Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, lsk wrote: lsk Hello debian-user, lsk lsk I gote a problem with login, and could not find any reference to lsk solution in man and FAQ. After entering password i saw lsk Unable to cd to /home/MyHomeDirectory. lsk and then disconnect. login as root, and mkdir

Re: Problems with DSELECT

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Meredith Dixon wrote: dixonm I would, however, like to have an *updated* working text-based dixonm system, with Pico, the Unix editor I like best. I would also dixonm like to be able to run X and to use Netscape. (The one-CD kit dixonm included only the main, stable

Re: pid question

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
start it as root, or chown it to some group (say daemon) and start sockd as group daemon, and chmod g+w /var/run nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Pollywog wrote: pollyw How do I allow an app to write a pid to /var/run ? pollyw pollyw Feb 11 19:50:24 sockd[13079]: userid.libwrap: 0 pollyw Feb 11

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
ok..yeah i understand more now :) i guess i do the same w/pine, even though it's POP3 mail i can ssh in from anywhere and the mail is always there.. nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: jemena what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? jemena jemena Try this: jemena jemena Set up

Re: the uninstall approach...

2000-02-11 Thread aphro
its reccomended you use the linux fdisk to work with linux partitions.. but you can still do it with dos fdisk .. make sure to delete any logical drives before deleting the extended partition. if possible, use partition magic...makes life easier :) nate On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, pplaw wrote: pplaw

Re: PCI modems with Linux?

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
look your modem(s) up on this page: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/2207b.html confirm they are not winmodems, chances are if you paid less then $90 US. it is a winmodem. anyways if it is not, i think it would be easiest to contact tech support from the company that makes it and ask em how to

Re: So I guess no one really cares about the IMAP folder root.

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
curious what makes IMAP so important ? ive had tons of ISPs and been on tons of networks and all of them used POP3 .. what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ? nate On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: jaldha There was some discussion of having the IMAP folder root be configurable

Re: Samba server connection from NT WS4 without password + MC only runs as root?

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
i assume not all users have the same password? turn up the logging level in samba to level 3 and see whats going on. also it may be worth while going to samba 3.0 ive had much better results using 3.0 then 2.0 (3.0 is alpha) nate On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kubics kubics

FBI's find_ddos

2000-02-10 Thread aphro
some of you may of tried this..some not. anyways theres some new tool out from the FBI that is supposed to track to see if you got any DoS daemons installed on your machines. and although im 99.9% sure i have none i figured i'd try itout to see what all it does. the first machine had

Re: 2.2 kernel

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Onno wrote: Onno 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 are lokking good, is there anyone on this Onno list that find them unstable? Onno i avoided 2.2.13 it was just a bug fixer from 2.2.12/.11 .14 has been ok for me so far, although i have it installed on a BP6 that crashes on a weekly basis

Re: X config/XDM

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote: tphan Hi, tphan tphan I'd like to know what is the proper and easy way for a tphan not so X-experience guy to configure the X windows. Specifically tphan the configuration in the XF86Config, modeline, options, etc. tphan Secondly, how to setup

Re: 2.2 kernel

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: erbens 2.2.13 is evil. it throughly and completely and repeatedly ruins erbens filesystems. erbens erbens (i know not for everyone, but if you want to be scared into getting erbens rid of it i'll send the 64000+ byte output of fsck as it dumped 2/3 of

Re: DVD

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: dave I can get a DVD player pretty cheap. Is there any point in doing so when dave all my machines run non-Winblows? I don't keep up with the DVD camp, so dave could those of you that do enlighten me? xmovie, see www.freshmeat.net claims to be able to

Re: What do these HD errors mean?

