Re: Kernel panic!

1999-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi VFS: cannot open root device 03:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 i get the same silly error when I tried 2.2.10 on my rh-6.0 box... ( that is /dev/hda1 ) i gave up trying to find out whyand just reverted back to 2.2.5-15 from rh... will try again

Re: 2 lan cards..

1999-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi I have both cards compiled with module support. ie. ne.o (ne2000 isa clone) and 3c509.o (3com), how do I tell the kernel via lilo and /etc/modules which card/module should be loaded on what irq/io. 3com set as irq 10, io 300 ne200 set as irq5, io 320. try the following:

Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-17 Thread Bek Oberin
I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: /usr/bin/gnome-session exec icewm-gnome But I end up with -two- toolbars on top of each other, which is rather dim. What's the proper? bekj -- :

Slink - Potato upgrade problem WORKAROUND

1999-08-17 Thread Jens Carsten Hansen
Hi, all. I am a more or less experienced debian user, and I want to share this with you; I went through a few minor problems, when I recently decided that I had scr*wed up my system(Potato) and it was time for a reinstall. I reinstalled from a set of Slink CDs, and proceeded to do an apt-get

Re: questions to dselect.

1999-08-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Lars == Lars Nixdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars The problem : I doesn't understand dselect. I know how to select Lars packages (+-) but ... Did you read the dselect beginner guide? It should be included in your CD set with the other installation files. Otherwise, get it from

help meeee.

1999-08-17 Thread rod mccarthy
I have 2 harddrives the master has win98 the slave has caldera open linux 2.2, which I just purchased. So I installed it and then noticed the 30 day limit on my staroffice 5.0 and that I need to register. Where do I register and do they send me the code, Im on the internet thru win98

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
I took a look at your files on the web. A quick check of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards indicates the following: NAME Weitek P9100 (generic) CHIPSET Weitek P9100 SERVER SVGA NOCLOCKPROBE Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it wouldn't matter much since mine is

Re: SCSI Zip help - Dmesg meaning?

1999-08-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
I'm no expert, but with some motherboards, IRQ 9 is reserved. Check your documentation (if you have it) and try another open IRQ. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: dpkg -S

1999-08-17 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: This is always available and up to date at the Search the Contents of the Latest Release seearch engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html Say I have local debs avail. in my system. Is there a program that can htmlized the contents just

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-17 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: /usr/bin/gnome-session exec icewm-gnome But I end up with -two- toolbars on top of each other, which is rather dim. What's

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-17 Thread Bek Oberin
A. M. Varon wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: Edit /usr/X11/window-managers The topmost content should be: /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome That's basically it.

Re: help meeee.

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
There is a StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition available from them free of charge, but it is restricted to non-commercial use. My opinion is that you should go for that if your use qualifies as non-commercial. There is more info on their web site at www.stardivision.com. Hope this helps, Patrick

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
Getting the gnome-session setup is a funny beast. There should be an easy way to do it, but I haven't found it. The docs aren't much help either. Anyway, what worked for me was to start icewm-gnome, in the regular fashion. Then execute gnome-nameservice , panel , and then

Re: Slink - Potato upgrade problem WORKAROUND

1999-08-17 Thread Eric G . Miller
Even easier work around: $ apt-get upgrade libreadline $ apt-get upgrade bash Get the readline first. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

DOSEMU problems

1999-08-17 Thread Steve Stancliff
Hi all, I am using DOSEMU v 0.98.7.0 with kernel 2.0.36 and DOS 6.20 PS/2 mouse which is /dev/psaux and /dev/mouse. dosemu.conf uses /dev/mouse, type ps2. I have mouse support compiled into the kernel. When gpm is off, the mouse is functional under DOSEMU (in 'edit', for instance), except that

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
create your .xsession like this gnome-session this will do all the job. Xsession'll try to find your local .xsession and exec it. And gnome-session is the way to start gnome. If you have gnome-compliant window manager install you can changed that through gnome-control center. Chanop On Mon,

Re: Rage128 Video Card

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
Assuming the system has Windows 95 on it, look around in the Windows display settings. Somewhere, it should say the proper name of the card. Alternately, we can use the process of elimination: There's a whole mess of ATI cards in the card list at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html If you

HP-T20 SCSI Tape

1999-08-17 Thread Ryan C. Sumner
I've installed a HP-T20 into one of my linux machines and it doesn't seem to be working correctly. I can see in the /proc/scsi/scsi the following, which tells me that the drive is loaded: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev:

anyone tried sortmail?

