Re: [SuSE Linux] 2 issues

1999-04-28 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
landie wrote: first when I dial via kppp to ISP I get daemon died unexpectedly, I tried their solution on commenting out the lock line in /etc/PPP/options but still no luck. any ideas what else it could be when I dial via minicom I have no problem. as root do a "chmod a+s /usr/sbin/pppd

Re: [SuSE Linux] Realize the true potential of Linux

1999-04-27 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Alexander Daniloff wrote: I can only be hoping that sometimes in the next 6.x version SuSE will achieve the same easy to install featured distro as Caldera does. In this case more people and businesses can say good buy to Windoze forever. We must understand that the way that any OS should

[SuSE Linux] Re:

1999-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Robert C Paulsen Jr wrote: Can anyone tell me why I get the following error message everytime I log out of KDE? (This shows up in /var/log/messages.) Apr 19 22:24:17 home kdm[5948]: can't execute "XBINDIR/xrdb" (err 2) --

Re: [SuSE Linux] problem compiling applications - libs in wrong place?

1999-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Roy Brewer wrote: I've tried to compile two apps recently (xfstt and kpackage) and they both bombed because they couldn't find the file crtbegin.o. This file is on the system, under /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/crtbegin.o. Am I missing some symbolic link that would set up the

Re: [SuSE Linux] NT fster than Linux?

1999-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Kristian Farren wrote: Anybody else see this article, http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/dailynews/042199.htm This seems to refute the bencmarking done by ZDNEt a few month ago. Who's right? or does it just show that, benchmarks like statistics, can be twisted to your advantage. -- I saw

Re: [SuSE Linux] Java vs Tcl/Kl vs Perl

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Samy Elashmawy wrote: Jerry , See my other reply re C/C++ , I would be interested in your comments. I see that you are quite "bold" as some would say coming from the windows workd. I have yet to take on Emacs or the other linux/unix editors. I found them reakly confusuing to say the

Re: [SuSE Linux] tar problems

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Kim Wing Fung wrote: Hello Can some one please help. Why is it that the tar program sonetimes generates "ghost files" which can be seen, but it's permissions can never be changed not even as root. These files can never be removed and have some obscure name made up of what

Re: [SuSE Linux] tar problems

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Ewan Dunbar wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Kim Wing Fung wrote: Hello Can some one please help. Why is it that the tar program sonetimes generates "ghost files" which can be seen, but it's permissions can never be changed not ev

Re: [SuSE Linux] tar problems

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Ewan Dunbar wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Ewan Dunbar wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Kim Wing Fung wrote: I don't know of any "ghost" files that root doesn't have permission to manipulate. Can you

Re: [SuSE Linux] tar problems

1999-04-24 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Kim Wing Fung wrote: Hello Sorry for not elaborating more on the problem.. Anyway.. What happens is that i do the following: tar zxf /path/to/and/including/filename for items such as the linux kernel this works and i get the required items (the linux kernel), but for some

Re: [SuSE Linux] Why kppp hangs on Expecting OK with the new 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 kernels !?!?

1999-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello SuSE folks. Sorry I posted this question before but I didn't get an answer which solved my problem with kppp. I downloaded and compiled 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 kernels. I included all nessesary features as PPP, SLIP and so on. Exactly the same features I compiled

Re: [SuSE Linux] Sound and KDE 1.1

1999-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Juergen Braukmann wrote: Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Juergen Braukmann wrote: Hello, I´ve upgraded to KDE 1.1 with an beta SuSE 6.1 from a magazine. Now, my sound is gone. ;-( I can play sounds with rplay, but KDE won´t. I suppose I´ve missed some librarys, since some sound

Re: [SuSE Linux] making statically linked binaries

1999-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
rimez wrote: Does anyone know where I can find info on making statically linked binaries? thanks, rimez -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Re: [SuSE Linux] Sound and KDE 1.1

