Re: Debian Parte 2

2000-07-28 Thread Julián
Se me olvidaba, si queres compilar el núcleo podes hacerlo facilmente con los siguientes paquetes instalados kernel-package #y secuaces bin86#necesario para pc automount #lo estoy empezando a usar estos días autofs# ídem anterior bzip2 #te

Desactivar la secuencia Ctrl + Alt + Del.

2000-07-28 Thread Moragues Ramón, Antonio
Hola, alguien podría indicarme si es posible evitar que un pc con Debian 2.2 se reinicie al apretar la combinación de teclas Ctrl + Alt + Del, pues he mirado en /etc y no he visto nada. Gracias.

Re: Desactivar la secuencia Ctrl + Alt + Del.

2000-07-28 Thread TooMany
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Moragues Ram?n, Antonio wrote: Hola, alguien podría indicarme si es posible evitar que un pc con Debian 2.2 se reinicie al apretar la combinación de teclas Ctrl + Alt + Del, pues he mirado en /etc y no he visto nada. Dale un vistazo al fichero

Re: your mail

2000-07-28 Thread TooMany
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:41:52PM +0200, Jaume Sabater wrote: ¿Alguien ha configurado 2 discos IDE en RAID 0? He mirado de bajarme los paquetes del raid (raidtools) y me dice que si quiero usar el nuevo estilo necesito librerias, mientras que si quiero usar el viejo... En fin, que me he

Disco duro 20G

2000-07-28 Thread Jose Antonio Ortega Garcia
Hola: Acabo de comprarme un disco duro Seagate de 20G. Existe algun tipo de incompatibilidad con linux? Hay que darle al kernel algun soporte especia? Gracias. Jose Antonio Ortega Garcia User:104420 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.airtel.net/personal/califa11

Cambiando el CD de Potato en el dselect

2000-07-28 Thread Antxon Alonso Lopez
Hola a todos Estoy intentando instalar mySQL en potato. Parece ser que el paquete se encuentra en el cuarto CD (mysql-server_3.22.32-3.deb). Cuando intento cambiar la fuente de los paquetes en el dselect me hace unas preguntas acerca de los directorios en donde se encuentran los paquetes. Las

Re: Disco duro 20G

2000-07-28 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Jose Antonio Ortega Garcia wrote: Acabo de comprarme un disco duro Seagate de 20G. Existe algun tipo de incompatibilidad con linux? Hay que darle al kernel algun soporte especia? Gracias. Yo instalé recientemente potato en un disco de 20G (en un ordenador dual Pentium III 650Mhz) y no tuve que

Re: con los MTA's

2000-07-28 Thread Santiago Romero
El jue, 27 de jul de 2000, a las 10:46:14 +0100, Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina dijo: Debian es la distro que menos problemas he visto que haya dado al instalar el qmail. La instalación es chorra-chorra. La configuración es chorra-chorra. Y si hay problemas, #qmail en el irc-hispano y tienes

Configuración de exim

2000-07-28 Thread Julián
Hola a todos: El vie, 28 jul 2000, Fernando escribió: Julián Armando Mena Zapata wrote: Me podrían dar la forma rapida de de-suscribirme y suscribirme a la lista. La forma mas rapida de de-subscribirte la tienes aqui. :-) Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Monitor Plug Pray y sus modelines

2000-07-28 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 27 de julio de 2000 a la(s) 18:46:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Ya sé que los tiros van por ahí pero en el XF86Setup le pongo los modos 800x600 y al salir me los mantiene como estaban. ¿Es cosa del plug and pray o qué? Es cosa de que al salir, te

solamente ponga una hoja de papel

2000-07-28 Thread sumpex trade sa
Buenos Aires, 28 de julio del 2000 SRES.usuarios SUMPEX TRADE SA DISTRIBUIDOR OFICIAL DE PRODUCTOS MINOLTA , quiere hoy hacerle llegar a Usted, nuestro nuevo plan uno, dos y para siempre, el mismo consiste en ofrecerle a las empresas de la Ciudad de

¿Cómo actualizo con apt por internes?

