Re: [3Com Etherlink III 3c509]

1999-06-09 Thread Alejandro Romero
Cesar Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, Estoy intentando instalar la Slink en un 486 para montar un servidor de web y el problema es que he tropezado con el primer problema. He instalado una tarjeta igual en una maquina con slink y funciona muy bien... Lo que quiero saber es si esta

RE: Windows me salvó el procesador. :'(

1999-06-09 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Si estás tan seguro de que fue Windows quien te avisó, dime qué parte de Windows o que programa de windows lo hizo... A mi me da que el equipo se te había bloqueado por sobrecalentamiento del micro y que por eso te pitaba... no? :P Hola a todos... Yo pienos que no fue el Windows el que

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-09 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Hue-Bond wrote: El lunes 07 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 09:47:41 +0200, Jose Luis Trivino contaba: probado y tarda 3 segundos y medio en darme la lista de paquetes en un Pentium 333. Ua, qué vicio :-) Eso si, casi todos son librerias que me consta que usa algun programa.

No puedo montar floppy

1999-06-09 Thread Manuel J. Gamero Peso
Hola, se que puede ser off-topic pero estoy un poco liado. A ver, tengo el Debian 2.1 instalado en mi máquina (P200MMX, 64 Mb, 2 HD, Banshee...) pero hace unos dias quise probar en el otro disco duro a instalar el nuevo Red Hat que viene con el PcWorld. Bueno, pues la verdad, hay que

Re: [3Com Etherlink III 3c509]

1999-06-09 Thread Cesar Talon
Alejandro Romero wrote: He instalado una tarjeta igual en una maquina con slink y funciona muy bien... Ya, ya la he probado y está funcionando sin problemas. Lo que quiero saber es si esta es la única forma de configurar esta tarjeta. ¿Alguna idea? Si, es la unica forma, los drivers

Re: 3Com Etherlink III 3c509

1999-06-09 Thread Cesar Talon
~ Miguel P.C. ~ wrote: Hace poco instalé una parecida pero era PCI al intentar cargar el módulo (con modconf) dandole los parámetros me decia 'If You Want Rice Cathelyn' (que si quieres arroz Catalina), asi que probe, a la desesperada, a cargar el módulo sin darle ningún parámetro, y Voilá.

La Marginación de 2 personas

1999-06-09 Thread Paco Brufal
Estimado Amigo: Esto no es un HOAX, sino un XAOH, así que leelo atentamente: Este mensaje es para denunciar publicamente el tremendo sufrimiento que estan sufriendo 2 personas en este mundo. Desde hace varios años, 2 personas están siendo maltratadas psicológicamente.

Re: procmail para cuentas sin shell

1999-06-09 Thread mpadilla
Gracias, muchas gracias. Marga Marcelo E. Magallon escribió: On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Marga wrote: En algunas de esas cuentas quiero respuestas automáticas. Pues bien, despues de crear un .procmailrc he observado que las respuestas se producen solo en aquellas cuentas

Re: Problema con el xscreensaver

1999-06-09 Thread Alvaro Alea
BUENOS DIAS!!! Y entonces, va Tomas Bautista y dice ¿Problema con el xscreensaver? Tengo un problema con el `xscreensaver', versión de paquete 2.34-1, de GNU/Debian 2.1, y es que tras arrancarlo, al cabo de un rato, cuando se supone que va a lanzar el salvapantalla, se queja con xlock, could

Re: La Marginación de 2 personas

1999-06-09 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, jun 09, 1999 at 01:54:39 +0200, Paco Brufal wrote: Estimado Amigo: Esto no es un HOAX, sino un XAOH, así que leelo atentamente: Este mensaje es para denunciar publicamente el tremendo sufrimiento que estan sufriendo 2 personas en este mundo. [] Muy bueno pero

fatal error

1999-06-09 Thread N. Juan Pablo Solis L. \[Depto Sistemas Indursa DSI\]
Saludos amigos, Dije saludos Recien me acabo de unir a la lista y tambiem en el ambien Linux, tengo un problema esta instalando linux y se reinicio la maquina, trate de instalarlo nuevamente en disco limpio, pero me salio el sig. error FATAL ERROR OPENING RPM DATABASE Alguien me puede

