XKB + changing X font

1999-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I set scroll-lock to modelock and alt to mode-shift in .xmodmap (i couldn't find them under xkeycaps, only mode-switch which seemd to do the same as mode-shift but couldn't get it to do mode-lock). also how do i get the extra charachters to work (hebrew). when i set them up to output the

Re: swapfile and more ram

1999-05-03 Thread David B.Teague
On Sat, 1 May 1999, 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

Re: .debs using /usr/local/

1999-05-03 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 May, John Hasler wrote about Re: .debs using /usr/local/ Michael Stenner writes: I though that, as a general policy, .debs didn't put anything in the /usr/local/ tree. I believe I recall reading that it is ok for packages to create empty directories under /usr/local. From the

[Fwd: swapfile and more ram]

1999-05-03 Thread add|ct|on
David B.Teague wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, 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

Fax software

1999-05-03 Thread mcclosk
| I have efax-0.8a, and used it to send text and postscript files. I | chose it because it's small. I also use efax and have been extremely happy with it---small, easy to use, and easy to configure. It comes with a frontend script called `fax' (oddly enough) which means that for, most

Re: PGP with netscape

1999-05-03 Thread Johnny Thompson
Not to discourage you from using Netscape for E-mail or anything, but mutt is the best (IMHO) for e-mail. It can automatically encrypt and sign messages as well as extract public pgp keys sent to you in e-mail messages. That my friend is a mail client.. Yea, I know I sent this in netscape but

Re: Fw: PPP is HOAXED!

1999-05-03 Thread Johnny Thompson
Thanks a million! I did notice that when I installed debian and overlooked it. Ove Kaaven wrote: On Sun, 2 May 1999, Johnny Thompson wrote: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument - I think this may be my problem Initializing IP Masquerading...done. ^^ I think this may be your problem... the

eth0, etc..

1999-05-03 Thread Richard Miles
I have apparently lost my /dev/eth0, /dev/eth1 etc... files during a kernel recompile. How do I get them back?

Help Problem w/ Slink inewsinn

1999-05-03 Thread rir
Moving to slink, I'm having trouble with my test posts of netnews. I get the following message: Can't generate Message-ID, Illegal seek Any clues appreciated. rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eth0, etc..

1999-05-03 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
You have not lost them .. you just forgot to compile the support for your network cards into the kernel.. Compile the network cards as a module, insmod the modules and run /etc/init.d/network and you should have them.. Regards, Vaidhy On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 09:39:04PM -0400, Richard Miles

Re: eth0, etc..

1999-05-03 Thread Ian Peters
On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 09:39:04PM -0400, Richard Miles wrote: I have apparently lost my /dev/eth0, /dev/eth1 etc... files during a kernel recompile. How do I get them back? eth# aren't devices as in /dev/eth0, they're network interfaces. Something changed in your new kernel, ie you forgot to

LOCAL: Finnish Debian meeting 15th May

1999-05-03 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-05-03 --- Tiivistelmä --- LOCAL: Finnish Debian Meeting 15th May 1999. The rest of this notice is in

X eating all my memory!!

1999-05-03 Thread Brian Servis
This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has only been up just under 2 days. PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND 352 ? 27095 98059 828 32744 114084

acroread can't load library libXt.so.6

1999-05-03 Thread Matt Garman
Hello: I installed the acroread package. I've installed and removed it before, in the past, with no trouble, but this time, I get the following error: /usr/lib/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: can't load \ library 'libXt.so.6' (and that's all on one line). I did a locate

Re: acroread can't load library libXt.so.6

1999-05-03 Thread Matt Garman
I fixed the libXt.so problem -- but now acroread seg faults. Does anyone know anything about this? BTW, I fixed the libXt.so.6 problem by explicitly setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and exporting it (and it has the same values as the entries in my /etc/ld.so.conf file, I don't see why the

? using make-kpkg for modules ?

