Re: network statistics

1998-04-30 Thread Dale Martin
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way I can see how much information has been sent between my computer and another computer? Thanks -Paul There are various tools in the netdiag package that you can use to monitor network activity. Checkout netwatch in that package, for

Re: .ps or .pdf editing app

1998-04-02 Thread Dale Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: Hi, I've tried a lot of editing apps (and conversion utilities) in hamm, but I can't find one that edits postscript or acrobat files. Does anyone know what package I can use to edit a ps or pdf form that uses Times-Roman fonts in a variety of

Re: Core with pthread, libc6, and g++ in child processes..

1997-12-15 Thread Dale Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! I just installed the latest unstable version of Debian on Saturday and am either doing something wrong or I have found a bug. On top of this, I have followed the mini-howto for upgrading from libc5 to libc6 and installed all of the suggested packages.

Re: ssh and shosts file

1997-12-08 Thread Dale Martin
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd suggest a different solution: Create a local key using ssh-keygen, don't set a password and copy your .ssh/identity.pub to .ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine. Regards Joey And, if you still have problems, study the output of

Re: HTTP background tool

1997-12-05 Thread Dale Martin
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they

Re: threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-04 Thread Dale Martin
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads working, there isn't much sense in using c++ :-) I've had the same problem, and as far as I've been able to collect, g++ simply isn't, and won't be thread safe. If you wish for a thread safe

Re: threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-04 Thread Dale Martin
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have to remove all the classes in c++ to get threads working, there isn't much sense in using c++ :-) I've had the same problem, and as far as I've been able to collect, g++ simply isn't, and won't be thread safe. If you wish for a thread safe

Re: SCSI Errors and Resetting

1997-12-04 Thread Dale Martin
Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Probably this does not apply to you or it won't solve your problems (because your SCSI controller is different than mine) but I was getting SCSI timeouts with 2.0.30 and an Adaptec AHA-2940U with two hard disks and one DAT tape unit. I was unable to make

threads and latest libg++?

1997-12-03 Thread Dale Martin
Are the latest libg++ and threads happy together? I have libg++272 version 2.7.2.8-0.1 installed, and I'm running mostly libc6 stuff. Here's my program, reduced to illustrate the problem precisely. [ begin program ] #include pthread.h #include iostream.h #include unistd.h #include assert.h

Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Martin
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under /tmp and delete it when it is done, rather than insist that ~/tmp exist. Set your umask so that others do not have write permissions on the directory and its files _before_ you

Re: netscape

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for being so slow. No problem. You did disprove my theory of mine however. Normally, when I post to this list, if I don't get a response within 15 minutes one never comes. :-) Did either of you add the /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 fix? There was a bug

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a lot of space wasted unless you have large spool directories (news/mail). For a reasonable single-user station, 64MB should be largely enough on /var. /tmp is left to your choice (16 is a good number). I would find 16M for /tmp WAY too

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why not put /var and /tmp in the same root partition? When you run out of space on your root partition while compiling, it's a real pain. I've had it happen. I've never run out of space on /var, or on / if I don't have /tmp on it. So, I have /tmp soft

Re: netscape

1997-11-14 Thread Dale Martin
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mine has ./include ./include/X11 ./lib ./lib/X11 ./lib/X11/XErrorDB ./lib/X11/XKeysymDB ./lib/X11/app-defaults - ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults ./lib/X11/locale - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale The XErrorDB XKeysymDB files

Re: Crazy Question

1997-11-08 Thread Dale Martin
Collin Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What command you use to find out how much free space you have on your = hard drive? Try df. Also, try du to find out where all of that space is being taken up. Later, Dale -- + finger for pgp public key

Re: netscape

1997-11-06 Thread Dale Martin
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I have all of 3.3.1; would you believe it still doesn't work? Bus error. WIth a whole lot of XKeysymDB errors before it, which are fixable by setting XKEYSYMDB to the appropriate directory IIRC. I'm having the same problem. Like you said - lots

