Re: About rlogind, rshd and terminal information

1999-08-20 Thread Christoffer Hall-Frederiksen
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the value of $TERM in these two situations? $TERM is xterm at all times. -- Christoffer Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data.

problem about downloading

1999-08-20 Thread Jack Lee
Hi: I'm always using Netscape for downloading, but connection is not perfect sometimes. I'm just wondering if there's anything like Getright, which resumes downloading files at anyn time. Sincerely Jack __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

disabling ports

1999-08-20 Thread Paul Miller
How can I disable ports 515 and 6000 on my external ethernet adaptor? -- I'm ip masquerading an internal network and I only want those services running on the internal network. Thanks -Paul

Re: problem about downloading

1999-08-20 Thread Michael Curry
At 03:53 PM 8/19/99 -0700, Jack Lee wrote: Hi: I'm always using Netscape for downloading, but connection is not perfect sometimes. I'm just wondering if there's anything like Getright, which resumes downloading files at anyn time. You might want to look at GREED (Get and Resume

Installing Netscape

1999-08-20 Thread Adam Krell
Hi, I have installed a new copy of Debian and I can't get Netscape to work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86- unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz from this location: /pub/communicator/english/4.61/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/navi gator_standalone and installed it in /tmp

Re: Configuring a monitor (power downs)

1999-08-20 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Virtanen, Re the power problems you're having: 1. You've disabled the BIOS power management features on the MB, presumably using S/W on ROM, supplied on bootable fd with the MB or installed onto a small 'maintenance partition' on your 'root' HD. 2. You've told the M$ OS not to use power

Re: Default Dir in X11

1999-08-20 Thread Kelly Lesperance
startx -- -bpp 16 (or sometimes 32) On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:50:21 Stephen Pitts wrote: How do you start X?

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 04:57:43PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:52:48AM -0700, root wrote: I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:52:48AM -0700, root wrote: | Hello, | I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. | I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: | fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused | I edited /etc/exim.conf and added

Re: alsa starts, then disappears; play works, aplay fails

1999-08-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
I encountered the same problem, more or less. All of the modules were running. I used the ./snddevices to create the devices and not only could ALSA not see them, neither could my other programs. I configured the driver with OSS support (default) and followed the instructions... so I

Re: problem about downloading

1999-08-20 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Michael Curry wrote: At 03:53 PM 8/19/99 -0700, Jack Lee wrote: Hi: I'm always using Netscape for downloading, but connection is not perfect sometimes. I'm just wondering if there's anything like Getright, which resumes

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
From the X-Strikeforce (debian port) page (http://www.debian.org/~branden/) heading xterm and the keyboard. xterm and the keyboard Debian has modified the key translations that xterm uses to make its behavior more consistent with the Linux virtual console. This has been achieved by setting

elvis - missing rhs

1999-08-20 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
hi, just a minor annoying. i use elvis primarily. on some debian machine, whenever i start elvis, it says 'missing rhs' before switching to fullscrenn editor page. any idea what i am missing? TIA chanop -- Chanop

NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
I mount /home over NFS from another Linux machine. Most programs are fine with it, albeit mutt is a little slow reading a 1000 message debian-user in Maildir format. However, I have two programs in particular that don't seem to like this. kexpress, a KDE-based newsreader, and Wordperfect 8. WP8

Scratchy sound during IO operations

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
During heavy-duty IO operations, the xmms sound becomes so scratchy and garbled that it is unbearable. This occurs when doing things like 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and while ripping cds with cdparanoia. I don't remember this happenning before. The sound card is an ISA Soundblaster 16 PnP and the

RE: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Sean Perry
Are there any workarounds to these NFS locking problems? kexpress can be fixed by mailing the author and helping him fix it -- source is a great thing. WP8 I am surprised fails, we used it on Suns where everything is nfs.

new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Pollywog
It looks as though there is a new release of xfmail. Is that correct? -- Andrew

Re: Installing Netscape

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:35:56PM -0400, Adam Krell wrote: /usr/lib/netscape/netscape: error in loading shared libraries libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I checked and I do have the package libstdc++2.9 installed{HYPERLINK libstdc++2.9.html}.