1999-05-03 Thread rich
You need to do some tweaking to get sound support to work properly as a module. If you don't do anything special, a read request on /dev/audio tells the kernel to try to get sound support, so it loads the 'sound' module. Since there's no module installed that can provide actual audio data,

Does APM, work while X is running?

1999-05-03 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
I have APM configured and it works when I am not running an X-server. How do I start APM when I am running X, and how do I configure some parameters (i.e. suspend, etc.) ? Fethi Okyar Research Assistant Computational Solid Mechanics MMAE Department, IIT

RE: Does APM, work while X is running?

1999-05-03 Thread Shaleh
On 03-May-99 Fethi A. Okyar wrote: I have APM configured and it works when I am not running an X-server. How do I start APM when I am running X, and how do I configure some parameters (i.e. suspend, etc.) ? apm is controlled via apmd and is setup the same regardless of what you are

RE: ? using make-kpkg for modules ?

1999-05-03 Thread Shaleh
On 03-May-99 rich wrote: You need to do some tweaking to get sound support to work properly as a module. If you don't do anything special, a read request on /dev/audio tells the kernel to try to get sound support, so it loads the 'sound' module. Since there's no module installed that can

Re: ? using make-kpkg for modules ?

1999-05-03 Thread rich
Shaleh wrote: On 03-May-99 rich wrote: You need to do some tweaking to get sound support to work properly as a module. If you don't do anything special, a read request on /dev/audio tells the kernel to try to get sound support, so it loads the 'sound' module. Since there's no module

Re: error 550 not a plain file (NEWBIE ?)

1999-05-03 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I've got debian as far as my first boot but can't get dselect to install my : packages via ftp and am not too keen on the alternatives. It connects to the : site but returns the message 'not a plain file' when attempting to open : 'Packages.gz'. Any help

Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding

1999-05-03 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Basically I want to send a copy mail received by my work account : to my home account and not erase it on my work account. The simple solution is to use procmail. Though I don't know the exact things to put in your ~/.procmailrc file. I have used it to

Re: lilo problems

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
tf wrote: hey all I just expanded the 2.2.6 kernal into /usr/src. I have only the base system installed, but am getting debs and throwing them into a windows directory. among them was make. so I got to the make menuconfig step and I got an error (sorry can't remember

Re: ? using make-kpkg for modules ?

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
rich wrote: ... Finally, I have found that to do the steps required to compile the kernel, I need to be root the whole time. I was under the impression that I shouldn't have to be for every step, and that 'fakeroot' should be used for the steps that require root permissions. This didn't

Re: X eating all my memory!!

1999-05-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote: This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has only been up just under 2 days. Remember that applications can allocate server-side resources, such as

Re: Sabre fails

1999-05-03 Thread Milan Zamazal
Steve, thanks for providing library info. After I installed glibc 2.1, the same problem appeared to me. However, I can't further explore the problem just now, since glibc 2.1 breaks CMUCL (which I use) too. Until it's fixed, I won't be able to install glibc 2.1 development easily on my Debian

Re: Advanced Printer Control?

1999-05-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I'm configuring a print server for remote clients. I've set up a Debian machine with an HP LaserJet 4000 hooked to it via parallel cable. I've installed lprng and samba, and can print to it from two types of client: 1) From Linux using BSD-style lpr. Text (notwithstanding line feed

gs-aladdin eating all the memory

1999-05-03 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I have a DX4-100 with 32 meg ram and nearly 66 meg swap space. Over the weekend I installed gs-aladdin_5.50-5.deb, xpdf_0.80-2.deb gsfonts-other_5.10-1.deb and gsfonts_5.10a-1.deb from potato to try out dvipdf. While printing an eight page .pdf file created by dvipdf (I just typed lpr

timeout problems with mail

1999-05-03 Thread Johann Spies
What is causing mail to fail because of timeout? I have a dialup system to my ISP and for the last week it happened to some of my outgoing mail. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19

HELP: Lost /usr!

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
This evening the partition that /usr was mounted on completely killed itself. After about 3 hours of disaster recovery I've gotten my server limping along. Here is the problem I am facing. dpkg, dselect and apt all do not appear to have any way to force the reinstall of all currently

Re: Buggy kernel-sources package in Debian 2.1?

