Re: smail 3.2

1999-04-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Juanjo Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hola a todos/as: Veamos si llega mi primer correo a la lista con mutt. Bueno lo que quiero comentaros es que smail se empeña en mandar el correo cada 20 minutos, pero lo que yo quiero es que lo encole hasta que hasta que haga runq, para

Quitar xdm del arranque

1999-04-03 Thread Ubaldo Fernández Covelo
He instalado Debian 2.1 y todo bien. Ejecuté xdm para probar y desde entonces el sistema me arranca en modo gráfico. Quiero arrancar en modo texto y pasar a la X cuando lo necesite nada más. ¿Cómo quito el xdm del arranque? He visto el /etc/profile y ahí no está, los rc.?? los tengo iguales que

Re: Quitar xdm del arranque

1999-04-03 Thread Francisco Callejo
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 10:43:50AM +, Ubaldo Fernández Covelo wrote: He instalado Debian 2.1 y todo bien. Ejecuté xdm para probar y desde entonces el sistema me arranca en modo gráfico. Quiero arrancar en modo texto y pasar a la X cuando lo necesite nada más. ¿Cómo quito el xdm del

Unidentified subject!

1999-04-03 Thread Jose

Fw: primer mensaje HELLLLPPPPPPP

1999-04-03 Thread Alfredo Goñi
- Original Message - From: Alfredo Goñi To: Francisco Callejo Sent: Sábado, 03 de Abril de 1999 09:55 a.m. Subject: primer mensaje HEPPP hola me llamo alfredo y no tengo idea de 2 cosas, una como usar este tipo de listas.tengo que mandarle correo a alguien en especial? y

Re: smail 3.2

1999-04-03 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 01:18:39AM +0200, Juanjo Martinez wrote: Veamos si llega mi primer correo a la lista con mutt. Llego :) Bueno lo que quiero comentaros es que smail se empeña en mandar el correo cada 20 minutos, pero lo que yo quiero es que lo encole hasta que hasta que haga

[Fwd: Re: [linuxclub] - libc6]

1999-04-03 Thread Itamar
Oi pessoal eu estou postando aqui esta estorinha pq não consegui resolver ainda este problema... :-( Alguém sabe me ajudar? Obrigado Itamar Original Message Subject: Re: [linuxclub] - libc6 Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:33:31 -0300 From: Itamar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [Fwd: Re: [linuxclub] - libc6]

1999-04-03 Thread Itamar
Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote: SP, sa 3 abr 14:18:32 1999 Oi Itamar : É PH, eu tinha desconfiado deste problema no download, e obrigado por me dar o nome do pacote certo. Mas antes eu preciso resolver o problema de boot, já que ele não está bootando devido ao problema com

Re: [Fwd: Re: [linuxclub] - libc6]

1999-04-03 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, sa 3 abr 18:28:30 1999 Itamar : Então Hernán, o rescue que tenho é o CD de instalação, mas ao inicializar por ele tenho o mesmo problema que sem ele, ou seja, na inicialização aparece a seguinte msg: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. init: error in loading shared

Lista contendo as atualizações do Kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-03 Thread Gleydson
Achei interessante colocar esta mensagem enviada por Linus Torvalds, que contém as atualizações do Kernel 2.0.36, para que voces possam verificar se as atualizações contidas nele são importantes para voce atualizar seu Kernel 2.0.34 para esta versão.

Ainda libc6 - era [Fwd: Re: [linuxclub] - libc6]

1999-04-03 Thread Itamar
Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote: É a segunda vez que esqueço de isso, disculpa :-) Sem problemas ;-) edita o arquivo /etc/ld.so.conf (olha que é no diretorio /etc y não no /target/etc) e adiciona as linhas : /target/lib /target/usr/lib e roda

Re: I really need help!

1999-04-03 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I had the same problem. See the thread Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on Debian in this mailing list a couple of days ago. No, there isn't any autoexec.bat in Linux. You will have to put stuff you want to start in etc/init.d and then update the boot scripts so that your additions also get

Re: mail oddity

1999-04-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi all, I'm having a strange problem with my mail from debian-user. I received 400+ mails this morning of which approx. 30% were duplicates. I also received 57 repeats, which were from Monday. Has anyone else seen this? Are you using nmh (perhaps via exmh)? Then install the latest

Re: I really need help!

