Re: CD completo

2000-01-11 Thread Han Solo
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 08:33:39AM +0100, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: Que yo sepa el Easy CD Creator de Win permite El Torito, pero ignoro cómo se hace eso en linux :-m (no estoy muy puesto en grabadoras en lin, pero mira el cdroast, xcdroast y demás). En linux se hace perfectamente

Re: Arvhivos tex

2000-01-11 Thread Cosme P. Cuevas
El Mon, Jan 10, 2000, Pablo Faúndez Hoffmann... Quizás esta no sea una pregunta muy de debian sino mas general. ¿Como puedo visualizar ya interpretados los archivos *.tex? Tienes que comlpilarlos, $ latex fichero.tex Ten en cuenta que pueden surgir errorres de compilación...

Re: Problema con SGML

2000-01-11 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
Hola: Pues no tengo ni idea qué puede fallar... ¿has probado a convertirlo a otros formatos para ver si pasa lo mismo? Un saludo. Virgilio Dios mio, hemos caido en manos de ingenieros Ian Malcom, el de Parque Jur´asico On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Manuel Jiménez wrote: No me

Oportunidad de Empleo

2000-01-11 Thread news
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Re: Oportunidad de Empleo

2000-01-11 Thread AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE
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Copia de imagen iso de Debian

2000-01-11 Thread Antonio AngelSanz Arrospide
Ahora que veo que se habla de grabadoras, quiero insistir sobre una consulta que ya formulé hace algún tiempo. Mi grabadora va sobre bus IDE: Mi problema es como copiar una imagen ISO que he bajado de una distribución Debian para sparc. Con el programa Easy Cd, efectivamente existen opciones

Re: Copia de imagen iso de Debian

2000-01-11 Thread dfm
Pufff... bueno, voy a intentar ayudarte... No se si te aclararé algo pero el /dev/loop se puede usar para montar imagenes como si fueran particiones en tu sistema, luego es necesario que el kernel tenga soporte para loop puesto que si quieres montar una imagen o lo que sea te va a ser necesario.

Varias cuentas de e-mail

2000-01-11 Thread Alexandre Maneu i Victòria
Buenas. Antes de nada, gracias a [EMAIL PROTECTED] por vuestra ayuda en mi anterior mensaje (estar actualizado por RTB y APT). Supongo que este tema ya estara tratado, pero... existe alguna forma de poder manejar varias cuentas de correo electronico con un mismo programa, que a ser posible

Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-11 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Hue-Bond wrote: También la opción kIll es peligrosa para ordenatas donde accedan varias personas y se utilicen programas como vlock para bloquear las consolas. Tal combinación mataría al vlock. Y también a los shells que estuvieran usando en

Return Message

2000-01-11 Thread ORAPOST
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 06:57:28PM +0100, Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote: Por otro lado, sabéis si hay algun howto de

RE: Slrn Potato: no consigo compilarlo en Slink, :-(

2000-01-11 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Cosme P. Cuevas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Lista Debian Spanish debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: viernes 7 de enero de 2000 4:14 Asunto: Slrn Potato: no consigo compilarlo en Slink, :-( Hola, me he bajado las fuentes del Slrn de Potato, versión

RE: Instalando Kde

2000-01-11 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: IJAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Usuarios-Debian-Español debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: viernes 7 de enero de 2000 20:54 Asunto: Re: Instalando Kde IJAS escribió: Hola... En el PC-Actual de este mes venia la distribución de kde 1.1.2 ¿Pero no dijeron

icecast-server install error

2000-01-11 Thread Ryan White
I seem to have an problem installing icecast-server. Unpacking icecast-server (from .../icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb) ... start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/icecast: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/icecast-server_1.0.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):

Re: icecast-server install error

2000-01-11 Thread steve j. kondik
if the init.d script is trying to stop it, just do this: rm /etc/init.d/icecast touch /etc/init.d/icecast chmod +x /etc/init.d/icecast this will just make a dummy file that will satisfy dpkg so you can --purge it and try reinstalling it. -steve On 01/10/00 @ 04:39PM, Ryan White wrote: I

Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0100 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions | (max 4) and located in the

@Home not working

2000-01-11 Thread Guyren G Howe
I'd be grateful for some advice about why I can't get a basic TCP network running on this *^%$%^ thing. I have a Debian 2.1/Corel box. It has two tulip Ether cards, which work fine on my local LAN. (2 cards because I want to set up NAT, but I figured I'd get basic internet connection working

Re: Manpage problems ?