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On 9 Feb 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: a.genk And so forth. The drive is an IBM 13G DeskStar (?) with 2M cache. The a.genk kernel is 2.2.14. Thanks! could be drive failing, id go to ibm's www site and grab their diagnostic tools(you need win* to run the installer) it makes a bootable PCDOS disk

Re: SOLVED: Re: Unstable kernel question

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: rickma So I went back into the xconfig and found that I had somehow turned off rickma the virtual and vga consoles. It wasn't hanging at all, the messages just rickma had nowhere to go. rickma rickma I've built and installed 2.2.14 with gcc 2.95 and all

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, David Teague wrote: dbt # hwclock --show dbt mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. dbt # hwclock --version dbt hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6 dbt dbt OK? This didn't occur before the millenium, and may be similar to dbt your situation. I HOPE you know a fix. If now,

Re: Looking for some Linux software.

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
use samba, see samba.org for the docs, get the latest CVS release for domain support for nt machines too. i find it better then the production release(2.0x) nate On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: aigari It seems to me that this msg didn't get it to the list first time, so aigari I'm

Re: Reporting RAM

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
make sure you got the line right i believe it is: append=mem=128M been a while since i used it though, the easiest way to see free ram is to type 'free' or cat /proc/meminfo or use top or use dmesg and search for the amount of ram it detects: Memory: 127948k/131008k available (1068k kernel

Re: External CD-ROM drive

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: mathes Hey, mathes mathes I got a computer for Linux now, but I am using a Creative Proprietary mathes External CD-ROM drive. It's not IDE or SCSI, so what should I do to mathes install? Thanks, not that it answers your question, but how old is that

Re: 3COM905B 10/100 Ethernet Config

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Todd Suess wrote: tsuess does not tsuess seem to be sensed at all, and no eth0 device gets created. I can do a tsuess lspci on the tsuess card, and this is the output, if that is helpful at all. try using the linux drivers at www.3com.com i have the same card in a few

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Kent West wrote: westk As a general rule, if I want to temporarily de-activate westk something like xdm, I just rename the link to no.S99xdm westk instead of removing/recreating-later. Being relatively new westk to Linux/Unix, is there anything wrong (bad habit, westk

Re: Apache FrontPage Extensions

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Sven Gaerner wrote: sgaern Hi, sgaern sgaern I installed Apache with this Extensions. sgaern The best way would be to download the Debian Apache source and apply the patch which sgaern can be found on www.rtr.com or on www.microsoft.com. sgaern You just have to add

Re: Soundcard Configuration

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] Ivo Alves C. J?nior wrote: ivoacj Hello! ivoacj Some days ago I wrote to this list to get some answers to my problem, but I didn't explain it very well. ivoacj I installed the soundcard Soundblaster PCI64 in my Linux. Now it works, but not properly. I can play

Re: Mail Server Migration

2000-02-08 Thread aphro
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Paul Kallstrom wrote: paul I am migrating our mail server from a RedHat box to a Debian box. Is there paul a way to migrate the user info, mailboxes, and passwords? I'd hate to paul recreate all of that by hand. paul provided the 2 machines are suing the same encryption

Re: ssl'ed / ssh'ed ftp ?

2000-02-07 Thread aphro
look into using scp its partr of the ssh package i believe. nate On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, t s a d i wrote: ch4di hello all, ch4di we use ssh (and ssl telnet) at our place to remotely admin some ch4di machines (we are on an untrusted network) ... ch4di our concern now is on ftp, is there

Re: ipmasq not letting through all web sites?

2000-02-07 Thread aphro
when setting up ipmasq use the -l option in the ipchains command(s) and make sure kernel firewall logging is on. that'll log it. and everything else :) nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: msherm I just installed the ipmasq package, and hooked up my msherm win98 box through my linux

Re: XSetup?