1999-04-03 Thread James Mastros
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 02:42:50PM -0800, Nuno Donato wrote: I really need sme help here. If you can, please help me. I want to know if there is a kind of autoexec.bat file in Linux, so that each times it boots, it automatically executes some commands. There are several different things that

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Ah. Now that I have that fixed, what's the proper place for enlightenment 0.15 debs for slink? The following contains dependencies on glibg6 =2.1 so I think it must be for potato: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ The

Re: Microsoft Announces MS-Linux

1999-04-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, frankie wrote: It's April 2nd mate. It's gone now, but there was a nice product description page complete with a picture of the Linux 98 box (with a penguin of course) yesterday on www.microsoff.com Bob

Re: enlightenment/slink .xinitrc

1999-04-03 Thread MallarJ
I had my /etc/X11/window-managers start up enlightenment, then put the exec gnome-session into the .xsession in my home dir (I couldn't get X to read .xinitrc). -Jay

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-03 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/2/99 1:31:26 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink \ unstable main What's the difference between the above and: deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-03 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bruce Sass wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: [snip] I don't want to see RH disappear any more than I want to see Debian disappear. I want to see enough cooperation between distros that allows app makers to write software that will work on most distros without major

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-04-03 Thread Paul Miller
Jeff Hill wrote: Hmm, now that you say this, I looked back at the partition table (these are the essential details I remember): Partition BootStartEnd Type hda1Primary 1 19883

SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm playing trying to get a SoundBlaster 128 PCI card working with the 2.2.1 kernel. The card's id'ed as a 1275:5000 by lspci -n, so I've compiled it with the Ensoniq ES1370 driver in the kernel's sound options. However, I can't get a squeak out of the card. I'm pretty clueless when it comes

where to find dbootstrap source??

1999-04-03 Thread Paul Dubbell
Ahhh... my first entrance into official debiandom. Well, if this isn't annoying, does anyone know where to find the source for dbootstrap(the debian installation program)? I know how to find the program(easy) but the source isn't in any deb. Argg! Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks,

Re: mail oddity

1999-04-03 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 12:25:05AM -0600, James Starr wrote: Hi all, I'm having a strange problem with my mail from debian-user. I received 400+ mails this morning of which approx. 30% were duplicates. I also received 57 repeats, which were from Monday. Has anyone else seen this? I

Hardware Upgrade: More RAM or SCSI?

1999-04-03 Thread Jeff Hill
Question for the gurus: I've got a web server putting out just 10K pages and about 25MB a day. Not much, but it's growing quickly and does get bogged down at certain times during the day (seems about half is served between 2:30 and 4:00 PM). Which is the better upgrade, more RAM or going to

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Ed Cogburn writes: For the issue of a software package that needs to get a daemon running at bootup, I don't think the problem is trivial. The layout and use of the /etc/init.d and /etc/rc*.d dirs is (I've read) far from compatible between RH and Deb. How about an install-rc tool? It would

Re: mail oddity

1999-04-03 Thread James Starr
Exactly! I just finished reading -doc, -devel, and -qa. They're all doing it. This is starting to get unwieldy. Jstarr p.s. I'm using plain nsmail.

Multiple sources for APT

1999-04-03 Thread Paul Miller
I have set up /etc/sources.list with multiple sites. Both sites offer different versions of the same package, but only the older version gets displayed. Of coarse I want the newer version. Here is my sources list file: deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable

access for non-us packages

1999-04-03 Thread Pat Greenwood
IIci 20/1G 68030 33.6 dial-up stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99. I am a newbie. I apologize if the answer is already out there, but I couldn't find it (about one week trying). I have just the basics installed, no man pages yet. Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected

error running make

1999-04-03 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I downloaded imwheel 0.9.5 and ran the make command and got an error. I was wondering if you knew what I am missing. It looks like when it's trying to look for some X library and other stuff. jax.h:6: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory jax.h:7: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory

Re: access for non-us packages

1999-04-03 Thread James Mastros
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Pat Greenwood wrote: Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected packages in dselect, I edited against the Access defaults to try specific mirror sites. I'm back to what I think were the suggested paths. I've tried:

Re: X locales problems.

1999-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 05:25:04PM -0300, Paulo José da Silva e Silva wrote: I have a slink/hamm mixed system (my slink cd's are on their way). I am having some problems with locale and X. For example, when I run WPrefs I get the following error message: WPrefs warning: X server does not

Re: where to find dbootstrap source??

