Re: Cerrar puertos

1999-05-01 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Cesar Talon escribió: Hola, ¿Cuál es la manera más adecuada para cerrar los puertos no deseados? Pues yo edito el /etc/inetd.conf y pongo un '#' delante de cada servicio que quiero cerrar. Luego ejecutas kill -HUP pid_de_inetd y ya está cerrado lo que hayas cerrado. Un saludo: Juan Carlos

Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?

1999-05-01 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 26 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 13:28:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Alguien podria decirme como hacer cuando me traigan las fuentes asi? Mírate el Kernel-COMO que lo pone por ahí. Básicamente la cosa se reduce a cd /usr/src/linux, make menuconfig, make dep, make

Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?

1999-05-01 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On 01-May-99 Hue-Bond wrote: [...] P.D.: Hay veces que al cargar el Linux me dice algo como que numero de veces de montar la unidad excedido, chequeo forzado, algo asi cuando esta montando el sistema de archivos, al cargar el kernel. Esto es normal? Ademas creo que vi algo como 1.1% nosequé...

Re: Sobre un driver para impresoras PS

1999-05-01 Thread Han Solo
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:17:02AM +, Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes wrote: Hola lista, tengo una impresora Postscript HP y me han dicho que hay un driver llamado a2ps que te permite imprimir varias páginas en un mismo folio. ¿Podría alguién decirme alguna localización de donde pueda

Re: DEBIAN 2.1 + KERNEL 2.2.6!!!

1999-05-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Correcaminos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo, quien esta estupefacto despues de leer la cantidad de espacio que se necesita para compilar los paquetes de X. Pues los dias 8 y 9 de Mayo, tendremos fiesta de instalación. Una de las cosas que queremos hacer es

Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?

1999-05-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Luis M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me gustaria saber como o donde se configura, pues alguna vez he investigado algo de esto, pero sin llegar a ninguna conclusion clara :-) mira tune2fs(8) Marcelo

Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?

1999-05-01 Thread Luis M. Garcia Ruiperez
On 01-May-99 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Luis M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me gustaria saber como o donde se configura, pues alguna vez he investigado algo de esto, pero sin llegar a ninguna conclusion clara :-) mira tune2fs(8) Esto era lo que buscaba. Gracias...

Re: Montar un directorio FAT

1999-05-01 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Wed, Apr 28, 1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas... El Tue, Apr 27, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Se puede montar un directorio solamente, de una partición FAT, sin tener que montar toda la partición entera? No sé si existe esa posibilidad, pero otra opción es montar la partición FAT y después

[LuCAS] DOCUMENTACION: Novedades en LuCAS

1999-05-01 Thread Anuncios de LuCAS
[Este es un mensaje generado automáticamente] LuCAS es la mayor biblioteca en español de todo el mundo dedicada a GNU/Linux. Es un proyecto libre construido por la comunidad internacional hispanoparlante. El proyecto LuCAS forma parte del LDP en español.

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-05-01 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 29 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime? It has been fixed and uploaded to potato. There has since been

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-05-01 Thread Pete Harlan
I'm not clear on when its ok to upload a fix to a stable distribution. This is clearly not a security issue or even a serious problem. Would it still be appropriate to upload to slink? It's the eternal debate about what the word 'stable' means in a software distribution. One definition is,

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-05-01 Thread Jason Murray
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 05:29:51PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:28:21PM -0400, James Mastros wrote: Looking at libtiff3g-dev's postinst, it's trivial -- and it appears that it will die with error if /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse dosn't exist or $1 != configure. I've filed a

Apache and SSI

1999-05-01 Thread Akop Pogosian
Ok, I have installed the apache package from slink, run apacheconfig, used default answer for all questions. Now, I need to use server side includes. I looked in config files, everything looks Ok, and yet SSI does not seem to work. Is there anything else I have to do to the default slink apache

Cable modem, Debian firewall/proxy and home PC's - advice!