Re: X, S3 server, and #9 Motion 771

1997-11-03 Thread Dale Martin
Christopher Jason Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There appears to be a problem in the X3.3 packages. I have a #9 Motion 771. I can run XF86Setup, and I can enter all of the setup info. But then when I click Done and it tries to start the server for my card, it dies. It says starting

Re: man page for nsswitch.conf

1997-10-17 Thread Dale Martin
Lukas Eppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just wanted to remind you that libc6 is unstable and in development. So problems about it should go in [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks for the reminder. As I suspected, 99% of the problems I was having with NIS were from misconfiguration of nsswitch.conf.

man page for nsswitch.conf

1997-10-14 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. As I have mentioned on this list several times, I have upgraded my machine to a fair amount of libc6 stuff. In general, it seems to be working pretty well, but a lot of the NIS stuff is messed up. It is my understanding that this is because the NIS stuff used to be handle by a user level

Re: Running DOSEmu as a regular user...

1997-09-19 Thread Dale Martin
Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's another datapoint on this problem - root (for our domain - not me - doh!) gets this mail when I run it: [ begin included mail ] -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Illegal user Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Illegal DOSEMU user: uid=7023 [ end included

Running DOSEmu as a regular user...

1997-09-18 Thread Dale Martin
I _have_ to be missing something simple. My /etc/dosemu/users looks like: dmartin c_all root c_all I'm user dmartin. I type xdos, and it says: ~ xdos Illegal User!!! I have read/write permission on /var/lib/dosemu/hdiamge.first, and the floppy drive. Here are the permissions of

Re: locales

1997-09-16 Thread Dale Martin
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to make lftp work, I'd downloaded the version in hamm. This called for a new lic5 which caused the removal on damn near everything. Included in that was the locales package. I've restored almost everything, with the exception of the locales

Re: Best Ethernet Card

1997-09-12 Thread Dale Martin
Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Can anyone tell me which 100MB Ethernet Card is best for Debian (driver quality, stability, support and also performance)? I'm planning to switch to 100MB Ethernet Network and want to be shure that my new network card will work without any

Re: Can 2 CPU motherboard run not-SMP kernel?

1997-09-10 Thread Dale Martin
Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -cut-- 2.0.31-pre7 seems to be working ok (no deadlocks). 2.0.30 or 2.0.29 with the deadlock-patch 6 works fine too. --cut-- Suppose that after buying a 2 CPU motherboard you find that with some I/O intensive application

XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-09 Thread Dale Martin
I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be something that can be naturally multithreaded, is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?) I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I already have SMP at work, so the prospect of

Re: Laptop for Linux Debian

1997-08-14 Thread Dale Martin
David M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello guys! If one were to buy a laptop these days what would be a good brand that is widely supported by Linux (Debian)? Thank you. Dave I've installed Debian on both a Toshiba Satellite 220CDS, and a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT. The 740CDT has an LCD

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-13 Thread Dale Martin
Andy Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've never seen TOB, but regarding tar'ing directly to a device: you can do multiple tar's to device (e.g., tape device). to do this, let's say you already tar'd once. to do it again, but append it to the first one, you need to forward past the first one.

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Dale Martin
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted about this and received no replies. I thought I'd report back about what I wound up doing... What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out TOB (tape

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread Dale Martin
Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Conclusion: I don't have start-stop-daemon under /sbin but one in /usr/sbin/ that is not a.out or ELF. My start-stop-daemon is a perl-script, I can read its content. That's how it was under older versions of Debian, I believe. In Debian-1.2.?

More problems with unstable/base

1997-08-04 Thread Dale Martin
Note - these are not complaints. I _know_ that unstable is unstable, and the risk I take by using it. Just thought others might want to know. I have a raid0 md partition that consists of two 2G partitions striped together. Today, I ran my machine out of virtual memory and it locked up (might

Problem with shellutils?

