutdown. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South

mutt ignoring [tags]

2000-01-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm subscribed to a mailing list which causes mutt problems with threading. This is because: - lots of the users use dumb mailers which don't add In-Reply-To or References headers, and - the list software adds a [TAG] to the start of the subject (and removes it from any other position in the

No, irssi, I don't want a GNOME panel

2000-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
According to bug #53088, support for the GNOME panel was recently added to irssi (in potato). Now, I use a window manager which I believe is GNOME-aware (fvwm2), but I don't use the GNOME panel. I upgraded irssi tonight, and now when I start it it fires up the GNOME panel and fails to actually

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sáu, 07 Giêng 2000, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory

Problem with /dev/ttyp? devices

2000-01-08 Thread Nolan Darilek
I've recently encountered the following problem on my potato system. I decided to try to run biff and see what it was like. When attempting to run it, though, I receive: ethereal:~ biff y /dev/ttyp2: Operation not permitted Exit 1 As I understand it, the /dev/ttyp devices are supposed to be

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Mike Werner
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:30:17PM -0600, Ashley Clark wrote: It's an easy fix to fix it, in the Makefile of the source, one line has bin where it should say sbin But in the debconf_0.2.65_all.deb there is a *file* named /user/sbin - it's a shell script to be precise. And what the system is

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-08 Thread iehrenwald
My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. Whoops. My fault. I missed some details on my end. After I used to AHA card for a while I replaced it with a Tekram 390 PCI. The 390 has an external 50 pin, so I needed an adaptor. I'd rather have a PCI card than an ISA one. Brain fart. Sorry.

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Ashley Clark
On Sáu, 07 Giêng 2000, Mike Werner wrote: On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:30:17PM -0600, Ashley Clark wrote: It's an easy fix to fix it, in the Makefile of the source, one line has bin where it should say sbin But in the debconf_0.2.65_all.deb there is a *file* named /user/sbin - it's a shell

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Mike Werner
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:10:17AM -0600, Ashley Clark wrote: Yes, the /usr/sbin file is one of two that should actually be in /usr/sbin, by changing the line in the Makefile, it creates the directory and when creating the deb file, places in it two files, dpkg-preconfig and dpkg-reconfigure.

Re: Staroffice and gtop

2000-01-08 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 10:58:58AM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: Yes, I've noticed the same. When I do a ps aux, I get staroffice using 236MB of memory. It's certainly not true. What I actually get is 7 instances of staroffice using 33.7MB each. I've been assuming that this really

Standard way to change IP?

2000-01-08 Thread Jonathan Chang
Hi, all Is there any standard way for debian to change ip address? Or I need to modify files in /etc manully? Thanks in advance. -- Chia-Sheng Chang Institute of Communications Engineering College of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 10617 E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
debconf (0.2.66) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed typo that was making a sbin file -- Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:34:56 -0800 In Incoming and http://kitenet.net/programs/debs.cgi#debconf -- see shy jo

Re: make-kpkg error

2000-01-08 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 06:12:27PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On 7/1/2000 Paul Biciunas wrote: I then ran the make-kpkg --rev eggplant.2 kernel-image that is supposed to be an underscore, so it should be kernel_image. Actually, it can

Re: What does this mean?

2000-01-08 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:06:50PM -0800, Mark Symonds wrote: Saw this in the logs: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40 What does it mean? It means that a disk change was detected. 16 and 40 are hex numbers, which correspond to 22 and 64 decimal. Then, from Documentation/devices.txt

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Brad
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:58:28AM +, Francois Deppierraz wrote: Ton run e2fsck on a partition at boot the last field in /etc/fstab must be a 1. /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 ^^ Actually, the last

Re: error installing debconf

2000-01-08 Thread Shaul Karl
I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows: tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 28 packages not fully

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:25:12PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote On 07 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the same place. $ dpkg -l | grep slrn ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links)

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pine)...what's that mean?

2000-01-08 Thread Joseph de los Santos
Hi, I was trying to install libgnome0.0.30.1-5.deb but it said it was conflicting with libgnome32 which is somehow connected to my gnome desktop so it would'nt let me install libgnome0, so I uninstalled my gnome desktop, so I could remove libgnome32 and install libgnome0 but now I get that

Moving manpages?