1999-04-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 12:59:15AM +, Paul Dubbell wrote: Well, if this isn't annoying, does anyone know where to find the source for dbootstrap(the debian installation program)? I know how to find the program(easy) but the source isn't in any deb. Argg! Any pointers would be appreciated.

Debian T-shirt

1999-04-03 Thread Paul Lowe
(also posted to debian-devel earlier) Anyone know where I can find a Debian T-shirt? HmmI've checked out lots of places that sell Linux clothing, and can not find any Debian t-shirts. Does anyone know where I can find a Debian T-shirt / Hat? If not...maybe anyone interested in coordinating

compiling gvim(vim) + where are help files

1999-04-03 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to recompile gvim (an vim) in order to have hebrew suport (+rightleft). The problem is that I couldn't find how to make gvim (gui version) only vim. (I am using src ver. 5.3) I managed to compile vim, only it was very large, and it would complete comands using tab. Another problem is that

Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Chris Mayes
Hi, everyone! I have used various versions of RedHat and SuSE for about ten months and have decided to give Debian a try. Unfortunately, the coddling of the configuration tools in each distro has left me with only a scant knowledge of where things are kept in the configuration file. Here's my

Re: Screen resolution

1999-04-03 Thread Doug Dine
At 4/1/99 3:43:00 PM, you wrote: Chances are, it will say that no valid modes are found (at least there are ways that can work to go around that. I have a more/less readable file on my page, about how to setup video modes. Try that too), but just to be sure, post them here, and we'll see what we

Exim Mail filters for Macro and other VIRUS?

1999-04-03 Thread Kent Andersen
does anyone know or have an idea of what I need to put on EXIM to filter for macro viruses and other pestelance like happy99? It would be really cool to catch that at the transport agent and trash it then. Thanks in advance! Kent __ Kent Andersen Great

RE: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread Benoit Joly
hi look for /dev/audio... if it's not there run /dev/MAKEDEV audio it should work and yes, it's an ensoniq card, sb bought them some times ago. Benoit Joly On 03-Apr-99 Randy Edwards wrote: I'm playing trying to get a SoundBlaster 128 PCI card working with the 2.2.1 kernel. The card's

RE: ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV graphic card + ATI-TV tuner card setu

1999-04-03 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, for your 2nd question, ATI dont release spec but a guilde of geek on the net hacked the card and there is a little support for ati tv card. ati all-in-wonder should work and some ati addon-card (not mine at this time :( ). just look at http://ati.veiled.net/ go in the devel section and try

dhcpcd problems

1999-04-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I got my cable modem installed today, and now I'm trying to get it running under Linux. The Cable-Modem Howto directed me to the DHCP Howto, and it instructed me to install the dhcpcd client. I downloaded dhcpcd_0.70-5.deb and when I installed it I got the followinf error message from

Re: I really need help!

1999-04-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
James Mastros wrote: Do you know how ot install symbolic links? ln -s source file destination file Yes Note that the source file is the one that gets created, and becomes (effectively) another name for the desrination file. No; that's the wrong way round. The source is the one that

/dev/isdnctrl Operation not supported....

1999-04-03 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, I'm buzy installing my Telis ISDN card on my Linux box. Currently i'm running Debian with a 2.0.34 kernel When I do isdnctrl addif ippp0 I get a 'operation not supported by device' message back. I have tryed lots and lots of things but still no luck. Does anybody have a clue?

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Mayes wrote: [... other questions I have skipped ...] Oh, that reminds me: where do I set the default windowmanager? /etc/X11/window-managers The one at the top of the list is the default. Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only. -- Oliver Elphick

processing makefile.in

1999-04-03 Thread Micha Feigin
With what am i suposed to process a makefile.in (tried using make -f , and i get an answear: makefile.in:362 *** missing seperator. (I downloaded this from cvs and it's the first time i'm tring this so maybe it's just not supposed to compile ?) also, in relation to the same file, where or what is

scheme, SLIB and JACAL

1999-04-03 Thread Mark Phillips
I have just been reading about JACAL, a symbolic mathematics system, written under scheme. I found its web page at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/JACAL.html It is GNU licenced, but there doesn't seem to be a debian package for it. Anyway, I was interested in trying it out, so I

Re: isdnctrl dialmode

1999-04-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 01:26:58 +0200, you wrote: when I set 'isdnctrl dialmode' to 'manual', it says that my kernel don't have/support this option. You need kernel 2.0.36 to have the dialmode option. it's mainly to stop autodialing to the isp when I just want to connect to my LAN and it's

Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking Sound Problems

1999-04-03 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, I have to problems that I think may be related. 1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36. When I went to the /usr/src directory, I fount the tar file had not been extracted and therefore there was no linux

Re: Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking Sound Problems

1999-04-03 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 09:51:44AM +0200, John Stevenson wrote: From looking round the filespace, none of the sound directories in /dev seem to exist, which explains why sound wont work. MAYBE you could try cd dev; ./MAKEDEV update with the sb modules inserted. this does create /dev/dsp

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only. Have you been able to work out the difference between .xinitrc and .xsession? From what I've been able to gather, .xinitrc is not used by Debian --- is this right? Cheers, Mark.

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread frankie
Mark Phillips wrote: Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only. Have you been able to work out the difference between .xinitrc and .xsession? From what I've been able to gather, .xinitrc is not used by Debian --- is this right? Cheers, Mark. .xinitrc

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Mark Phillips
Or edit your own .xinitrc and .xsession to change it for your self only. Have you been able to work out the difference between .xinitrc and .xsession? From what I've been able to gather, .xinitrc is not used by Debian --- is this right? Cheers, Mark. .xinitrc is used if

Re: processing makefile.in

1999-04-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 23:29:20 -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: With what am i suposed to process a makefile.in ./configure processes it for you. (I downloaded this from cvs and it's the first time i'm tring this so maybe it's just not supposed to compile ?) If you don't have a ./configure

Re: Potato and egcs

1999-04-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 00:18:50 -0800, George Bonser wrote: Ok, whose big idea was it not to provide a real gcc in potato? Fully switching to EGCS has been planned for potato for quite some time now. Maybe it is me but I couldn't find one. There isn't one, yet. We're working on building one

Gnuplot 3.7

1999-04-03 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Anyone knows when/if gnuplot 3.7 will be avaliable as Debian package? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: Potato and egcs

1999-04-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 03:11:50 -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: 2.2.x is the latest kernel. But 2.0.37 has newer drivers than Linus' 2.2 releases ... maybe I should be using the ac stuff? At the moment, I trust Alan's patches more than Linus' releases

Re: isdnctrl dialmode

1999-04-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Bon Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when I set 'isdnctrl dialmode' to 'manual', it says that my kernel don't have/support this option. any suggestions? You either need the kernel 2.0.x (x = 36) or 2.2.x with the current isdn driver patched in (e.g., ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux). Otherwise

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 07:55:06PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: .xinitrc is used if you start X with 'startx' and .xession if you run xdm. This can't be right, as I use startx and .xsession. it is right if you're talking about X on other *NIX systems, but not with debian. debian (from

Re: access for non-us packages

1999-04-03 Thread Randy Edwards
I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, (Hoping not to start a flame war...:-) Why? -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than . | *any* distribution, rock solid reliability, quality control, Randy | seamless upgrades via ftp or CD-ROM, strict

Debian 2.1 iso source..

1999-04-03 Thread Gurra db
hmm.. I've dowloaded debian 2.1 source in iso files. Wrote them to 2 cd:s and now I can't find any installations files.. the cd don't boot and the cd label says Debian 21 disc 3 -- source-1.iso on the cd I can't find any install files .. what am I missing ?? /Gurra

Getting ISDN connection with kernel = 2.2.4

1999-04-03 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Since kernel 2.2.3 I was unable to get my isdn connection with a PCBIT card (manufactured in Portugal). My /var/log/syslog file looks like: ---cut here--- Apr 1 22:09:12 cavern kernel: ippp0: dialing 0 my ISP number... Apr 1 22:09:20 cavern kernel: isdn_net: local hangup ippp0 Apr

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread Randy Edwards
look for /dev/audio... if it's not there run /dev/MAKEDEV audio Yes, I already have a audio device: crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Apr 1 18:18 /dev/audio (I added the other r/w perms myself) Still no noise though. I'm thinking that I need something else in the kernel

netscape ignore's clicks

1999-04-03 Thread John Leget
Dang , id hoped this problem would dissapear, guess not. Netscape v4.51 ( 4.5 prior) on 2.2.5 , potato, windowmaker I occasionally find that netscape gets 'testy' and refuses to do anything about my clicking on links exept mark them as followed, it wont go anywhere unless i select to open the