2000-07-28 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Saludos. Me acabo de poner tarifa ondulada, y me gustaría actualizarme con apt a la potato. He añadido las siguientes líneas a mi sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.es.debian.org debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/ deb ftp://ftp.es.debian.org debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ deb

Re: ps2 psaux

2000-07-28 Thread JFA
Para iniciar alguien tiene un modules que me regale para tener idea. Mejor mirate el man que es algo complicadillo. ¿ Para que sirve PGP.? Es un sistema de encriptación que se usa normalmente para firmar tus email, de forma que se pueda asegurar que es tuyo, y otra para encriptarlo, y que

Re: ¿Cómo actualizo con apt por internes?

2000-07-28 Thread jesusrdig
Yo me actualicé de una debian slink bastante estándar a potato hace un par de semanas con la tarifa semiplana de retevisión + eresmas. La actualización necesitaba descargar unos 200 MB y tardó unas 14 horas nocturnas (de fin de semana). Todo fue muy bien. 1. desde Slink usé este fichero

Java 2 Enterprise Edition para Debian

2000-07-28 Thread jvicente
Alguno tiene idea si ya existe? En java.sun.com esta la versión para Redhat 6.0 solamente. Y la verdad es que tendría que sentarme a configurar el alien... ;-)

Re: ¿Cómo actualizo con apt por internes?

2000-07-28 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yo me actualicé de una debian slink bastante estándar a potato hace un par de semanas con la tarifa semiplana de retevisión + eresmas. La actualización necesitaba descargar unos 200 MB y tardó unas 14 horas nocturnas (de fin de semana). 1. desde

Configuração de rede

2000-07-28 Thread Leandro Dutra
Estou com uma instalação velha do 2.1 que não queria refazer, mas está sem as configurações de rede... provavelmente à época nem foram feitas. Não querendo reinstalar, procurei por algum script netconf ou netconfig, e não encontrei. Existe um script que possa reexecutar a parte

Re: Configura o de rede

2000-07-28 Thread Christoph Simon
Estou com uma instalação velha do 2.1 que não queria refazer, mas está sem as configurações de rede... provavelmente à época nem foram feitas. Não querendo reinstalar, procurei por algum script netconf ou netconfig, e não encontrei. Existe um script que possa reexecutar a parte

Re: web server suggestions

2000-07-28 Thread John Foster
Sven Burgener wrote: Hi all Sorry for this being so highly off-topic, forgive me; I need the infos. (It's just that debian lists are an excellent resort for information) I'd like some infos from people who've had experience with this: What web server software is in your opinion best

Starting/Stopping SCSI HD's

2000-07-28 Thread Simon Hales
Hi I have a Debian Slink 486DX4-100, with 1Gb IDE and 2GB SCSI II hard disks (hda and sda) partitioned and mounted on /, /usr, /home, /var, and /usr/local. I also have a 420Mb SCSI II hard disk (sdb) which has no fixed mount point, but which I am using to store stuff I don't access frequently,

Re: debian- or linux- friendly hardware vendors?

2000-07-28 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Can anyone recommend hardware vendors who will do things like put together a machine that is completely linux-compatible, or ship me a machine with debian or some other linux already installed, if only as a proof of

RE: web server suggestions

2000-07-28 Thread J.T. Wenting
A good cross-platform webserver is Orion (www.orionserver.com). It's 100% pure java, so it runs on any Java2 platform. Forget Perl, forget ASP, do Servlets and JSP. Performance is excellent. -Original Message- From: frosty [mailto:frosty]On Behalf Of John Foster Sent: Friday, July 28,

Re: gnome

2000-07-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:17:59PM +, Christopher Clark wrote: As user chris I have an .xsession as follows: #!/bin/sh panel gmc #exec sawmill gnome-session which seems to work ( potato cycle 1 ) but hangs on exit with no 'save etc window' Hmm, not sure what the problem is, but to

Re: chroot bind in debian

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 05:11:58PM +0300, Pavel M. Penev wrote: No other documentation than dpkg(8) and chroot(8) :). I myself have been running bind in a chroot-ed environment (it really had a nasty security hole). What I did was: 1. cd to the chroot point 2. tar xvfz

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Kent West
Krzys Majewski wrote: Hm, I guess my question was unclear. What I'm wondering about is how the linux kernel works and how the windows kernel works. I know that one of them is open source and the other isn't. At the same time I'm too lazy to dig deeply for this information. So I guess I was

Re: StarOffice issues

2000-07-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:24:38PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Hi Group. I have installed StarOffice 5.2 and have two questions: - After installation it indicates that no Java support is found. If I open a Java web-page, I get error messages. I would like to know if there is a