2000-02-07 Thread aphro
try XF86Setup .. ? nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote: Robert Robert Robert Ok, Robert I hate xconfigurator. It did it's job but it's confusing as hell Robert if you don't know everything about modelines and frequencies. Robert Robert When my box was redhat I had an

Re: email

2000-02-07 Thread aphro
probably that or a misconfiguration of ppp. you sure your POP uses PAP and not CHAP ? some of those big name isps do weird things.(like IBM .. or at least they used to) nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, davidturetsky wrote: davidt I installed my other US Robotics internal modem (not win)... the system

Re: Swap space newbie question

2000-02-07 Thread aphro
mkswap /dev/hda2 swapon /dev/hda2 add an entry in /etc/fstab for it type swap mountpoint none /dev/hda2 noneswapsw 0 0 nate On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: photiu Hello all. photiu I've just done a fresh install of slink and forgot to initialize the swap

Re: Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

2000-02-07 Thread aphro
try upgrading to xf86 3.3.6 see www.debian.org/~vincent nate On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Erik van der Meulen wrote: erik I cannot seem to get X running on my Tecra 8000. I have installed Debian erik 2.1r3. I run XF86Setup and select the NeoMagic card. For the rest I have erik tried a lot of different

RE: Socket 7 question

2000-02-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: jpleja Yes and I know that nothing available is that small. The NLX form jpleja factor is the smallest I've seen: 20.3cm x 28.7cm (8 x 11.3). jpleja jpleja The board that looks most promising to me is the Asus MES-N jpleja

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?ISO- hello everybody: =?ISO- =?ISO- i had used redhat for some time, and now i turn to debian(2.1r4).i found my debian run =?ISO- xdm auotmatic, i don't like this, how can i change it? when use redhat,edit the file =?ISO- /etc/initab, and set

Re: Schedule-like app for Linux

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
i'd look into lotus notes, it requires glibc2.1 ..so if u use debian u need potato.. but it has the name and the support behind it to convince the dumbass suits to use linux :/ we'd run it at my other job but they dont want to spend $1200 for the software. with notes to get that functionality

Re: Network is unreachable. HELP!

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: quares At boot time it says: quares ... quares FDC0 is post-1991 82077 quares The PCI-Bios has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command - 0005 quares eth0: 3COM 3c905B Cyclone 100Base Tx IRQ5 i've had this problem too, updating the

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Alexander wrote: AlexAp Hello, AlexAp I'm having problems... BIG problems. I have been trying to install Debian on my computer for the past 2 days - attempting to get it to install is more like it. Here is what happens: Everything seems to go well up until the point

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
-mail nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Lee wrote: lee I did download and install Communicator, several different ones (see below). lee FILE SIZE 16,573 KB. There is still no Messenger that I can see, just lee Navigator. lee lee aphro wrote: corel is using the standard lee netscape, you gotta download

Re: hardware problems

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
that problem on my older AOpen i430TX based motherboard as well, wish i could solve it. nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind On 2000-02-02 12:57:02, aphro wrote: wind wind it would be helpful to know if the machine has ever been running good wind under another distro/OS

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
im not sure about your drive but i have a couple 37GB ibms and they have a jumper on them that restricts access to 32GB and below, some bios's can't handle going past 32GB. check to make sure, if you have a drive that has the jumper that its not set. nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky

Re: Shaazaaam!!! Success at last!

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
try runnin XF86Setup (i reccomend it) or xf86config (more cryptic, but works if u got all the info it asks for) nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, dkphoto wrote: dkphot Ran dselect 'configure packages' for about the 6th time this morning. It dkphot finally finished doing its thing and had the Quit

Re: TV Cards....

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
a s3 savage 4 with winTV as well and his machine crashes hard whenever a tv app uses bttv, be it kernel drivers or the ones on the bttv page.(but it works in win98 ..) nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Hans wrote: hansfo At 07:33 AM 2/2/00 -0800, aphro wrote: hansfo i use a hauppauge wintv/pci hansfo

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
yeah, i told the person(maybe it was you? i forget) to download netscape direct from netscape and not bother with corel or debian packages .. nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Lee wrote: lee On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: lee if you downloaded communicator, you *will* be able to load messenger from

Re: big non-boot disks

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
usually yeah, or get the tech specs from the www site from the maker of the drive.. the only barriers i've found with ide are 540(545?)MB 8GB and 32GB haven't encountered/read about problems with stuff inbetween those, although i dont doubt there are some really broken bioses out there. one of