Presentacion en la lista

1999-06-09 Thread Jose Angel Fdez Luengo
Hell-o a todos: Sirva este mensaje como mi presentación en esta mailing list. Soy un usuario de Debian desde hace unos dos años y a alguno de los que por aqui andan los conozco de sus andanzas en R34.LINUX. Espero que mi presencia por aqui sea provechosa para todos y podeis contar conmigo para

PhP + Debian + Apache

1999-06-09 Thread Raul Perez Justicia
Hola! Estoy jugando un poco con el php el apache y mi debian y me encuentro que todos los scrpts que me bajo pues me saltan con el error: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in phpPollUI.php3 on line 218 Por ejemplo... Que es lo que debe estar

Pregunta para desarrolladores.

1999-06-09 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Me mandaron un monton de .o desarrollados en C. La cosa es que quiero saber que tienen adentro. Alguna sugerencia? Saludos Gustavo

Re: PhP + Debian + Apache

1999-06-09 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Raul Perez Justicia wrote: Hola! Estoy jugando un poco con el php el apache y mi debian y me encuentro que todos los scrpts que me bajo pues me saltan con el error: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in phpPollUI.php3

La Marginación de 2 personas

1999-06-09 Thread Paco Brufal
Sean cuales sean tus problemas, no tienen que ver con debian. Abstente de mandar mensajes que no tengan que ver con Debian a la lista. Luis.

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-09 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 07 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 23:55:55 +0200, Xose Manoel Ramos contaba: ¿En qué paquete está esta maravilla? :-) Ya lo dije: `pkg-order' Ah, pensé que eso era un comando más. Ya me llegó un mensaje de Netman al correo y lo he instalado. Mola un montón :-). --

Re: ¿Utilidad para desinstalar librerías sin usar?

1999-06-09 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 01 de junio de 1999 a la(s) 12:10:20 +0200, Juan Ignacio Llona contaba: libsenpaquete=`dpkg -L [...] grep -v directory |grep -v link | grep -v text | grep -v /man | grep -v image grep -v link\|text\|/man\|image y acabas antes ;-) -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL

Internacionalizacao!

1999-06-09 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Estou usando o debian instavel, agora com o kernel 2.2.9! Jah experimentei diversos metodos para acentuacao, no modo texto funciona todo 100%, exceto que quando faco atualizacao enho que eraplicar tudo ;(! Contudo no StarOffice, onde uso fontes Type 1, quando as uso obtenho na impressora

Re: Atualizacao da pagina

1999-06-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Já coloquei! :) Abracos,PH Quoting Lalo Martins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 04:34:29PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Oi, eu atualizei a página (A Debian em Português -- http://linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/debian-pt),

RE: Debian, Slackware, RedHat and OSS (fwd)

1999-06-09 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I finally tried RedHat a couple of years later I was disgusted because it wanted me to do configuration using their 'tools' vs. just editing /etc/* --- I found that I could tweak it a lot less before the whole thing broke and I finally reinstalled

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread Greg Starkes
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have pine 4.10 sitting in /usr/local and was trying to get the following .procmailrc to work (it's almost straight from procmailex man page) I am doing that with Pine 4.05 on an OSF/1 system, so this might work for 4.10 on Linux. Did you enable

still wterm

1999-06-09 Thread Pedro M . A . Bastos
still trying to compile wterm, i got the two libs that were missing (wmaker and wings). so, i went to wterm's dir and restarted the compile process: configure - ok. make - /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory and i have libxpm installed.(xpm4g). can anybody help

Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...

1999-06-09 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote: I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ?

apt-get segfaults while creating dependency tree

1999-06-09 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Recently, apt-get has started segfaulting on me every time I do an apt-get install. It will also often do it in the upgrade phase. This is, of course, quite frustrating. I'm using the 0.3.6 package. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know a workaround or fix? I've seen a bug report on

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Jun, rathon wrote about Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ] Finally resolved all the dependencies and ran xf86config. It wrote out the file in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that looks ok too. When I do, % startx, I get the error: bash:

Amanda 2.4.0-3 from Debian 2.1, missing files?