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread David Woolley
The other problem that faces someone peeping over the hedge from M$ Windows land is ``where to find the applications''. There aren't so many magazines reviewing Linux apps as there are reviewing M$ apps. If you The magazines are paid for by the advertising. They will always concentrate on

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:41:20AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:22:47 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: This is the proper thing to do since it then lets the other

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:41:47AM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish reason); the technology should allow users to send huge email Hamish attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be fixed. OK, but then the

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:31:34PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Work Tech Support at an ISP for two weeks. You'll get sick of hearing from people who get 2-3Mb attachments from people which clogs their email until Admin gets in there to clear it out. When they hear what the attachment is,

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:42:40PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: Oh, and I tested out my idea for a script by using minicom. First I did atm2 OK but I couldn't hear anything. Then I did That just turns the speaker always-on while you are online. If you're not online, it does

Re: dhcpcd problems

1999-04-03 Thread shaleh
Hi all: I got my cable modem installed today, and now I'm trying to get it running under Linux. The Cable-Modem Howto directed me to the DHCP Howto, and it instructed me to install the dhcpcd client. I downloaded dhcpcd_0.70-5.deb and when I installed it I got the followinf error message

Broken Config. in!

1999-04-03 Thread ktb
I did a search of the archives and found others have had my problem but didn't see any solutions except 'use make config.' I'm attempting to compile the stock kernel in Slink. When I run make xconfig it ends with the following error, wish-f scripts/kconfig. tk Warning-Broken Config. in! m was

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) I think it has to do with the way my

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:42:51AM -0600, Stephen Pitts wrote: 1. run pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf 2. Edit isapnp.conf and uncomment the configuration that I wanted 3. run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf to configure the sound card 4. Load the sb module automagically with kmod (or manually with modprobe

Re: Exim Mail filters for Macro and other VIRUS?

1999-04-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Apr, Kent Andersen wrote about Exim Mail filters for Macro and other VIRUS? does anyone know or have an idea of what I need to put on EXIM to filter for macro viruses and other pestelance like happy99? It would be really cool to catch that at the transport agent and trash it then.

Re: /dev/isdnctrl Operation not supported....

1999-04-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Ries van Twisk wrote: Hai, I'm buzy installing my Telis ISDN card on my Linux box. Currently i'm running Debian with a 2.0.34 kernel When I do isdnctrl addif ippp0 I get a 'operation not supported by device' message back. I have tryed lots and lots of things but

Re: Debian 2.1 iso source..

1999-04-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Gurra db wrote: hmm.. I've dowloaded debian 2.1 source in iso files. Wrote them to 2 cd:s and now I can't find any installations files.. the cd don't boot and the cd label says Debian 21 disc 3 -- source-1.iso on the cd I can't find any install files .. what am I missing ?? Those are the ISO

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:57:48 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Steve, your credibility would improve incredibly if you weren't so damn patronising. I'm only patronizing to those who deserve it. A local FTP client so the person can

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 00:01:15 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Then educate your users and have your users educate their friends not to send them large attachments that they don't really want. Change the technology to fix a people problem? Ugh. Yes,

Wvdial permissions

1999-04-03 Thread Chris Mayes
I always end up doing horrible, insecure hacks in order to access the wvdial stuff, and since I am now using wvdial's home distribution, I'd like to do it properly. Here's the current error: cmayes:~$ wvdial -- Can't read config file: Permission denied Here's the config file's permissions:

[no subject]

1999-04-03 Thread Sharon Martin
Hi; Can you give me the price for cable hook up for the computer? What is the cost for hook up ? Thanks Sharon Martin

Re: I really need help!

1999-04-03 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all There is a way to set up an autoexec.bat kindof thing in Debian, based on each user... in the users home directory, edit the .bash_profile This works if you are using the bash shell. HTH, Brant Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I had the same problem. See the thread Where is

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Ted Harding
Folks, Once, there was a purpose to the thread given in the subject line, and I am most grateful to the many people who made relevant comments on my original query about the availability of user-desirable software for Linux. I shall collate these and pass them on; also, it would be seemly to

Re: Disk usage utility?

