Re: Enmascaramiento del dominio y sendmail¿¿?¿?

1999-01-19 Thread Vicente Barba
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: On dom, ene 17, 1999 at 10:07:20 +0100, miquel wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Hola a todos, tengo un problema con el sendmail que hasta ahora no me había dado cuenta de el. Resulta que no puedo enviar e-mails a

valor octal de los permisos

1999-01-19 Thread Vicente Barba
Me pregunto si hay alguna forma (por comando o script) de saber que permisos en forma octal tiene un archivo. Gracias. -- Vicente Barba [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albacete [ES] 100% LiNUX: http://personal1.iddeo.es/ret003u7 Debian GNU/Linux -- Usuario Registrado # 90822

Re: Pipes en Linux

1999-01-19 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 10:55:20PM +0100, José Antonio Pozo wrote: Hola, ¿cuantas pipes se pueden abrir a la vez en C?. Gracias de /usr/include/linux/limits.h tienes: #define OPEN_MAX 256/* # open files a process may have */

Condiguración de Conexión a Internet

1999-01-19 Thread José Valcarce Alonso
Siguiendo las instucciones de Infovia-Howto (Método A) he creado los ficheros necesarios, pero me encuentro que al ejecutar pppd me da el mensage: In file /etc/ppp/options: unreconized option '+ua'. Espero vuestra ayuda pues es una paliza ir a Windows para conectar con Internet y poder bajar los

Re: Repartición con fips

1999-01-19 Thread homega
[Vicente Barba dixit: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: De los ~600MB que tengo en la partición de w95 he dejado 399MB libres para reparticionar con fips. He pasado el defrag y reiniciado con el disquete que lleva fips.exe. Todo lo que me permitía eran unos 97MB para la nueva partición (yo

RE: Condiguración de Conexión a Internet

1999-01-19 Thread Jon Noble
Siguiendo las instucciones de Infovia-Howto (Método A) he creado los ficheros necesarios, pero me encuentro que al ejecutar pppd me da el mensage: In file /etc/ppp/options: unreconized option '+ua'. Hola, el problema es que la opcion +ua está obsoleta, creo. Sustituye +ua - por user [EMAIL

Re: Condiguración de Conexión a Internet

1999-01-19 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mar, ene 19, 1999 at 11:31:58 +0100, José Valcarce Alonso wrote: Siguiendo las instucciones de Infovia-Howto (Método A) he creado los ficheros necesarios, pero me encuentro que al ejecutar pppd me da el mensage: In file /etc/ppp/options: unreconized option '+ua'. Ejecuta pppconf y sigue

Re: Repartición con fips

1999-01-19 Thread Mig
En realidad la nueva partición la quería para instalar Slackware. Así que he decidido librar a mi disco duro de windows (tal vez deje unos ~100MB para DOS). Haz una partición DOS antes de instalarlo con el disquette de arranque. Luego instalas sobre la partición creada. sugerencia:

Re: KDE

1999-01-19 Thread Nacho Priego
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01/18/99 11:21 AM Eduardo Barrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Buenas L-ers ¿Alguien a instalado KDE?. Tengo el cdrom de Linux Actual 5 y lo intento pero me dan problemas de dependencias y no sé que hacer. ¿Como puedo hacerlo? Help. Para evitar

Problemas de conexión con mi servidor

1999-01-19 Thread David
Hola, desde que me he actualizado no puedo conectarme a internet. En los mensajes del archivo ppp.log, después del mensaje: Connect: ppp0-- /dev/ttyS1 Luego muestra: Hangup(SIGUP) Modem hangup Connection terminated. Exit. He revisado los archivos options y pap-secrets, y estan

RE: Problemas de conexión con mi servidor

1999-01-19 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
En casa y en el trabajo, no tengo estos problemas, lo que no consigo en casa, es que grabe cosas en ppp.log. -Mensaje original- De: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves 7 de enero de 1999 1:49 Para: debian Asunto: Problemas de conexión con mi servidor Hola, desde que

Off Topic -- M$ Refund

1999-01-19 Thread Mig
El siguiente mensaje tiene que ver con Debian de forma indirecta. Espero que no os parezca mal que envie un mensaje como este a la lista, si es asi, hacedmelo saber y no se volverá a repetir. Es posible que alguno de entre vosotros halla eliminado completamente W95/W98/NT de su ordenador, o