1999-05-01 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Well, I've finally graduated to cable-modem, and picked up a PC to hopefully use as firewall/proxy/whatever (our cable modems are notoriously insecure). Someone have advice on how to do this - tips/tricks/pitfalls? Maybe a good idea of which readme's and howto's to use? I'm not bad at config, but

Re: Cable modem, Debian firewall/proxy and home PC's - advice!

1999-05-01 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:50:28 -0800, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: ipfwadmin might be enough, put 2 NIC's in it and connect the second one to my hub and the other PC's. Sound practical? Completely. The only pitfall I can see on people helping you is

X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-01 Thread Douglas Bates
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Yamaha 6388 VPDC (Port Probed) RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit

windowmaker

1999-05-01 Thread Luis Villa
What exactly is the difference between the three types of windowmakers in the unstable tree? (i.e., WM, WM-Debian, WM-Gnome?) I have switched between the three of them without noticing any susbstantial differences, and am curious. I'm not running Gnome, so that may contribute, but I did try it

Motorola ModemSurfr 28.8 + Linux 2.2.x?

1999-05-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, someone here asked me this the other day, I couldn't find an answer and I was left pondering. He's using Debian 2.1, and he tells me his modem (motorola modemsurfr 28.8) works ok with kernel 2.0.36, but it doesn't work with 2.2.x. With 2.2.x the modem responds to ATZ but after that it

Talk

1999-05-01 Thread Brian Schramm
OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The man pages and config files are no help.

Re: Motorola ModemSurfr 28.8 + Linux 2.2.x?

1999-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Marcelo writes: He's using Debian 2.1, and he tells me his modem (motorola modemsurfr 28.8) works ok with kernel 2.0.36, but it doesn't work with 2.2.x. Same pppd and libc in both cases? With 2.2.x the modem responds to ATZ but after that it hangs and stops responding to commands. Does this

Re: Talk

1999-05-01 Thread KaHa
Brian Schramm wrote: OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The man pages and

ipchains help

1999-05-01 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm trying to setup some firewalling rules, now that my Linux box has a full-time ADSL connection to the Internet. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.7 (under potato), so I'm using ipchains in my (apparently feeble g) attempts to do this. Ever since the ADSL connection was configured, I've noticed

cut paste using mouse

1999-05-01 Thread mao jud
hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting.

search facility for apt?

1999-05-01 Thread Preston Landers
Hello everyone... Just got a simple question here. Is there a facility to do a text search on the list of packages apt has in /var/state/apt/lists? It doesn't seem to be a part of apt-get and I haven't seen too many other utilities. Basicaly, something like show me all the packages that have

Re: Apache and SSI (Problem solved)

1999-05-01 Thread Akop Pogosian
Problems solved, thanks for your responses. Akop Pogosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Akop Pogosian wrote: Ok, I have installed the apache package from slink, run apacheconfig, used default answer for all questions. Now, I need to use server side includes. I looked in config

help with internet connection needed

1999-05-01 Thread Jason Winters
how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw

help with internet connection needed

1999-05-01 Thread Jason Winters
how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-05-01 Thread Decklin Foster
Dave Whiteley wrote: Now I am playing with my own linux systems, and I want to create a similar user to give my Wife an easy way to shut down the PC. I use the following solution to let my mom shut down the PC from xdm: ** Step 1: a short Xaw program. #include stdlib.h #include

Setting Up Netscape Mail

1999-05-01 Thread Chris Hoover
I guess I'm going to have to use the mail program in Netscape, since I can't find any other descent X mail programs. However, I'm not sure how to set it up. I have exim filters running that are sorting all of my mail into the appropriate folders. I've set it up so that no mail should be left

Re: help with internet connection needed

1999-05-01 Thread ktb
Run pppconfig as root. After running this program use pon connection name to connect and poff to disconnect. See the man page for pppconfig. hth, kent Jason Winters wrote: how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle

FW: using a remote drive with taper

1999-05-01 Thread marmoset
System 1: 486 with scsi and a DAT System 2: K6 with no scsi :) Both are running latest potato and 2.2.x kernels. What I want to do is backup to the DAT from the K6, and I'd like to use taper. I can tar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 just fine, and from within taper I can do the

Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-05-01 Thread JW Park
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:57:35 -0500 (CDT), sombody wrote: And the data on the outer side passes the heads much faster than the data on the inner side. But then, there is much more data on the outer side, and a piece of data on the outer side will go round in the same amount of time as a piece

Re: cut paste using mouse

1999-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
mao jud wrote: hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is already like copying, and right clicking

Re: cut paste using mouse

1999-05-01 Thread William Park
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 08:29:28PM -0800, mao jud wrote: hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-05-01 Thread Joerg Plate
Append exit 0 to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff3g-dev.postinst and run dpkg --configure --pending. -- I'm working on it. There should be more math. This could be mathier.

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.

X 3.3.3.1-1 Crash

1999-05-01 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Could someone tell me what can I do (sending this in an other place) ? I have this output from XF86Setup, after manuelly changing the amount of my memory in XF86Config , and running it under X : :/root # XF86Setup X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major opcode of failed

Creating FatXX partition with fdisk

1999-05-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
I was putting a new computer together today for a friend. I needed to partition a brand-new HD, and because I hate MSDOS's fdisk, I figured I'd use Linux's rescue disk with fdisk. Anyhow, I created the partitions alright, but can I create the file system on them? Can I format a fat32 partition

How harsh is switching Slink-Potato?

1999-05-01 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all! I'm thinking of upgrading to Potato, because I want to use some of the newer stuff, (wine, for instance) that's compiled against glibc2.1. Should I expect some of my self-compiled programs not function correctly with glibc2.1? Just how exactly painful is it? TIA -- Arcady Genkin I

mgetty conflicts with pppd

1999-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat. I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon), I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Success 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 wfr: error in read():

Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd

1999-05-01 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat. I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon), I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0:

Re: ~/.xawtv file anyone?... Help...

1999-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:43:14PM -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Can anyone attach a working ~/.xawtv file? I'm having a hell of a time figuring out which options I need to make it work correctly... I live in the US (CA) and can't figure out what TV type I use, etc. Help... Thanks... NTSC

Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd

1999-05-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while. Are you sure you use the same device file name for both mgetty and pppd ? I mean /dev/ttyS1 for

Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd

1999-05-01 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while. Are you sure you use the same device file name for

Re: keyboard configuration (XKB)

1999-05-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 14:31:04 -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: What program can create the configuration file, `xkeycaps' is the easiest. and how do i load it? With xmodmap(1x). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Help with TKDESK...

1999-05-01 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
I must have messed up something using TKDESK, when I start it up a small screen apears showing the name TKDESK and at the bottom of the tkdesk screen you can see that it is loading all of the files needed...Then it puts the small ICONS in the lefthand side of the main screen in the vertical

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-01 Thread Randy Edwards
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5 kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got it half-configured (sound config tips welcome!:-)).

Re: Internet connection

1999-05-01 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:15:27PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I assume you are using pppconfig to set up the dialing. When it asks for a name for the connection give it a name. After everything else is OK type this at a root prompt: pon (where XXX is the name you gave the

Re: Gnuserv and emacs20

1999-05-01 Thread Ian Winter
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4) work with emacs20 (package version 20.3-7). Emacs message: error in process filter: Wrong number of arguments: #[(list) ƒF@@[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mounting my cdrom

1999-05-01 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the

Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev

1999-05-01 Thread Jason Murray
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 09:25:27AM +0200, Joerg Plate wrote: Append exit 0 to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff3g-dev.postinst and run dpkg --configure --pending. I wanted to remove it so I did the same to the .prerm script. Then ran dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --remove libtiff3g-dev This got rid of

fvwm95 stuffed up - StartMenu gone

1999-05-01 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
Since I upgraded to Debian 2.1, fvwm95 has been acting up. The FvwmButtons seem to be working okay, and the TaskBar shows up, but the StartMenu doesn't work. The button is there, and putting the mouse over it shows the Click here to start message, but clicking on it does nothing. When I exit the

Re: Mounting my cdrom

1999-05-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom

Re: Mounting my cdrom

1999-05-01 Thread Jim B
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist Sounds like /dev/cdrom is symlinked to the wrong real device. What device is your CDROM? Probably hdc or hdd? hda = primary master hdb = primary slave hdc = secondary master hdd = secondary slave Try mount /dev/hd? /mnt Once you get it

Re: What happened to aaaa?

