Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On 08 Jan 1999 00:34:45 +1300, you wrote: /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install says: I don't have that file Maybe it matters which order it goes in? neither dpkg --install packagename --auto-deconfigure nor dpkg --install --auto-deconfigure packagename works. Greetings Marc --

Re: PS/2 Mice not working =(

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:39:43PM +0100, HoBzIE wrote: I have a PS/2 mouse, Logitech Mouseman 4 btn, that will not work with I also have a PS/2 mouse and You must Your kernel config that the mouse is supported: make menuconfig section character devices add the entries, like below # #

colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread keyoz
is it possible to make the command prompt colored? like the escape sequence that you do in DOS? [off topic] how to insert an escape character in vi*? k e c h i e

Re: Debian Linux and AMD Computers

1999-01-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
Adam Klein wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:42:46AM -0500, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi i would like to whether Linux in general will run on an AMD based computer and if it does how well does it perform. Debian runs great and without incident on my K6-2 300. ditto.

Re: why .deb?

1999-01-07 Thread David B. Teague
On 6 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Bruce once suggested a move to rpm, but the developers believe dpkg is the better system. You may be right; however, if my memory serves, Bruce suggested that either .deb and .rpm be merged or that

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread Patrick Colbeck
It certainly is. Check out http://bash.current.nu/ Themed bash prompt no less, with all different colours and escape chars etc. Pat On Thu Jan 07, 1999 at 09:57:48PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to make the command prompt colored? like the escape sequence that you do

Re: PS/2 Mice not working =(

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
H == HoBzIE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: H I have a PS/2 mouse, Logitech Mouseman 4 btn, that will not work with H either gpm or X, when i start gpm with protocol PS/2 and dev - psaux it H says.. gpm: /dev/psaux operation not supported by device Do you have ps2 compiled into the kernel? If

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to make the command prompt colored? like the escape sequence that you do in DOS? [off topic] how to insert an escape character in vi*? Also see the thread on this lists from Dec 2 entitled ANSI color escape sequences in $PS1... heh -Mitch

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread Helge Hafting
is it possible to make the command prompt colored? like the escape sequence that you do in DOS? Yes. The command prompt is determined from the environment variable PS1. Try this: PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[32m\]\t \[\e[33;1m\]\w \[\e[m\e[1m\]\$ \[\e[m\]' (if you put it in a script,

Re: Non US, PGP and slink

1999-01-07 Thread Georg Bauer
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://www.rising.com.au/debian-non-US dists/unstable/non-US/binary-$(ARCH)/ I'll try it next time I have to do an update. Thanks. bye, Georg -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/

Re: News reading

1999-01-07 Thread Randy Edwards
I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while offline. IMHO the best solution would be either leafnode or suck. Leafnode's smaller and far easier to set up. It also has a slick option to auto-delete unread newsgroups. Suck is more powerful,

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: (snip) with something more Linux, like a penguin ... (snip) Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though. :-) -- Ed C. Really it isn't that big a deal. replace

Re: News reading

1999-01-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 07:04:54 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while offline. IMHO the best solution would be either leafnode or suck. Leafnode's smaller and far easier to set

Re: why .deb?

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DBT == David B Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DBT At any rate, we agree, Debian Rules! [ warning, the following joke maybe be uncomprehensible for non-developers. Sorry. ] Of cause. Especially debian/rules binary :-) Haha. Man, this was a lame one. Ciao, Martin

Re: News reading

1999-01-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 07:04:54 -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while offline. IMHO the best solution would be either leafnode or suck. Leafnode's smaller and far easier to set up. It also

Sybase ASE

1999-01-07 Thread Vincent Murphy
I'd like to install Sybase ASE on my Debian hamm system. However, I have only been able to get rpms of the package, from Redhat or Caldera. How should I go about installing this package on a Debian system? -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | 2nd CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086)

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Helge Hafting
The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. Is Debian ready for the new kernel? Will Slink be? Slink is frozen. That means only bugfixes get in, no new improvements. This applies to kernels as well as applications. So 2.2.0 won't likely be in slink. It may appear in the next version

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread keyoz
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Helge Hafting wrote: thanks Helge. is it possible to make the command prompt colored? Helge Hafting k e c h i e

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread keyoz
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also see the thread on this lists from Dec 2 entitled ANSI color escape sequences in $PS1... heh duh. But I unsubscribed in december IIRC. ISP problems and other factors. Thanks anyway k e c h i e

Re: nmh bug (was: Re: exmh - presort inc sometimes fails)