Re: quake-svga signal 11

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Remco van 't Veer wrote: rwvtve Could it be a quake-svga problem or am I still experiencing memory rwvtve problems? Could my video memory be faulty? Some BIOS setting? quite possibly a quake-svga problem. it also could be a mainboard problem..is the ram that you scanned

Re: TROUBLE: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 4300 / 550 with RAID

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
some controllers may require some configuration in the scsi/raid bios before using it in the OS. did u try that ?? nate On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Manfred Knoke wrote: Manfre We want to use one of this servers as a webserver. And we have to decide betwen Linux and NT. Manfre When trying to install

Re: Problem to burn cd with cdrecord

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
you using the latest version of cdrecord ? check freshmeat.net for a listing, if its a newer drive u prob need the latest release..i've never ever had a problem with cdrecord, i can burn while playing unreal and its fine :) i love it! nate On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Markus Jaekel wrote: markus On Thu,

Re: quake-svga signal 11

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
: rwvtve On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 09:30, aphro wrote: rwvtve rwvtve quite possibly a quake-svga problem. it also could be a mainboard rwvtve problem..is the ram that you scanned that was 'bad' in any particular rwvtve socket? i've had ram sockets go bad on me before when the ram was ok. rwvtve

Re: Upgrading kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 ?

2000-02-03 Thread aphro
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Anthony Green wrote: ninja I havent read much about ipchains .. but know how to use ipfwadm, is ninja there a backward compatability? not much backwards compadiblity, i havent gotten around to learning ipchains too well yet thats one thing thats kept my servers at 2.0.36

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
provided u got a decently fast machine it should run great..i have had no complaints about it thus far, been using it off and on since it first came out. run win95/98/nt/win2k/caldera openlinux/freebsd in it sofar. running on a dual 466 with 256M. it also ran good on my p200mmx with 128M on ultra

Re: 501 .... Sender domain must exist errors.

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
the problem is the SMTP mailer cannot resolve one of the domains the mail is sending from, either the domain itself, or the domain that the email tells the mailer it is comming from. one of the anti spam things. nate On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Tom Fuchs wrote: TomF Christopher, TomF I am having the

Re: VMware

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
vmware/linux screams because of the kickass memory management linux has. i tried an early release of vmware for NT, on a k6-2 450 with 256MB of ram and because of NT's memory management the 64M i allocated for VMWare was 99% in swap !! the machine had about 190MB free ram and vmware was taking

Re: TV Cards....

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
i use a hauppauge wintv/pci and it works great, just make sure to avoid the video4linux drivers in the kernel if possible they are outdated, go to the bttv homepage if your using a bttv-compadible card.(i dont have the link, go to yahoo.aphroland.org and search for bttv) i use kwintv to...used

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
to 4.7 but there's no still no Messenger. How do I add (find) Messenger? I gotta have a decent modern newsreader, I'm just no good with this terminal stuff. canuck canuck Lee canuck canuck - Original Message - canuck From: aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] canuck To: Lee Chapelle [EMAIL

Re: looking for Nvidia GeForce X server

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
upgrading to XF86 3.3.6 should do it .. see www.debian.org/~vincent now getting 3D acceleration under geforce may be a different story. you could try the drivers on this page too, 3D acceleration binaries for geforce and other riva cards

Re: Squid Proxy server-

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
this may not be the 'right' way but i think it would work, just delete the directory /var/spool/squid and run a squid -z to re make it .. nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Tom Warfield wrote: TWarfi Okay i have done this before but cant remember what i typed to get it to TWarfi work. I need to clear

Re: hardware problems

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
it would be helpful to know if the machine has ever been running good under another distro/OS or if its a 'new' machine.. install lm_sensors on the machine for some additional info about the mainboard like voltage and temp and stuff. i also find running X on the screen with status monitors is

Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian

2000-02-02 Thread aphro
try make zImage or bzImage or zdisk or bzDisk i dont know if zdisk or bzdisk (bzDisk?) are valid options but i know zImage and bzImage is, vmlinuz is not as far as i know. zImage is used for kernels that can load in the 640kb of memory, bzImage will load in 'high' memory (above 1MB i believe)

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-01 Thread aphro
try running ./ns-install it should work ..ive run it hundreds of times and never had a problem on either linux or irix. nate On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Lee Chapelle wrote: canuck Hi Tom canuck canuck I found kmail by good fortune, which supports multiple POP3 accounts, and the KD (I think it's

Re: Yehaw!

2000-02-01 Thread aphro
cd to /usr/src and run this: wget http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.3/linux-2.3.41.tar.gz mv linux linux-OLD mkdir linux-2.3.41 ln -s linux-2.3.41 linux tar -zxvf linux-2.3.41.tar.gz cd linux make menuconfig (configure the kernel to your liking) make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ;

Re: crash diagnostics

2000-01-31 Thread aphro
Jan 2000, Werner Reisberger wrote: werner On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0800, aphro wrote: werner try running your mahcine w/o a swap partition setup to see if the problem werner persists, (its just a shot in the dark..) you may have bad sectors on the werner drive where the swap

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-31 Thread aphro
, aphro wrote: dlitz what compiler? its suggested you use gcc 2.7.2.3 or egcs 1.1 ..probably dlitz should avoid anything newer its likely to cause problems like that dlitz dlitz nate dlitz dlitz I've been compiling with gcc 2.95.2, and things work fine (for the 2.2 dlitz tree, anyway). I even

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-31 Thread aphro
well, 2.0.36 has prooven itself stable to use. i have a couple patches in it, but probably the biggest thing is my main machines use software raid, i've read about some problems in 2.2.x raid and am not confident upgrading to 2.2.x will make everything run as stable as it does now. i am about

Re: Frontpage Extensions to Apache

2000-01-31 Thread aphro
try going to http://www.darkorb.net/pub/frontpage/ there is a company that works with MS on this project i forgot the url of it though, i could send you my patched binary if you like. it has the following modules(compiled for slink): Compiled-in modules: http_core.c mod_vhost_alias.c

Re: DNS setup question

2000-01-30 Thread aphro
if i understand what your asking you should be able to nslookup server your new dns IP domain.com where domain.com is the domain you want to lookup. the DNS will tell you what it thinks the IP is. if it is configured right it will show what you expect. the server command tells nslookup to

Re: crash diagnostics

2000-01-29 Thread aphro
try running your mahcine w/o a swap partition setup to see if the problem persists, (its just a shot in the dark..) you may have bad sectors on the drive where the swap partition resides. nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Werner Reisberger wrote: werner I am still having occasional kernel panics and

Re: Debian SAMBA

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
there is a debian distribution of SAMBA based on 2.0 its included in slink, and probably potato. i reccomend you use the latest CVS build of samba, as it seems to be MUCH MUCH better then 2.0, despite it's alpha/beta status. I worked with 2.0 for hours trying to fix problems to no avail,

Re: /dev/eth0 missing

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
eth0 is not a /dev device dont worry about it nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Marc Sherman wrote: msherm I just installed potato, and installed the NE2000 driver msherm (ne) for my ethernet card. I manually set the option=... msherm and alias eth0 ne lines in modules.conf, and it loads msherm

Re: Happy.exe

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
time to change to PINE :) nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri I was browsing with my windows box when I got the email with happy, arodri which made me very sad. arodri What is the best way to get ridd of it? I just deleted the message, arodri without further actions, but

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
dual cpus would probably be best, dual cpu mainboards are usually higher quality then single cpu mainboards, which helps. load of 5 to 22 eh..damn. what does that machine do? nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: shao Hi, shao I am going to set up a new server which will serve pretty

Re: is there a way to see a log of whatever is happening inside the x-window?

