Re: ¿Efecto 2000, actualización de la bios,...?

2000-01-06 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Sun, Jan 02, 2000, Papa Noel... Resulta que no puedo conectarme a internet... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/home/ijalonso)$ cat ineton #!/bin/sh # # ineton # # Conectar a Internet # Lanzar el demonio pppd: pon # Mirar en los log como va la conexion (tail -f

Re: Ayuda instalacion

2000-01-06 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Mon, Jan 03, 2000, Miguel Angel Ordoñez Moya... tenido Slackware, Red Hat y Suse, pero prefiero Debian que no tiene animo de lucro. Buen criterio. Tengo un Pentium 100, con 16 Mb y un HD de 250M, comienzo a instalar la Debian Slink que traía la revista Linux Actual (no recuerdo el

Re: Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-06 Thread Manel Marin
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:47:03AM +0100, Netman wrote: ... Yo lo tengo hecho así: #define SYSRQ_KEY 0x4a que es el código de la tecla más inútil que he encontrado: el - del teclado numérico. En el único programa que lo he podido llegar a utilizar, el mc, aún puedo emularla con + * .

Re: Como compartir archivos entre dos PC's

2000-01-06 Thread Manel Marin
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:02:59PM -0600, Lucky wrote: Tengo dos PC's en red, los dos con Linux y quiero compartir ficheros entre ellos. YA he establecido conexión y haciendo un PING se comunican, pero no se como pasar ficheros. Lucky tio, explicame que te pasaba con los ping que me tienes

Re: [Un error] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-06 Thread Manel Marin
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 09:09:26AM +0100, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: ... ¿Que tal Scroll Lock? yo no la uso, es el 0x46 Ehmmm ... el scroll lock sirve para parar la pantalla cuando te hace scroll (lógicamente XD). Por ejemplo, imagínate que quieres ver lo que te cuenta linux

[saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-06 Thread Manel Marin
Hola otra vez, Una de las teclas magicas es MUY UTIL, es la K ( de a saKo o a saK X-) asesina todos los procesos del terminal virtual en uso y deja el resto... Pues resulta que va de muerte con las X, ya que las resetea (si usas wdm) pero... EL PROBLEMA: Las consolas quedan inutiles, se las

[CONCLUSIONES]: CORELlinux con PC WORLD (España)¡¡¡Al ataque!!!

2000-01-06 Thread Manel Marin
Me contesto a mi mismo ;-P On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:13:58PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: Hola, La PC WORLD (en España) trae un CD con CORELlinux ¿Caera alguna migaja para nuestra debian? El corel (R) filemanager no creo que sea GPL X-) ¿Y el gestor de paquetes? El corel (R) update es

Re: Problemas con Smail

2000-01-06 Thread SKaVeN
Hola Skaven, Yo tuve un problema parecido hace un tiempo. Al parecer en ciertas circunstancias a smail no le gusta que el que envia un emilio tenga una direccion rara, especificamente el nombre del dominio. Mis emilios en un principio iban con la direccion del sender como [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Como compartir archivos entre dos PC's

2000-01-06 Thread ZeroByte
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:02:59PM -0600, Lucky wrote: Tengo dos PC's en red, los dos con Linux y quiero compartir ficheros entre ellos. YA he establecido conexión y haciendo un PING se comunican, pero no se como pasar ficheros. Me podeis ayudar. Yo tengo tres ordenadores en casa y

No conecto a Internet (Era: ¿Efecto 2000, actualización de la bios,...?

2000-01-06 Thread IJAS
Hola He seguido tu recomendación y he puesto debug en el archivo options, incluso he puesto también la opción kdebug 1 por si daba más información, pero nada de nada lo unico que aparece es lo que sale en el syslog que te pongo a continuación: Jan 6 11:14:42 T1000 syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart.

Re: Gnome: instalacion minima, :-?

2000-01-06 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Tue, Jan 04, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No soy experto asi que no voy a asentar cátedra, pero juraría que las aplicaciones gnome necesitan las librerías gtk para funcionar y no el propio gnome... Pues parece que sí, :-) De momento he probado con el paquete `dia', para hacer diagramas

Re: [Re: Gnome: instalacion minima, :-?]

