Re: Problems with XFree86 4.1.0-8: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-10-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Patrick Schnorbus wrote: Suddenly, X won't start up anymore. I have no idea how long this problem exists, since my computer had been running continuously for a long time before I encountered the problem and I have no idea how long the last X session has lasted (some

Problems with XFree86 4.1.0-8: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-10-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
Hi, My computer is running the latest Debian unstable, including XFree86 4.1.0-8. Suddenly, X won't start up anymore. I have no idea how long this problem exists, since my computer had been running continuously for a long time before I encountered the problem and I have no idea how long the last

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be nvidia rather than nv, right?

GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
I've got a Diamond Viper770 video card, which has a Nvidia TNT chip on it. Using the standard XFree86 4 nv driver, 3D performance is, well, poor. So I decided to install the driver from NVidia. I downloaded and installed the nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages. With those, I built the

Bind9 broke inn2 2.2

2001-03-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
I am running Debian 'unstable', but with inn2 from 'testing'. Since newsx doesn't work with inn2 2.3 yet (and I need newsx), I am still using inn2 version 2.2.2.2000.01.31-4.1. But since I installed the bind9 packages, I get tons of messages like this in my log files: Feb 28 22:46:11

Fourth button of Logitech MouseMan Wheel?

2000-01-11 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
Hi, I just bought a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel. Previously, I had a Logitech Wheel Mouse. Using the same setup in X, I can use three buttons and the wheel just like with the Wheel Mouse. But how can I use the fourth (thumb) button on my new mouse? I have tried several things, but to no

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote: I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and that sounds fair enough. Any other?

Re: win95files names

1999-11-11 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name without the funny ~1 thing? I have tried mount -t msdos , but this truncates the name to *~1. I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the linux

Re: Allowing root to display to X...

1999-09-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hi all - I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work for

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, Allan M. Wind: On 1999-07-04 20:22, Rolf Edlund wrote: rm -i Backupfiles/--exclude=files.txt There are 2 tricks: 1. rm -i * (say no to everything that you want to keep) No, this doesn't work. The shell expands the `*', and

Re: Smail hosed.

1999-06-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Dan Willard wrote: I've apparently hosed smail. Mail still comes in, but doesn't get put into my mailbox, it just sits in /var/spool/smail/input. I must have killed it while getting a Wascom tablet to work last weekend, played with libs. Can anyone point me in the

Re: wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 20 May 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote: Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and therefore

Re: xwin

1999-05-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 8 May 1999, J Horacio M G wrote: Brian Servis dixit: ~ ~ To stop xdm from starting in Debian 2.1 you have several options: ~ ~ 1) remove the xdm package ~ 2) put an exit 0 at the top of the /etc/init.d/xdm script ~ 3) remove the symlinks in rc?.d to xdm with: update-rc.d -f

Re: 2 network cards

1999-05-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 8 May 1999, MR wrote: I have two network cards (1 Intel etherexpress 16, 1 NE2000) in a debian system. Both are detected on boot up and both are ifconfig'd. This system will be used to connect my little LAN through IP masq to the Internet. For various reasons, I am only able to have 1

Re: what happened to courtney?

1999-05-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Daryl Williams wrote: folks, i am building a new firewall machine and in the process discovered that courteny is no longer available as a debian package? can someone verify this, or did i miss something? also am looking for recommendations on intrusion detection

Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.

1999-05-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. You will need

Re: lock user account after 3 bad logins?

1999-03-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: how do I can specify how many times a user can write a bad password before the system disonect that account. And of course after the account is lock, how do I unlock it. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Sorry for the late

Re: Oracle in dba group

1999-02-25 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Eric Wayte wrote: I was scanning the archives at www.debian.org and may have a solution for you! When installing Oracle on Solaris/SPARC, you have to edit /etc/group by hand and make sure that the oracle account is listed in the dba group: dba::101:oracle Yes, that's

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:49:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I need to get the full access Roderick: Are

Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote: Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes impossible. Just now I had

Re: Still the less fortune problem...