Re: Problemas de conexión con mi servidor

1999-01-19 Thread Carlos Costa Portela
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, David wrote: Hola, desde que me he actualizado no puedo conectarme a internet. En los mensajes del archivo ppp.log, después del mensaje: Connect: ppp0-- /dev/ttyS1 Luego muestra: Hangup(SIGUP) Modem hangup Connection terminated. Exit. ¿Existe algo

Re: valor octal de los permisos

1999-01-19 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
La verdad es que es mu sencillo hacerlo a mano Veamos: octal = base 8 y por tanto se dividen en grupos de 3 los permisos de un fichero: rwx-- = 700 ^^^ ||--- 001 | 010 - 100 -- 111 (binario) = 7

Re: Migrar a 2.2.0

1999-01-19 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Bueno, gracias por la respuesta. De momento voy a esperar a que salga el 2.2.0 definitivo para ponerme manos a la obra. Luego me enteraré de que versión tienen que ser las herramientas del sistema para compilarlo (me ha sorprendido que usen las mismas versiones que el 2.0.36) y otro tipo de

Re: Compilación del núcleo

1999-01-19 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:10:48AM +0100, Herranz Martin Rogelio contaba: make install tambien te copia el nucleo a /boot, y ejecuta el lilo. make modules_install instala los modulos con estas ordenes haces todo esto y mas rápido ¿Que tal lo desinstala? Yo no dejé SlackWare por que fuese díficil

Re: Enmascaramiento del dominio y sendmail¿¿?¿?

1999-01-19 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 10:07:20PM +0100, miquel contaba: No sé si alguien ha contestado ofreciendo una solución a este problema y se me ha pasado por alto. El caso es que yo tengo el mismo problema -no puedo enviar correos a direcciones que coinciden con el dominio enmascarado- y tampoco sé cómo

Re: Emergency use of boot-rescue disk.

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
per_adua32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: %4. Edit the second field, which is the encrypted password, of % /etc/passwd to show nothing. It would look something like this: % You should then be able to login as root with no password at all. Problem is I don't understand one logs in as

Re: SCSI Hard Drive Questions

1999-01-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have two systems one with 2940UW and seagate UW drive pentium | 200MMX 128MB RAM | | the second with aic7890 (which is like the 2940u2w) and a seagate u2w drive | pentium-II 400Mhz 256 MB ram | | | the second system clearly runs faster. disc access

Sound systems: OSS/ALSA/?

1999-01-19 Thread Gossamer
I've been looking at OSS, OSS/Lite and ALSA and have become thoroughly confused. Question One: General knowledge question - where do these things fit into the Linux system? Are they patches to the kernel source, or what? Daemons? Has Debian packaged them and if so where? I have an SB16

weird vi exit behavior

1999-01-19 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, For some months now I've been experiencing a weird problem with vi upon exit. After exiting vi, the shell prompt isn't where I left it prior to starting vi. It ends up a few lines above where it was prior to starting vi. Does anyone else have this problem? Any solutions or suggestions? I

DEC 21143 Chipset

1999-01-19 Thread Kevin Traas
Can anyone tell me whether the 'tulip' driver supports the 21143 chipset? My card supplier (Kingston) has just switched from the 21140 to the 21143 and I've no idea what problems this might cause - if any. Regards, Kevin Traas Kevin Traas.vcf Description: Binary data

g++ -- installation difficulties

1999-01-19 Thread Jonathan Hayward
(Regarding the last message, I traced it to a bad symlink.) I have had some difficulties with g++. When I run it, I get the following error message: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Anybody have an idea what is misconfigured? Thank

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-19 Thread Frankie
Daniel Martin wrote: Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. What packages are these in? I had a look in oldlibs, but I'm not entirely sure what I should

Re: SCSI Hard Drive Questions

1999-01-19 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 18 Jan 99 23:15:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oz Dror) wrote: I have two systems one with 2940UW and seagate UW drive pentium 200MMX 128MB RAM the second with aic7890 (which is like the 2940u2w) and a seagate u2w drive pentium-II 400Mhz 256 MB ram the second system clearly runs faster.

Re: Emergency use of boot-rescue disk.

1999-01-19 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok, you can do the following: 1. boot the computer. When it asks you for boot: type in linux init=/bin/sh That will drop you into shell without asking for any passwords. Then umount / (reason for this is / is only mounted as read ) And remount the / partition as read-write. then edit the

PPP Dialup problem.