1999-05-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, pedro == pedro i sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pedro I'm trying to install the kernel-source-2.0.36 package from pedro the 2.1 distribution. I call dpkg -i deb_file and everything pedro seems to work fine, no errors are reported. However, when dpkg pedro is done I look at /usr/src and

410cdt MODEL?

1999-05-03 Thread DJTNT
Hi I am interested in buying the Toshiba CDT410 from a Private Owner on the Internet What do you think of it? The private owner has had it for 2 years. Teresa

Using junkbuster and wwwoffle together

1999-05-03 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have been spending quite some time trying to get junkbuster and wwwoffle to co-exist on my system. Has anyone managed it? The junkbuster docs are just that much too technical for me to follow when they mention changing the forward file. I'm struggling her I have been using wwwoffle for *ages*

printing in balsa

1999-05-03 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I've finally gotten gnome to run with enlightenment beautifully but I can't seem to print in Balsa, am I missing some kind of configuration that I need to do in order to get the printing to work? If anyone can help me with this I'd really appreciate it. Shawn Nguyen

Multilanguage display in Netscape

1999-05-03 Thread Michael Laing
I want to display mixed languages in an html page on my browser. I have got xfstt running OK and have loaded the cyberbit.ttf font so it can find it. yudit runs fine and uses the same font to display mixed languages, although it uses freefont2 instead of xfstt. How do I code my html page to use

Re: HELP: Lost /usr!

1999-05-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 18:39:46 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: This evening the partition that /usr was mounted on completely killed itself. After about 3 hours of disaster recovery I've gotten my server limping along. Here is the problem I am facing. dpkg, dselect and apt all do not appear

Re: Using junkbuster and wwwoffle together

1999-05-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 11:35:39 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have been spending quite some time trying to get junkbuster and wwwoffle to co-exist on my system. I haven't tested this, but it should work: add a line * localhost:8080 . . to /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile (assuming

Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

1999-05-03 Thread Trevor Glen
Help I was try to get ld-linux to point to an earlier version and so I deleted ld-linux.so.2 in an attempt to get star office and java working, and instead I cannot run any program!!! Is there an easy way to fix this? Help Trev

ld prob

1999-05-03 Thread Trevor Glen
In regards to the last email, I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC: me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks Trev

X internal error

1999-05-03 Thread Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt
My /var/log/xdm.log is full of the following lines: X internal error: trying to rotate odd-sized pixmap. I suspect that this has something to do with one of the screensavers in the xscreensaver program. Because of this problem, sometimes my /var partition (which has about 100MB) becomes

ftpd and nis

1999-05-03 Thread Kenneth Johansson
I have a problem with ftp to debian when it is configured to use nis. Everything works OK as long as I have a normal user entry in /etc/passwd but when I take the user account infomation from nis fptd wont allow the user to connect. Telnet and other stuff works so its related only to ftpd I

OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity

1999-05-03 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Hi HELP! I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719) sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and

OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity

1999-05-03 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Hi HELP! I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719) sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and

I NEED info on XML TOOLS

1999-05-03 Thread John Foster
Just what it says. I am seeking any comments on software development tools and applications that utilize/are aware of XML. I want tools that will run on LINUX--I do not care if they are Open Source, commercial, free, or not for now. ANY ideas references suggestions are appreciated especially if

Re: I NEED info on XML TOOLS

1999-05-03 Thread Egon Schmid
On Mon, 3 May 1999, John Foster wrote: Just what it says. I am seeking any comments on software development tools and applications that utilize/are aware of XML. I want tools that will run on LINUX--I do not care if they are Open Source, commercial, free, or not for now. ANY ideas

RES: I NEED info on XML TOOLS

1999-05-03 Thread Leandro Dutra
Just what it says. I am seeking any comments on software development tools and applications that utilize/are aware of XML. I want tools that will run on LINUX--I do not care if they are Open Source, commercial, free, or not for now. ANY ideas references suggestions are appreciated