1999-04-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Juergen Braukmann wrote: Hello, I´ve upgraded to KDE 1.1 with an beta SuSE 6.1 from a magazine. Now, my sound is gone. ;-( I can play sounds with rplay, but KDE won´t. I suppose I´ve missed some librarys, since some sound controls (probably old or changes files) still ask for

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Key executives plan to leave Netscape

1999-04-17 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Robert Russell wrote: In mid-1997 I began tinkering with Linux. Slackware, Debian,... A mechanical engineer I was then working for told me that it was a dead OS, merely my rebellion against Bill Gates and M$. It really began, for me, as a way to at least approach the OS I was

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Key executives plan to leave Netscape

1999-04-17 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Robert Russell wrote: I'm afraid that I'm a little limited in your professional area, but programming was one of the things that caught my attention in Linux; C, as well, and a few other languages, such as forth. Oh, Forth! I love that language. In 1980 I and two other business partners

Re: [SuSE Linux] OT: Fun in computing

1999-04-17 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
lunaslide wrote: Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: rm The biggest thing though, is the FUN Linux restores to computing! This reply is way off topic, but this is so right on. When I seriously started using Linux, I had grown sort of agitated and alienated from computers for awhile. I had

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Key executives plan to leave Netscape

1999-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Ben Rosenberg wrote: Jerry, Wooden Stake for Vampires and Silver Bullets for Werewolves..are we gonna have to send you back to Marvel Comics 101 *grin* ... But, Linus created the silver bullet that hit the heart of the blood-sucking vampire... the message just hasn't

Re: [SuSE Linux] Command not found

1999-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
S K SENTHIL VEL wrote: Hi Everybody, I had installed Sybase and I am not able to execute any of the commands. When i say dbisql dbisql: Command not found Also when I say : file dbisql dbisql: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

Re: [SuSE Linux] Postgress configure/setup from suse distro HOW ??

1999-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Karl Eichwalder wrote: Samy Elashmawy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Jerry thanks for the info below. Now I am more confused. | | I installed the three packackages , pgaccess , postgress and pg_iface. | ALL form the suse 6.0 distro. If you do want an initial database, please

Re: [SuSE Linux] Postgress configure/setup from suse distro HOW ??

1999-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Karl Eichwalder wrote: Samy Elashmawy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Jerry thanks for the info below. Now I am more confused. | | I installed the three packackages , pgaccess , postgress and pg_iface. | ALL form the suse 6.0 distro. If you do want an initial database, please

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Gates calls Linux impact 'fairly limited'

1999-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
dizzy wrote: Well... I dont disagree Jerry, However from my perspective (which is quite possibly flawed) is I see Linux *rite now* in a kind of push come to shove perdiciment where really for the first time Linux is openly aknowledged to be a competitor with a milti-billion dollar

Re: [SuSE Linux] Postgress configure/setup from suse distro HOW ??

1999-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Samy Elashmawy wrote: Jerry thanks for the info below. Now I am more confused. I noticed another individual, Karl, was answering your questions regarding Postgres. It was/is obvious his answers are much more knowledgable than mine. And, I kept asking myself, "where have I seen the name

Re: [SuSE Linux] httpd

1999-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"B. Chapman" wrote: Every time I boot, I get an error that httpd cannot determine my host name. First, could someone please tell me what httpd would be used for, and second, do I need to start it at boot? Do I need to use httpd if the only network I connect to uses dhcp? (I'm a new user

Re: [SuSE Linux] sql for linux and can windows apps access thel

1999-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Robert Copelan wrote: I have just installed PostgreSQL from the distribution CDs. However I don't find the commands below. Do I need to run them from a particular directory? Robert I'll assume a standard installation for postgres, pgaccess and pg_iface ... The documentation for all

Re: [SuSE Linux] Printing Problems

1999-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Delbaere, Tim" wrote: Hi, I am running SuSE 6.0, 2.0.34, kernel, and have set up my printer under YAST (Epson Stylus 640) to use the stylus colour settings. Nothing will print at all. But I can cat test.txt /dev/lp1, and the text file is printed. Got any ideas, as I getting a

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Gates calls Linux impact 'fairly limited'

1999-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: Ya really should read this one! If Gates is quiet about other software, he normally isn't too worried about it. Now, he's talking, and he's FUDing...big time, and he's doing all he can to get a few "flakes" in the industry to rig a test showing NT is better.