1998-12-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: case $- in *i*) # interactive shell only echo \n fortune -a echo ;; esac Hm, this gives me an Illegal variable name. error... What about /etc/profile or whichever file is used by your shell as

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Ted Llewellyn wrote: Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.8,

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-03 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: about auto-removing unneeded packages I think the best solution would be to be able to mark packages in dselect and dpkg, just like we currently have them marked as 'purge', 'hold', etc. We would just add a way to mark packages as

Re: Debian Netscape Installer and glibc2 Communicator 4.06

1998-09-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Jianbo Zhang wrote: Hi Debians, When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with

Re: running root X programs

1998-09-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another idea, the simplest one I could think of: in your startx script, add the line ``cat ~root/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority'' just after ``serverargs=$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority''. First startx as root to create the ~root/.Xauthority

Re: Kernel compile fails on Cyrix...

1998-09-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Michael Beattie wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Mike Brownlow wrote: Jeremy Tregunna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I just installed hamm on a cyrix 686 system from scratch and I have 2 problems:

Re: X-windows on a Valuepoint

1998-06-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this: # /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers [snip comments in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers] :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X the last line is particularly important,also,check the location of X,it may be different on your

Re: How to make X fonts Bigger

1998-06-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Oz Dror wrote: . All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11? Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it. I believe

Re: NT and Linux

1998-06-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michele Comitini wrote: One great advantage is that you can combine any kind of partitions form different devices (even a combination of partitions from a mix of IDE or SCISI hard-disks!) and have different personalities (i.e. RAID-5 for filesystem partitions, RAID-0 for

Re: how to get color ls display?

1998-05-27 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 26 May 1998, the lone gunman wrote: Hello: I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the answers. Getting color with ls! I copied my /etc/DIR_COLORS from my old slackware system to my new

Re: Where is killall

1998-05-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Oz Dror wrote: I have installed the new procps pakage and the killall command is lost. I tried dpkg -S killall and I could not find it. Does any one knows where is it? killall is in the psmisc package. You could also take a look at the skill command, which is in the

Re: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 2 May 1998, lantz moore wrote: DZM == David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DZM More elegant solutions involve using the xauth access-control DZM mechanism. If you are the only person on your system with root DZM access, you can make things work by symlinking root's .Xauthority DZM

Re: LaTeX installation

1998-05-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 25 Apr 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Luka Pravica [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the installation error-file (from dpkg) obviosly some files are missing, like texmf.cnf, language.dat... I tried searching for those files but they are not on my hard drive. Perhaps all those files

Re: securing debian

1998-05-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: Just a point of note: If your brother has physical access to the machine there is no way you can stop him from getting root access. You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD and then locking the bios - but if he's smart

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-05-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Adam Shand wrote: is this a bug or have i done something wrong? Have you compiled your own tk8.0 binaries? If not, you could have the wrong version of the tk8.0 package. Did you use any --force flags on dpkg when installing tkman? You need at least version

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-05-02 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote: Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :) just installed the debian package and now i get this message... badger(larry) tkman Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0. You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebuild wish.

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: Are you aware that among other things the patches to pine added since the last binary package was released include things which are not merely configuration but are purely bug fixes, feature

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the Windows components, I think. That sounds right

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue. It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You get the idea. The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the lines of: This software is owned

Re: why?

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic (1) Why would anyone intentionally want to send email to a bogus header? to wreak havoc?? ... to bounce spam

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Yeah! Is there a good reason why xffst is not started in /etc/rc.boot (or something)? I can think of a reason or two...no not really... there is a problem with trying to stop it (without

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-23 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured: I don't know if I agree witha bug report against X

Re: Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space my idea was to mount my Windows NT home directory here at work and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) o far I have mounted my home drive \\home5\sjc8$ on

Re: Xdm

1998-04-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I've just started having a look at Xdm, and have decided I would like to use it if I can do two things. 1) How do you add another display (:1), I had a look at the Xservers file, and added a new line, but it died... In the latest xbase package,

Re: I now HAVE PINE Debian package.. how do I install it?