1999-08-17 Thread Pollywog
I found I had a Debian package called sortmail installed, so I decided to try it, even though I use Exim and thus don't need procmail. Anyone else try it? I think it might be better than using an Exim forward file, since it is written in C and is probably faster than scripts. Sortmail seems

Re: Kernel panic!

1999-08-17 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi all! Thanks for the replies... I managed to figure out what was wrong: my custom-compiled kernel had the IDE drivers as *modules* (and I didn't list them in /etc/modules) -- so after the kernel finished initializing, it discovers that it didn't know *how* to read /dev/hda1 because it hadn't

Re: from glibc2.0 to glibc2.1

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Oliver wrote: I've got a CD from Oracle with ORACLE 8.1.5. This RDBMS uses glibc2.1. How can I change the C-Libraries? 1. install glibc2.1 from tar archive 2. ldconfig glibc2.1 (name ?) Instead, you may want to use the potato debs

Re: should I upgrade PERL from 5.004 yet?

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: Is Debian's PERL still broken or is it safe to upgrade? Should I remove PERL 5.004 when I upgrade? I am using Potato. It seems that most of the packages are fixed, although a few still need to be updated. Basically,

Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I am presently confused about kbd. Has there been some change that makes this package incompatible with kbd-data? I want to know before I reboot and find that I cannot boot into Linux. If you're installing kbd version

Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?

1999-08-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
The lates kbd uses consoletools instead Chanop On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 10:23:45PM -0500, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I am presently confused about kbd. Has there been some change that makes this package incompatible with

Toshiba Laptop - Portege 3015

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan Duehr
Some of you may be interested to find that I was able to get Debian up and running on a Toshiba Portege' 3015CT laptop (finally). And in deference to my post to debian-user last week regarding this issue, I promised to let everyone know what I found... First, I found a VERY nice document on the

Re: Umax 1220S scanner and Linux

1999-08-17 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 04:10:07PM +0200, Tadas wrote: Scanner UMAX Astra 1220S ... know, that SANE supports my scanner. I use SCSI adapter that came with scanner. Does Linux suppports this adapter? I have the same Scanner. I already had an Adaptec AHA-2920A, so I got the SCSI cable

Off-Topic: Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan Duehr
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Kent West wrote: (BTW, if everyone but IBM calls it a Network Interface Card, and IBM calls it a Network Adapter Card, shouldn't we refer to it as a NIC/NAC? Paddy-whack Sorry.) ... Give the slink an MBONE? (: This new-bie came trol-ling home... Couldn't resist --

Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?

1999-08-17 Thread William Park
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 09:12:16PM -0700, André Bell wrote: Thanks Aaron, Crazy as this may sound, I'm trying to simulate a local connection to my hosted domain so I can see how different perl scripts will react _before_ I add them to my hosted domain. I know i could simply ftp them to my

Re: how to connect client xserver to networked host?

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan Duehr
Ken, Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably need in your headless webserver configuration : 1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere. 2. X forwarding over that same secured connection. X forwarding allows you to have the base X stuff and X

Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?

1999-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Aug-99 Brad wrote: If you're installing kbd version 0.99-1 or -2 from potato, then go ahead and remove kbd-data. It appears to be no longer necessary (i have a potato system, kbd but no kbd-data, and it works fine) Thanks, that is what I did, but I was afraid to reboot the machine. --

Re: should I upgrade PERL from 5.004 yet?

1999-08-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Aug-99 Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: Is Debian's PERL still broken or is it safe to upgrade? Should I remove PERL 5.004 when I upgrade? I am using Potato. It seems that most of the packages are fixed, although a few still

Re: how to connect client xserver to networked host?