1999-01-19 Thread Mike Garfias
Hello, I've got a slight problem making win95 dialup to my Debian2.0 server properly. I get no errors ineither syslog, or ppp.log. The windows machine dials up, then times out after several minutes, telling me to check the password. I've followed the directions I've found in

Re: DEC 21143 Chipset

1999-01-19 Thread Zlatko Calusic
Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me whether the 'tulip' driver supports the 21143 chipset? My card supplier (Kingston) has just switched from the 21140 to the 21143 and I've no idea what problems this might cause - if any. I don't know about tulip, but de4x5 works

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin
Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin wrote: Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just d/l doom shareware version, unfortunately, it wants libXt.so.3 for the X version, and the svga version wants libc.so.4. What packages are these in? I had a look in oldlibs,

Help! X screw up

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
I haven't been in windows for a while and under the circumstances, wish I wasn't. I was trying to make my virtual screen larger and was messing around with FX86Config files. One was in /etc and the other I can't remember /lib or something. Anyway I couldn't get anything to change so I started

Re: g++ -- installation difficulties

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Jonathan Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have had some difficulties with g++. When I run it, I get the following error message: /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined reference to `main' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Are you sure you have a main() function in the program you're

Re: Problem booting for install

1999-01-19 Thread Matthias Schulz
Eric Jensen schrieb: Ok, actually a friend of mine is having this problem. When he boots to the rescue disk, or uses the install batchfile with loadlin, he gets the LILO prompt, hits enter, sees a few lines of kernel messages and then his machine just reboots. He has an AMD K6 with an

Re: Help! X screw up

1999-01-19 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Well, first of, you shoudl only play around with /etc/X11/XF86Config file Then...to get rid of xdm at startup what you need to do is boot into the shell and edit /etc/X11/config file to comment out the xdm-start line, and uncomment lines that say no-xdm-start or something. If you have no means

Re: Help! X screw up

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
Andrew Ivanov wrote: Well, first of, you shoudl only play around with /etc/X11/XF86Config file Then...to get rid of xdm at startup what you need to do is boot into the shell and edit /etc/X11/config file to comment out the xdm-start line, and uncomment lines that say no-xdm-start or

Re: doom (sorry)

1999-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
This is all unneccesary. The doom source code has been released, doom would be in debian but for a minor licence problem. Get libc6 .debs of it at http://kitenet.net/programs/debs.cgi#doom Daniel Martin wrote: Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin wrote: Frankie [EMAIL

Re: Help! X screw up

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
KTB wrote: Andrew Ivanov wrote: Well, first of, you shoudl only play around with /etc/X11/XF86Config file Then...to get rid of xdm at startup what you need to do is boot into the shell and edit /etc/X11/config file to comment out the xdm-start line, and uncomment lines that say

Re: Help! X screw up

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:55:05PM -0600, KTB wrote: I haven't been in windows for a while and under the circumstances, wish I wasn't. I was trying to make my virtual screen larger and was messing around with FX86Config files. One was in /etc and the other I can't remember /lib or something.

Re: Help! X screw up

1999-01-19 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Try just mount /dev/hdX / -rw Where /dev/hdX is your root partition. Andrew ___ Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:38:06PM +, Daryl Williams wrote: folks, i have a system running linux debian hamm with kernel 2.0.34. this system has 2 IDE drives. linux is installed on the 1st disk and boot using lilo. i have windows NT on the second disk which is set as a slave IDE disk.

Re: Setting up diald.

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 10:22:22PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: I'm having to reset up my system after a hard drive crash, and am having a hard time getting diald setup. I've tried to set it up using the provides scripts and examples, but they don't seem to be working. I remember when I first

Re: SCSI Hard Drive Questions

1999-01-19 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/19/99 at 12:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) said: [...] It's pointless spending much extra money for SCSI, let alone Ultra2 Wide SCSI, on a single-user desktop machine. SCSI becomes very useful when you've got more than half-a-dozen users or a busy

emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread KTB
I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the floppy: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) read only. sh: /usr/bin/check

Re: local web proxies

1999-01-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, For example, I like to do a crossword on the web. Can I automatically download the grid and the clues from the web-page when I first logon (in the background), and also get the answers from the previous one, and then use the localhost server to allow filling in, without re-attatching

Re: How to mail a file?