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Gates calls Linux impact 'fairly limited'

1999-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
dizzy wrote: yea well ...There seems to be a bit of truth to this statement "Today the browsers have gotten rich enough that it's not the kind of software that you can develop and test in a university-type of environment," he said. the next post talks about execs leaving netscape

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Key executives plan to leave Netscape

1999-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: What's happening, is what some of us were afraid of. Fred It means nothing. Companies have come and companies have gone. Linux wasn't tied to Netscape, but Netscape came to Linux late in a desperate attempt to save itself. Netscape couldn't compete against M$

Re: [SuSE Linux] sql for linux and can windows apps access thel

1999-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Samy Elashmawy wrote: What do you use for the front end of your apps ?? Also , you mentioned the tcl ? Can you give more ionfo ? Can it be used to create a dtata base application ?? What programing languege does it use ? Samy, If you are running SuSE then all you need is on the distro

Re: [SuSE Linux] Relational database/contact manager

1999-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Patrick Kirk wrote: I have an Access application that consists of 9000 contacts in two thousand companies and I have created a simple relational database with forms to manage these contacts. Is there a Linux equivalent of Access? Patrick Kirk of Enterprise HR If you are running SuSE

Re: RV: [SuSE Linux] Can't use de kppp

1999-04-14 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Mariano Striani wrote: Sorry but in my kde I dont have any Internet menu, maybe I have an older kde, my SuSE is 5.1 with kernel 2.2.3 and yast 0.99 somthing KDE is not a SuSE issue. The menu I was refering to is present on all version of KDE since .99beta. If you can't find the

Re: [SuSE Linux] Navy using MSFltSim to train pilots

1999-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Marco van Oostende wrote: Hmm, becomes a bit off-topic here... sorry in advance. I use the program since the early 80's, version FS2 back then, using an Apple II (long, long ago). Even though it is sold by Microsoft, the flight engine itself is originally written and maintained by SubLogic

Re: [SuSE Linux] KCharset: Wrong Charset!

1999-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Karl Stas wrote: Does anybody know why this message appears on the console whenever you open a document in KDE? Or am I the only one who is experiencing this annoying (but seemingly harmless) bug? Karl Stas -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this

Re: [SuSE Linux] sql for linux and can windows apps access the l

1999-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Jason Bodnar wrote: On 13-Apr-99 Samy Elashmawy wrote: Hi folks , I would like to set up an sql server on linux for the widows apps to acess . 1/ can this be done ? Yes 2/ I am looking at 2 to 3 users with a max of 5 users. two or three apps. No problem. 3/ I want

Re: [SuSE Linux] xterm now iconizes ...

1999-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Kester Clegg wrote: Have you checked your / system-wide .Xdefaults for the word 'xterm' ? k. YUP! : :Hi folks, :Somewhere along the way, while I was putzing with my KDE environment :settings, I changed how xterm pops up. It used to open up onto the :desktop. Now it iconizes on

Re: [SuSE Linux] Navy using MSFltSim to train pilots

1999-04-12 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Michael Merritt wrote: That obviously includes crash traing -- JLK Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is right. -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the

Re: [SuSE Linux] more on ppp SIGHUP

1999-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
phillip mannie wrote: I was reading personal mail from work when I noticed that someone else was having problems with SIGHUPs during ppp sessions. I am convinced that these represent being hung up upon by my ISP. My ISP swears up and down that I am terminating the connection, and that the

Re: [SuSE Linux] Symbolic links vs. hard link

1999-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Steve Crane wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 09:49:06PM -0500, Raul Beltran wrote: ln -s source target the '-s' option creates a symbolic link instead of a hard link. I've often wondered just what is meant by 'symbolic link' and 'hard link'. The man page for ln mentions, but doesn't

Re: [SuSE Linux] lib file

1999-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Ben Rosenberg wrote: Hello all, I have downloaded and compiled every libjpeg package I can find...and none of them come with this file..can someone point me at a tar.gz package that has it for sure...at this point I need to be treated like a 6 year old..*sigh* Thanks,

[SuSE Linux] xterm now iconizes ...