1999-08-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:06:06PM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: Ken, Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably need in your headless webserver configuration : 1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere. 2. X forwarding over that same secured

strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the health of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 12:52:03AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the health of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down.

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually works pretty well! that

How to install fortify?

1999-08-17 Thread Tadeusz Bak
-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Hi, I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! -- Tad

Re: How to install fortify?

1999-08-17 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Tadeusz Bak wrote: I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! Install them both at the same

Re: How to install fortify?

1999-08-17 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: Install them both at the same time. dselect or apt-get should handle this with no problem. With dpkg, dpkg --install fortify_1.3.0-2.deb fortify-linux-x86_1.3.0-2.deb should work... Yes, it works. Thank you very much! -- Tad

Re: 3com509c not recognized

1999-08-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
westk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was planning on upgrading to the 2.2 kernel as soon as I got the box on the network, but now it sounds like I might be better off to download a 2.2 kernel now in order to get the NIC working. In which case, maybe I should just forego slink and go

Re: qmail question

1999-08-17 Thread Robert Varga
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Nikolay Hristov wrote: has anybody tried to limit the size of the Sended mail with qmail for a single user? /var/qmail/control/smtpsize seems to be for that purpose. Search on the Qmail mailing lists for it to be sure,

leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread NatePuri
I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-17 Thread Matthew Tuck
Keith G. Murphy wrote: It may actually be due to the *documented* behavior of adjtime. ... This makes a lot of sense. I vaguely remember something about this happening when I found my clock out by months. In this case, I imagine it would be a good idea to set a drift threshhold wherein

which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
hi, I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? thanks Chanop -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University.

[HYLAFAX] Strange dialout

1999-08-17 Thread Geordy Korte
Hi all, I am wondering If anyone has experienced strange dialout when Hylafax is installed. Here is a log entry dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 10:56 - 10:56 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 09:55 - 09:55 (00:00) dialout ttyS1

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Chris Gushue
Thus wrote NatePuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:21]: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? As of leafnode 1.9.4 (I think), fetch

mlockall() and pthreads together?

1999-08-17 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
I assume if I execute mlockall and then later create a bunch of threads, they come into existance without their memory locked into RAM? Anyone know for sure? Britton

Re: which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Chris Gushue
Thus wrote Chanop Silpa-Anan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:46]: hi, I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? thanks Chanop Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org It's currently

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-17 Thread Debian Mail
I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to change his password? Stef

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:48:30AM -0700, NatePuri wrote: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? Could you define exactly what absolutely

Re: Redhat mutt with xterm-debian

1999-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 13:13:33 -0400, Andrew Leiserson wrote: but since I have the xterm-debian entry in ~/.terminfo/x/ I don't see why mutt shouldn't work. Did you set the environment variable TERMINFO to point to $HOME/.terminfo ? Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited

Re: which pgp package?

1999-08-17 Thread Steve Gore
I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org It's currently in beta - what isn't in the Linux world :), with 1.0 due out next month. It works quite

boot problems

1999-08-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I tried to install linux on an old 386dx-40 with 16mb of ram. It reads the resc1440 floppy VERY SLOWLY and somewhere between loading kernel and decompresssing just dies with 'boot failure'. I am assuming this is either a bad floppy disk (though it does boot in two other machines), a bad floppy

Re: xemacs at console won't suspend

1999-08-17 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before starting xemacs on the console. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several VERY OLD

printer accounting

1999-08-17 Thread Armin Wegner
Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Armin

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better feel and look IMHO. You might give it a shot. --

Re: bash smaller fonts

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
To change the console text, I use the 'SVGATextMode' package and the 'setfont' command which is in the 'kbd' package. Hope this helps, -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: : On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) : : Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using : cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually : works pretty

Re: No Mouse, No X Windows(SOLVED)

1999-08-17 Thread Wendell Buckner
Thank you for your input, LeeE and everybody else who responded. I actually fixed this problem this past Sunday! After calming down (I was totally frustrated) and rereading the responses, concerning this matter, on Sunday, I was able to figure it out! As the my linux box was booting, I saw it

Auto-mounting and unattended boot

1999-08-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi. I have a removable drive in a machine that doesn't have a display and is used via the network. Since the drive is removable, sometimes the machine boots without the drive, and sometimes with it. I'd like to have it mount the filesystem on the drive automatically on boot, but if it's not there

PPPoE Client?