1997-08-01 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. I'm running a Debian 1.3.1 system, which has also had a significant number of upgrades from hamm - until this mrning, mostly from the devel and libs subdirs. (I'm interested in helping debug libc6 problems.) This morning, I upgraded my base stuff to hamm, and now I have a strange

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-25 Thread Dale Martin
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't had any problem with the 4 gig Barracuda I've been using in my Linux box, except for getting bitten by the glibc/fsck bug. What bug is that? Just curious, as I'm running glibc on a 4G barracuda, and 2 2G Quantum Atlases. (With a large striped

Re: samba and windows NT

1997-07-23 Thread Dale Martin
Someone else answered this with a summary of the solution. I just wanted to add that I found the Samba Home Page with about 5 seconds of looking on Yahoo. On the Samba homepage, they give VERY detailed instructions on how to fix this problem. My machine running NT 4.0 plus service pack 3 can

Re: NIS/AMD questions

1997-07-15 Thread Dale Martin
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have no pam whatsoever. I have the debian nis package, and when the NIS server goes down login hangs and dies, even on the console. The root entry is not exported via NIS and is present on the machine's passwd. Am I alone experiencing this ? Phil.

Re: Any AMD users ? troubles with direct mount

1997-07-15 Thread Dale Martin
Oliver Landsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any hints or maps for me ? Here are my maps: amd.home -cache:=inc /cad amd.direct -type:=direct /information amd.direct -type:=direct /packages amd.direct -type:=direct /local amd.direct -type:=direct /source amd.direct -type:=direct /Vhdl amd.direct

Re: PCMCIA packages cause X problems and emacs problems

1997-07-10 Thread Dale Martin
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas, or things I can tell him to try? Hi. I don't really have any experience with the problem that your friend is having, but I was just reading the other day about using PCMCIA on Toshiba Notebooks (http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710) and

Re: How can i non-interactively fetch a web document?

1997-07-10 Thread Dale Martin
Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So that leads to the question. How can I non-interactivley (IE in a script) fetch a web document? I have used snarf, which is a debian package. I was displaying a current satellite image as my background in X (updated every hour via cron), but I

Re: linux 2.1.x -- poor multitasking?

1997-06-18 Thread Dale Martin
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone else having this problem? Unfortunately I don't subscribe to linux-kernel because I expect the volume is very high. Hamish I have read that SMP is enabled by default in the newer kernels, and this gives very poor performance (in 2.1.42

Re: Xemacs?

1997-06-03 Thread Dale Martin
Alexander Stavitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with regular emacs. I've been using it for a week or two, and aside

Possible bug in libc6...

1997-06-02 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. I recently upgraded to libc6 (dev,dbg, pic, etc) using the package from the hamm directory. (I realize this is VERY unstable stuff - I'm just glutton for punishment :-) Everything appears to be working well, although I have hit two minor snags. The first is that the new version of amd

Re: crypt

1997-06-01 Thread Dale Martin
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is completely false. I don't care what is done to a password. If it is constant and repeatable, as password's need to be, then it's only a matter of time. If the method is public knowledge as with the source code to encrypt passwords, it can be

Re: Dual CPU's and Debian Linux

1997-05-12 Thread Dale Martin
Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With 256M of RAM, more of your cost is probably going towards RAM than CPU. I'd consider going with a Pentium Pro. Definitely. You can get PPro 150 chips for about $175 right now - you're not going to

Re: dead end?

1997-04-29 Thread Dale Martin
Larry James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, [ snip ] and when I run dselect or dpkg, I get lots of error messages. The most significant seem to be bash: command install not found, and ...configure not found. Where should these commands be? It's kind of a pickle because I don't see how to add

running procmail automatically from smail, and a question about POP

1997-04-21 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to ask this - I have looked around and can't seem to find the answer. I've got a lot of linux experience, but I only recently had to start dealing with mail being delivered to my local machines. I would like procmail to be run automatically

Re: md autostart?

1997-03-26 Thread Dale Martin
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there, 1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel has md compiled in (not a module). Other people have addressed this question. 2) Can I also

win32-gcc

1997-03-21 Thread Dale Martin
Hello, I'm trying to use the win32 compiler included in debian-1.2.x and compile some code that uses sockets. I get the following error messages, and I wondered if anyone had any hints... [ begin verbatim errors ] ~ i386-unknown-cygwin32-gcc mything.o r_stdlib.o desc.o cmf.o -o mydes

Re: experiences with /dev/md? (multiple device) drivers ?