2000-01-06 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Hasta donde yo se algunas si y algunas no... si miran en el glade (una especie de ide para gtk) ademas de los widgets (no se que es en castellano) de gtk+ estan algunos de gnome... Muchas aplicaciones de gnome solo usan la api de gtk+ pero otras usan ademas la de gnome. Saludos Ivan Andres

Re: [Un error] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-06 Thread Netman
El Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 01:33:09PM +0100, Saxa Egea nos dijo: Perdonad mi intromision... pero el scroll lock no para momentaneamente la maquina?? Si... para lo q muestra en pantalla... pero pq para cualquier proceso, no?? No, lo que hace es bloquear el tty actual, y por eso todos los procesos

Re: fortunes en español

2000-01-06 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Yo recogí este verano ficheros de fortunes (o cosas similares) que me enviaron varias personas este verano. Aún no he sacado tiempo para juntarlos como es debido, pero tengo la intención de hacer con ellas un paquete fortunes-es como está mandado... Lo que no sé es cuándo sacaré

RE: Gnome: instalacion minima, :-?

2000-01-06 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Cosme P. Cuevas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista Debian Spanish debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: lunes 3 de enero de 2000 23:53 Asunto: Gnome: instalacion minima, :-? Hola, quiero bajarme la actualización de Gnome para Slink, pero solo lo imprescindible

RE: Castellanización de Debian

2000-01-06 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org; debian-l10n-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-l10n-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: domingo 2 de enero de 2000 23:14 Asunto: Castellanización de

Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-06 Thread kynes
Hola a todos, On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:46:41PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: Uso framebuffer, y arrancando en modo texto normal es incluso peor... X-C Mi servidor X es el XF86_Mach64 ¿No le gusta que le killeen a saKo y se toma la venganza? A mi no me pasa, pero en la documentacion del

Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-06 Thread Netman
El Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:46:41PM +0100, Manel Marin nos dijo: Hola otra vez, Una de las teclas magicas es MUY UTIL, es la K ( de a saKo o a saK X-) asesina todos los procesos del terminal virtual en uso y deja el resto... Pues resulta que va de muerte con las X, ya que las resetea (si

Re: kernel question

2000-01-06 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Jan-2000 Brian Servis wrote: Just do it! Just use make-kpkg with a revision name that will be greater than 2.2.14-1(this will be the version number of the kernel-image once it is released) and you will be fine. make-kpkg --revision=pollywog.1 kernel_image I did it this way for my

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

2000-01-06 Thread Shao Zhang
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the subject is a little misleading :) sorry... is the server you are testing from a local server? within your ISP's network? Neither. what speed do you connect at(see /var/log/messages) and what kind of file are you trying to

Re: Riva ZX

2000-01-06 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
I used to run quake2/3 on 128 and 128zx with xfree 3.3.5 with hw acceleration. Chanop On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 04:34:28PM +0100, Sylwester Zelazko wrote: Hi. Did someone run quake/xracer or any other 3d game on riva zx with hardware acceleration ? --

Re: Can't get scripts to work

2000-01-06 Thread Peter Palfrader aka Weasel
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 05:15:48PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: By default, the current directory (.) is not on your path. You can add it, but it opens up some security holes. (I can put a program named cd in a random directory and the next time you go there, it gets executed when you try

Re: kernel question

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Pollywog wrote about Re: kernel question Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like pollywog.1. Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure. #dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? 1 #dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 lt pollywog.1 ; echo $?

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate I think it is the modem's problem. I have a US Robotics V90 modem, which I think the remote isp does not support it. In the chat script, if I use the initialise command ATZ, I am

X problems HELPPPP

2000-01-06 Thread Steve Winston
I am having terrible troubles with X in Debian, and worse, I can't escape from the X server so that I can get into the command line and fix things. When I boot up, linux goes straight into a graphic log-in screen that is too large for my 17-inch monitor. When I log in, I get a blank, green

Re: X problems HELPPPP

2000-01-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Feb 11, 2036 at 11:38:31PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: I am having terrible troubles with X in Debian, and worse, I can't escape from the X server so that I can get into the command line and fix things. When I boot up, linux goes straight into a graphic log-in screen that is too large

Xwindow hassles, helphelp

2000-01-06 Thread Steve Winston
I am having a terrible problem with Xwindows in Debian. Last night, I configured it for a voodoo3 card. Now, it boots straight to a graphic log-in screen and from that to a blank green win95color screen. THere are no icons. No combination of mouse key strokes makes any difference.

Re: Xwindow hassles, helphelp

2000-01-06 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Mon, Feb 11, 2036 at 11:47:40PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: I am having a terrible problem with Xwindows in Debian. Alt-ctl-backspace has no effect. From the way you're saying this, it sounds like you're pressing Right-Alt (Alt Gr) Right-Ctrl Backspace. This doesn't work - it needs to be

Unidentified subject!