1999-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Hi folks, Somewhere along the way, while I was putzing with my KDE environment settings, I changed how xterm pops up. It used to open up onto the desktop. Now it iconizes on the icon bar at the top. I have to click it's pad again to get it to open up on the desktop. I've looked in the KDE

Re: [SuSE Linux] Help - Internet connection.

1999-04-11 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Bushman wrote: Hi people, As a complete newbie to Windows not so very long ago, setting up my Internet connection was no problem. Now, as a Linux newbie, I wish I could say the same :-) Can anyone tell me, in 5 lines or less, how I go about setting up my connection, or point me to

[SuSE Linux] Postgres Client front end...

1999-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
When I first installed 5.3 last year I discovered that Postgres was automatically installed. While exploring MySQL I deleted Postgres, the Postgres user account and deamon, and all other traces. Later on, I wanted to reinstall Postgres but YaST couldn't until I manually added the Postgres

Re: [SuSE Linux] SIGHUP ?

1999-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Rolf Edlund wrote: Sometimes my ppp connection brakes down. :-( /var/log/messages = pppd[598]: Hangup (SIGHUP) pppd[598]: Modem hangup pppd[598]: Connection terminated. pppd[598]: Exit. pppd[609]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Is this something on my side ? In that case, what

Re: [SuSE Linux] SuSE vs. Red Hat

1999-04-09 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Kester Clegg wrote: I think very little, *but* it does miff me a bit when Yast overwrites certain files (or rather, SuSEconfig does) everytime you run it; e.g. kdmrc, ppp stuff... and there are many ocassions when running every update tool (such as those for teTeX) is irratatingly slow.

Re: [SuSE Linux] To hell with Netscape Netscape version 3.04

1999-04-06 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Michael Perry wrote: On 4 Apr, W.D.McKinney wrote: Try, http://home.netscape.com/download/archive/client_index2.html Best Regards Dee Most excellent!!! Thanks much. -- Are these time-limited versions? -- JLK Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the

[SuSE Linux] Re:To hell with Netscape - possible reason for blowup...

1999-04-05 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
I began using Netscape 4.5 when I upgraded to SuSE. It has been a very good performer for me until this week. Since I had change nothing in the last couple of weeks I felt that something about Netscape itself must be changing. The only thing I could think of was the size of the caches, files,

Re: [SuSE Linux] Upgrading SuSE 6.0

1999-04-04 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
If you've got SuSE 6.0 you've got'm! JLK Lars A Gronningsater wrote: On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 15:48:29 -0600, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: So what's with the "new libc6 libs" ? Do we need them? Lars A Gronningsater --IMHO, 5.2 is an excellent distro. It's onl

Re: [SuSE Linux] Linux Advocates Turn Violent, Go On Rampage

1999-04-04 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Yatsen Ng wrote: This is incredibly funny! I'm still laughing while I'm writing this. Damn, how do they come up with parts like "Linux nerd wears gasmask hastily fashioned from a garbage bag, work goggles, a pocket protector and using the insides of a nutty bar as a filter"? This is too

Re: [SuSE Linux] Upgrading SuSE 6.0

1999-04-03 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
IMHO, 5.2 is an excellent distro. It's only drawback is that it is based on the old libc5 libraries whereas 6.0 is based on the new libc6 libraries. If I were you I'd wait until version 6.1 came out because it will also include the new 2.2.x kernel in that distro... JLK Richard Williamson

Re: [SuSE Linux] KPPP Configuration - What's wrong with this picture?