1999-01-07 Thread Jutta Wrage
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just managed to reproduce the error at the commandline using the inc command (nmh). I have sent off a message to the nmh-workers telling them about the bug. It's nmh? I tried to use nmh, too, when upgrading to hamm. But then

Re: PS/2 Mice not working =(

1999-01-07 Thread Wesley Simon
HoBzIE wrote: I have a PS/2 mouse, Logitech Mouseman 4 btn, that will not work with either gpm or X, when i start gpm with protocol PS/2 and dev - psaux it says.. gpm: /dev/psaux operation not supported by device and i know what that text mens but i think its strange cuz i have had it

Papersize and SO5

1999-01-07 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I am trying to print to a HPLasterjet 4 Plus from StarOffice 5.0. I have my papersize set to A4 under Debian and also in StarOffice but whenever I try to print the printer gives an error saying it wants letter size paper loading ! I am using the generic postscript driver in SO. Has anyone seen

IRCD

1999-01-07 Thread Nidge Jones
OK I am now getting somehwere with my Debian 2.0 install. But some things are now broken from 1.3.1 ? For example my ircd refuses to start now. It is accompanied by an entry in syslog which reads... Your M: line must have the Numeric, assigned to you by routing-com, behind the port number. Ok

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: colored comman prompt On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also see the thread on this lists from Dec 2 entitled ANSI color escape sequences in $PS1... heh duh. But I unsubscribed in december IIRC. ISP problems and other

Re: Sybase ASE

1999-01-07 Thread Mário Olímpio de Menezes
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: I'd like to install Sybase ASE on my Debian hamm system. However, I have only been able to get rpms of the package, from Redhat or Caldera. Hi Vincent I installed sybase rpms with alien. I had little troubles with the settings but was able

Re [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Benjamin Suto
Ed C. Wrote: Just in case you don't know: You can disable that Windows boot logo with an entry in msdos.sys (a text file now) of Logo=0 in the Options section. Works for W95. Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though. :-) Well, this is probably

Re: PS/2 Mice not working =(

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I was getting the exact same problem with my ps/2 mouse, until someone on the list pointed out that I needed to re-compile with support for non-serial (i.e. ps/2 mice) in the kernel under the 'character devices' section. HTH, Martin HoBzIE wrote: I have a PS/2 mouse, Logitech

Re: how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Paolo! Q. Is it possible to copy an installation from a PC to another? A. Yes (of course :-) Q. HOW ??? A. ... Here what we do to synchronise 4 Linux boxes: 1. Pick one to be your master. 2. set all lovely products that you want on it 3. Run dpkg --get-selections

kernel compilation and as86?

1999-01-07 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i am trying to compile a 2.0.34 kernel and getting the following error message: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found now i've compiled kernels often enough and never run in to this problem before. the assembler installed from binutils is /bin/as and it

Solved: [Offtopic] SSH X problems.

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Hamish! You are actually right. It turned out that that particular user filled all his disk quota and .Xauthority was not created right. Well, all kinds of strange errors happens when you out of quota :) Sasha. On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:20:33PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi,

Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Mosl Roland
I find the current method with email very unpractical. Why not organize as a newsgroup only available as news.debian.org ? 1.) news are organized as threades emails are very unorganized 2.) I am from Austria. $0.9 per hour for my telephone connection at night time, but $2.7 at

Re: talk problems

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Zoro! I'm not sure, but you may want to check: 1. Do you have lines in /etc/inetd.conf like: talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd 2.

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Didier Verna
Mosl Roland writes: Mosl I find the current method with email very unpractical. I find it very practical. Mosl Why not organize as a newsgroup only available as Mosl news.debian.org ? I hope not. The signal/noise ratio on mailing lists is always so much better than on a

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MR == Mosl Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MR So why not change it to a privat (only on one server available) MR newsgroup? You are beating a dead horse. This would increase traffic and load on the server (we'd have to use one of the existing servers). You get mail with full speed from your

Alien error: rpmdeb

1999-01-07 Thread John Bagdanoff
I've been getting this error when trying to convert an rpm to deb: - Automatic package debianization alien: 822-date did not return a valid result. I have no problem converting deb to rpm any ideas? John

Re: colored comman prompt

1999-01-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also see the thread on this lists from Dec 2 entitled ANSI color escape sequences in $PS1... heh duh. But I unsubscribed in december IIRC. ISP problems and other factors. Thanks anyway

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mosl Roland wrote: 2.) I am from Austria. $0.9 per hour for my telephone connection at night time, but $2.7 at day time. So I download newsgroups only in the cheap night time, and I go at day time only very

Re: kernel compilation and as86?