2000-01-06 Thread Steve Kostecke

Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade BTW, WTH does bash depend on the ncurses in `oldlibs'? I suspect because the libncurses5 package was just added to the archive and was made the 'default' ncurses thus moving

Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Ron Rademaker
Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? Thanks, Ron

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

2000-01-06 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: ...snip... Does anyone know the line I need to add to my exim.conf file? smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 works well for me. This will dump them all as soon as it comes in. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 In X: xset s noblank See the man page for each for more options. Brian

RE: LILO and Multiple Disks

2000-01-06 Thread Simon Law
I tried setting hdd from 0x82 and from 0x83 but to no avail. Any other ideas? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Pfeifer Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2000 9:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian May
Ron == Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc Ron screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? You don't give much in the way of details, but if you use X, then try xset s noblank or xset s 601 not

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

2000-01-06 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: I am trying to get Exim 2.05 working correctly on my system. Everything seems to be OK, so far, except that when I get more than 10 messages the remaining messages are queued and the Exim log files report: no immediate

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Jan, Brian Servis wrote about Re: Screen black *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On the consoles: seterm -blank 0

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:41:48AM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? In X, or at a virtual terminal? In X, at any xterm or rxvt or whatever prompt, type xset x

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Howard Mann
Ron Rademaker wrote: Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? Thanks, Ron Try using this command: setterm -blank 0 Then put it in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. ( I _think_ the latter should work)

Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions

2000-01-06 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:22:26PM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: ...snip... 1. PPP After running pppconfig to setup a connection to my ISP, I noticed I can initiate the modem to dial but consequently it simply hangs up. I went to my 2nd virtual console and issued: cat /dev/ttyS2 (my modem) to

Re: X problems HELPPPP

2000-01-06 Thread Howard Mann
Steve Winston wrote: I am having terrible troubles with X in Debian, and worse, I can't escape from the X server so that I can get into the command line and fix things. When I boot up, linux goes straight into a graphic log-in screen that is too large for my 17-inch monitor. When I log

Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions

2000-01-06 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:22:26PM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: I've finally managed to install Debian 2.1 from floppy disks using images downloaded from the Debian Website. Being a newbie to Linux, I have some problems I cannot seem to resolve. I've gone through the any help files I could

Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

2000-01-06 Thread Paul Miller
Konrad Mierendorff wrote: We operate a 28 node network here. As your network, there is one file server to export home directories for NFS mounting. The autofs package and Kernel level automounting are used to mount the file server when a user logs in. As for defining a user-database. This needs

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-06 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:23:03PM +0100, Jens Günther wrote: Therefore I suggest to either bring debhelper and packages it depends on to a state in which they can be used in a slink environment (maybe putting these packages in proposed-updates) or to prevent them from being used on slink

Re: Can't get scripts to work

2000-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Matheson) wrote: I can't get any of my scripts to work. I'm just trying to start simple, by making a script to delete all my FreeCiv save files. I use 'vi' and type the following: # !/bin/sh rm civgame* clear pwd

console and screen blanking

2000-01-06 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my computer and I have to turn the power off and reboot. I want to

URL of package's website

2000-01-06 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hello, If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, but something I think the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own websites. There are very few that actually mention the URL, so I'm always going to search engines and hunting down a program's website to

Re: console and screen blanking

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:12:15PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my

Re: URL of package's website

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Werner
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:35:26PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, but something I think the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own websites. There are very few that actually mention the URL, so I'm always going

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Rademaker) wrote: Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? Try putting 'setterm -blank 0' in your .bash_profile file. (Bah, I think I might write a decent man page for setterm. I could

Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

2000-01-06 Thread hypnos
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: To allow flexible usage the home direcories of all users should be stored on the fileserver and should be mounted when users log into the clients. The User-Database could be an LDAP-Server. It is very easy to setup the machines to use the same

Unidentified subject!

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
subscribe alan davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.

Re: exim problem

2000-01-06 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:29:33AM -0800, Mark Symonds wrote Hello, I have 118 msgs sitting in /var/spool/exim/input That are frozen, all with the same error: 11oG5a-0006tw-00 :: 1999-11-17 17:10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookuphost router deferred: lowest numbered MX record

SCSI detection problem

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Suddenly, when I am adding hardware to the system, the SCSI CDROM is giving problems. Of late, when the kernel boots, at the point where it is detecting my SCSI CDROM, this is the message sequence I see: Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter found

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

2000-01-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate What does not make sense is that, the TX rate is so much slower than RX rate. I have the same problems. Try playing around with your mtu and mru settings.

early potato upgrade error-no confmodule ??

2000-01-06 Thread kaynjay
Just dl'd packages for a dist-upgrade, then started the actual processing run (I always get the packages first), but got an immediate error... Need to get 0B/150MB of archives. After unpacking 8489kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning packages] Configuring packages..