1999-04-01 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Burt, Philip" wrote: Just last night, I got kppp working with my modem. The modem was the biggest pain (pnp Boca SoundExpression combo sound/modem card -- had to disable pnp OS setting from BIOS, and configure the modem to be on ttyS3). Once I had the modem working (verified with

Re: [SuSE Linux] Sound on 2.2.x kernels

1999-04-01 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
That's good to see! "W.D.McKinney" wrote: Jerry Lynn Kreps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick wrote: A freind of mine just upgraded to the 2.2.4 kernel and he was previous running the 2.0.36 kernel (he was using oss for sound no problem) when he upgrade however, it see

Re: [SuSE Linux] Re: KPPP Configuration - What's wrong with this picture?

1999-04-01 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Yatsen Ng wrote: I removed the line 'Modem Lock File' in kppp setup but that didn't really give me resulta that were satisfactory. It still died (unexpectedly). Take another look at the advice given below, the line about the /etc/ppp/option file. Leave the line in the kppp setup alone.

Re: [SuSE Linux] KPPP Configuration - What's wrong with this picture?

1999-03-31 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Yatsen Ng wrote: I configured Kppp (in the KDE wm) and initially I get a connection but then it dies (unexpectedly! - is this a joke? Was he shot? I imagine that if he'd died after long term illness he died 'expectedly'). Why is that? I didn't do anything out of the ordinary nor did I add

Re: [SuSE Linux] Sound on 2.2.x kernels

1999-03-31 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Nick wrote: A freind of mine just upgraded to the 2.2.4 kernel and he was previous running the 2.0.36 kernel (he was using oss for sound no problem) when he upgrade however, it seems the new kernel 2.2.4 (not sure about the 2.2.x kernels before 2.2.4) does not support OSS, he hasnt gotten

Re: [SuSE Linux] Sound on 2.2.x kernels

1999-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Terry Eck wrote: Koen Dejonghe wrote: Hi, I bought an OSS license from http://www.4front-tech.com/ just before the 2.2 kernel was out. I'm on 2.0.36 (SuSE 6.0) right now. I think the new kernel has extensive support for sound. I'd like to hear from people who have experience

Re: [SuSE Linux] Letter to editor.... keeps Linux on the badlist

1999-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Robert Russell wrote: I just scanned over your comments and I think I more or less agree. There is a verse in the Bible, "arrogance comes before the fall." I personally hope that by in large, Linux users will show themselves to more than a bunch of "hackers' or "save-the-whale" types.

Re: [SuSE Linux] Peculiar Boot problem and how to suspend to disk

1999-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Arjen Runsink wrote: snip From Linux to Win98 HIMEM.SYS complains about an unavailable A20 line (or hook) and quits to DOS. snip I forgot another solution You can add the following line to Config.sys. device=path to himem.sys/himem.sys /m:n where n is 1 for at or 100% IMB AT

Re: [SuSE Linux] Peculiar Boot problem and how to suspend to disk

1999-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Arjen Runsink wrote: From Linux to Win98 HIMEM.SYS complains about an unavailable A20 line (or hook) and quits to DOS. If you can access a copy of "The Windows Resource Kit" book (paperback) then look up A20 in the index. The A20 is a technical reference to the line on the CPU that allows

Re: [SuSE Linux] PPP conection too

1999-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Dan Tudor wrote: Thanks for the support. Though, I don't have a /etc/resolv.conf file. Should I create one or is there an alternative? Dan Bud Rogers wrote: You have to tell your computer how to find your ISP's nameservers. The file /etc/resolv.conf should have one or more lines

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-29 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
BENJAMIN FARRELL wrote: Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc I gave up on irc a long time ago, even while in WinXX. The S/N ratio was too low. -- To get out of this list, please

Re: [SuSE Linux] PPP connection

1999-03-28 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Dan, In addition to what Stephan said you may want to su to root and "chmod a+xs /usr/sbin/pppd" Every time you run YaST it uses the /etc/permissions file setting to reset pppd. Change the setting in pppd so YaST won't reset it every time you run YaST. JLK Dan Tudor wrote: Hi everyone, I

Re: [SuSE Linux] rpm's

1999-03-28 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
In addition to what Zentara said, Tarballs usually don't update config files either, nor do they automatically install environmental variables. Usually, when you install, everything goes into one directory except for the executable and library files. You can use MC to browse a tarball before

Re: [SuSE Linux] Why kppp infinetely initializes the modem?