1999-05-01 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:52:54AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. This piqued my curiosity so

Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd

1999-05-01 Thread John Hasler
Madarasz Gergely writes: do you have an option lock to pppd ? it should be in peers/isp or in the options file. It is in the distributed options file. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

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1999-05-01 Thread gamingcorp
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who does something about the advertising ?

1999-05-01 Thread ivan
I think the subject line says it all - I've seen too much spam being forwarded through this list and I wonder whether anyone official representing Debian actually enforces the advertising policy and collects the money ? Ivan.

Re: who does something about the advertising ?

1999-05-01 Thread William R Pentney
On Sat, 1 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would hope that : 1) the proper complaints are made - is someone reading the headers and complaining to the right people? 2) the advertising policy is enforced. It'd be difficult, but it might scare the bilker scum into leaving us alone. -

symbol 'ospeed'

1999-05-01 Thread oliver d tali
hi! i'm running a slink distribution with most packages from potato. since two weeks i'm getting an error with less pipes and manuals. it goes: symbol 'ospeed' has bad size in shared object, consider re-linking - but less starts anyway. yesterday i had a similiar problem with alien as i

Why sendmail rather than qmail

1999-05-01 Thread M.K.Pai
Guys, Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ? Further, why is only the src pkg of qmail supplied ? Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ? I'd appreciate any insights. M.K.Pai

Re: Why sendmail rather than qmail

1999-05-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 21:10:13 +0530, M.K.Pai wrote: Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ? IIRC, smail, or perhaps exim is the default MTA, not sendmail. Because qmail does not meet the DFSG, the criteria for inclusion in Debian proper. Further, why is only the

Slink Upgrage Via Telnet

1999-05-01 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
hi i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem? does it take a whole lot of time to upgrade online, i mean just downloading

Re: FW: using a remote drive with taper

1999-05-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: FW: using a remote drive with taper Date: Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 09:48:36PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): System 1: 486 with scsi and a DAT System 2: K6 with no scsi :) Both are running latest potato and 2.2.x

Re: fvwm95 stuffed up - StartMenu gone

1999-05-01 Thread Richard Harran
You could try a ~/.fvwm95rc (which ?would? overide the /etc one). The relavent sections of mine are: AddToMenu /Debian + Debian Menu Title # note I only use my own menus, you might want: # Read /etc/whatever/menudefs.hook, for the autogenerated stuff Read .fvwm95/menudefs.hook Read

How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get?

1999-05-01 Thread Eric S. Blau
Hello, I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly new to Debian? Thanks, -ESB

Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

1999-05-01 Thread John Rizzo
I just had this happen to me the other day. It could be several things. I haven't ruled them out completely though. First, it could be that you have a bad drive or a bad controller. My computer was setup with two 6.2GB ide drives. The first drive was on the first controller and the second

Re: How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get?

1999-05-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 May, Eric S. Blau wrote about How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get? Hello, I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly new to Debian? Thanks, -ESB I

nis don´t work properly

1999-05-01 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
I have been trying for a whole day to get nis to work, but it will not. I have a minimal LAN with two computers. They both are running slink; the server has been upgraded from hamm (2.0). I have managed to make ypcat work, it is also possible to finger. But when I try to login on the

Re: Mounting my cdrom

1999-05-01 Thread Randy Edwards
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? The device /dev/cdrom is typically just a symbolic link to whatever real device your CD-ROM is on. You can straighten this out easily. First, double-check to see if /dev/cdrom exists ('ls -l /dev/cdrom'). If it

Re: Slink Upgrage Via Telnet

1999-05-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:01:55PM -0400, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem? It can

Re: How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get?