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: It looks as though there is a new release of xfmail. Is that correct? I recompiled xfmail against gdbm and a few other clean-ups, closed all open bugs, etc. I have been unable to find the maint and upstream is also dead. I am the maintainer now until someone

Re: VMware on debian: module compilation

1999-08-20 Thread Brian Servis
Regis, Thanks for taking the time to let us know that you are listening. *- On 19 Aug, Regis Duchesne wrote about VMware on debian: module compilation I'm the only software engineer here at VMware who uses (and has been using for 3 years) Debian. If VMware installs fine on Debian (although

configure for SoundBlaster cdrom sbpcd.h ?

1999-08-20 Thread Alexander Jankowsky
As the system is booting up, it eventually gets to this... sbpcd-0 [01]: sbpcd.c v4.6 Eberhard Moenkeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbpcd-0 [02]: Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)... sbpcd-0 [03]: Scanning 0x230 (SoundBlaster)... sbpcd-0 [04]: Drive 0 (ID=0): CR-563 (0.75) at 0x230 (type 1) sbpcd-1 [05]:

Fwd: Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-20 Thread dmacdoug
Yes, this is surely your problem the 3c509 combo card has a BNC and a twisted pair port and possibly also an AUI port as well. You have the twisted pair (10baseT port chosen. It is changed by software. I've never tried it in linux, but in Windows NT4 and I think also 95 it can be set from the

Re: configure for SoundBlaster cdrom sbpcd.h ?

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:39:46PM +1000, Alexander Jankowsky wrote: As the system is booting up, it eventually gets to this... sbpcd-0 [01]: sbpcd.c v4.6 Eberhard Moenkeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] sbpcd-0 [02]: Scanning 0x340 (LaserMate)... sbpcd-0 [03]: Scanning 0x230 (SoundBlaster)...

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I have been using xfmail for a while, but find it crashing often on me, ie, serveral times daily. It doesn't give any errors, though, besides the Xfmail crashed... etc dialog. What is the best way of reporting bugs? By the way, there is a new xfmail mailing list at

Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:17:37PM -0700, Sean Perry wrote: Are there any workarounds to these NFS locking problems? kexpress can be fixed by mailing the author and helping him fix it -- source is a great thing. WP8 I am surprised fails, we used it on Suns where everything is nfs.

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-20 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: virtanen wrote: while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind of packages are needed to solve dependency problems... It is just telling you that this won't do... Doing dpkg -i package should give you meaningful

Re: HELP: X window Setup Problem

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan Duehr
You must configure the X setup for your particular system before it will work. xf86setup or XF86Config. On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Kim, Jeong-Hwan wrote: Also when I type startx in shell, it tells me XFree86Config file cannot be found.

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan Duehr
I've seen odd booting behavior from LILO before when BIOS settings were set to things that Linux couldn't understand/support. Other things I've tried and succeeded in Linux installations on some machines in the past is completely removing all but the ABSOLUTELY necessary hardware and

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
For auto poweroff at shutdown, you need to compile the kernel with APM (Advanced Power Management). This isn't enable with the default kernel. Get your system up and running first. Remember to always use a command such as halt, poweroff, or shutdown to stop the machine. Then hit the power

80 min CD burning

1999-08-20 Thread Paul Harris
hi all, i've got a whole pile of 80 minute writable cds here (I wanted 74 min but there was no stock), but I have discovered that xcdroast doesn't seem to have an 80 min cd option when it comes to the burn. should i just try it anyway? can i get the 80 min storage space? is that option (in Write

Re: 80 min CD burning

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
Paul Harris wrote: should i just try it anyway? can i get the 80 min storage space? is that option (in Write CD) just there to warn about lack of disk space or does it affect the burn? has anyone made a successful burn with these cds? I haven't tried writing to 80 minute CD's, but I've written

Re: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some non-NFS compatible way. You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so, locking still doesn't work right (i.e. it still leaves open the possibility of race

debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread wahyu indrianto
Dear all, I'm begineer for using debian, it's first time for me to innstall. but I have problem for using. After I'm finised my installation the software cannot be use. I try to call XF86Setup they couldn't work. Please tell me what's wrong. Give me the instruction,please.. regards, wahyoe

Re: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-20 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Thu, 19 Aug skrev root: Hello, I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost' and my hostname to

Re: apt with smbmount

1999-08-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:08:07 -0700, you wrote: I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box. I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but 'apt-get install package' is broken because the symlinks on the CD

Apache-SSL suppresses inlime images?