2000-01-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
Dear Scurvy Newbie This is obviously a date problem. Run mandb -c man directories to index all manpage and in the future make sure newly intalled manpage date are later then the indexes or better yet go back to dos an never darken this discussion group again you hapless scoundrel. On

(off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey Everybody, I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Interviews for Debian positions at the LWE in New York

2000-01-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
Capital Technologies is looking for more Debian developers and persons with skills in web site design and implementation. Offering competitive wage in the Bay Area. Stock-Options, Quarterly Bonuses and Hiring Bonus. We are located in Emeryville which is *not* directly in San Jose but the North

Re: can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-01-11 Thread John Foster
Russell D. Cook wrote: I'm running a Potato system at home. This weekend I inadvertently ran apt-get dist-upgrade instead of apt-get dselect-upgrade. After the upgrade, I can't boot. I get LIL- and the system locks. Can someone tell me what LIL- means, if anything, and whether anyone

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey Everybody, I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, Start out at http://www.themes.org They've got themes for

Re: iplogger is crashing my computer

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
I've also heard about those problems. I can't remember the details off-hand, but they can be found on the BUGTRAQ mailing list (www.securityfocus.com has an archive). I've done a bit of searching myself for the ultimate ip logger and I really prefer iplog. http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/ It has

Multiple Boot

2000-01-11 Thread atray
Hello list, Alright so i'm cheap. I need a multi-boot prog, but I want a free one. I have a 5.3 gig hd with win98 on hda1 and linux on hda5 I also need some help either setting it up to boot. Thanks, A.T. Ray *** Free voicemail and email, by phone or Web! Free phone calls too! Get it

Re: Multiple Boot

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
LILO will do just fine. See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html On 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, Alright so i'm cheap. I need a multi-boot prog, but I want a free one. I have a 5.3 gig hd with win98 on hda1 and linux on hda5 I also need some help

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-11 Thread John Dalbec
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In almost all cases, X

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: Then (in /etc/limits) I set no limits on my own accounts: user - I would actually want to keep at least some of the limits on my own account as well, just to prevent a runaway process from causing problems, that is why i am interested in limits so reasonable no

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be ulimited past that. Hmmm. How would a user

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: $ ulimit -v unlimited $ ulimit -v 32767 $ ulimit -v 32767 $ ulimit -v 32768 bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted OTOH if you're talking about someone who switches his shell to get around the limits, that's my whole point. I need to know how to

Re: replacement for secure-su

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Ernest Johanson wrote: Does anyone know what happened to the secure-su package, and whether there is a replacement? I couldn't find it in unstable, and the search function on debian.org is down right now. Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc me as I am getting the digest. Thanks

Forcing Full-duplex on D-Link 530TX (via-rhine driver)

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
I observe lots of collisions on my NIC. The nic is a D-Link DFE-530TX, and is talking to a Realtek8139 card on the other end. The Realtek card is configured in full-duplex 100baseTX mode. I looked thru the driver source (via-rhine.c), and there's no mention of what kind of media and mediaopt

I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? It tends to be fixed, but on some hardware there's nothing the kernel can do human intervention is needed. I think you know what you

my font suddently become very ugly

2000-01-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that all other window's manager have the same problem. when I say fonts, I mean the fonts that is used by the application, such as

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? It tends to be fixed, but on some hardware there's nothing the kernel can do human

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

2000-01-11 Thread Howard Mann
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that all other window's manager have the same problem. I suggest you use True Type fonts utilizing the xfstt font

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
Cameron Matheson said: I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, 1) Run WPrefs, preferably version 0.40 or later. Set your background/title/sizebar/etc. appearances as desired. 2) Bring

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-11 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote Now that I've two machines I'm finally able to experience the full benefits of Debian GNU/Linux. Reading all I could find on the subject on the HAMM-cd's I managed to get nfs and nis working, exported /home and did some tests.

Re: xdm's Chooser not showing up

2000-01-11 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:42:28PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote Hai, I started this millenium great, got a second machine, nfs works though slow. But now I try to make this second machine into a Xterminal but it refuses:( For the life of me I can't find how to get a X-Chooser on the second

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Yes, but it doesn't work!!! I added append mem=96M, and the kernel still sees only 64. 8-/ Hrm... On this very machine 2.2.13 compiled under slink saw my 96M automatically, while this 2.2.14 kernel compiled under potato seems to

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: gcc 2.95.2? It's likely. The kernel folks don't want to hear bug reports about kernels built with that. Try building with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. that is not true anymore. kernel developers DO want to hear bugs about 2.95 now that 2.2.14 is mostly

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: gcc 2.95.2? It's likely. The kernel folks don't want to hear bug reports about kernels built with that. Try building with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. that is not true anymore. kernel

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: Keyword mostly. It still wouldn't hurt to check it with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. You never know, this might be a part that's not 2.95.x safe. yes obviously the way to test for a 2.95 bug is to compile with older compilers and see if the problem persists,

Re: rxvt / vim / term ?