1999-06-09 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, I've installed amanda 2.4.0-3 from the Debian 2.1 CDs, and there were no dependency errors. However, after configuring amanda and running amcheck, I receive an email report containing these client errors: - ERROR: localhost: [can not execute /sbin/dump: No such file or directory]

SV: SV: A little further: Short newbie question

1999-06-09 Thread vw
I don't have an isp for the computer (silly, I know), and I have already installed the base system, which seems to be in fine working order. What I did was to swap the hd into a WinNT box (on my LAN w/ 100Mbit connection at work) and download the lot to that, but I somehow managed to loose the

Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all, What is the best way to configure my sound card in Debian Linux ? thanks !!! regards, Andrew J Fortune For starters you could tell what card you have, whether it's PnP or not, what settings you have for it (Boot into Windows to get the settings, like DMA, IRQ, IO). Andrew

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Mark Wright writes: Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system. They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't selling it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread Dpk
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have pine 4.10 sitting in /usr/local and was trying to get the following .procmailrc to work (it's almost straight from procmailex man page) PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
Mark Wright writes: Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system. They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't selling it. I don't think that's anything to do with it. BSD UNIX *is* a UNIX

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I wrote: John Hasler wrote: Mark Wright writes: Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system. They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't selling it. I don't think that's

Re: A dumb, somewhat off-topic question...

1999-06-09 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: Mark Wright writes: Did someone register FreeBSD? If you check out FreeBSD.org, they say FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system. They don't need anyone's permission to call FreeBSD UNIX. They aren't selling it. I don't

Re: apt-get segfaults while creating dependency tree

1999-06-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Recently, apt-get has started segfaulting on me every time I do an apt-get install. It will also often do it in the upgrade phase. This is, of course, quite frustrating. I'm using the 0.3.6 package. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone

Re: A better telnet?

1999-06-09 Thread Ben Finney
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 eric a. Farris wrote: I heartily recommend Tera Term Pro, a much better telnet client than M$ could ship. it's on par with commercial solutions like SmarTerm, IMO. It is free (in the beer sense, with source code available) and can even do ssh with a free addon. It'll do

Router help

1999-06-09 Thread Robert Rati
I'm trying to install Debian on a PS/2 55 sx (386/16) and am running into a number of problems. First, I've compiled a 2.2.9 kernel for it, and copied it onto the machine and run lilo, but when I try to boot, it uncompresses the kernel and says it's booting the kernel, but nothing ever happens.

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]]

1999-06-09 Thread rathon
I looked under /usr/X11R6/bin and there is no startx there.. I had installed all the base packages. How can I tell if I have xbase-clients package installed? If I do not have it, how do I install it from my CD. % dpkg -i ???.deb Regards, Rathon. Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 8

Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Jun, rathon wrote about Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]] I looked under /usr/X11R6/bin and there is no startx there.. I had installed all the base packages. How can I tell if I have xbase-clients package installed? If I do not have it,

RE: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Andrew J Fortune
Andrei, I have gone to the Device Manager tab in the My Computer properties in Win95. I have a Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio sound card. I am not sure how to get the additional information that you talk about ? regards, Andrew -Original Message- From: Andrei Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: still wterm

1999-06-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Pedro M . A . Bastos; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: still trying to compile wterm, i got the two libs that were missing (wmaker and wings). so, i went to wterm's dir and restarted the compile process: configure - ok. make - /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory

Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Jun, rathon wrote about Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]] I looked under /usr/X11R6/bin and there is no startx there.. I had installed all the base packages. How can I tell if I have xbase-clients package installed? If I do not have it,

wmaker0.60* and libc6 (slink)

1999-06-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Does anyone know if wmaker_0.60.0 will be released for slink system (linked against libc6, _not_ libc6 2.1)? TIA, damir

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread gla2
I tried two of the posted suggestions, but I don't seem to get mail at all when the .forward was enabled, here was the one I was using (on someone else's suggestion ) .login: |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 and the .procmailrc: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

Re: Exim config problems

1999-06-09 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: These three settings are important in exim.conf: qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz qualify_recipient = localhost local_domains = localhost Thanks, that seems to have done the trick... I had wondered if 'qualify_recipient' was part of

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread gla2
.login: uhm... I meant .forward

Re: ssh and kernel 2.2.9

1999-06-09 Thread Ivan E. Moore
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:24:36AM -0500, Brad wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have kernel 2.2.9. The instalation begin to generate a 1024 bit key and was generating the entire morning?