1999-08-20 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi, I have a very bizarre problem with Apache-SSL 1.3.3+1.29-2. Maybe one of you by chance can help me? Ok, here we go: I have a webpage that consists of static html pages, frames, inline images, and several Perl cgi scripts that dynamically create html pages. The server machine has two IP

Re: C++ compiling problem

1999-08-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 11:09:35AM -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: Okay, here's the situation. I'm porting a large project to Linux. Some of the libraries we have to use were compiled with an older version of egcs (I'm pretty sure it was 1.0.3). So, they expect the libraries (specifically

Re: HELP: X window Setup Problem

1999-08-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nathan Duehr wrote: You must configure the X setup for your particular system before it will work. xf86setup or XF86Config. To avoid possible confusion about the names mentioned above for a newcomer: There are two configuration programs called 'xf86config' and 'XF86Setup'. The first one

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
wahyu indrianto wrote: Dear all, I'm begineer for using debian, it's first time for me to innstall. but I have problem for using. After I'm finised my installation the software cannot be use. I try to call XF86Setup they couldn't work. Please tell me what's wrong. The XF86Setup

Installing Debian 2.1 problem

1999-08-20 Thread Darran Provis
hi, I'm trying to install 2.1 (i386). I have purchased Linux on CD's but I have a sound blaster CD-rom drive so the install won't recognise the CD drive. I know I need to make a boot disk with the correct drivers on it but, I need to know where to find the drivers etc and how to make the

restricted shell

1999-08-20 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I know of the existance of a restricted shell, though I'm not sure whether this is what I'm after. In time, I'll be moving away to another country, and I intend to leave my home computer with the current users configured, ie. root (of course), my sister, and I. I'd also like to create a

Re: Searching in the mailing list archive

1999-08-20 Thread Andy Spiegl
Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? http://www.debian.org/List-Archives, it is linked off the main page. but don't click on the Search button at the top of the page. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to find the Glimpse search engine. The top

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-20 Thread Ralph Winslow
Patrick Olson wrote: Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your Seagate ST33210A an IDE drive? Yes On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: What do you mean by using the second? I mean the second, Ramdisk, diskette. You mean the disk it asks for after

(Debian-user)Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-20 Thread shadow
Your mail header needs to have the list group this is going to in it. That enables mail filters to route it to a directory (folder). I use GTKicq and think it is fine. Rob On 20-Aug-99 Ralph Winslow wrote: Patrick Olson wrote: Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Dean
Hi Wahyu, You are using the correct command, so I'm assuming you just installed the basic package. XF86 isn't a part of the basic package so you need to continue your install. The best way for me was installing a user profile at end of the install. Hope this helps Dean wahyu indrianto

nfs: can't get a request slot

1999-08-20 Thread Debian Mail
I have two machines on different networks. When I mount a nfs volume, it seems to work and I can cd to it, but when I want to copy a file from it I get: nfs: server nfs.server not responding, still trying nfs: server nfs.server not responding, still trying nfs: task 416 can't get a request slot

Network card seizes! suggestions?

1999-08-20 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi I have a problem I have never encountered before with 10 Debian boxes. The problem is every now and again, particularly during large transfers of files by either ftp or samba, the network card on the computer just stops! The network card is an ne2000 compatible one (or at least that is the

Re: Strange (?) boot-up messages

1999-08-20 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit further... That attitude seems to be the minority these days, judging from the recent flamefests on Slashdot. Well... I'm really somehow 'old-fashioned'... ;-) OK... I'm puzzled by the 2nd one... what does he mean by

uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Brian Servis
Hi all, I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. When I send a large email with attachments or upload a file it is VERY SLOW. Watching the traffic on something like pppload or wmppp show only short bursts of intermintent traffic, often there is a 5-7 second pause

Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?