2000-01-11 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Try to use xkeycaps. It let you to bind keys under X, and maybe it will help you... Lorenzo -- Memo - Header --- To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: From: Ryan White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10/01/2000 21.21.29 GMT 10/01/2000

ground zero

2000-01-11 Thread William P. Bergstrom
Greetings: I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced opinions out there! :-D When I finished typing I realized that this post was getting big, so thought I'd better put the main question up at the top. I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to have a

Re: inittab: More than 2 special key combinations?

2000-01-11 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Use 'loadkeys'. Bye -- Memo - Header --- To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc: From: Matthew W. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10/01/2000 22.07.47 GMT 10/01/2000 23.08.19 Subject: inittab: More than 2 special key

Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0

2000-01-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
Whenever I log on to my IP I get an error message about /dev/pts in /var/log/messages: Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: Couldn't open pty slave /dev/pts/0: No such file or directory Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf kernel: registered device ppp0 Jan 10 23:19:05 scgf pppd[283]: pppd 2.3.10 started by gsmh, uid

Re: Extend Caracter Map on Linux

2000-01-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Tux wrote: How can I extend the caracter map in my linux box. Atually I have only the 127 caracters off the ASCII table and I'm needing the complete extended IBM caracters map to run a application. I had the same problem. Compose did not work. So I replaced my

Re: Extend Caracter Map on Linux

2000-01-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Tux wrote: How can I extend the caracter map in my linux box. Atually I have only the 127 caracters off the ASCII table and I'm needing the complete extended IBM caracters map to run a application. I had the same

YP:Domain not bound

2000-01-11 Thread Igor Mozetic
I keep getting a message YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound from daily cron, and also during bootup, immediately after lprng starts. Any idea why ?? We are running the latest slink 2.1r4 with 2.2.13-14 kernels (and NIS 3.5-2 of course). -Igor Mozetic

apache log customization

2000-01-11 Thread aphro
i was looking through the docs for the apache logging formats.. and was wondering if anyone came accross a way to BLOCK certain hosts (or even better, certain agents) from being logged? the thing is i had htdig running, building a database for a site and the log grows by about 8MB per day because

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-11 Thread aphro
the culprit is the lack of support for NFS on linux still, last i heard it was still very pooly maintained(amazing that SAMBA gets 1000x more attention then NFS!) there are some tweaks out there but don't expect a miracle, until the NFS code is cleaned up..its gonna be slow and buggy. its not as

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread aphro
it is supposed to be but it seems to depend on the bIOS. i have a i440BX Abit BP6, and when i got it, it saw all 256MB of ram, but after a recent bios upgrade the system would only see 64MB unless i added the append= thing in lilo.conf. i was running for 2 days before i even noticed it(i had to

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-11 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:01:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: Ethernet? or has nfs so much overhead (but ftp does okee)? or is the 486 the culprit? Try adding rsize=8192,wsize=8192 to the mount options in fstab. That should do the trick. Wouter -- Linux duckman 2.2.14 #1 Wed Jan 5

Re: rxvt / vim / term ?

2000-01-11 Thread Ryan White
Ok well I figured out what the problem was. I had a command that always ran to start my terminals and it was setting the TERM type to linux (which as I remember was completely valid). rxvt -tn linux; Well I guess the new version of vim does not recognize this TERM. Is that a bug? I remember

Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?

2000-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Ok, pretty much scripting. The modification of the A record for DNS can be handled with the dynamic update capability of bind-8. Is the code Debian uses to distribute to the push mirrors available someplace. Would rather modify something that is already running than invent

libc.so.4

2000-01-11 Thread Fam. Engelen
I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for libc5.

looking for php 3.0.5 package

2000-01-11 Thread Louis Larry
Hello, Is php 3.0.6 or greater package for slink available somewhere? horde/imp will only work with php 3.0.6 up... Louis.