Strange PPP behaviour - /var/run/=.nscd_socket

1999-05-03 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have had some problems with my PPP connection lately (potato). I use Xsip to dial up. Works fine. Connects and DNS is set up. Everything is normal until I try do use an inet app. Nothing works! Not the browser, not IRC, no ping and no fetchmail/exim even! I have reinstalled all the network

Re: nis don´t work properly

1999-05-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Per-Olof Widstrom wrote: 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

Re: NFS problem

1999-05-03 Thread Horvath Robert Richard
Thanks for your help! I was my fault that it didn't work. I made a mistake when I tied to mount the nfs because I didn't enter the same directory that I had int the other computer in the /etc/exports. That's why it didn't work. Thanks again! Robert On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jens

Debian and Novell Netware

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Schwebel
I am learning Debian/GNU Linux. I have a 2.0 install with ncpfs. I haven't actually used it, yet, because the disclaimers in the readme's refer to such things as potentially bringing the server down. I can't afford to do that in our live environment, and we don't yet have a good test environment.

ppp

1999-05-03 Thread wtb
Can someone give me a hint as to how to troubleshoot ppp. I had it dialing and negotiating but have accidently or otherwise killed all action. When I try pon I get the message that pppd does not have defaultroute activated in /usr/sbin/pppd. /usr/sbin/ pppconfig has defaultroute activated.??

Re: Screen capture program?

1999-05-03 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's on the desktop? xwd, xwdtopnm, xwud are useful tools.. (Included in xbase-clients) Roy Unsolicited commercial email with be billed at $350/message Roy Larsen, [EMAIL

Star Office broken again AND FIXED

1999-05-03 Thread eric a. Farris
I think xlib6g in the latest potato (3.3.3.1-2) has broken StarOffice. the message i got from soffice is: /home/eafarris/Office50/bin/soffice.bin: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: __bzero to fix, i d/loaded slink's xlib6g and extracted it manually

Kernel Source Installation Probs...

1999-05-03 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All: How are ya? Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources. I unpack them and then run 'make menuconfig' and this is what I get... rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory

Re: Screen capture program?

1999-05-03 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's on the desktop? xwd, xwdtopnm, xwud are useful tools.. AfterStep has that feature built in as well. GIMP does it. XV can do it too, I think. Even XEmacs20 can. Andrew

LDAP

1999-05-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
Where can I get more information about LDAP? I keep hearing that it's the way to go for a corporate email directory ... I see that Debian has an LDAP server packaged. What should I do to learn the ins and outs of LDAP? TIA, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD

Re: default run levels

1999-05-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Doesn't RedHat use this to determine whether to start XDM or not? Chad A. Adlawan schrieb: hi ! i was just wondering, what exactly will happen if i change the default run level specified in /etc/inittab from init 2 to init 3, or 4, or 5 ? TIA, Chad === Amateur Radio, when all else

mutt+exim not working

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
My mua's are all working except for mutt. Mutt will not send mail. It acts like it does (no errors), but the mail never gets there. What could be the problem? I have attached a copy of my .muttrc file, please look to see if something is wrong there. I'm at a loss, and would greatly like to

testing mutt (please c-gods make it work)

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
testing -- NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mutt Reply to: header???

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
How do I set up mutt so that the Reply to: header is in the messages? I had a professor tell me he could not respond to my messages once because he couldn't hit Reply to: Does this make sense? I noticed I don't have this field in my email headers in mutt. Thanks all... -- NatePuri Certified

Floppy-drive stopped working after installing Debian (?)

1999-05-03 Thread Jan Winters
Hello, I've just finished installing Debian 2.1 . Since yesterday evening the light of my floppy drive is permanently on and the drive can't be initialized by Linux. Is it possible this is caused by the installation of Linux or can it be another fine example of Murphy's Law? Jan

Re: mutt Reply to: header???