1999-08-20 Thread Andy Spiegl
As a long time tcsh-user I am forced to use bash on some machines. I read the complete man page to find out how to set things up the way I am used to them from my tcsh setup. The part I miss most is the context-sensitive TAB-completion, like complete gv

e2fsck w/out boot?

1999-08-20 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run e2fsck remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do the first step (the system says / is busy)... The reason I ask that is

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-20 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: compatible with slink, but with which there is some newer stuff available anyway.) See http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ This was a very good place. As well as the previous one by you, where I found the right

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-20 Thread Patrick Olson
Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your Seagate ST33210A an IDE drive? Yes That makes it easier for me. I know a bit about IDE, but nothing about SCSI. Debian 1.0? I'm going to assume you mean 2.0, in which case I have the same disks... No, I labeled

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, wahyu indrianto wrote: Dear all, I'm begineer for using debian, it's first time for me to innstall. but I have problem for using. After I'm finised my installation the software cannot be use. I try to call XF86Setup they couldn't work. Please tell me what's wrong.

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-20 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephen Pitts wrote: [cut] My next project..developing an admin system using Python and wxWindows. I can develop under Linux and deliver it to my client running Windows without changing the code..do that with any other language (including the much-acclaimed JDK/Swing combo!) Hmmm. Couldn't

Network Problems

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew J.F. Clark
I'm currently having problems with my network, and I'd like to know the best way to go about diagnosing the problem. Are there any utilities that I can use to assist in this process? The problem seems to be that whenever large amounts of information are sent accross the lan to one machine

Problem with dialing and pppd.

1999-08-20 Thread Lars Nixdorf
hallo, how could I connect with a modem form a linux mashine to a Win NT RAS server? I have to use chap. It doesn't work for me. I need only the whole line for pppd. I doesn't want to use option files or so. If I send a ip-packet the line should go up. Any suggestions? what is the Line to start

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: [ snip ] : No, I labeled them Debian 1.0 when I created them. I might have : mislabeled : them, though. : : If they are really Debian 1.0, I would really suggest getting a newer : Debian! The first Debian I saw was 1.3, so I don't even know

Re: nfs: can't get a request slot

1999-08-20 Thread Debian Mail
nfs: server nfs.server not responding, still trying nfs: task 416 can't get a request slot setting rsize=1024,wsize=1024 in the mount options solved the problem. I also tried sizes of 512 and 2048. Both crashed the nfs connection. Stef

Re: e2fsck w/out boot?

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: : Hi there, : : I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the : machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run : e2fsck remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do : the

Re: e2fsck w/out boot?

1999-08-20 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition? The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have entered single mode BEFORE trying that! I guess it's just one typical case of the famous 'DOS/Win

NFS - SMB: limited directory depth

1999-08-20 Thread Debian Mail
On machine b I smbmount a share from machine a. On machine c I mount a nfs volume on b which includes the share from a. When I cd into the directory on c now, I can only see the first directory in the path mounted from machine a. When I cd to it, it's empty, whereas on machine a there are further

Re: e2fsck w/out boot?

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: : Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root : read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition? : : The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have entered : single mode BEFORE trying

Re: Problem with dialing and pppd.

1999-08-20 Thread Andrei D. Caraman
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 06:48:22PM +0200, Lars Nixdorf wrote: hallo, how could I connect with a modem form a linux mashine to a Win NT RAS server? I have to use chap. pppd ttyS1 115200 noauth noipdefault defaultroute remotename provider \ user myname connect 'chat ATZ OK ATDTPHONE

Re: e2fsck w/out boot?

1999-08-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run e2fsck remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do the first step (the system says / is busy)... You have to be in single-user mode. Do 'telinit 1' to

Re: elvis - missing rhs

1999-08-20 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:39:08AM +1000, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: hi, just a minor annoying. i use elvis primarily. on some debian machine, whenever i start elvis, it says 'missing rhs' before switching to fullscrenn editor page. any idea what i am missing? As near as I can tell,

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Julian Taylor
Wahyu, From: wahyu indrianto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:16:26 JAVT Dear all, I'm begineer for using debian, it's first time for me to innstall. but I have problem for using. After I'm finised my installation the software cannot be use. I try to call XF86Setup they

Xemacs configuration question

1999-08-20 Thread Ira Crabbe
(1) I want to get Xemacs to recognize *.tcl and *.itcl files. (2) I want to change the background color from gray to white. (3) I want to color highlight the keyword in source.tcl and source.itcl files What will I have to change to accomplish this. I have been trying various things unsuccefully.