1999-03-28 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Just a guess, but do you have kpp autmatically redialing when it looses connection? JLK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody! I want to use 2.2.4 kernel with my SuSE 6.0 distro. When I invoke kppp and try to establish connection with the Internet kppp tries to initialize the modem

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
mmm I must be delusional. I haven't booted my Win95 side in months (When SuSE 6.1 with the 2.2.x kernel comes out I will reclaim that space for Linux) so how am I keeping my checkbook balanced and reconciled? Must be a phantom copy of cbb. I do my symbolic math with MuPAD 3.4 instead of

Re: [SuSE Linux] Improving X Performance

1999-03-27 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
probably also help. Tim Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Kester Clegg wrote: KDE *is* incredibly slow no matter what you do! But have you got the newer kernals (ie. 2.0.36)? k. It seems that "mileage may vary". I find KDE to operate very nicely, overall. The *only* ex

Re: [SuSE Linux] Improving X Performance

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Kester Clegg wrote: KDE *is* incredibly slow no matter what you do! But have you got the newer kernals (ie. 2.0.36)? k. It seems that "mileage may vary". I find KDE to operate very nicely, overall. The *only* example I've found of slower performance is the rescroll event in the kfm

Re: [SuSE Linux] Letter to editor.... keeps Linux on the badlist

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
zentara wrote: snip I do not believe that the letter as posted to the editor of the NT magazine will work to persuade anyone that Linux is anything but the OS of choice for hobbyists and mouthy teenagers. Too bad, because other than the fact that it appears to have been written by

Re: [SuSE Linux] makefile

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Markus Wendling wrote: dear c-programmers of the linux-community, my problem is a small step for mankind but a big step for me: I'd like to compile a c program. the code is distributed over several files. "at work" (using sun or aix) I am used to type 'mkmf' in the directory where

Re: [SuSE Linux] Second Hard Disc

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
In addition to what Zentera said I have three HDs and one CDROM on my system. I found that if I have a CDROM as master on the second IDE then Linux can't see any HD setting as slave on that IDE. I had to change the jumper config on the CDROM to make it a slave, and make my HD as master on

Re: [SuSE Linux] Letter to editor.... keeps Linux on the badlist

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Karsten Johansson wrote: It doesn't bother me what Solaris folk say about non-solaris folk in Solaris forums, or what Linuxfolk say to other Linuxfolk in a Linux forum. It gets tedious after a while, but so be it. Everyone needs to feel they belong to a club. My point was that by

Re: [SuSE Linux] Mail address change

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote: I'm sorry to disturb the list about this, but I already have tried the "official" method. About a month ago, I tried asking the list-admins to change my address, but with no result as yet. NOT EVEN A REPLY :( The case is that my school merged with another and

Re: [SuSE Linux] Worm for Linux x86 found in wild

1999-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
The ADM worm in not new. You can get the source code on any hacker site. One of the responders to that article even posted the url to the ADM source code. Bill Parker wrote: FYI to all: "Worm for Linux x86 found in wild Mar 25th, 23:35:59 "The worm is particularly amusing in that

Re: [SuSE Linux] 2.0.36 to 2.2.x kernel speed-ups

1999-03-23 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Bob Easton wrote: On 23 Mar 99, at 13:38, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote (subject was: Re: [SuSE Linux] 30 or 72 pins??? / Sound Card): [snip] I am running a three year old P166 Sony VAIO. I made the same decision that you did and jacked the RAM to 64MB and added a Western Digital 6.4 GB