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
did you try /dev/scd1 or /dev/scd2 ? it may be a long shot, but it might work, also what does /proc/scsi/scsi show? do you have multiple cdroms? (a cdr and a cdrom maybe?) are there any other scsi devices on the same chain? can you access them? if no to either one make sure there is no

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
try to disable the V90 protocol on the modem, the way v90 works is it connects at the best speed it can, then after its connected if the line is noisy it dynamically drops the speed without dropping the connection, the speed can go back up after..but yeah sounds like it could be a compadiblity

Re: X problems HELPPPP

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
what i would do (can't say if its the best way but it works) 1) boot off the cd 2) mount the root file system 3) delete the file /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm off the newly mounted file systme 4) umount the file system 5) reboot 6) logon to the 'net 7) add deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update

Re: console and screen blanking

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
APM is buggy at times, you can compile a new kernel and disable APM and also turn off APM in the bios. i stopped trusting APM when i lost 3 drives due to spin down and several crashes(in many different OSs) due tot he machine not being able to wakeup after going to sleep. nate On Thu, 6 Jan

Re: early potato upgrade error-no confmodule ??

2000-01-06 Thread kaynjay
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:30:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just dl'd packages for a dist-upgrade, then started the actual processing run (I always get the packages first), but got an immediate error... ... Configuring packages.. /tmp/fileAsdL1s: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such

Re: early potato upgrade error-no confmodule ??

2000-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just dl'd packages for a dist-upgrade, then started the actual processing run (I always get the packages first), but got an immediate error... Need to get 0B/150MB of archives. After unpacking 8489kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning

Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian list, where another subscriber did not see the error. I want to establish whether the error is on my machine or on the original poster's. John wrote: Received: from

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread Nico De Ranter
The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. Nico On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian list, where another subscriber did not see the

LAN access fails after 5 seconds

2000-01-06 Thread Raymond L. Zarling
I have just installed Debian 2.2.12 on my Pentium 150 and have spent an entire day trying to get my LAN card working for longer than 5 seconds. It is a Kingston KNE100TX, using a DS21143 chip manufactured by Intel. Several documents say the tulip driver should work although Greg Siekas mentions

a simple question regarding directories

2000-01-06 Thread john smith
I just recently downloaded the netscape browser and I am confused which directory should I untar it to? right now it is in the directory /tmp but when I try to use the help contents in the browser, it tells me thatnetscape cannot find the file help.hpf that should be in the

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-06 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have three kernels in my lilo configuration. The original debian 2.2.13 kernel seems to deal with this ok. The other two kernels are 2.2.13 and 2.3.35, both without sound devices, but with sound turned on, so I can install the creative sound blaster live module.The two kernels I compiled

Emacs with neXtaw?

2000-01-06 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I'm trying to compile emacs against neXtaw (an Xaw replacement based on NextStep), but I can't get it to work. First I tried with the emacs20 that comes with slink, but it didn't work, so I downloaded 20.5a from potato and tried to compile that. Still no luck. I first tried to do what the

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

2000-01-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Shao, I do not know, what your ISP has for a connection, how big he is and which services he is running. But here in Strasbourg there is a ISP, which limit the Up-Load-Speed to 50% of the connection speed. Why ??? This ISP is very small (like me) and he has a 2 MBit line only. He has

Re: Can't get scripts to work

2000-01-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Can't get scripts to work Date: Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:54:20AM + In reply to:Colin Watson Quoting Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Matheson) wrote: | I can't get any of my scripts to work. I'm just trying to start simple, by |

Re: LAN access fails after 5 seconds

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
what is the full output of ifconfig? it shows packets sent/recieved dropped, errors collisions etc. i have a tulip card as well(2.0.36 kernel though) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:FF:19 inet addr:208.222.179.31 Bcast:208.222.179.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Re: a simple question regarding directories

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
there are 2 common ways to install netscape in debian 1) download your favorite version of netscape4 into /tmp 2) run 'apt-get install netscape4' or download your favorite version of netscape4 wherever you want(suggest /tmp too) untar it, and cd to the directory it untars to, and run the

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

2000-01-06 Thread aphro
something i forgot to ask in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. if not, enable it ,recompile and it should work if it is..im not sure what

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 In X: xset s noblank In

Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects

2000-01-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I found and installed a program, Vera 1.4a-1, which is stated to list acronyms. There was no problem with dselect and 'dpkg -l' shows it as installed, however, I am neither able to locate any file of that name nor to access the list. Anyone

Corellinux and Sun/Blackdown JDK1.2.2's -- needs libc6-2.1.2

2000-01-06 Thread kam shan
Hi, I'm trying to get a JDK working with CorelLinux. CorelLinux has libc_2.0.7.19981211_6.deb. JDK needs libc2.1.2. I tried CorelUpdating/dpkg with libc6_2.1.2-11.deb, but it complains about a dependency problem between libc6 and something else. It may be because it can't take the jump from

Re: Can't get scripts to work

2000-01-06 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:29:44PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: (Why does this work, by the way? Is /bin/sh the default interpreter?) I also thought this (Colin's comment), was the problem so I changed some of my bash scripts to test it. At least on my slink box, that isn't the answer.