1999-01-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Horacio: - How would I gzip and/or tar the file? Yes. If you use tar, you can use the `z' option instead of separate compression (but note that some other versions of tar don't have that). Would this process take place before encoding? Yes. - And digital signing and/or encrypting?

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, There is the difficulty that Debian is an organization that is based on volunteers, where RH is a registered company. So managements tend to see RH as much more solid and stable organization then Debian. And that imply, when extending this managements point of view, that RH products

diald help!

1999-01-19 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I have a working diald setup on a Debian2.0 box but there are a couple of messages in the log that I can't seem to find a solution to. The items are logged when the link comes down. These are the lines with my comments added: : Closing down idle link;no problem here : Terminating on

Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)

1999-01-19 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:35:39 +1100 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: After all, Debian has a long list of bugs on its homepage, while MS has no bugs at all. (What was that quote from Gates again? No essential bugs?) That vulnerability is completely

Re: PGP public keysevers?

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:33:50PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed nslookup etc.)... I've never had any problems with horowitz.surfnet.nl. -- Mark

ATAPI CDROM problem (NEC-260)

1999-01-19 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi everyone, I'm really green, so pardon me if this is in a FAQ, but I did search the archives for this problem to no avail. I have an NEC IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. It says CDR-250 on the case, and the BIOS reports NEC ATAPI CDROM: 260 (or something similar to that). I'm having trouble getting it to be

RXVT does not refresh text when scrolled

1999-01-19 Thread Deepak Nulu
Hi, I have Debian 2.0 installed on my intel PC. I played around in dselect intially and unselected some packages and selected some others. Luckily everything worked. Well, almost. I have one very irritating problem. rxvt, xterm etc. do not refresh the text when I scroll. Currently I do not have

Re: oddlu corrupted file during slink upgrade

1999-01-19 Thread Jason Wright
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 11:39:39PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell spewed forth: gusgus:~ # ls -l /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz prw--ws--- 1 505 38296 0 Jan 2 1970 /usr/man/man2/iopl.2.gz And I can't delete it This looks familiar. I'd suggest: 1) e2fsck -cf /dev/hd? Haven't

Re: Quake2 nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Elenius
They recently helped a Xfree driver come into existance, so the tide is turning. Yes, but as we all know, it's not really open source, since the code is 'processed' to be unreadable. The TNT driver won't stay in future versions of Xfree unless they release real open source code.

Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice utility which will enable me to do this? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\

apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Is this at all dangerous? What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? Thanks, Mark.

Druckerinstallation

1999-01-19 Thread Christoph Beck
Hallo Leute, Als blutiger Anfänger mit Linux, stellt sich mir schon die Frage, welchen Drucker ich mit Linux ansteuern kann. Uhrsprünglich wollte ich mir den EPSON STYLUS COLOR 740 kaufen, aber nachdem ich erfahren habe, daß dieser Drucker die Sprache PCL nicht beherrscht, sondern nur eine von

Re: diald help!

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 06:52:37AM +, tony mollica wrote: Hi. I have a working diald setup on a Debian2.0 box but there are a couple of messages in the log that I can't seem to find a solution to. The items are logged when the link comes down. These are the lines with my comments

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:44:15PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice utility which will enable me to do this? check out the ncftpput utility

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi there, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice utility which will enable me to do this? check out the ncftpput utility No need for any utility apart from plain ftp:

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:47:49PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is set to get files from slink

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:12:16AM -0600, KTB wrote: I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the floppy: VFS: Mounted

compiling mc: glib.h sought for at the wrong place

1999-01-19 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! Hi! I am trying to compile mc-4.5.7 on Debian/Hamm 2.0. This is my first try in building a recent mc. |Configuration: | | Source code location: . | Compiler: gcc | Compiler flags: -g | File system:Midnight Commander Virtual File System

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Shao Zhang
HI, man ftp! you will need to write a file called .netrc in your home directory. On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice

RE: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Mark Herrick
Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink is? -- From: Rafael Kitover[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 8:53 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink. On Tue, Jan 19,

Mutt and Mailboxes

1999-01-19 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
I am using Mutt to read my email fetched from my ISP I understand how to move a message to another mailbox by pressing

Re: Quake2 nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 11:30:37PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: They recently helped a Xfree driver come into existance, so the tide is turning. Yes, but as we all know, it's not really open source, since the code is 'processed' to be unreadable. The TNT driver won't stay in future

Re: SCSI Hard Drive Questions

1999-01-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Hi all, I'm considering purchasing a SCSI Hard Drive to hold my system on, and I was wondering about debian/kernel support for the Adaptec AHA-2940 UW vs. the Adaptec AHA-2940 U2W. Also, is it economical to pay the extra $150 for an Ultra2 Wide controller and drive vs. an Ultra

RPM under Debian?