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
start X with something like: startx X.log then when yer in X tail -f X.log nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, joseph de los santos wrote: jhou Greetings! jhou jhou I was wondering if there was some sort of a way to see what x-windows jhou is doing because whenever I try to do some things like

Re: ascii file conversion Mac - UNIX

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Hans Ekbrand wrote: haek Hi all! haek haek Are there any program, or perl one-liner, that convert Mac ascii files haek (with CR only as line terminator) to Unix ascii format? I have only found haek the dos2unix proggie.

Re: CPU question

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
i'd like to know how you could possibly get 2 K5-166s to work together, from what I've read AMD CPUs have never supported intel's SMP spec, and never will due to intels patents. AMD apparently supports a SMP spec called OpenPIC (i think?) but no boards support it .. nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000,

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
what compiler? its suggested you use gcc 2.7.2.3 or egcs 1.1 ..probably should avoid anything newer its likely to cause problems like that nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jwang Hi, jwang jwang When I try to compile 2.2.12 at gateway2000 (pentium 200 with MMX), I got the

Re: help with kernel compiling

2000-01-28 Thread aphro
make sure you configure the kernel to run on 586 NOT 686 as it appears to be now nate On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jwang If you received a message a few mins ago, please ignore it, something is wrong jwang with mailing software. jwang jwang Hi, jwang jwang I fail in kernel

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
-0800, aphro wrote: alemas what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying alemas to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only alemas directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind alemas enough to tell me

^A^D to logout ?

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
i was wondering why debian (maybe linux in general, or is it bash?) doesn't allow you to use ^A^D to logout ..it just says to use 'exit' to log out.. im sure i could override this but wanted to ask incase there is something security related to ^A^D ..i use it on my sgi indy and it works great..can

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
is there a point to this ? just because you have a secondary DNS registered with internic doesnt mean you have to have one, i ran w/o a secondary DNS for 40+ domains for well over a year. the only reason i can see for 2 name servers is incase 1 goes out the other is still there, if they are on

Re: Primary and Secondary DNS one 1 server...

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
On 27 Jan 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: miquel That means that 50% of the people trying to reach one of those miquel sites saw an initial timeout of one minute when trying to resolve miquel a host in one of those domains when they tried to talk to the miquel non-existant name server. i

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
after using afterstep for so long twm just feels bland..id use it if i needed it(was low on memory) but if i had a choice..ack! i cant see my self using it cept in last resort..i havent used it much so im sure i havent gotten to appreciate it's benefits(if it has any other then memory conservation

Re: libz1

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
try apt-get install zlib1g nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Robyn Manning wrote: robynm I am trying to install libtiff3g, so I can install kde, it requires robynm libz1 but I can't find it anywhere. robynm robynm Any help would be appreciated. robynm robynm Robyn robynm robynm robynm -- robynm

Re: Is there a utility out there...

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
look what module redhat used ? :/ or you can download the OSS demo from www.opensound.com it has a soundcard detection/installation routine, i think u can use that, then uninstall OSS(or pay for it) to see what kind of card it is. nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Michael Jessop wrote: mjesso ...that

Re: Who serves with Debian?

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
that use debian specifically, linux.com does ..i dont know many sites that advertise what distribution of linux they run(other then linux.com :/) nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paul Kallstrom wrote: paul Heya, folks. paul paul I'm doing a migration justification report, so I need a few examples of

Re: LinuxConfig

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
linuxconf is in debian 2.2 (in beta testing now to be released soon) otehr then that i dunno what to reccomend..after using windows for so many years i learned not to trust GUIs whenever possible and go straight for the text editing.. vi has never failed me :) nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Timothy

Re: system requirements for SCSI

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: bs7452 I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers bs7452 so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower bs7452 computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't bs7452 require much from

Re: Is Hard drive too big?