1999-05-03 Thread Marek Habersack
* Paul Nathan Puri said: How do I set up mutt so that the Reply to: header is in the messages? It's easy. Create a .muttrc file in your home directory, then put the following string somewhere in it: my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a professor tell me he could not respond to my

IPMasq and Internet Telephony

1999-05-03 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I tried to find IPMasq specific resources for this question, but all references seem outdated and refer to ml.org domains which no longer seem to exist. My situation is this: A Debian (1.3) gateway between a LAN and a Cable Internet modem using the IP Masquerading software. The LAN clients run

Re: X internal error

1999-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:08:26AM -0300, Fernando Tadeu Caldeira Brandt wrote: My /var/log/xdm.log is full of the following lines: X internal error: trying to rotate odd-sized pixmap. I suspect that this has something to do with one of the screensavers in the xscreensaver program.

Re: mutt+exim not working

1999-05-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:32:36 -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The user you run mutt under must be listed in exim's trusted user list. Say your local username is paul, you'd have to have something like trusted_users = mail:paul in /etc/exim.conf . HTH, Ray --

network printer problems

1999-05-03 Thread Marc Mongeon
I am having a heck of a time setting up a virtual postscript printer. I am trying: $ cat hellow.ps | /etc/filter.ps | lpr -Praw where: - Begin hellow.ps - %! /Helvetica findfont 72 scalefont setfont 72 72 moveto (Hello, world!) show showpage - Begin filter.ps - #!/bin/sh

Re[2]: Using junkbuster and wwwoffle together

1999-05-03 Thread Phillip Deackes
J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tested this, but it should work: add a line * localhost:8080 . . to /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile (assuming wwwoffle runs on port 8080). Thank you, Ray, this did indeed work eventually. To start with I had problems connecting to the

Re: Gateway 2000 solo 2500se

1999-05-03 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 05:45:14PM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: I'm looking into getting a gateway laptop. One thing I'm very leery of, however, is that both the CD-ROM drive and floppy are hot-swappable PCMCIA. I've directed an inquiry at gateway's techies about whether Linux will

sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
I don't think that is the case. The trusted user just means that it will believe the envelope sender field (Sender:) from those users. You should NEVER have to put real users in the trusted user field. You shoudl only have something like: trusted_users = mail:news:uucp:root ow btw, how

Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 May 1999 04:04:15 +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all their user names ? i use exim also ... Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run.

Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Carl Mummert
ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all their user names ? i use exim also ... chad $ edit message_in_file $ for person in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F ':' '{if ($3 = 1000) print $1}'` do mail -s subject here $person message_in_file; done $ rm

Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all their user names ? i use exim also ... Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run. i think i remember our sysadmin used to do this, i think what he did was send email to [EMAIL

Re: ppp

1999-05-03 Thread John Hasler
Can someone give me a hint as to how to troubleshoot ppp. I had it dialing and negotiating but have accidently or otherwise killed all action. What do you mean by that? *Exactly* what happens? When I try pon I get the message that pppd does not have defaultroute activated in

X hangs after doing nothing for a while

1999-05-03 Thread Paul Lemmens
Hello everybody, since a few days I'm experiences hangs when I leave my machine unattended for some hours. What exactly happens is that my mouse pointer doesn't move anymore. By using the keyboard combi's in WindowMaker (both .51.2 and .53 have the problem) I'm able to close all programs and

Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chad A. Adlawan wrote: ow btw, how do u send email to all users in ur system w/o having to type all their user names ? i use exim also ... Subscribe them to an announce-only mailing list that you would run. i think i remember our sysadmin used to do this, i

[SOLVED]Re: nis don´t work properly

1999-05-03 Thread Per-Olof Widstrom
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: The thing is to see if you can get back correct data from 'ypmatch pow shadow.byname'. If this works then your server is doing its job. Do you have an entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf with: shadow: files, nis in addition to the passwd: entry?

Corrupted passwd file?

1999-05-03 Thread David R. Kohel
I think I have a dying hard disk; the only other option is some virus. I was upgrading libc gcc compliers (from potato) on my laptop over a PLIP connection when I gradually started losing priviledges to ftp and telnet into the machine. Once I logged out I couldn't log back in, even as root.