1999-01-19 Thread Jernej Zajc
Hello, this is Linux newbie and just-heard-about-Debian asking: is there support for RPM package management under Debian? The website doesn't meantion it, not even for the upcoming 2.1 release. Did I miss something? Thanx, Jernej

Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Jernej Zajc
Hello, how does Debian compare to the Caldera and RedHat distributions? Any comment from ppl that use/used COL and RH are most welcome: pros, cons, irritations, wishes. Thanx, Jernej

Re: RPM under Debian?

1999-01-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hello, this is Linux newbie and just-heard-about-Debian asking: is there support for RPM package management under Debian? The website doesn't meantion it, not even for the upcoming 2.1 release. Did I miss something? Debian provides different levels of rpm

Re: compiling mc: glib.h sought for at the wrong place

1999-01-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:03:36 + (GMT), Marc Haber wrote: [...] glib is present in /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h and has been placed there by the Debian setup. I believe that configure doesn't properly catch this. I don't have a clue about the conventions where to place include files and

Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.

1999-01-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MH == Mark Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink MH is? Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly. Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install) There have been package splits, dselect will get them, apt-get

Re: Quake2 nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Elenius
NVIDIA backed down. Unobfuscated source is in XFree86 3.3.3.1. Excerpt from the XFree86 upstream changelog: 1278. Add the newly rewritten Riva code from NVIDIA. Fixes some bugs with multiple server instances running and other problems with the previous code. The NV1 code is

Re: RPM under Debian?

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Jernej Zajc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is Linux newbie and just-heard-about-Debian asking: is there support for RPM package management under Debian? The website doesn't meantion it, not even for the upcoming 2.1 release. Did I miss something? In addition to the answer you've already

Re: Setting up diald.

1999-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Rafael Kitover writes: ...something as simple as having an option that says Would you like to use diald? in pppconfig would have been nice, of course, Maybe someday. From my point of view it isn't exactly something simple, of course. Among other things, the default pppd options file has

installation problems

1999-01-19 Thread Brett Molinari
I am trying to install debian on a 386 with 8 meg of ram with floppies. I am getting the following messages before the machine hangs: - boot: loading root.bin... parity check1 Assumung it was a memory problem I removed 4 meg at a time and tried a lowmem installation with the same

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the floppy: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)

ATAPI CDROM problem (NEC-260)

1999-01-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Try linux /dev/hdb = cdrom at the lilo prompt. == Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

update to latest slink and the network is not more working

1999-01-19 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, I was almost up to date with slink, then, after two weeks, I tryed an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade Now the PCMCIA ethernet doesn't work, this is the error I get: hsogso:~# ping idefix PING idefix (10.1.1.10): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote idefix 64

Re: Automatic ftping in a script - how?

1999-01-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Frankie, I want to write a script in which some files are automatically ftped to another machine (a username and password needs to be entered). Is there a nice utility which will enable me to do this? check out the ncftpput utility No need for any utility apart from plain

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jernej Zajc wrote: Hello, how does Debian compare to the Caldera and RedHat distributions? Any comment from ppl that use/used COL and RH are most welcome: pros, cons, irritations, wishes. Well, I haven't used Caldera, but I feel (unlike some) that Debian is MORE

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I hope no one gets angry at me for reviving this thread, but I'm just now reading it and I think this could be an important issue. Christian Lavoie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My point is that this company would one day tries ot improve it's revenues and influence the Debian distribution to

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: Well, I haven't used Caldera, but I feel (unlike some) that Debian is MORE user-friendly than Red Hat. The dselect method of package selection is a bit cumbersome, but only because of increasingly large number of packages available. I agree... after

Fwd: Re: [OFFTOPIC]Gnu Utils For AIX

1999-01-19 Thread Jay Barbee
Resent-Date: 14 Jan 1999 23:05:22 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:03:18 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Raoul Boenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: rawrite for linux

1999-01-19 Thread homega
Jonathan Sprague dixit: dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:) say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot root disks from my cdrom to the floppy, would it be as follows?: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy dd if =/dev/hdb/bare.i of=/dev/fd0 dd