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread Mike Werner
Krzys Majewski wrote: Again on the subject of buying new hardware, I'm looking for a good way to copy my existing setup to the new machine. So far I can think of three main types of options. In order of decreasing popularity, they are: first three snipped 4) Physically install the old hard

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread Brian May
Sean == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sean if you compile a kernel once with all the odd devices as Sean modules you get the equivalent of how windows works. ... except you don't need to reboot just to load/unload a driver. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Brian May
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent In still other words, can you use make menuconfig to Kent compile a minimal kernel and then add modules later from Kent whatever source even though you didn't tell the kernel to Kent expect these modules when you did the make

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Krzys Majewski
Woo, so I can just do a make xconfig make modules make modules_install instead of make xconfig make dep make clean make modules make modules_install ?? -chris On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: By reasoning I would assume that all the kernel has is a 'generic

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Krzys Majewski
Yes! -chris On 27 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: Krzys Majewski writes: The whole point of my post was to not have to read 17 web pages! Why? Do you find learning painful? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: repeated installations

2000-07-28 Thread papt
Hi! Hi. I am installing Debian over a network, and here's my question: is there a way to replicate a Debian installation? This is what I'm looking for: * I install Debian in a machine (a) * I personalize the packages I want/don't want at machine (a) * After that, I want to install the same

Re: Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-28 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:50:29AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can I configure my box to work correctly with a German keyboard? [snip] I'll gladly accept even an RTFM if you tell me which one. :) there is a german-howto. try

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread Preben Randhol
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) : Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris Usually you don't have to recompile your kernel

Re: char-major-6

2000-07-28 Thread Thomas Guettler
[snip] 6 is the major device number for the parallel ports (ie. printer). Where can I find out which device fits to a given number? -- Thomas Guettler Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interface-business.de Private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/guettli

Re: char-major-6

2000-07-28 Thread Andrew J Cosgriff
Thomas Guettler wrote : [snip] 6 is the major device number for the parallel ports (ie. printer). Where can I find out which device fits to a given number? In the kernel source tree, have a look at Documentation/devices.txt -- Andrew J Cosgriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] click click

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Matthew Dalton
Well, I *think* so. But I'm not speaking from experience, just reason. Try it and see. Krzys Majewski wrote: Woo, so I can just do a make xconfig make modules make modules_install instead of make xconfig make dep make clean make modules make modules_install ?? -chris

meaning of .nfsXYZ files?

2000-07-28 Thread Thomas Guettler
Just found several .nfsXYZ.. files in my directory. Does anybody know what they are for? Manpage of nfs tells me nothing about them. -- Thomas Guettler Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interface-business.de Private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/guettli

Re: gnome

2000-07-28 Thread Morten Liebach
On 27, jul, 2000 at 09:59:25 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:17:59PM +, Christopher Clark wrote: As user chris I have an .xsession as follows: #!/bin/sh panel gmc #exec sawmill gnome-session which seems to work ( potato cycle 1 ) but hangs on exit

About ReiserFS for Debian (and others).

2000-07-28 Thread Morten Liebach
Hi all Some days ago I asked about running Debian on ReiserFS, and was told it could be done. That was true, I now have installed Debian on ReiserFS, and written a little piece about it on: http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach/reiserfs.html. Enjoy! Morten -- UNIX,

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: I'm having LILO problems. I'm pretty sure that my config file is correct. When I try to boot, my screen fills up with 1's and 0's. please advise, thanks. Do you have any rescue floppies? Just try first to boot with those and see your lilo config

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:03:41PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 4) Physically install the old hard drives in the new machine. 4) This would be nice, but can it be done? My hard drives are old and small. Sure. Also they are sitting on a SCSI card, is this a good thing or a bad thing? The

Re: gnome

2000-07-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:52:55AM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: Hmm, not sure what the problem is, but to jump start GNOME in the past, I've used: #! /bin/sh xterm exec gnome-session Then from the xterm, I started a window manager, panel and gmc (if you like). Check the

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Morten Liebach
On 27, jul, 2000 at 09:18:07 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Krzys Majewski writes: For example, if I build a new device and write a driver for it, can I add support for this device to both windows and linux without having to modify either kernel? You can for Linux, and probably for Windows as

Xf86 xonfig for Compaq Deskpro TFT5000

2000-07-28 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, i'm having very little success configuring X (v 3.3.6-10) on this compaq machine. it has matrox millenium g400 agp video card which calls for XF86_SVGA server. i got the the hsync and vsync values from the monitor spec, 32-60 and 57-85, respectively but X dies without giving any hints that i