Re: 410cdt MODEL?

1999-05-03 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, maybe this can help : a site on linux and laptops; you should be able to find info on specific models. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Cheers, Etienne ps : My general impression is that Toshiba and LInux go along well (source : that site, various

Re: mutt+exim not working

1999-05-03 Thread G. Crimp
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:46:04PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 10:32:36 -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The user you run mutt under must be listed in exim's trusted user list. Say your local username is paul, you'd have to have something

Re: default run levels

1999-05-03 Thread David Z. Maze
Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KS Doesn't RedHat use this to determine whether to start XDM or not? Yes; runlevel 5 starts xdm, other runlevels don't. You can fairly easily set up Debian to work this way as well. By default, though, xdm gets started in every runlevel if the xdm

Re: X, netscape

1999-05-03 Thread Helge Hafting
now i am getting very, very annoyed. with all the talk about how stable etc. debian is then i try it and all the claims are invalid. first with the default everything on X etc. mozilla comes up with errors (actually they are X errors, like error invalid ButtonX call etc. you get the Debian

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-05-03 Thread Helge Hafting
I have a /usr/local/bin/shutdown like this: su -c shutdown $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 Anybody can run shutdown, but they'll need the root password. If you want anybody to shutdown without password, make /sbin/shutdown a suid executable. Make shutdown a menu choice in your window manager for user

dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I've tried today to check my fatXX partitions for errors. dosfsck worked fine on a FAT16 partition, but won't even start checking the FAT32, saying Root directory has zero size. What does it mean? TIA! -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYBE

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03 May 1999 18:00:58 -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: I've tried today to check my fatXX partitions for errors. dosfsck worked fine on a FAT16 partition, but won't even start checking the FAT32, saying Root directory has zero size. What does it mean?

/dev/3dfx in Debian?

1999-05-03 Thread Preston Landers
Hello everyone... I'm wondering if anyone has packaged the rpm that creates the 3dfx Voodoo device? I can't get the archive inside the rpm to compile correctly manually. I'm sure someone's solved this problem already, the only question is, who? I can use most Mesa/3dfx programs fine,

Re: search facility for apt?

1999-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Preston Landers wrote: Is there a facility to do a text search on the list of packages apt has in /var/state/apt/lists? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~apt-cache search quake quake2-dm - id's deathmatch maps and skins for Quake 2 xquake - 3d action game, the successor to Doom. (X version) quake2-ctf -

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried today to check my fatXX partitions for errors. dosfsck worked fine on a FAT16 partition, but won't even start checking the FAT32, saying Root directory has zero size. What does it mean? My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03 May 1999 18:26:21 -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. It also doesn't refer to another program. Which is either good or

Debian 2.1.3 instalation (PCBIT)

1999-05-03 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
Hi, During instalation I had to add modules to the kernel and one of the modules was PCBIT ISDN module. It asked me for parameters. I have the io and irq asked for, i got that info in the Win98 control panel, but I don't know how to insert it. And the io was written in a different way. What I have

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-03 Thread Arcady Genkin
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. It also doesn't refer to another program. Which is either good or bad. The question is, do the docs give a date when it was last updated? If it was updated before fat32 became commonplace

Switching windows managers

1999-05-03 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I was wondering if there is any software available that makes it easy to switch window managers without having to edit too many ini files. TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Date: 03-May-99

Re: Switching windows managers

1999-05-03 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I was wondering if there is any software available that makes it easy to switch window managers without having to edit too many ini files. You just have to edit ~/.xsession, change exec foowm to exec barwm. If you get Gnome 1.0 though, it will

Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235

1999-05-03 Thread Douglas Bates
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

diskless box: fanless too ?

1999-05-03 Thread G. Crimp
I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is apparently

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03 May 1999 18:39:08 -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Well it says December 31 1997. Fat32 existed then AFAIK. M, I dunno if it was widespread, however. IIRC it was OSR2 that came with fat32 on the disc. Doesn't mean that it would have been