1999-08-17 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, my internet service provider is switching from a dhcp connection to a PPPoE connection. We as customers have to install the PPPoE client. I have the client in source code. but unclear how to change my routing, ethernet connection and so. can some please give me step by step instructions on

Panasonic EggCam?

1999-08-17 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
I heard that Video4Linux provides support under Linux for the Panasonic EggCam video-conference camera, but I cannot find specifics anywhere. Does anybody know (1) whether this is true and (2) how to do it? Jorge L. deLyra,

update-alterntaives question by proxy

1999-08-17 Thread Robert Jones
This question was presented to me by someone else, and, as I couldn't find an appropriate answer, I pass it on the the list for futher enlightenment. What is the Right Way to increase the priority of one option for an alternative? For example, on my system, nvi was installed with a priority of

FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Kim Andersen
Hi! I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Do you know any download

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Keith G. Murphy
NatePuri wrote: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? IIRC, don't you have to access the newsgroup (say, from within SLRN or Netscape

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better

SV: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Hey, if it's formatted it's empty, so just get a set of old DOS-diskettes and do a normal install with a reformat. But then again; why bother with dos when you can have Linux?! Cheers Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Kim Andersen

apt-get strange behaviour

1999-08-17 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, From some time on (since I've last upgraded apt-get? Can say for sure! ;-/) I've been facing some strange problems with apt-get... When I do a 'apt-get update' it seems to go all over the download of the packages (as expected), but then it come to a segfault when building the

Fetchmail won't configure

1999-08-17 Thread vw
As a newbie, I thought I'd let fetchmailconf take me by the hand and help me configure the bastard instead of futzing around with config-files. But all I get is: promptfetchmailconf (I type at prompt) Linux answers: env: python: no such file or directory I search dselect for python but all the

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Aug, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote about Re: full color ghostview ? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over

Re: printer accounting

1999-08-17 Thread Dpk
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:49:05AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Try LPRng. There is a debian package for it, and their online FAQ is detailed with very useful information:

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 17 Aug, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote about Re: full color ghostview ? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows'

Re: SV: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Aaron Solochek
I mention this a lot, but its a great app. Partition Magic has converted a FAT32 to FAT16 flawlessly for me a couple of times. Actually, all I use is the boot disk, brings up a nice GUI, and does just about anything I need. Granted I don't have to pay for it, I just borrow my friends

[Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's another update about what I have so far concerning this confusing UPS issue (prices in Canadian dollars). Thanks to all who contributed. Please email again if you have more info to add. Peter --- `Best Power' general comments (http://www.bestpower.com) -

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Ernest Johanson
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it wouldn't matter much since mine is old and doesn't have that entry. Did I do something bad by just

Re: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Geordy Korte
I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Try the normal FDISK and

How do I set samba permissions?

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Wright
I'm trying to use an NT editor to edit a bunch of perl scripts on my debian server, shared through samba. The problem is that the 'group execute' permission keeps getting turned off when I save the file. I've set create mask to 0770, but every time I save a file, the permissions change from

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:00:46AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: IIRC, don't you have to access the newsgroup (say, from within SLRN or Netscape Messenger) first, to let leafnode know you're interested? I vaguely recall having to do something like that... I think when you do this, you get a

Re: update-alterntaives question by proxy

1999-08-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:40:13AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: This question was presented to me by someone else, and, as I couldn't find an appropriate answer, I pass it on the the list for futher enlightenment. What is the Right Way to increase the priority of one option for an

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-17 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Peter, I had a similar problem when I updated my samba to Potato. In my case, it was because I had a installed Samba on a older version of debian and I used the easiest shortcut on my inital setup. The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users

tkchooser not starting

1999-08-17 Thread IEN
Hi there, since the last update I did in my samba package, tkchooser refuses to start... It goes well all over the startup sequence, the window comes up but, when trying to start the SMB protocol (the only one I have configured), it aborts (error messages included in the end of the