Re: emergency disk/mounting files

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, KTB wrote: I need to change an X config file I screwed up so I can get into Linux. I'm using my boot disk to get to root, so I can bypass X, so I can edit the file. This is the message and prompt I get when booting from the

bash programming question

1999-01-19 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, I have a small sh script that does essantially the following: variable=`find . -print` for file in $variable do some stuff done However, this does not work if there are blanks in the filename as $file would be incomplete. I cannot simply use -exec for find either since I call a

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Harrison, Shawn
The dselect method of package selection is a bit cumbersome, but only because of increasingly large number of packages available. One little trick I've begun using to get around the cumbersomeness of dselect is to use it to select new packages, but then to install those packages manually. That

HELP! Sound recorder for (Debian) Linux with signal level indicator

1999-01-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! Does anybody know about the sound recorder for Linux with signal level indicator? I have to digitize some signals from biomedical experiments, recorded on the tape recorder. I need to control the mixer's gain because the signals' level is different for different subjects. Therefore the

Re: rawrite for linux

1999-01-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Jonathan Sprague dixit: dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:) say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot root disks from my cdrom to the floppy, would it be as follows?: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom Yes, the image is a file on the file system on the cdrom. The

fetchmail, exim, fvwm95, and netscape mail

1999-01-19 Thread Rich Harran.
I would like to use fetchmail to get my mail of a POP3 server, exim to sort it, and deal with the SMTP interaction with fetchmail, and Netscape mail to read it, and to compose outgoing mail with. Firstly, I got fetchmail exim working together by using: exim -bd fetchmail -d 300

Re: rawrite for linux

1999-01-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Jonathan Sprague dixit: dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:) say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot root disks from my cdrom to the floppy, would it be as follows?: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom Yes, assuming you have an IDE cdrom as a slave on the first

help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread Luis Cabral
Hello I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). I installed also xfree86 and KDE. KDE and packaged applications (man etc) work. But I can´t make anything else work! I downloaded

Re: rawrite for linux

1999-01-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dd if=/dev/hdb/color.gz of=/dev/fd0 Again, use cdrom instead of dev/hdb dd if=/cdrom/color.gz of=/dev/fd0 This is assuming that bare.i and color.gz are disk image files. I guess from the name that the color.gz thing is a gzipped file, you will

Re: ATAPI CDROM problem (NEC-260)

1999-01-19 Thread Kent West
At 12:04 AM 1/19/1999 -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: Apparently the OS is making an incorrect assumption about the identity of the device and then failing because of it. (Ever heard of an IDE floppy? I've certainly never seen one). Anyway, after booting, there is no /dev/hdb device to mount.

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Luis Cabral wrote: Hello I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). I installed also xfree86 and KDE. I downloaded Wordperfect 8 and, after many tries, I

Re: rawrite for linux

1999-01-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Henning Makholm wrote: As far as I recall, the root filesystem image in the slackware install disks is supposed to be gzipped on the disk. It is unzipped into a ramdisk device at boot time, and then the ramdisk is mounted as /. (I don't understand exactly how this happens, like, where does

Trying to upgrade to slink (mc doesnt like this)

1999-01-19 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
HI Debian users, I have a machine that I'm trying to upgrade from Hamm to Slink, but I have a problem with mc (4.1.35-1) that is broken and I cant upgrade the whole distribution. I'm getting with nervous because mc :) I know that there is a new mc (4.5.1-1), but when I try

Re: Vedr: New installation - Xserver failure

1999-01-19 Thread Kent West
At 07:21 PM 1/18/1999 +, you wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The Xserver can's start. It's looking for a file, that doesn't exist: /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE It shouldn't look for that file - but for the XF86SVGA, I guess. I guess there is a configurationsfile

RE: bash programming question

1999-01-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Jan-99 Michael Meskes wrote: Hi, I have a small sh script that does essantially the following: variable=`find . -print` for file in $variable do some stuff done try: for file in `find . -print` do ${file} done The braces should help keep the variable

Re: help to make something work

1999-01-19 Thread Kent West
At 01:37 PM 1/19/1999 -0300, Luis Cabral wrote: Hello I started using linux, and I am enthusiasmed. I installed a Debian distribution in a very standard PC (Pentium 200, 32 mb, SVGA, 200 Mb on linux partition). I installed also xfree86 and KDE. KDE and packaged applications (man etc) work. But I

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