Upgrading with two cd's, at once?

1999-06-09 Thread Chris Frost
I'm about to upgrade a box from hamm to slink and can have access to both binary discs concurrently. Can I simply put both filename's (one under main and the other contrib) and do an apt-get dist-upgrade and be done? Or will I still need to go through deselect as well? (I hope not! :) thanks, --

Re: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul Seelig wrote: Please note that it was not me writing this message. I use Debian but you decided to tease the list ... hafi

Re: netscape with vi's keys

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, Is it possible to bind the netscape's scroll up, down keys to the same as vi's, just like what we can do in mutt! hi, take a look in Netscape.ad. there are a lot of key-translations, which can be customized. hth hafi

Re: XFS XFree86 3.3.3

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Patrick Colbeck wrote: [helpfull hints to xfs and xfstt] hi, thx for this info. i´m sure it will be very helpfull for others. hafi

search results

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
... in the packages search of the debian web-server gives the results under three headers: ´Release´ and ´Package(size)´ are clear, but what´s the definition of ´Quality´ ? e.g., a search for alsa shows for alsalib0.1.1-1 a quality of 33% and for alsalib.1.3-dev0.1.3-2 a quality of 99%. curious

Re: LaTeX

1999-06-09 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Look at LyX. On 06/08/99 at 07:05:46, Lev Lvovsky wrote concerning LaTeX: Hello, I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was wondering whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to LaTeX

Re: LaTeX

1999-06-09 Thread Barry Kauler
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was wondering whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to LaTeX (understatement), so a GUI-based version

wget

1999-06-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Reply-To: Hi, wget is great! It follows all the links and downloads all the files. But when it comes to java, it will only download the top level class. If this top level class calls another class, it won't know it. So how do I use wget to grab all the files in

libjpeg6a, libjpegg6a, kde

1999-06-09 Thread Anonymous Coward
ok i d/led the hamm version of kde from ftp.kde.org because the only other was potato and i am running slink. so i try to install the kdelibg thing or whatever and it complains about no libjpeg6a so i find the closest thing which is libjegg6a and libjpeg6b and install both of them and neither of

RE: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Andrei, I have gone to the Device Manager tab in the My Computer properties in Win95. I have a Creative AWE64 16-bit Audio sound card. I am not sure how to get the additional information that you talk about ? regards, Andrew Let me see if I remember off top of my head. In device

Re: libjpeg6a, libjpegg6a, kde

1999-06-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote: ok i d/led the hamm version of kde from ftp.kde.org because the only other was potato and i am running slink. so i try to install the kdelibg thing or whatever and it complains about no libjpeg6a so i find the

Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
Andrew J Fortune wrote: Hi all, What is the best way to configure my sound card in Debian Linux ? I'd like to piggy-back on this thread if I may. I've been unable to get sound working since I made the transition to Debian about six months ago. It hasn't been a major issue for me, but now

Re: ssh and kernel 2.2.9

1999-06-09 Thread Stephen Zander
Paulo == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paulo Hi all, I installed ssh in my Sparc 5 and I have Paulo kernel 2.2.9. The instalation begin to generate a 1024 bit Paulo key and was generating the entire morning? What is wrong? Paulo Thanks, Paulo

Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Mark Wagnon wrote: I have a AWE 64 that's PNP. From Windows, the resources it's using are: oh, you´re a lucky guy. i myself own a terratec maestro 16/96 and there is no chance of cooperation with isapnp. you could do as i do: intialize the card under dos and boot linux with loadlin, or,

Re: ISPs

1999-06-09 Thread Joey Hess
Robert wrote: Dont forget your small neighborhood ISP's. The smaller they are the better the service and the more knowledgeable (most of the time?) the employees. Robert Tremendously good advice. If you know your ISP's sysadmin, you're set. (If he's a debian developer, you're _really_ set.