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Taylor wrote: [ snip ] : Debian, admittedly, is one of the most primitive Linux : installations I've ever used. Among the problems are : the fact that no matter what you tell it during : installation about your intended configuration, it : sets everything up not

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 8/20/99 11:13:31 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Strange, I've not had this experience at all. Perhaps you should try Corel's new Linux distro based on Debian, but with more User-friendly installation ... (I've not tried it myself). I think it also

Re: apt-0.3.10slink11.deb

1999-08-20 Thread Nathan Duehr
It was there last night. I loaded it on my laptop! I didn't see if perhaps it rolled version numbers, but it's there. On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ? It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't find it

Re: Apache-SSL suppresses inlime images?

1999-08-20 Thread Ernest Johanson
Ralf, Don't know that I have an answer, but a question. How are standard port 80 connections being made to Apache-SSL? By default it runs on port 443. The only thing I've seen like this is when a page accessed via https contains full URLs (http://whatever;). The ssl server views those elements

Debian-* procmail recipe

1999-08-20 Thread Kris
Are you fed up of having six or seven useless lines of text and carriage returns at the end of each mail from debian-user and the other lists? Well, fear no more! For a limited period only, you too can have those lines stripped off -- completely free! Add the following to your .procmailrc: ---

Multiple installation question.

1999-08-20 Thread Miguel A. Figueroa
Hello all, First, Debian kicks a**!! Second, is there a deselect command that will give me a list of packages that I can then use it to install an identical box using apt/deselect? I know that RedHat has a quick installation type utility and I was wondering if Debian has something similar. This

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: I have been using xfmail for a while, but find it crashing often on me, ie, serveral times daily. It doesn't give any errors, though, besides the Xfmail crashed... etc dialog. What is the best way of reporting bugs? There is none. Either it works or it

RE: Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
*DANGER* 2.2.11 has memory leak issues and other fun nits. Make sure to upgrade any and all boxen running it to the next release as soon as it comes out.

RE: Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?

1999-08-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
The part I miss most is the context-sensitive TAB-completion, like bash can not do this. However a coworker and fellow Debian developer uses zsh and from what I have seen *NO* shell matches it. He has tab complete for apt, dpkg, telnet, and other fun things.

Re: Multiple installation question.

1999-08-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Aug, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote about Multiple installation question. Hello all, First, Debian kicks a**!! Second, is there a deselect command that will give me a list of packages that I can then use it to install an identical box using apt/deselect? I know that RedHat has a quick

Re: Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 10:19:13AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: *DANGER* 2.2.11 has memory leak issues and other fun nits. Make sure to upgrade any and all boxen running it to the next release as soon as it comes out. RANT Oh, wonderful! I upgraded to 2.2.10 and it killed all my

Re: NFS and file locking

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:13:39AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some non-NFS compatible way. You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so, locking still

Re: Multiple installation question.

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:08:15PM -0500, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: Hello all, First, Debian kicks a**!! Agreed...it just doesn't get any better than this! Second, is there a deselect command that will give me a list of packages that I can then use it to install an identical box using

Re: CGI Help

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:49:06AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Stephen Pitts wrote: [cut] My next project..developing an admin system using Python and wxWindows. I can develop under Linux and deliver it to my client running Windows without changing the code..do that with any other

RE: Eureka!