Re: Help with mail address

2000-07-28 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Cam, On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Cam Ellison wrote: I can't figure out how to set my email return address to what my ISP expects. I am the only user on my system. I tried to send mail out, with no success, eventually discovering that it was using [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could configure

RE: char-major-6

2000-07-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 28-Jul-2000 Erik Mathisen wrote: I keep getting this stupid error in my syslog: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 now i searched my system, I dont have that module, how do I get this error to stop? It puts 2 or 3 entries in the log a minute. Any help would greatly be

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 28-Jul-2000 Krzys Majewski wrote: Yes but what I'm wondering is not why linux users recompile their kernels, or why windows users can't, but how is it that windows users get away with not having to? The closest answer I got is that windows kernels have a bunch of drivers already compiled

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) : Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? Or an optimization thing? Or something

Changing source CD in potato

2000-07-28 Thread Antxon Alonso Lopez
Hello I4m traying to install one package from the CD number 4 of potato (mysql-server_3.22.32-3.deb) When i try to change the source in dselect its ask me for some directories, and i don4t know what to respond. The questions are: Q1: Insert de CD-ROM and enter block device name:[/dev/hdc]

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread Preben Randhol
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/07/2000 (12:20) : You don't HAVE to, but if you want a really fast, memory saving kernel, you SHOULD do it and exclude everything, you don't need. (Installation But of course. :-) -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: gnome

2000-07-28 Thread Morten Liebach
On 28, jul, 2000 at 02:20:52 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: Hmm, not sure what the problem is, but to jump start GNOME in the past, I've used: #! /bin/sh xterm exec gnome-session Then from the xterm, I started a window manager, panel and gmc (if you like). Check the

mounting floppy

2000-07-28 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now when I try to mount it I get the following error message: [I cannot determine the file type and none was specified] This floppy has lots of stuff on it that I

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread Jason Schepman
Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the hardrive. Boot=hda. Root=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). The rest of the file is the default lilo.conf. When I run LILO, I don't get any error messages. It simply says *Added Linux. ..thanks in advance, Jason -

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, I don't have an /etc/conf.modules file on my system. I do have an /etc/conf.modules.old and an /etc/modules.conf. So my basic question still stands. Which file is to be used? The documentation mentioned above says conf.modules; the fresh install

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jason Schepman wrote: Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the hardrive. Boot=hda. Root=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). The rest of the file is the default lilo.conf. When I run LILO, I don't get any error messages. It simply says *Added

Re: PHP4 functions

2000-07-28 Thread Sven Gaerner
Hi Alan, thanks for your idea. I tried it but it didn't work. The code I used was: ?php echo extension_loaded(mysql); echo phpinfo(); ? I get the following output from that script: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: extension_loaded() in /var/www/links/content/test.php on line 2 I

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Really? So the kernel doesn't compile any hooks for itself to enable loading latesthardwaredevice.o as a module? -chris Yes, it has to do that, but the installation kernel has those hooks compiled because it uses modules itself (e.g. for network

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the hardrive. Boot=hda. Root=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). ^ It looks as if the BIOS doesn't know how to boot from the second drive. Cheers, -- Email:

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the hardrive. Boot=hda. Root=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). ^ It looks as if the BIOS doesn't know how to boot

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Again on the subject of buying new hardware, I'm looking for a good way to copy my existing setup to the new machine. So far I can think of three main types of options. In order of decreasing popularity, they are: 1) Reinstall everything from

who shows phantom users

2000-07-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Recently I have noticed (legitimate) users logged in on one of our servers with no processes running. I know for a fact that they log into the server via (open)ssh, and eventually close the ssh connection. Nonetheless, who still shows them as still logged on (as does last). On the other hand, w

Xfree86-4.0.1 and Enlightenment

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, I recently compiled x4.0.1 from source and all seemed to work well. I did this to get better accel from my tnt2. When I go to start E now I get: Xserver does not support Shape extension Your server is out of date or misconfigured Has anyone seen this error before, and if so, do you know

Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
If 128 mb of ram is considered a beast of a machine? What class does my ½ gig of ram box fall in :) Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/00 06:22AM Hello there, On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) : Why is it that under