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. Nico On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian

How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-06 Thread Mihaly Gyulai
I am a newbie to Debian, I've used RedHat 5 for 2 yrs. At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? Mihaly Gyulai --== Sent via Deja.com

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

2000-01-06 Thread Martin Fluch
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, I've used RedHat 5 for 2 yrs. At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ?

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Re: Screen black On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? On

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Screen black Date: Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:59:25AM +0100 In reply to:Ron Rademaker Quoting Ron Rademaker([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | | On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: | | *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about Screen black | | Does anyone on this

Re: printer config tool?

2000-01-06 Thread carlf
Is there a printer config tool or script to configure a printer in Debian? Or shall I just manually edit the /etc/printcap file? If you have magicfilter installed, magicfilterconfig. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net

Potato Dates...

2000-01-06 Thread Rob Hensley
Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in Potato Timeline, but I can't remember the date. Please repond soon, Thanks. Rob Hensley

Re: Potato Dates...

2000-01-06 Thread Douglas Baker
There's a nice little summary at : http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/48/mail#2 -Doug On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Rob Hensley wrote: Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in Potato Timeline, but I can't

Re: console and screen blanking

2000-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Hoffmeyer) wrote: How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my computer and I have to

Re: Potato Dates...

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Rob Hensley wrote about Potato Dates... Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in Potato Timeline, but I can't remember the date. Please repond soon, Thanks. The latest info from the

Re: URL of package's website

2000-01-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Bart Szyszka wrote: If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, debian-devel, or perhaps even debian-policy. but something I think the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own websites. I

Re: LAN access fails after 5 seconds

2000-01-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [snip familiar problems with tulip-based cards] I should mention the exact same hardware works fine under Windoze 98. Under Linux, ifconfig shows the card using the same irq and memory as it did under Windoze. I expected as much. I

Re: URL of package's website

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Peter S Galbraith wrote about Re: URL of package's website Bart Szyszka wrote: If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, debian-devel, or perhaps even debian-policy. but something I think the Debian

Help with X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey everybody! Now that I have gotten my scripts and executables to work (thanks to your help) I was wondering if I could customize the menus in X Windows so that my games would show up in the menu (I looked for a config file for something like that, but I couldn't find anything. The window

Logging out of X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't have any sort of large income to spend on books. I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly. When I am at the log-in screen, I am pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then Ctrl+Alt+Delete. This

Re: Logging out of X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:59:16PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't have any sort of large income to spend on books. No problem. That's what this list is for. On the other hand, a very quick ckeck of Deja or the

Re: Logging out of X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't have any sort of large income to spend on books. I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly. When I am at the log-in screen, I am pressing

Re: Logging out of X Windows

2000-01-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't have any sort of large income to spend on books. I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly.

Re: debconf error

2000-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Booth wrote: I'm running the latest potato, but if upgrade something to the latest and greatest, I tend to get the following error: debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend debconf: falling back to Text frontend How can I fix this? Well, do you have dialog and/or whiptail

Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects

2000-01-06 Thread John
on 05 Jan 100, Howard Mann wrote... 2. For some time now when booting, I get the message 'SIOCADDRT - invalid argument'. It appears to cause no problem - nevertheless, I'd like to understand exactly what is referred to and make any correction needed. So far I've found no

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread John
on 06 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote... I have only just seen your message. The error is in the email program made available to me by my ISP when I signed on some 20 months ago. I had noted the problem with incoming mail, but did not think it would affect outgoing mail onto other machines. If I've

Re: debconf error (no man page)

2000-01-06 Thread Ryan White
I was having a simalar problem. The first time I installed debconf I saw GTK and said WoW that looks rad. The problem with using gtk for me was that I forget to export my display and stuff when I su to do a package upgrade. For the longest time I was looking for a way to edit some config file

ncurses or xterm problems in potato

2000-01-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
Is anyone else having xterm problems when logging in to a potato system from another system? I'm actually not sure where the problem lies, xterm, ncurses or somewhere else, but whenever I log in to my Debian laptop from my workstation (SGI using ssh in an xterm) the terminal properties seem to be

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