1999-01-07 Thread Daryl Williams
hi henning, thanks for your quick response. i did not install the bin86 package because the (short) pkg description daid it is a 16 bit compiler. on further examination i see that it is the assembler used to create the 16-bit bootsector. i should have read it more carefully the 1st time.. :) i

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Regarding debian-user-digest, try splitdigest debian package. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Mosl Roland wrote: 2.) I am from Austria. $0.9 per hour for my

Re: Mailing list archive search

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I think you are right. Here what happens IMHO. There is a 25 messages limitation. If you search (for example notebook) you'll get ONLY messages for October (about 18 messages). In total there are about 33 notebook messages from October to December. One may expect 7 Notebook messages

RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Gary Singleton
OK, so what I did is modify Rob @ slashdot's excellent 'Linux - Don't Fear the Penguins.' artwork (http://slashdot.org/linux/index.shtml) resized/converted it to a 400x320x256 bitmap named logo.bmp. I posted it at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2361/logo.bmp if anybody wants to try

Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-07 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I've downloaded yesterday from an Debbian mirror in the US a 2.2.0-pre1 kernel for Debian in .deb format. I've installed the kernel with dpkg to give it a try. The system booted up, but I've received a number of errors. a) It seems that the initailisation of the COM ports is changed. I saw a

A few (simple?) questions...

1999-01-07 Thread David Kennedy
Hi, I was able to get Debian installed and everything I need working but I have a few questions: 1) How do you change the colours of xterm? Right now, when I click on it I get a black on white window. I can type xterm -bg black -fg white to get a new xterm window with the colours I want. 2) What

Vanishing commands.

1999-01-07 Thread Nidge Jones
Since upgrading to 2.0, I have lost some commands :-( /sbin/clock has vanished for starters ! Where did this go ! Have I missed a package out somehwere - if so which ! Also, I have no 'named.resatrt' command! Is this obsolete too ! It's no real big deal because I can use /etc/init.d/bind reload

Upgrade 2.0 = 2.1

1999-01-07 Thread Ruud de Bruin
Is it possible to upgrade Hamm 2.0 to Slink 2.1 or Hamm 2.1 (when available) with apt-get? The reason I ask is that several packages in Slink are new/splitted up like xserver-common. Because these packages were not present in Hamm 2.0, will apt-get take these new .deb files also in account?

Re: Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-07 Thread Mike Deal
I have basicly the same question but differnt problems. Everthing works on my server except ip aliasing. Ie Only one of my web sites show up. Do I need a new ifconfig or such? Would it be easier to just upgrade to slink? --- Mike Deal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.zonenet.net /

Re: Upgrade 2.0 = 2.1

1999-01-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Ruud de Bruin wrote: Is it possible to upgrade Hamm 2.0 to Slink 2.1 or Hamm 2.1 (when available) with apt-get? The reason I ask is that several packages in Slink are new/splitted up like xserver-common. Because these packages were not present in Hamm 2.0, will apt-get

hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, We try to set mostly closed system for Debian slink boxes that operate primarily as X-terminals. So it has in hosts.deny ALL:ALL Here what I set in hosts.allow: # ALL : localhost in.telnetd : .our.network : allow sshd: .our.network : allow in.ftpd : .our.network :

Re: Upgrade 2.0 = 2.1

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Ruud de Bruin wrote: Hi Ruud, Is it possible to upgrade Hamm 2.0 to Slink 2.1 or Hamm 2.1 (when available) with apt-get? yes The reason I ask is that several packages in Slink are new/splitted up like xserver-common. Because these packages were not

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:05:14 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: The Debian mailing lists already ARE available a newsgroups but they are just not transmitted over the general Usenet. You have to ask someone that carries them. Also, postings to the newsgroups are

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Thomas Janke wrote: The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. Is Debian ready for the new kernel? Will Slink be? Yes, also it will not ship with it as default kernel (probably not ship with it at all). I do not know all issues, but what I know

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 18:18:29 +0100, Didier Verna wrote: Mosl Why not organize as a newsgroup only available as Mosl news.debian.org ? I hope not. The signal/noise ratio on mailing lists is always so much better than on a newsgroup. In my experience, most of the smaller news nets

RE: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Jon Burchmore
This card isn't actually a PnP card, and is not seen by pnpdump. It's a jumperless card, so it doesn't have it's resources dictated by the OS, but by a configuration program. I'd perfer not to mess up my delicatly balanced windoze system by adding another card, then taking it out and hoping

RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Kent West
At 10:01 AM 1/7/1999 -0800, Gary Singleton wrote: it at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2361/logo.bmp if I clicked on this link and just got a bunch of gibberish. Maybe I did something wrong?