1999-08-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 20 Aug, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote about RE: Eureka! *DANGER* 2.2.11 has memory leak issues and other fun nits. Make sure to upgrade any and all boxen running it to the next release as soon as it comes out. Are these fixed in Alan's -forlinus patches in

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:57:06AM -0600, Julian Taylor wrote: Debian, admittedly, is one of the most primitive Linux installations I've ever used. Among the problems are the fact that no matter what you tell it during installation about your intended configuration, it sets everything up not

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-20 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:02:50AM -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote: I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 Installation Boot Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current 2.1Mb drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second

Re: Configuring a monitor (power downs)

1999-08-20 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Lee Elliott wrote: I've tried to put almost all the BIOS settings into 'default' mode now. Besides 'shadow ram' and 'apm'. I've used to take even the power-cord out the box after shutting down. It has worked now. (cf later) Hello Virtanen, Re the power problems you're

Re: debian installation

1999-08-20 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Julian Taylor wrote: Debian, admittedly, is one of the most primitive Linux installations I've ever used. Among the problems are the fact that no matter what you tell it during installation about your intended configuration, it sets everything up not to work. You'll find the same problem

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Brian, On 20-Aug-99, you wrote: BS Hi all, BS BS I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of BS 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. When I send a large email with BS attachments or upload a file it is VERY SLOW. Watching the traffic BS on something like pppload or wmppp show only short bursts of

realplayer

1999-08-20 Thread Jocke
Hi all, I am trying to get realplayer to work but when I try to play anything I just get a seg. fault. How to I start debug whats wrong ? Best regards Joakim Svensson

Re: VMware on debian: module compilation

1999-08-20 Thread Regis Duchesne
Brian, Thanks for taking the time to let us know that you are listening. You are welcome. That's what I like in companies with a Linux product: they are far more aware of their customer's needs. I can only point you to documentation that explains the reasons for Debian's choice. The first

Re: Configuring a monitor (power downs)

1999-08-20 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello virtanen, On 20-Aug-99, you wrote: snip... v What is PSU? PSU = Power Supply Unit. Typically found in PCs in AT or ATX formats - I think the main difference is in the MB power connector. I know they contain enough electronics to shut themselves down if they detect a short across their

DFI motherboards

1999-08-20 Thread Jon Hughes
Has anyone had experience with DFI motherboards (P2XBL) with Linux? I'm considering purchasing one and am looking for opinions. Thanks Jon

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Greg Baker
I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. When I send a large email with attachments or upload a file it is VERY SLOW. Watching the traffic on something like pppload or wmppp show only short bursts of intermintent traffic, often there is a 5-7 second pause

RE: new release of xfmail?

1999-08-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Aug-99 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: There is none. Either it works or it does not. I am using it for now, I intend to use Mahogany as my mail client in the future. But I have to get a few Debian packages in a row for that to happen. I have used Mahogany and have it installed, but

RE: Debian-* procmail recipe

1999-08-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Aug-99 Kris wrote: Are you fed up of having six or seven useless lines of text and carriage returns at the end of each mail from debian-user and the other lists? Well, fear no more! For a limited period only, you too can have those lines stripped off -- completely free! Add the

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1999-08-20 Thread Craig Hancock
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Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
I have seen this before on my machine, but it has been a couple of months ago. I have no idea what I did to make the problems go away. I had it in Windows 98 as well, but with Windows that is understandable. It was only with mail that I had it -- downloading normal stuff as well. On 20-Aug-99

Re: Is bash as feature-rich as tcsh?

1999-08-20 Thread Justin Wells
Wait... wait... I have one: is emacs as feature-rich as vim? Or how about this: is Debian as good as Slackware? Or... perhaps... even... is pine as feature rich as mutt? If you're not careful here you're going to start an enormous flame war, with religion on all sides. I always thought it would

Re: uploads over modem are SLOOOOOW!

1999-08-20 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:00:55AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: Hi all, dowloads. I don't set mtu or mru in the ppp config files, after the link is up ifconfig shows that mtu is set at 1500. My latest upload From my past experiences, that could be the culprit right there! I've had

Re: DFI motherboards

1999-08-20 Thread Greg Vence
I just purchased one but its a P6??? board. I'll be loading Debian on it this weekend... It's got an AMD K6-III 450 MHz chip. L8r -- Greg Jon Hughes wrote: Has anyone had experience with DFI motherboards (P2XBL) with Linux? I'm considering purchasing one and am looking for opinions.

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