1999-04-03 Thread Christian van Enckevort
Hi Chris, Maybe lsof can help you. It gives a list of open files. There is a debian package for lsof. Unfortunately it is kernel dependent. The slink version only works for 2.0.35. Greetings, Christian van Enckevort

Partitions and install problem

1999-04-03 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hi, When I installed hamm some time ago, I had the following problem: apparently, dselect downloads everything before installing. Having only one partition, and not too big (400Mb), at some point, it ran out of space, and I just couldn't do anything anymore. Luckily, I had some free space on the

GNOME query

1999-04-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm just experimenting with GNOME -- I've never tried it before. I downloaded some of the packages from the staging area. Query: how do I start it? I ran panel and got a nice panel. Later I ran gnome-session, which told me that panel was already running and asked if I want another. I restarted

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 02:25:15 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Query: how do I start it? I ran panel and got a nice panel. Later I ran gnome-session, which told me that panel was already running and asked if I want another. Gnome, uhm, isn't really

Re: Disk usage utility?

1999-04-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Christian van Enckevort wrote: Maybe lsof can help you. It gives a list of open files. There is a debian package for lsof. Unfortunately it is kernel dependent. The slink version only works for 2.0.35. That is not true. The slink version for example also works on a 2.0.36 kernel. However, you

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Hamish writes: Perhaps your modem is not reporting NO DIALTONE -- make sure you have set ATX4 or so (assuming Rockwell-based modem). Or perhaps it is reporting NO DIAL TONE, in which case you need to put ABORT NO DIAL TONE in your /etc/chatscripts/provider file. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: Help with cdwriting

1999-04-03 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Dietmar Schultz wrote: when I want cdrecord to do some writing on my Yamaha CDR 102 it complains: Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Function not implemented. shmget failed Urghh, IPC wasn't compiled in the actual kernel I'm using.

top like drive usage utility?

1999-04-03 Thread Chris Brown
Hello everyone, Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for 10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is accessing the disks? Thanks, Chris

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-03 Thread Gary Singleton
Does icewm-gnome offer anything that icewm doesn't? I like icewm primarily for it's simplicity and apparent low resource usage. Is the gnome version just built using the gnome libraries? Thanks, G.S. --- Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Linux Today article

1999-04-03 Thread Mitch Blevins
Looks like our own Havoc Pennington has an article featured on Linux Today... http://linuxtoday.com/stories/4604.html

fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1999-04-03 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to install hamm and get this message from dselect or when I want to mount the cdrom. I did install a cdrom as a device and did not see iso9660 as an option amongst the filesystems during the installation process. Can somebody help me please? It is not the first time I install Linux

Install - which device drivers?

1999-04-03 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hi again, Ok, I'm installing slink right now, and I'm currently in the part where you install device drivers. Now, How do you know which are the ones you need? most of them have only one short line of explaination, (one even just has a '.'), and several seem to do the same thing. Is ther eany

Re: Partitions and install problem

1999-04-03 Thread Randy Edwards
Am I being crazy or immoral wanting only one partition? most Faqs and docs I read about it say you should always make a few partitions. Using multiple partitions gives you a great deal of flexibility. One can easily add new stuff and reuse the old partitions for something else. You also

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- .xinitrc is used if you start X with 'startx' and .xession if you run xdm. This can't be right, as I use startx and .xsession. Right, I use startx and I don't even have an .xinitrc. I did do a custom .xsession though. Regards, G.S.

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread Benoit Joly
On 03-Apr-99 Randy Edwards wrote: look for /dev/audio... if it's not there run /dev/MAKEDEV audio Yes, I already have a audio device: crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Apr 1 18:18 /dev/audio (I added the other r/w perms myself) Still no noise though. I'm thinking that I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-03 Thread Stefan Nobis
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it without being asked to do. Hamish In the case of mailing lists, I agree. In the case

Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-03 Thread wax_man
Does anyone know of a good MP3 encoder for linux? I have an old copy of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. I'd prefer an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a commercial one. I just want to get one that is fast. TIA, chris

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-03 Thread William R Pentney
On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: What's the best window manager to use to? I installed enlightment (never used this before either!) and all I get from it is a bar up the top. No default configuration? Strange. Personally, I prefer icewm-gnome. YMMV, however. Enlightenment is nice

network interface

1999-04-03 Thread Jianbo Wang
Hi, When I played with redhat, it has netcfg to create and config a network interface, does anyone know if there is a software in debian to do the same thing? Or how can I create a network interface and activate it? Thanks! Jianbo

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-03 Thread Randy Edwards
no, dont need to load oss driver, just the es1370 That's what I thought after reading the kernel es1370 docs; good. Right now I've got the driver compiled straight into the kernel (not as a module). what do you get at boot? Things look fine. Dmesg tells me: es1370: version v0.17

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