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
make sure the drives are in the correct modes in the bios, usually LBA is what you want(i believe). if that doesn't help try hard setting the disks parameters in lilo (see lilo docs for this, i've never had to do it so i dunno how :/) or, partition them with something other then linux(what i do

Re: Port forwarding

2000-01-27 Thread aphro
if its simple port redirection you could try rinetd, its a snap to setup, i dont think it performs well under high load though it works great though. nate On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: meskes On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:06:01PM +0100, Fitsch wrote: meskes Perhaps you try something

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind enough to tell me the exact directory) while your at it check the

Re: Voodoo Banshee Help

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Blackman wrote: david Hey All, david I desperatley need help with my new voodoo banshee card. I david finally got X working, sort of, and fixed the consoel by using the david server from 3dfx. But I can't get glide to work. maybe i can help.. david The debs are

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
add more ram.. in cases with 64MB and below, swapping to disk more then you have available memory really causes severe performance problems esp in a GUI enviornment regaurdless of OS. and/or get another physical hdd to swap to. or, run it off of NFS and run the swap from local disk. with a decent

Re: xfree

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
unless VA/ORA updated it since last i bought it no it does not nate On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James Taylor wrote: jtaylo Hello: jtaylo jtaylo I just want to know (before I start the configuration program) whether jtaylo the xfree86 version that shipped with the Debian release funded by SGI, jtaylo

Re: Netscape questions

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, paul wrote: paul 1) whenever I launch netscape, top shows that netscape spawns itself as child paul process either one or two times. Why does this happen? Is this normal paul behavior for Netscape? If so, then why is the number of child Netscapes not paul always the

Re: X hangs modem/ppp

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
fire up gpm (console mouse driver/server) start using it to copy/paste and see if that does the same, if it does then it is for sure a conflict(doesnt have to be an IRQ conflict it can be an I/O conflict) if not..not sure what to reccomend, it is a hardware modem right and not a winmodem ..while

Re: Sendmail and Log files.

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
look in the headers of the mail..in your case the mail was sent from: Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [209.41.108.199]) by bebo.firetrail.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA01839 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:46:21 -0800 Received: (qmail 19136

Re: hard disk not recognized

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS windows compadible file system ? i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a broken

Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
if it is a binary program (do ls -l /usr/games/nameYourGame and look on the permissions for the x flag) then just run /usr/games/nameYourGame if it is not a binary program chances are your trying to run a program when that is not an executable. if the program is in your $PATH then you can just

RE: hard disk not recognized

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
part is formatted for linux and works fine as long as I don't use richar the controller card. I'm wondering if Linux just doesn't know about this richar kind of card? Bob richar richar -Original Message- richar From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] richar Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
what windowmanager are you using in corel? and in redhat? i highly reccomend AGAINST KDE on any 486 or any machine with less then 48MB ram. i bet much of hte problem is kde taking up all the memory and the machine has to swap to the end of helll to run any app :) nate On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Bill

Re: Trouble with X Windows...

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
upgrade your X see www.debian.org/~vincent slink has a really old X. nate On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Michael Jessop wrote: mjesso ...I just converted over (well, initialized my disk and started from mjesso scratch) from RedHat 6.0 to Debian 2.1 (Slink). I cannot get XWindows to mjesso run

Re: mail problem

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind On 2000-01-22 22:39:50, aphro wrote: wind wind I have 2 machines that handle 99% of my accounts. 1 is acting mail wind server(bebo.firetrail.com) and the other does everything wind else(galactica.firetrail.com) wind wind all of the domains i host MX

Re: Sendmail problems - resend.

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
if i had this problem i would just re-install sendmail, remove the current one (using --force-depends) and reinstall it. and reconfigure it(again)..make sure /var/spool/mqueue is cleared too..(move the files or delete them if they are not important, spooled mail) beyond that im not sure what to

Re: unzipping *.zip files

2000-01-24 Thread aphro
if your using deiban you need the unzip package (or the unzip-crypt) nate On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: mathes Hey, mathes mathes just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I mathes need to download a utility to do this? mathes mathes Thanks, mathes

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