2000-01-08 Thread Mike Werner
Now that I've gotten my system up to potato, I've started getting errors regarding man pages. Namely, I've got quite a few dangling links under /usr/man as well as /etc/alternatives. The dangling links under alternatives are pointing at /usr/man What I'm wondering is would it be safe for me to

Re: Using dselect With a Proxy Server

2000-01-08 Thread Andrei Popov
--- Misanthrope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having a few slight difficulties...At ... HTTP Port: 10.10.10.2:80 FTP Port: 10.10.10.2:21 Socks5 Port: 1080 Do a simple trick: include in your .bashrc (assuming you use bash as your

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:03:24 GMT, Alisdair McDiarmid writes: No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could report it as a kernel bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have higher priority than PIO ATAPI devices, perhaps. i cannot

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-08 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the last field should be one only for the root partition. Any other partitions you want fscked on boot should have a 2 there instead. Partitions that should never be fscked should have a 0. Why does the last field depends on the partition type ? Man

Re: PPP and cdparanoia

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On 07 Jan 2000 22:08:53 +0100, Martin Bialasinski writes: * Alisdair == Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alisdair No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask Alisdair him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could Alisdair report it as a kernel bug - ppp and

Re: Poor Modem performance

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 01:44:00 +0100, Hartmut Figge writes: old uart's cannot handle such speed. don't remember exactly at the momement, but wasn't 38400 the limitation for the 16450? 57600 for a 16450, at least in my old machine. rw -- -- +++ EUnet/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 15.-17.2.'2k,

Re: Standard way to change IP?

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 15:04:33 +0800, Jonathan Chang writes: Hi, all Is there any standard way for debian to change ip address? Or I need to modify files in /etc manully? Thanks in advance. modify /etc/init.d/network accordingly, do an ifconfig interface down, then run

Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

2000-01-08 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, A few days ago I've written about problems with self-packaged mutt 1.0.1 in slink. I've investigated problem more thoroughly, and found, that the failing instruction is: 623 mutt_message (_(Reading %s...), ctx-path); The stack trace is as follows: (gdb) bt #0 0x40089387 in ()

Re: Voodoo3 recommendations?

2000-01-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Dave Sherohman hat gesagt: // Dave Sherohman wrote: Oh, I like 3dfx. It's STB I'm a bit sour on. But if they've (semi?) merged, then that pretty much seals it, doesn't it? They have indeed merged. You only get newer Voodoo-Cards by STB. No taiwanese Voodoo clones anymore, I'm sorry. --

Re: Moving manpages?

2000-01-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On 8/1/2000 Mike Werner wrote: What I'm wondering is would it be safe for me to just move all the man pages under /usr/man to /usr/share/man and then update the links under alternatives? moving anything under /usr/* (excluding /usr/local which belongs to you) is a very bad idea, this is

fetchmail problem

2000-01-08 Thread Timothy Bedding
Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in batches. So, I get the first ten and then I have to wait a few minutes

Re: Apache suExec - how to configure under debian?

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Varga
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Stuart Ballard wrote: Robert Varga wrote: If you have suidmanager installed, then you have this file. If you don't have, no probs, no need to install it. But if you have it installed and you don't do these changes in suid.conf, then suidmanager will upon every

java doesn't work for 2.2.13

2000-01-08 Thread Michael Laing
I am running a straight slink system using a custom 2.2.12 kernel. My java development and execution using jdk-1.1 and jdk-1.1-native has been going fine. After I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel using my same config and installed it, I could no longer run any java apps. I always get the following error:

Re: java doesn't work for 2.2.13

2000-01-08 Thread Robert Varga
I use slink with a couple of potato packages... glibc2.1, most importantly. I use 2.2.13 and ibm-java 1.1.8. I never had any problem with it, and we are running jserv and gnujsp with it, and it is really a thorough test, I think. It runs bongo without a hickup as well, so the visual parts are

Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?