1997-03-08 Thread Dale Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Does anybody here have experience with the multiple device drivers under linux? [ snip ] My main worry is reliability of the driver. And speed matters, too. Hints and recommendations welcome! I've been using it for a few months on a machine that does

Re: yp service

1997-03-06 Thread Dale Martin
Jesse Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've got Debian running on one of the office PC's communicating through NIS with a few other debian machines and some SGI's, one of which is the NIS server. Recently, I shut down the machine to repair something and, after rebooting, it looks

shared library tutorial?

1997-02-28 Thread Dale Martin
Hello, I have built a PCCTS source package - PCCTS is the Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set - it produces LL(K) parsers. I'm using it in a project which I will eventually Debianize. The PCCTS package is close to ready to upload, except it has some libraries in it, and I would like

Re: ALT+CTRL+BS dangerous to X server

1997-01-21 Thread Dale Martin
Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently, the keyboard combinbation of ALT+CTRL+Backspace is set up to kill the X server. Is there any way to rebind/remove this feature? It shadows the handy emacs function of backward-kill-sexp and I have just lost one too many session

Re: Backspace, Delete with less in xterm

1997-01-15 Thread Dale Martin
Dirk Luetjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello less does not do backspace and delete correct, when having the variable TERM=xterm set. While using the search command backspace sends delete and delete sends ESC[3~. With TERM=linux it's ok. Backspace and delete are doing the right thing

Interviews...

1997-01-03 Thread Dale Martin
Hello. When writing papers, I have always used idraw to make my figures - I like it alot more than xfig for various reasons. Anyways, Interviews has been largely unsupported for the last year or two, so I took one of my trusty old Slackware CDs and made an interviews package. Note that the

Re: developers (was Re: Interviews...)

1997-01-03 Thread Dale Martin
Brian S. Julin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There should be a simple way for people to make available halfway complete or one shot debian packages. (You can make developer status necessary to get into the normal distribution directories if you are worried about nobody wanting to sign on and

Re: Interviews...

1997-01-03 Thread Dale Martin
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been interested in interviews for debian so I could package up mxv, a rather good sound editing program. I've never gotten mxv to compile, though, but maybe I'd have more luck if I didn't have to compile the interviews stuff on my own too. But

Re: cron

1996-12-20 Thread Dale Martin
Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my crontabs wont run ...? i login as root, type crontab -e and they come up, but they dont run ... am i doing something wrong? or is there another way of doing cronjobs on debian 1.1 ? thanks I noticed this too. Cron was not running. Note that

Re: What package do I need ? (libXpm.so.4)

1996-12-16 Thread Dale Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) but after installing the fvwm2 afterstep Window managers. I get: fvwm2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'. afterstep: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' What package do I need to instll to get this lib?

Re: color-ls??

1996-12-16 Thread Dale Martin
Hugo HAAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? ls includes now the option color : --color, --colour, --color=always, --colour=always Colorize

Re: How's HUP'ping isdnlog?

1996-11-22 Thread Dale Martin
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Re: How's HUP'ping isdnlog?

1996-11-21 Thread Dale Martin
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Re: Installation Instruction at www.debian.org

1996-11-21 Thread Dale Martin
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Re: PPP link kills routing table

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Martin
Eric == Eric Hoeltzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric I have had the same problem, I think, for some time. After Eric connecting to my isp's dialup with ppp route will just hang as Eric Mark mentioned. I have just merrily ignored it and manually Eric typed 'route add -net default ppp0' and then

Re: Problem installing with NCR 53c8x0

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Martin
Martin == Martin Konold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Larry Riedel wrote: I am using the boot floppy from the 1.1 distribution. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 (Triton II) motherboard with the ASUS SCSI adaptor (NCR 53c8x0) and a generic ISA VGA video card. The motherboard

ncr-810 support?

1996-06-11 Thread Dale Martin
It would appear that the boot disks for debian 1.1 beta don't have generic ncr-810 SCSI support - the .93 disks did. Are there alternative boot disks available with this support? I perused the installation document and saw no mention of it. Thanks, Dale