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-17 Thread Patrick Olson
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? I started from a Debian 2.0 CD, but did not install X from there. I pointed dselect to ftp://ftp.debian.org//pub/debian/dists/stable for updating the stuff that installed off the

Re: leafnode won't fetch

1999-08-17 Thread NatePuri
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:02:15AM -0230, Chris Gushue wrote: Thus wrote NatePuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:21]: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely

Re: Problems with the samba update

1999-08-17 Thread peter karlsson
The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users passwords into it. This fixed the problem for me. The problem is that I do not have a password file for samba, I don't use encrypted password (mostly because I'm too lazy to set them up). -- \\// Peter -

Re: full color ghostview ?

1999-08-17 Thread Arno
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:52:02AM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages installed for ghostscript? No, this is not the font problem, fonts look ok (please, look at my original post). The problem is that gv (and the family) produce

answering w/ mgetty

1999-08-17 Thread Paul Miller
Is it possible to config mgetty so that it'll *only* answer the phone when it receives FAX from the modem? I don't want mgetty answering data/voice calls at all. What about silent answering? Can mgetty be configured to 'silently' listen to an answered call by a answering machine or human and

Re: xemacs at console won't suspend

1999-08-17 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Aug, David Teague wrote about xemacs at console won't suspend Hi Folks [snip] Would someone please tell me how to make xemacs running in text mode suspend as emacs always does and xemacs does when

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-17 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every

Re: FAT32 to FAT16

1999-08-17 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
Kim Andersen wrote: I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? There's

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Unresolved questions: - What do we get for smart mode? I presume more info about the state of the UPS and the line condition gets to the user software. But can the Linux software display it? If you get the APC Back-UPS pro and use

Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Artur Zaworski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Di Carlo) writes: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Artur Zaworski) writes: - - Sorry, I forgot something... last sec. of my Xsun ; - - + strace Xsun - - access(/dev/fb0, R_OK|W_OK) = 0 - open(/dev/fb0, O_RDWR)= 6 - ioctl(6, FBIOGATTR, 0x2cf4f0)

Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I think your problem is that you need to 'chmod 0666 /dev/fb?'. This is a known bug in the slink Xsun X window system servers. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Re: (fwd) Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

1999-08-17 Thread Artur Zaworski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes: - Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - - This would make me think you perhaps are using the wrong X server? - Which model of graphics card do you have (or Sun model if you don't - know the card)? Which X server are you using? - - One of our

Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me. Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me.

Re: Fetchmail won't configure

1999-08-17 Thread Thorsten Jenal
on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 05:28:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newbie, I thought I'd let fetchmailconf take me by the hand and help me configure the bastard instead of futzing around with config-files. But all I get is: promptfetchmailconf (I type at prompt) Linux answers: env:

Xemacs Prcs problem

1999-08-17 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
Hi, My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el package whenever I load any file. However, this file doesn't seem to be a part of any of the following: xemacs20-bin xemacs20-nomule xemacs20-support emacs19-el emacs19 emacsen-common How do I fix this? I'm assuming if someone

Gateway/Slink Install

1999-08-17 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I am having trouble installing Slink ( using Linux Sytems Labs Cds ) on a Gateway 3000: at one point in the installation it comes up with the message: failed to extract the floppy drivers. I have used the same cd tp install Linux on an SAG computer earlier, so I doubt that there is

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started mail and sent a message to viggo (my local username). It arrived promptly, and I was able to read it. I can not, however, find any file by that name (or any file at all) in my /home/viggo directory (using dir from an xterm,

Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Ok let me get this straight: I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invoke for example mail to read and edit mail. mail is (basically) an editor.

IP-Masquerade

1999-08-17 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, today I was trying to set our computers to do IP-Masquerading (we'll be changing our external provider, and while the old one did the masquerading for us, the now one doesn't)... I tried to do everything as explained in the IP-Masquerade HOWTO, but for some reason things weren't

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