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-11 Thread Rafa Castillo
Visit http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ELKS/ Is the home page for ELKS. It runs fine on a Toshiba notebook 286 with 1Mb. of Ram Bye! And May the source be with you! -- =||*** MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU Rafa Castillo http://www.loresdelsith.unicyber.org/

Re: Galaxy Quest

2000-01-11 Thread Chris Conrey
I saw this movie last weekend an dlaughed the whole way home. Great flick, if you've not gotten out to it yet you better go now. If you don't I'll be forced to make empty threats on your life. On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: As I'm sure most of you know, Galaxy Quest is based

rebuilding xfree86 from sources

2000-01-11 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm trying to rebuild the xlib6g using the source files (dsc, diff, orig.tar.gz). I was able to install using dpkg-source -x xfree86...dsc Running debian/rules build I have the errors bellow: --- gcc -c -O2 -g -ansi -I../../include/fonts

Handheld computers - what is available?

2000-01-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have a customer who runs a van distribution system. He wants his drivers to use handheld computers or barcode readers when they visit shops, to pick up the list of items needing to be replenished. He then wants to print a delivery note on the spot for the customer and transmit the details by

mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-11 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
Hi! This is my first time installing Debian. I am using this equipment: Debian 2.1r4 CDs Compaq Presario 7240 (pentium) IBM Mouse The install proceeded smoothly until I try to get the mouse working in XF86Setup. It refused to move regardless of the settings. + The mouse hardware and

Re: libc.so.4

2000-01-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I recently came across a program (for which I have not found the source code, though it may be available) which seems to depend on libc4 (it gives the error message 'file libc.so.4 not found' or similar). There is no Debian package for slink containing this library, as there is for libc5.

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 11 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: : 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed : in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? Do you own a Compaq? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger

Re: my font suddently become very ugly

2000-01-11 Thread Stuart Ballard
Howard Mann wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, A couple days ago, my font is just suddently become very ugly. I orginially thought it was the fvwm problem, then I found that all other window's manager have the same problem. I suggest you use True Type fonts

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: : 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed : in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? Do you own a Compaq? Nope. The mobo is an Abit BX6. The BIOS counts 96M at startup. -- Arcady Genkin

Re: Forcing Full-duplex on D-Link 530TX (via-rhine driver)

2000-01-11 Thread tjm
Go to the page below and find the paragraph Modifying Driver Operation Through Options. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html I believe what your looking for is here. -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/1/2000 Phil Brutsche wrote: Keyword mostly. It still wouldn't hurt to check it with egcs 1.1.2 or gcc 2.7.2.3. You never know, this might be a part that's not 2.95.x safe. yes obviously the way to test for a 2.95 bug is to compile with

Re: iplogger is crashing my computer

2000-01-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Salman Ahmed wrote: NLM == Noah L Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NLM tcplogd and iplogger are used to log connection attempts to NLM your computer. There are known security problems related to NLM it. What

Re: Handheld computers - what is available?

2000-01-11 Thread Raphael Clancy
There is a lot of work being done in this area, but at this time I don't know of any finished systems. Check out http://www.linuxce.org/ for more info. For the project you have in mind though, I think a symbol scanner might be the best bet. basicaly is a palm III with a built in barcode reader,

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
Are you using a usb mouse On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: Hi! This is my first time installing Debian. I am using this equipment: Debian 2.1r4 CDs Compaq Presario 7240 (pentium) IBM Mouse The install proceeded smoothly until I try to get the mouse working in

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in Windows 95. + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with gpm -k and removed the startup file from /etc/rc6.d. Does the mouse work in GPM? Did you try gpmconfig in a console? That might help

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Ethan Benson said: Also: I still don't know of any way to set the Virtual Mem usage of a shell without using ulimit (bash) or limit (csh)! Note that it does not appear to be an option in /etc/limits or in pam's limits.conf. Anyone know how to do it? There must be a way. ulimit does

Re: Changing architecture from i386 to i686 (dpkg-buildpackage to opt imize for PII)

2000-01-11 Thread Dennis Schoen
On 10 Jan 00 17:33:06 GMT, Fredrik Liljegren wrote: I would like dpkg-buildpackage to use egcs' optimizations for Pentium II, and let the whole system understand that it is a i686 and not i386 to get proper defaults... I grep'd i386 in /etc and found that it's mentioned in quite a lot of

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jim B said: On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be ulimited past that. Hmmm.

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-11 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 04:32:29PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using a usb mouse No. This is not new hardware. I got it used for $300. -- Does `competition' have an abstract purpose? via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank

Re: mouse refuses to configure!

2000-01-11 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:33:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua N Pritikin wrote: + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in Windows 95. + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with gpm -k and removed the startup file from /etc/rc6.d. Does the mouse

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Dave Wiard
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey Everybody, I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker. Thanks, Start out at http://www.themes.org They've got themes

Re: inittab: More than 2 special key combinations?