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Gary Hennigan
Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 27 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: Do they work as root? Make sure you have the mixer device(s) in /dev. I don't have a Debian system handy with working sound, but my laptop (sans sound) has /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1. If they work as root

RE: web server suggestions

2000-07-28 Thread Adrian Thiele
How about Jakarta-Tomcat for Servlets and JSP. Apache works very well with it . Hey, this is Linux use Apache. Adrian Thiele http://tectpd.com Tec America, Inc. Thermal Printer Division mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (770) 449-3040 ext. 177 fax: (770) 242-9992   -Original Message-

RE: Changing source CD in potato

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -Original Message- From: Antxon Alonso Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:20 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Changing source CD in potato Hello I4m traying to install one package from the

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Jason Schepman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes. I'm able to boot from floppies. I just can't boot from the hardrive. Boot=hda. Root=hdb2(location of my / filesystem). ^

RE: Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 -Original Message- From: Thomas Guettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Keyboard troubles... On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:50:29AM +0200, Christian Pernegger

Re: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

2000-07-28 Thread Kai Weber
+ Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: never mind, it can be set as a command-line option: startx -dpi 100 Does not work for me. Resolution is still 75x75 as xdpyinfo says. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Re: exim/procmail mutt: some mboxes read as 'new', others don't

2000-07-28 Thread Kai Weber
+ Manoj Victor Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Use the config command mailboxes in your .muttrc to specify which mbox files need to be checked for new mail. My .muttrc reads ... mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/inbox*` `echo $HOME/Mail/per*` \ `echo $HOME/Mail/gen*` `echo $HOME/Mail/list*` Any

RE: Huge X-fonts in Frozen

2000-07-28 Thread Michalowski Thierry
Title: RE: Huge X-fonts in Frozen shouldn't it be startx -- -dpi 100 ? (Note the -- which says following options are for X, not startx itself) HTH Thierry -Original Message- From: Kai Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:20 PM To:

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Jul-2000 Kent West wrote: In still other words, can you use make menuconfig to compile a minimal kernel and then add modules later from whatever source even though you didn't tell the kernel to expect these modules when you did the make menuconfig. I don't think that would work,

Re: Xfree86-4.0.1 and Enlightenment

2000-07-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
I had the same problem. It turned out I needed -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 135336 Jul 2 06:31 libextmod.a in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extentsions, and then: then I had to update /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Module Loaddbe # Double buffer extension #SubSection

setting framebuffer mode during boot

2000-07-28 Thread Gilbert Laycock
I have framebuffer support compiled into my kernel, and I want to set the screen mode it uses when I boot. Currently it defaults to a 640x480/80x30 mode, and I want to set it to a higher resolution. I have an ATI Rage Pro card, so I think I should be using the atyfb frambuffer module. According

Re: Web interface to packages

2000-07-28 Thread jbardin
Christian Pernegger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why are there only i386 packages for download on Debians web site? I do not have, say, an Alpha but nevertheless it struck me as strange that a search result from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages leads only to

Re: mounting floppy

2000-07-28 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:57:12PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I'm trying to mount a floppy that I made with Redhat 6.2 system. It mounted on a previous install of potato, but I reinstalled and now when I try to mount it I get the following error message: [I cannot determine the file type and

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread jbardin
Gary Hennigan wrote: Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 27 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: Do they work as root? Make sure you have the mixer device(s) in /dev. I don't have a Debian system handy with working sound, but my laptop (sans sound) has /dev/mixer and

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread jbardin
Jason Schepman wrote: I'm having LILO problems. I'm pretty sure that my config file is correct. When I try to boot, my screen fills up with 1's and 0's. please advise, thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null If you can get access to the lilo help files

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
On 28 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is to: chmod 660 /dev/mixer* chown root.audio /dev/mixer* and then add the users that you want to allow access to the audio group. A lot of the things devices in /dev work this way.