1998-04-21 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote: What a interesting thread my PINE question created... OK I have found a Debian package for pine, pine3.96L-2 the file is pine_3_9.deb its located on the root of /dev/hda7 , a MSDOS partition on my drive, which is not mounted by default,

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there

Re: Residual X11R5 and a.out errors?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Britton wrote: While trying to install or remove X programs with dselect, I often get whole slews of errors like these: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or

Re: why?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: header? Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for

Re: What libs to use ???

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: Hello This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help me. I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this with

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package

Re: smail Hostnames--Simplified

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). If my machine has the fullname newname.bf.org can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using smail? How? Thanks. You mean you

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...but... you have make a mistake ;-) in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools Yes, silly me. I knew that, I just didn't think of it. I

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: tzconfig - sets your timezone date - sets your system clock hwclock - sets your hardware clock xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference to Internet timeservers What is the difference between hwclock and

Re: X11R6.4

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote: Is anyone going to port the X11R6.4 as a non-free package? I don't think so. X being big as it is, you'd need a large group of developers to maintain and develop an XFree86-like port of X11R6.4. Those people could spend their time much better and would

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100mb bus-master pci adapter? You don't need a .deb package for that. The driver is in the kernel. If it is not in your kernel, you should compile your own kernel to get support

Re: NiC Cards

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: Thats fine and all, but seeing as I don't have any driver codes from 3Com how would I go about writing a driver for it? I thought the driver code is already in the standard kernel source code. You only need to turn on the support for your card, check

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting into and Windows product). However, when I create large text (like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if the

Re: procmail question

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Hi all there! I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I have big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can anybody tell me how? Try the procmail and procmailex (examples) man or info (better

Re: How can I add the 3rd ethernet card ?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stellar R'espree wrote: Hi, I use a PC linux machine with 2 ethernet cards. (one for eth0, the other for eth1). And now, I want to add third ethernet card. It is recognized as eht2 at my machine, but when I tried to following command, /sbin/ifconfig eth2

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that is true I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP I can't seem to get mail working

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new ultra-DMA IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. If you want

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...but... you have make a mistake ;-) in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools Yes, silly me. I knew that, I just didn't think of it. I always though raidtools is for 2.1.XX and mdutils for 2.0.xx

Re: Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is Take a look at the enlightenment wm

Re: Where did my init.d/boot go?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:42:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system. I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all of my out-of-date packages. Last

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: Hi all, I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know if hamm provices in its installation the tools to setup a RAID0 (stripping) installation. Also I would like to know if the menu for installation has RAID0

Re: Stopping XDM

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Shaleh wrote: All daemons in Debian can be stopped by calling the start-stop-daemon. An easier way is to look in /etc/init.d and call its script. for XDM it is /etc/init.d/xdm stop (start would restart it). Yes, and change the line 'start-xdm' in /etc/X11/config into

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Remco! On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: Hi all, I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Phillips writes: I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.

Re: RAID installation

1998-04-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: I want to install Debian in a RAID 5 w/ 4 9.1GB HDs server. Are there something that I must know? Yes, you must know how to do that. :-) Read the relevant HOWTOs and man pages. Documents you should read include at least:

Re: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-06 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote: Hi! Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users. On the other hand, it also serves to monitor the

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Bruce, On the Thursday, 19 March 1998 8:00 you said. but I feel that my mission to bring free software to the masses really isn't compatible with Debian any longer, and that I should be working with one of the more

Re: how can I find broken symlinks

1998-03-19 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote: ldconfig shows me, that it can not find some files. I think, its because of broken symbolic links How can I find these links? You can find them with the symlinks command from the symlinks package. But be careful when actually changing

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ??? Where is this (none) coming from? IIRC, the glibc (or whatever is used to resolve the name) checks /etc/hosts. If your /etc/hostname reads omnic

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: Are you running NIS ? The only domainname executable that I saw with a grep of hamm/Contents came from net/nis. My box returns elm.(none). I noticed this a year or so ago but had forgotten it. I am about to make your suggested mods but don't want

Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:24:33AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't

Re: Mail getting stuck in .../smail/input

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Adrian Monk wrote: I am having the problem that some mail (only the occasional message) is getting stuck in /var/spool/mail/input. Running mailq gives: ABCDEFG-HJKLMNO From: atheris (in var/spool/smail/imput) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:35:35 + (Local

Re: Setting screen to BW

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: When I installed Debian on my system, I had a VGA screen on it, so I set it up for colour. I have put the VGA screen on a different system, and have a mono text screen now. Most of my system is now setup for colour, is there a way to unset the most of

Re: APM HD Powerdown

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself down at a specified timeout (if the drive supports it). This is not what I want. That way the disks spin down too often. What I

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Thanks... this works, but I had to make a hardlink to hostname... but I dont think thats a problem.. And yes.. I am running stable. I'm sorry I don't remember how things are in stable. I have been running unstable since July and many, many things

Re: command line mixer

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: On 18 Mar 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote: is played. Is there a utility that allows me to set the mixer via a command line program, so that I can put that into rc.boot? cam can do this, methinks. I am very happy with aumix, which can do just what Andy

Re: automatically set DISPLAY after telnet/rlogin ?

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Agbaglo wrote: is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to the host from where I logged in ? The easiest way to do this is to use ssh instead of telnet/rlogin. ssh is a secure shell, which means your password doesn't go over the network

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 18 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: If your /etc/hostname reads omnic, then you should have a line like this in your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 omnic.my.home omnic The fqdn has

Re: wtmp-libc6 (solved)

1998-03-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dpk wrote: I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'. The wtmp file remained readable until I ssh'ed to my machine - it

Re: Domain Name

1998-03-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash did it... *GRIN* In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of your hostname and domain name right? In that case, why to I get omnic.(none) ???

Re: syntax error in cron start-up file at boot-time

1998-03-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, James Dietrich wrote: The subject fairly sums up the problem: Below is a snip of the messages that are displayed upon booting. [snip] Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /etc/rc2.d/S89cron:

Re: dselect mystification (fwd)

1998-03-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
. Then, enter the 'Select' screen again and see what happens. Remco -- blaakmeer: 1:35am up 12:39, 7 users, load average: 1.11, 1.26, 1.30 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
until it exits. Remco -- blaakmeer: 1:40am up 12:44, 7 users, load average: 1.03, 1.11, 1.21 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Newbie question-install ethernet card

1998-03-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote: hi, how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my Debian box? The simplest approach is to use the program 3c5x9cfg.exe that comes with the DOS drivers to disable PnP support and then use the standard driver for this card that comes with the kernel. If

Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: After running autoup.sh where do I point dselect to complete the hamm upgrade from 1.3.1. Where you first used stable, contrib and non-free, now use dists/unstable/main, dists/unstable/contrib and dists/unstable/non-free. The rest is the same.

Re: netscape install

1998-03-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1)

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
mail between hosts running Debian smail tomorrow. Remco -- blaakmeer: 1:45am up 6 days, 6:14, 9 users, load average: 1.19, 1.38, 1.40 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
, of course. But I doubt I will get any results. Remco -- blaakmeer: 3:55pm up 6 days, 20:25, 9 users, load average: 1.58, 1.48, 1.45 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Upgrading to 2.0 from 1.2

1998-03-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes stable. Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first? No. There is a script that will do the critical part

Re: Virtual Consoles

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like mingetty? I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I

Re: loading support for 2 ethernet cards

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: : I am having trouble autoprobing more than one Ethernet card at boot : time. I have compiled support for the cards I am using (they are both : of the same type) but only one is detected at boot time. I

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: [question about CNAME records and MTAs rewriting the From: header when the hostname is a CNAME] One thing to do is to make sure that you have the following in your own /etc/hosts file: 130.89.222.95

Re: dosemu and graphics

1998-03-07 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, David Morris wrote: My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos games who it is very hard to say 'no' to). I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based

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