Subject: RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread John_Gay
I tried to get your Image, but Netscape only loads a bunch of random characters. I would be very interested in something like this as I often annoy my bosses about why they try to use Windows to run a network. Cheers, John Gay

iomega (atapi) zip drive?

1999-01-07 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, does anyone know if there is support for iomega's ATPI zip drive? i have one attached to the primary IDE controller of a DELL pentium running a 2.0.34 kernel. any pointers would be very welcome. tia, //daryl -- Daryl Williams Network Administrator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: talk problems

1999-01-07 Thread Lazar Fleysher
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Zoro! I'm not sure, but you may want to check: 1. Do you have lines in /etc/inetd.conf like: talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ntalk dgram udp wait

RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Harrison, Shawn
O.k., I downloaded the nifty bitmap and put it in c:\ as logo.sys, but what happened is that now there is *no* logo at bootup. Can anyone (on this Linux list!) help me figure this out? (a Win95 question!). I'm booting with Win95. == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Guys, Apparantly your browser isn't configured to automatically handle .bmp (bitmap) files. If you are using Netscape, you can right-click on the link, then select Save Link As... and save the .bmp file somewhere on your disk, and look at it with an image-viewer program. Other browsers should

Re: News reading

1999-01-07 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards wrote: IMHO the best solution would be either leafnode or suck. Leafnode's smaller and far easier to set up. It also has a slick option to auto-delete unread newsgroups. Actually that option has been removed (again) due to some obscure bug. -- see shy jo

Re: how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?

1999-01-07 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Paolo Pedaletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ciao, I want to format my HD and reinstall all the system, but I don't want to forget the list of installed packages (or reinstall them by hand...). If I do: # dpkg --get-selections | grep [^de]install | cut -f 1 dpkg--g-s You can simply use

Re: XWP - NOT!

1999-01-07 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 02:35:20AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: James R. Lunsford wrote: Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it

Re: route add default

1999-01-07 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:02:39AM +, debian wrote: i set up ppp with PAP protocol. i can dial up my provider and am able to ping the gateway. however i when i type route add default 207.167.86.253 (gateway) i get the error message SIOCADDRT: Operation not supported by device how do

Re: Debian Linux and AMD Computers

1999-01-07 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:42:46AM -0500, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi i would like to whether Linux in general will run on an AMD based computer and if it does how well does it perform. Runs fine on my K6-200 (oc'd to 233). Rahsheen

Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-07 Thread Morgan Fletcher
I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato (frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink. So now dselect shows a bunch of packages that

compiling a kernel

1999-01-07 Thread MallarJ
I'm going to try to attempt to compile a kernel so I can get my soundcard working, but I have a question before I start.. Is there a way to find out what options the current kernel has been compiled with? I don't want to miss anything or add anything that I don't already have and won't need.

Crosswords for Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Manuel Gutierrez Algaba
Have you ever been looking for any command that does anything? Have you ever wondered what X4kge means? Do you know what 'apropos' is ? Well, I've decided to compile lots and lots of information, so people cand find what they're looking for , and they can learn without too much problem. How?

System very slow.

1999-01-07 Thread Andrew Ivanov
I replaced a processor in my computer yesterday, from P120 to P166, and it worked fine all day yesterday. But when I cam e back from work today, I got this problem: Some applications seem to be working very slow. For example, telnet/ftp now take about 20 seconds to start. But when it starts, speed

Re: compiling a kernel

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
M == MallarJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M Is there a way to find out what options the current kernel has been M compiled with? I don't want to miss anything or add anything that M I don't already have and won't need. If you use a kernel made with kernel-package or one of the kernel-binary

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Didier Verna wrote: Mosl Roland writes: Mosl I find the current method with email very unpractical. I find it very practical. Not everyone out here agrees with that statement. Mosl Why not organize as a newsgroup only available as Mosl news.debian.org ? I

[Off-Topic] Anyone else seeing huge problems on 'Net?

1999-01-07 Thread stick
Howdy folks! Hey, I'm trying to upgrade a syste across the internet and am having one heck of a time with packet loss and stalled transfers and time-outs. really an issue. Is anyone else seeing this? Ping is reporting anywhere from 13% to 55% packet loss between me and my clients system in

Installation Problem with Potato (2.1) + latest Boot-discs

1999-01-07 Thread Franz . Skale
I installed potato with the latest boot-disks via ftp.Worked without problem. But if it finished downloading all the wanted packages and configured them something wonderful happend. A message is displayed that sounds like this. You have compiled your kernel to support modules but that is not

Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Morgan Fletcher wrote: I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato (frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink. So now dselect