Re: [SuSE Linux] Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound chip

1999-03-23 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
and mpeg_player installed and running ok. I have downloaded mpg3_player but have not installed it yet. Jerry Thank you very much in advance. Joop Boonen. Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Eric, Attached is an extract of my log file showing my configuration. Eric Lum wrote: Does anyone here

Re: [SuSE Linux] New book on Suse linux, authors wanted

1999-03-22 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Zentara, About Three months ago this guy sent me a similar email claiming he had read over 800 of my posts while searching the DejaNews and threw me some flattery claiming he recognized in me the skills necessary to write a book on Linux, not SuSE. Then came the same pitch he gave you. I gave

Re: [SuSE Linux] StarOffice 5.0 segfault...

1999-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"A. Gustavo Gonzalez" wrote: Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: Attempting to add SO 5.0 from the SuSE CD's to my installation. When I run "./setup" it crashes with the following message: ./setup:window manager didn't set icon sizes - using default Segmentation fault

Re: [SuSE Linux] Newbie Question: df output

1999-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
No David, you didn't do anything wrong. What you need to know is that "1000" in computer talk is actually 1024. If you were to do a simple 'df' you would get the 1024KB listing. When you added the -m parameter you told Linux to divide the 1024KB listings by 1024 to get the MB listings. Do the

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: E-mail agonistes at Microsoft

1999-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/ms2000main.html -- Interesting, especially how it ends an a concillitory note. Agi-prop? Where I work we have the same sort of culture. Anyone can, and does, email anyone else. I prefer email to phone for the simple reason when

Re: [SuSE Linux] SAX configuration of XFree86

1999-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
What you are describing is classic symptoms of an irq conflict. Do 'cat/proc/interrupts' while things are running fine and write down what it shows you. Then, when things seem funny, do that command again and compare the results. Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen wrote: Why is it that this program

[SuSE Linux] Linux Today: On Free software and the Free press

1999-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/4266.html -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at

Re: [SuSE Linux] SAX configuration of XFree86

1999-03-21 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen wrote: Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: What you are describing is classic symptoms of an irq conflict. Do 'cat/proc/interrupts' while things are running fine and write down what it shows you. How would I remove all hardware using IRQs, or rather the setup

Re: [SuSE Linux] PC Week: IE 5.0 misbehaves with Visual Studio6.0

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Samy Elashmawy wrote: Its all a plot to get you to upgrade ti Visual Studio 7 grin At 08:49 AM 3/19/1999 -0500, you wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1014170,00.html -- We use VS 5.0 (VFP 5.0) where I work. When VS 6 came out I pushed for it, because of the bugs

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Bill Gates looks beyond IE 5 release

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Michael Perry wrote: On 20 Mar, Fred A. Miller wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2228562,00.html -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at

Re: [SuSE Linux] PC World News: How Linux Will Spread in Business Market

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Samy Elashmawy wrote: Fuuny , There hasent been any niose over the MickSoft Refund . Its kind of diaed down. It will get interesting as M$ starts releasing win2000 , especialy in light of all the apps that are broken by it. I wonder if they will blame it on a Y2K compatability issue ??

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Bill Gates looks beyond IE 5 release

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2228562,00.html -- hehehehe... Illusionist call that "the distraction". It keeps the audience from focusing on that dud M$ just released. If I were Gates I would talk about the Internet too, during the release of IE5,

Re: [SuSE Linux] XOOM.com Announces RedHat Linux 5.2!

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: http://orders.xoom.com/linux/chrhl52i0319/ -- Been there, done that. I've run RH 5.2 (and 5.1 and 5.0). While I prefer RH over M$ I prefer SuSE uber alles. -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe

[SuSE Linux] StarOffice 5.0 segfault...

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Attempting to add SO 5.0 from the SuSE CD's to my installation. When I run "./setup" it crashes with the following message: ./setup:window manager didn't set icon sizes - using default Segmentation fault I am using KDE 1.0 on my SuSE 6.0, which is running the 2.0.36 kernel. I have both glib5

Re: [SuSE Linux] Boot Under NT boot loader!