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
Actually, after creating this alias, it's not so bad... alias xmms='sg audio -c xmms ' Mike On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: I don't have to do a newgrp to be a member of that group, do I? lupus:~# chmod 660 /dev/mixer lupus:~# ll /dev/mix* crw-rw

Re: char-major-6

2000-07-28 Thread Shaul Karl
On 28-Jul-2000 Erik Mathisen wrote: I keep getting this stupid error in my syslog: modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 now i searched my system, I dont have that module, how do I get this error to stop? It puts 2 or 3 entries in the log a minute. Any help would

Re: volume control

2000-07-28 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I don't have to do a newgrp to be a member of that group, do I? It works fine. Do I have to do a newgrp every time? That's kind of annoying. I think you just have to log in. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653

Re: modules.conf vs conf.modules

2000-07-28 Thread Kent West
David Z. Maze wrote: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW Is there a plain-english (for dummies) page somewhere that KW explains how modules work (modutils vs /etc/modules vs kmod vs KW kerneld vs conf.modules vs modules.conf vs /etc/modutils/ vs auto KW vs specific items in /etc/modules

Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the update? Has anyone else tried this? Thanks -Ethan

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft Outlook replacement for linux. To get it via apt-get add the following to sources.list deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian run - apt-get update - apt-get install evolution Enjoy -

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Kent West
Ethan Pierce wrote: Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft Outlook replacement for linux. To get it via apt-get add the following to sources.list deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian run - apt-get update - apt-get

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Ethan Pierce
Sorry all, the sources.list line should read: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian/ ./ Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/00 12:15PM Ethan Pierce wrote: Sorry, I found the answer to my question. Evolution .3 is a Microsoft Outlook replacement for linux.

Re: LILO troubles

2000-07-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:47:16AM -0500, Jason Schepman wrote: I'm having LILO problems. I'm pretty sure that my config file is correct. When I try to boot, my screen fills up with 1's and 0's. I had the same trouble with the new lilo and could not solve it. Johann. -- J.H. Spies,

NFS mounted /usr

2000-07-28 Thread Fire Dragon
I'm trying to build a small lan and being a bit short on HD space (250MB to 500MB tops) I wanted to have /home /usr and so forth be NFS mounted. I'm currently having a problem in which the /usr partition that is exported is corrupted by the client machine (broke exim when I installed ssmtp for

Starting GNOME (newbie question)

2000-07-28 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
I installed helix-gnome in my notebook and I want to know how to start it. What should I put in my .xinitrc file? I tried sawfish directly, but it doesn't work. Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a fvwm user and I'm used to put fvwm2 in my .xinitrc and create a .fvwm2rc and it's all! :-)

HELP! 2.1 install from PCMCIA cdrom

2000-07-28 Thread Jim Gale
I didn't have any luck finding this topic in the archive, but I'm sure it's come up before... I'm being tortured by a Sony Vaio laptop which does not have a built in CDROM. Instead it has a PCMCIA connected CDROM drive. Happily the laptop is able to boot from the CDROM, so I just stuck my 2.1 CD

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-28 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, I was reading today on slashdot about Evolution 0.3. They have a download link for the tar.gz file. I was wondering if the apt-get utility will work if I use the spidermonkey.helixgnome.com source for the update? Has anyone

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread I. Tura
At 15.15 27/7/00 -0700, heu escrit: I'm researching new hardware for my linux box. I live in a small apartment so my main requirement is that the damn thing be quiet. Does anyone have reports of advanced power management working under linux? I know that is in principle supported, but what are the

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread I. Tura
The whole point of my post was to not have to read 17 web pages! chris Oh man, nothing is perfect! But let me tell ou something. When some hardware companies are such bastards that they do such indecent drivers that collide with Windoze and at my left I have a scanner that I know that it

Re: same debian, new hardware?

2000-07-28 Thread Krzys Majewski
3) Make binary images of the old hard drives, automagically paste these onto the new hard drive. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure this is impossible. You mention SCSI in the old box, but don't say what's the hardware in the new box. If IDE, you could install the new disk in the old machine,

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote: On 28-Jul-2000 Kent West wrote: In still other words, can you use make menuconfig to compile a minimal kernel and then add modules later from whatever source even though you didn't tell the kernel to expect these

debian rocks

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Soulier
I have to tell you, the more I use Debian, the more I like it. It's not the big things. The big thing is that it's Linux. It's the little things. I go hunting for the default vimrc file installed when I grabbed vim. On every *nix system in the world, it's probably in a

Re: [why is kernel recompilation necessary?]

2000-07-28 Thread Pollywog
On 28-Jul-2000 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: That's not the case at all. As some people have mentioned in this thread, certain proprietary drivers are distrubuted as binary-only kernel modules. This would obviously not be possible if the whole kernel had to be rebuilt to use a module. The

current Redhat user evaluates Debian

2000-07-28 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Hi, I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating Debian for a possible switch. Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian Linux over Redhat Linux? I would also love to hear any the weaknesses Debian

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