More on the slow system

1999-01-07 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On the other hand, Windows does not seem to be affected at all. All applications run as fast as before, and there is a very small 1-2 second delay only when using telnet/ftp/netscape to connect to sites. In linux top doesnt reveal any problems. Are there any tools that can let me diagnose the

Named/Dns

1999-01-07 Thread Nidge Jones
After upgrading to 2.0, my named has broken. I previosuly had (for various reasons) a boot.options.online and a boot.options.offline. Which worked great. These specified forwarders etc to use. But now I have this file /etc/named.conf, which I have no idea how it works, or where to find some

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
EC == Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EC All I'm asking is for the majority to show a little more EC understanding of the minority's position. Please show understanding to the ones who have to pay for their phonecalls (and not too few, I can assure you) and who have rather bad connection

Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution

1999-01-07 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok, it turns out that pppd is somehow affecting my computer. Everything works just fine and fast without pppd running, but as soon as I attempt to dial out, things slow down. How do I go about it? Andrew

X 3.3.3 (which files to use)

1999-01-07 Thread David Welton
As there is no official .deb of 3.3.3, and the recommendation is to replace the files, I'd like to know what exactly to replace, so as to create the least amount of confusion on my system (after all, I run Debian so as not to have to futz with stuff like this...:-). I have a matrox g100, which

RE: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-07 Thread Shaleh
Questions: 1. Does it have some striking errors? I bet I forgot some service... Looks sane. Be aware that hosts.allow only covers inetd started daemons. So if you run apache as a stand alone daemon you have to config it separately.

RE: X 3.3.3 (which files to use)

1999-01-07 Thread Shaleh
On 07-Jan-99 David Welton wrote: As there is no official .deb of 3.3.3, and the recommendation is to replace the files, I'd like to know what exactly to replace, so as to create the least amount of confusion on my system (after all, I run Debian so as not to have to futz with stuff like

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Questions: 1. Does it have some striking errors? I bet I forgot some service... Looks sane. Be aware that hosts.allow only covers inetd started daemons. So if you run apache as a stand alone daemon you have to config it separately.

Netscape 4.08 vs. 4.5?

1999-01-07 Thread Sergey Imennov
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Changing DPI in X.

1999-01-07 Thread Paulo Silva
Hello, Today I was reading LyX documentation. After reading how to calculate the DPI of your monitor I've ran across the following: ... If this number is more than, say, 5 DPI from the detected value, you should either fix the X setup, or at least tell LyX that the DPI is different than the

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Thanks for the comments, But would wrapping Apache do any good? AFAIK wrapping works only when daemon starts and Apache is sort of always on? Sasha. On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Questions: 1. Does it have some striking errors? I bet I forgot some

Re: hosts.allow - words of wisdom?

1999-01-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:56:32PM -0600, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Thanks for the comments, But would wrapping Apache do any good? AFAIK wrapping works only when daemon starts and Apache is sort of always on? I would not suggest running a web server from inetd. If the web server

Re: compiling a kernel

1999-01-07 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/7/99 3:41:51 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: M Is there a way to find out what options the current kernel has been M compiled with? I don't want to miss anything or add anything that M I don't already have and won't need. If

Re: X 3.3.3 (which files to use)

1999-01-07 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
On 07-Jan-99 David Welton wrote: As there is no official .deb of 3.3.3, and the recommendation is to replace the files, I'd like to know what exactly to replace, so as to create the least amount of confusion on my system (after all, I run Debian so as not to have to futz with stuff like

make-kpkg terminated before completion

1999-01-07 Thread Charles Kaufman
This is the tail of the output from make-kpkg build-package modules executed from /usr/src/linux. That directory was the top of the tree resulting from tar zxpvf linux-2.0.36.tar.gz There is a kernel vmlinux in /usr/src/linux, dated about 7 minutes before the make-kpkg command terminated. I am

Re: sysvinit: rc vs. r2d2 bahavior

1999-01-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I just typed this up to show and explain what sysvinit does right now. I think it is accurate. Note that this is NOT what should be in the policy document, I do not claim this is the right way to do things,

Re: Why not as a newsgroup?

1999-01-07 Thread john
Ed C. writes: As mentioned above (only download the subject lines), a newsgroup is more efficient for those of us who don't have the T1, or better, connections that the rest of you apparently have (how long does it take you to download 500 emails, Hmmm?). I have a single phone line, a 28800

Re: sysvinit: rc vs. r2d2 bahavior

1999-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roland Rosenfeld wrote: Another question about runlevels: Is there any chance to preserve locally preserved changes? For example I changed the links (in reality I use runlevel.conf instead but this doesn't matter) to

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