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Can someone tell me how to Boot Linux via LOADLIN through the Windoze NT boot loader?? With LILO it is possible, but I dont use LILO... And if it is through LOADLIN, how can I set it up?? Thx nelson Modify msdos.sys, config.sys and autoexec.bat to look

Re: [SuSE Linux] StarOffice Registration Failure: 29 days to D-Day!!

1999-03-20 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Jeffery S. Norman" wrote: I have finally installed StarOffice (and SuSE 6.0) successfully. BUT, the Star Office registration process fails (I used the automatic internet registration). It pops up an error saying that the registration failed, and to try manual registration. I do

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Gates may contradict trial in book

1999-03-19 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Tim Hanson wrote: Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote: "Fred A. Miller" wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2227439,00.html -- And to think, I spent 18 years of my life as a consultant-programmer digitizing the financial records of all kinds of businesses.

Re: [SuSE Linux] PPP says Modem Busy in 6.0 - please HELP!

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Dominic MacDonald Aveyard wrote: Hi there again everyone, Happy St Patricks day! Well, we just got a shiny new etower with built in rage card and whizzy K6, its really nice. I installed 6.0 flawlessy in half an hour, told it during the install that our new 56k HSP Micromodem (PCI card)

Re: [SuSE Linux] XLispStat and ViSta under SuSE 6.0

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Albertus J Smit wrote: Dear all Sorry to post this question to the SuSE mailing list, but I have tried both Forrest Young and Luke Tierney of ViSta and XLispStat fame without any success. I am using SuSE 6.0 afterall, so I am sure you won't mind too much ;-). I either have a problem

Re: [SuSE Linux] Is kernel compile necessary?

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
jdd wrote: Steve Pauly wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, zentara wrote: Steve Pauly wrote: With all the traffic on the list about kernels, I thought this might be interesting. He states that the popular dists ship adequate kernels and the desire to recompile for speed

Re: [SuSE Linux] PC World News: How Linux Will Spread inBusiness Market

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Samy Elashmawy wrote: Great article. IDG.NET also published a article by Frank Hayes that parroted the Microsoft party line about NT being as cheap as Linux to install. I did a cost summary of the upgrade to Win95 and NT on the workstations and servers where I work, not counting replacing

[SuSE Linux] John C. Dvorak writes about Linux....

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
PC Magazine, Vol 18, No 7, Page 87, Paragraph 8: "Nobody writing in the popular press wants to predict the emergence of a gentrified Linux as the next major change on the desktop environment or in the Fortune 500. Well, I'm doing so now. The way I see it, Linux's code base is under much

Re: [SuSE Linux] ZDNN: Gates may contradict trial in book

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Fred A. Miller" wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2227439,00.html -- And to think, I spent 18 years of my life as a consultant-programmer digitizing the financial records of all kinds of businesses. Not once during that period did I ever encounter a company that wanted

Re: [SuSE Linux] waht version of glibc on SuSE 6.0?

1999-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
"Steven T. Hatton" wrote: I am trying to answer a question someone asked me. How do I find the version of glibc I am running? When I do the following I don't see an answere. He wants to know if I have glibc2.1. It involves the beta of Netscape DS. He says it won't run on 2.1. Mine's

Re: [SuSE Linux] kppp redialing

1999-03-17 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
I find that Kppp works perfectly without a script. Have you tried not using one? "Jeffery S. Norman" wrote: Okay, I have trashed my 5.2 setup, reformatted partitions, and finally installed 6.0. I am now trying to get back online from Linux. Using kpp, I created my account, setup the

Re: [SuSE Linux] xmkmf and SuSE 6.0

1999-03-17 Diskussionsfäden Jerry Lynn Kreps
Tony Schlemmer wrote: I recently saw post in this group regard "xanim" and I finally had some time to download and build this app. To build "xanim" requires the use of "xmkmf" to create a Makefile. When I tried to run make, the compile failed on the first file since the compiler couldn't

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