Re: LaTeX

1999-06-09 Thread William Park
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 07:05:46AM -0700, Lev Lvovsky wrote: Hello, I need to use LaTeX for a project in one of my classes, and was wondering whether anyone could recommnd a particular type that does mathematics-related things (integrals etc..), i'm quite a newbie to LaTeX

A default 2.2.x kernel for potato?

1999-06-09 Thread Craig McPherson
I'm currently using slink with the default kernel, and am currently downloading packages to update to potato, and I was wondering if there is a default kernel for potato like there's a default 2.0.36 kernel for slink. I tried the linux kernel from the potato/main/disks directory, but it seems

Re: SV: SV: A little further: Short newbie question

1999-06-09 Thread Kent West
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:8. juni 1999 23:32 Til: Wichmann, Viggo Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Emne: Re: SV: A little further: Short newbie question [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a tremendous lot for all

RE: anacron doesn't send mail anymore

1999-06-09 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Jun-99 Frederic Dumont wrote: I'm using anacron to process cron jobs as soon as my computer starts. It used to send an email at the end with the output of each job. It doesn't anymore. The mail.log shows no sign of it, so it's not related to the mail delivery. Does anyone have a

Re: Kernel with APM support.

1999-06-09 Thread Shaleh
On 07-Jun-99 Jens K. Olsen wrote: Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: If this a standard Debian distribution you should see a file /boot/config-x.x.x which describes the configuration of the kernel you are running. You can use this file during the configuration phase of building a new

Re: A default 2.2.x kernel for potato?

1999-06-09 Thread debian
lspci is a 2.2.x only thing.. cause I noticed I have booted to old rescue 2.0.36 and this fails.. But I could be wrong... that is one thing I have noticed -Original Message- From: Craig McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date:

BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread John Hall
Webmaster at Debian, How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30 MINUTES and have gone to every distribution link on it, but there's no singular link that actually downloads ALL 2250 files of Debian, and WHO in the world is going to down load TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Robert Rati
Try reading the install documentation. It tells you all you need to know about installing the base system. From there, you download packages.gz files that have lists of packages and you select which ones you want. This is all taken care of in the installation process so all you need to do is

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
First of all, calm down. Debian is produced by volunteers, on their own time. It's not a company and no one is being paid. So if you aren't willing to work on the web site, at least be polite! On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, John Hall wrote: Webmaster at Debian, How in the world do I download Debian?

Open files too many/maxed; how to allow more?

1999-06-09 Thread Jameson Burt
My default gnome and enlightenment together open 1070 files according to lsof. Running two other X servers for my wife and child, my Debian Linux computer has 2800 open files according to lsof. I must kill programs to reduce the number of open files, or else requests like ls -1 |wc respond

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Craig McPherson
On 8 Jun 99, at 20:57, John Hall wrote: How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30 MINUTES and have gone to every distribution link on it, but there's no singular link that actually downloads ALL 2250 files of Debian, and WHO in the world is going to down load TWO

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kent West
John Hall wrote: Webmaster at Debian, How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30 MINUTES and have gone to every distribution link on it, but there's no singular link that actually downloads ALL 2250 files of Debian, and WHO in the world is going to down load

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kent West
John Hall wrote: Webmaster at Debian, How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30 PS: When you go to the Installion Instructions page, then you'll need to select the installation instructions for the architecture of your machine (probably Intel x86); that link

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Kent West
Robert Rati wrote: You are obviously frustrated, but you can get more flies with honey than vinegar. But he wants more files, not flies. Sorry. ;-)

Re: XFS XFree86 3.3.3

1999-06-09 Thread John Bagdanoff
Well, I can cross this off my list of Things that don't work. Although, with potato(e?) I had to change the 7101 to 7100. Thanks for posting this, Pat. John Patrick Colbeck wrote: Hi Well I figured this out eventually. Just in case anyone else is having problems with this here is how it

Re: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread mafox
I am running Debian 2.1, kernel 2.2.9 and I have my AWE 64 isa PNP card working fine as modules. One little thing I did have to do, was to put in the BIOS of my computer, to change IRQ5 from PNP to assign to ISA card. Whatever it is on Award bios machines. Once i did this, the configuration I

Re: Open files too many/maxed; how to allow more?