1999-05-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:47:48PM -0400, Eric S. Blau wrote: Hello, I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly new to Debian? Keep in mind that at this point potato = unstable. I

subscrive

1999-05-01 Thread marco

Re: Looking for a good book...

1999-05-01 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Matthew Roberts wrote: I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian. I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is that

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-05-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find

I need some software...

1999-05-01 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All :) I'm looking for some software that will turn Windows NT/9X into an X Server--where I can telnet in from a Linux station run Windows apps under X... WinNTTCP/IPLinux MIRC32 Some SoftwareXFree86... Anybody know of anything? Thanks, Brant Wells!

checking promiscuous mode

1999-05-01 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, ppl, Does anybody know how to test whether the network card set to promiscuous mode. It is supposed to run it from cron. Thanks, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873

Bootdisking

1999-05-01 Thread Jesse Wolfe
Ok... recently i felt the need to make my own boot disk. I've gotten past a huge number of problems myself, but now i'm stuck. When I boot, i get: Loading... Uncompressing Linux... Invalid Compression Type (err=2) System halted. I used "make zdisk" to put the

zgv

1999-05-01 Thread David B.Teague
Hi I run a 486-DX2/66, 16 MB Ram, two 1Gig SCSI disks and a CD ROM on an Adaptec 2840 controller. I have a trident 9400 1MB video card, and a KFC 15 inch monitor. This system WAS BEFORE a CRASH, running 1.1, wonderfully. zgv worked, out of the box. NOW, running Debian 2.0, installed from

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-05-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:26:52PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to

xawtv help...

1999-05-01 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I used the above attached .xawtv file. xawtv starts up and displays a black screen with a thin line of static at the top of the screen area. Do I need to download some other version of xawtv, I'm running the potato version. Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk

anyone get voodoo3 to work correctly on debian box?

1999-05-01 Thread Bosco Rage
Hello all, I really, really like the debian distro and am plannin to get a voodoo3 very soon. I've been looking around and have noticed a beta X server for the voodoo3 but it's in rpms :( I think i can use alien to convert to .deb but this isn't totally error free is it? If anyone has

swapfile and more ram

1999-05-01 Thread add|ct|on
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a

newbie stuff

1999-05-01 Thread tf
hey all I just installed Debian Slink Yesterday, and before I mangle things, I have some general questions. I would prefer to ask them off-list, though. Anyone willing? -tf

Re: Recommendation for best Linux book

1999-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Scheetz wrote: Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~debfind usr/bin/net/dnsutils Appears to look up records in the dns. -- see shy jo

Re: swapfile and more ram

1999-05-01 Thread Andrei Ivanov
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a

Help with TKDESK FIXED!!!

1999-05-01 Thread Larry Shields WD9ESU
Thanks for the replys back concerning the problem that I had with TKDESK not working correctly... What I did was point the mouse to the bookshelf and clicked on the RIGHT mouse button and it brought up some options, where I found File browser, then I clicked it, and brought up the full TKDESK

Re: swapfile and more ram

1999-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with

video for compaq prolinea 4/50

1999-05-01 Thread Pat Greenwood
I need guidance in selecting a monitor (and video card?) for a compaq prolinea 4/50. I'm just beginning and would like to at least run fvwm or windowmaker. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Re: checking promiscuous mode

1999-05-01 Thread Jim B
You would see the promiscuous flag in the device configuration when you run ifconfig. If it's not there, it's not running in promiscuous mode. ifconfig -a or ifconfig device - Original Message - From: Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday,

Re: Hard Lock-Up Problems

1999-05-01 Thread Matthew Tuck
James M . Mastros wrote: 1) Are their any unusual noizes noticable either during or slightly before this lockup? Not unusual as such, like say the sound of a HD crashing (been through that) but there is a reproducible pattern. There is usually a heavy disk load (possibly this just makes it