2000-01-08 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding the paranthesis around the string definition? Is it a GCC extension? -- Wojciech Zabolotny

Problem with keyboard in X - HELP ME !

2000-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi to all ! I need to customize the keyboard under X, but I am not able do it. Without X (bash or csh), I usually use 'loadkeys ', and it works fine. But when I start X, the loadkeys command loses his settings, and the keyboard has got different keys's binding. The only one terminal in X that

Re: fetchmail problem

2000-01-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Jan, Timothy Bedding wrote about fetchmail problem Thanks for all the help, people. Your advice about how to fix the clock problem was spot on. Now, another query. If I do a fetchmail and it reports, say, 30 mails, sometimes these mails can be transfered to my spool file in

Re: Problem with keyboard in X - HELP ME !

2000-01-08 Thread Johann Spies
Use xkeycaps. Johann On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all ! I need to customize the keyboard under X, but I am not able do it. Without X (bash or csh), I usually use 'loadkeys ', and it works fine. But when I start X, the loadkeys command loses his settings, and the

Unable to mount CD

2000-01-08 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I have the following line in my /etc/fstab, /dev/cdrom /cdromiso9660 noauto,ro0 0 And, /dev/cdrom points to, $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 8 Sep 4 06:48 /dev/cdrom - /dev/hdd $ ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw-rw-1 root disk 22, 64 Feb 22

html - text

2000-01-08 Thread Brian Mc Namara
Is there any command to convert html files to plain text? Thanks

Re: html - text

2000-01-08 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 04:00:43PM -, Brian Mc Namara wrote: Is there any command to convert html files to plain text? lynx -dump infile outfile? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just

JazzMultimedia AdenalineRush3D-Videoboard

2000-01-08 Thread Armin Steiner
Hi friends, does anyone maybe uses the Adrenaline Rush 3D Videoboard from Jazz Multimedia Inc. ?? The company has closed it's site, and i don't know if it's possible to use it with Debian-Linux. with best regards -Armin

offtopic: placing items in /var/log/messages...

2000-01-08 Thread Jonathan Lupa
Not really debian related, but is there either a shell function or a perl function to put a line into /var/log/messages? (there must be- I just can't find it)... Or is it open( LOG, /var/log/messages ); for me? :) (just a joke). Thanks! Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available

Fetchmail and local domains

2000-01-08 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I've been usinq fetchpop for a few years now, and it's wonderfully simple... but flawed! I now have multiple POP3 servers to collect from and can't figure out how to configure fetchmail. One problem may be local domains. I use a few forwarding services (iname.com, for example) that point to

Re: offtopic: placing items in /var/log/messages...

2000-01-08 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Jonathan == Jonathan Lupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not really debian related, but is there either a shell function or a perl function to put a line into /var/log/messages? (there must be- I just can't find it)... Or is it open( LOG, /var/log/messages ); for me? :) (just a

Re: No, irssi, I don't want a GNOME panel

2000-01-08 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 01/08/00, Colin Watson addressed No, irssi, I don't want a GNOME panel: I'm reluctant to report this immediately as a bug because my configuration might be broken in some way. The GNOME panel's pretty and all that, though, but I'd rather not have to use it just to use a GNOME IRC client.

SVGATextMode Chip ?

2000-01-08 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have a SR9 Number 9 video card. I am trying to setup SVGATextMode for this new card. Anyone have this card and know what Chipset I should uncomment in TextConfig to get the card working? When I use S3Virge I get UNknown CHip ID 22e1 I have the S3_Virge chipset set in X11 and it works fine.

Re: Standard way to change IP?

2000-01-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
Jonathan Chang said: Is there any standard way for debian to change ip address? Or I need to modify files in /etc manully? Thanks in advance. To change it temporarily (until the next reboot), use ifconfig. For a permanent change, yes, you have to edit a config file in /etc.

diald

2000-01-08 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I am trying to configure diald but without success. I have my ppp link working (pon ... poff) but now I whant to try diald. I have installed the package with apt-get install diald, I looked at the manuals (man diald) and I have created the /etc/diald.optins file, but... How do I create the

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