2000-01-11 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
Is it possible to set up additional special keyboard requests in inittab? I've already assigned ctrl-alt-delete and alt-uparrow and want another... Use 'loadkeys'. Will `loadkeys' let me assign an arbitrary command to a key sequence? I've looked at the Console HOWTO and the loadkeys man

Sawmill.

2000-01-11 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I am running slink with october-gnome from http://www.debian.org/~vincent. (thank you Vincent ! :-) I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried apt-get --compile source to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any

Re: ground zero

2000-01-11 Thread John Foster
William P. Bergstrom wrote: I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to have a debian-win98 machine. I have a pent 200mmx machine 64 mb RAM running win 98 on a quantum bigfoot 1.2 gig disk (partiontioned to 4 equal logical). = I pationtioned this drive for data-app

Forcing exim to use a smarthost even for my machine

2000-01-11 Thread Colin Marquardt
Hi, I finally have gotten myself a domain name, and now I'm using it in /etc/hosts and everywhere (my machine is called ashwork). I have two users here on this machine whose mail adresses are {colin|[EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have two other users who are *not* on this machine but have the same

Re: ground zero

2000-01-11 Thread Kent West
William P. Bergstrom wrote: Greetings: I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced opinions out there! :-D When I finished typing I realized that this post was getting big, so thought I'd better put the main question up at the top. I need to know the best way to

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of setting limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you loose all the limits.

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Marek Habersack
* Jim B said: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of setting limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-11 Thread Todd Suess
It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. I updated login last night during apt-get dist-upgrade but ctrl-c is still broken. Regards, Todd

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:40:55PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. I updated login last night during apt-get dist-upgrade but ctrl-c is still broken. What version of the login package? --

QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-11 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all; I am running potato and am looking for a app that can play QuickTime videos (video and audio), does anyone know of such a thing? (in source form if possible as I'm running on an Alpha and not a x86.) TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer =

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-11 Thread Todd Suess
tsuess:~# dpkg --list login Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersion Description

Jag behöver hjälp!

2000-01-11 Thread Arne Weise
Hejsan! Jag tänkte köra linux på min laptop men jag vet inte vad som funkar och vad som inte funkar med den. Jag har hört från kompisar att det inte går någe bra med en Compaq men jag har inget val. snälla hjälp mig. min dator är en bärbar Compaq presario 1246. jag behöver tips och råd och veta

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:55:19PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: tsuess:~# dpkg --list login Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name

Re: ^c broken in latest potato

2000-01-11 Thread Todd Suess
Yup, I rebooted the machine, etc, and even if I am on the console and SU'd to root in a kvt window under KDE, if I do tail -f /var/log/syslog or any kind of command, ctrl-c will not exit the task. Have to ctrl-z and then kill %1 to actually kill the job. Todd At 01:00 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Ben

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 09:55:12AM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: I am running potato and am looking for a app that can play QuickTime videos (video and audio), does anyone know of such a thing? (in source form if possible as I'm running on an Alpha and not a x86.) There's xanim. -- Carl Fink

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-11 Thread Ron Farrer
Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There's xanim. I tried that, but all it does it complain that it doesn't support video and audio QT... Regards, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = =

[OT] How to find out who to contact with Internet network problems?

2000-01-11 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, this is probably an off-topic question to this list. Sorry for this, but I don't know who else to ask or where to look, therefore I hope that my question is read by an experienced network admin of a large company network or an otherwise experienced user who can answer my question.

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-11 Thread Jim B
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters? They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory. OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a time) and none of them alone was

Re: (off topic) WindowMaker Themes

2000-01-11 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 08:18:14AM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:07PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey Everybody, I just started using Window Maker, and I was wondering if anyone knew where (or how) I could find out how to make Themes for WindowMaker.

Re: ground zero

2000-01-11 Thread Aaron Solochek
Well... If I were you, and this is in no way the best situation, just probably what I would do, is to make two partitions on the 1.2, a 1gig fat32, and 200meg linux swap. The 1 gig can be used for whatever in windows, maybe mp3s, and keeping the swap on the other drive with AFAIK be a better idea

Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64

2000-01-11 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 11 Jan, 2000 à 01:05:29AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... 2.2.14 only detects 64M out of 96M of my RAM. I thought this was fixed in 2.2.x kernels. Comments? It tends to be

Re: Further LILO woes

2000-01-11 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Mon, 10 Jan, 2000 à 05:32:46PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: I'm still having a helluva time trying to make Lilo boot potato off /dev/hdc1 (second HD). Nothing seems to work. I have just tried (as Howard Mann suggested) booting potato's kernel with my slink's lilo (which is installed

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