1999-06-09 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jameson Burt wrote: www.dejanews.com mentioned a patch, though I would hope I could just change a parameter somewhere. So, How can I increase the allowed number of open files above 2800? Thank You, It depends on which kernel

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Jun-99 Craig McPherson wrote: 5. Don't get frustrated! For me, figuring out which files I had to download to get a base system up running was much harder than the installation itself! :) (well, except for rescuing my partition table from the brink of oblivion, that was kinda

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Shao Zhang
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:26:35PM -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: On 8 Jun 99, at 20:57, John Hall wrote: How in the world do I download Debian? I've been at your site for 30 MINUTES and have gone to every distribution link on it, but there's no singular link that actually downloads ALL

Abiword space-bar weirdness

1999-06-09 Thread Robert . King
Hello, This bug seemed to weird to have not already been reported, so I'm checking if it occurs for anyone else. I've just installed abiword 0.5.5-1 It works OK till I use one of the pull-down menus (for example the font point size menu). Therefater every time I hit the space bar, that menu

K.I.S.S.

1999-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Knight
HELLO ALL i am new here. After the KEEP IT SIMPLE! outcry i thought i would share some GOOD news. I tried to get Slackware Linux up and running on my IBM755laptop _NOT_ for 30 minutes, but almost every night for THREE WEEKS to no avail. I finally said forget Slack. I got Debian up and going

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Lazarus Long
On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 23:26:35 -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.02b14) X-UIDL: d2077d16c3127d4bf73a47a47027a8d9 As one Debian newbie to another, As a non-newbie ... Thirty minutes

Re: Abiword space-bar weirdness

1999-06-09 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed abiword 0.5.5-1 It works OK till I use one of the pull-down menus (for example the font point size menu). Therefater every time I hit the space bar, that menu appears again! This is fixed in newer versions, which will

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread gla2
If you really want linux-in-a-file... I believe Slackware has a ZipSlack distribution... Slackware in one big ( 30something megs? ) Zip file you stick on your M$ partition unzip, and loadlin into... for this and lots of other Linux goodies try: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux Sorry to

RE: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Andrew J Fortune
Andrei, There are four tabs in the property page sheet for my sound card, and none of these seem to be the sort of information that you mentioned in a previous EMail, e.g. PNP and the like, regards, Andrew -Original Message- From: Andrei Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Another Newbie Q : Sound Configuration

1999-06-09 Thread Andrew J Fortune
I dont want to fiddle around in the BIOS...that is dangerous for me, as I don't really know what I am doing in there. There must be an easier way than this !!?! Most of the responses I am getting are along the lines I can't get it to work either. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Andrew J Fortune
John, I am also a newbie, and let me tell you that the frustration will not stop here. The configuration will take a bit of coming to grips with as well. Having said that, I am not trying to be negativewhat I would like to also say is that there is a tremendous learning curve ahead of you,

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread debian
I agree George.. I went from Slackware (used it for 4 years) to using Debian just 7 days ago.. Debian and apt-get rocks. Sorry to advertize another distro on the Debian list : ) but this might not be a bad option if one is just trying out linux and doesn't want to repartition, and personally...

CD-writer: Rico 7040a supported?

1999-06-09 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
It seems as if this Rico is a newer model than the supported Ricoh MP-6201. It is not on cdrecord's list of supported drives. Does anyone have experience of using this drive with cdrecord? Johann -- | Johann Spies

apt-get is correcting dependencies--still!

1999-06-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I decided to step up to potato tonight. I edited my /etc/sources.list file and did a # apt-get update # apt-get -f dist-upgrade as per the README. All went well with the download, but part way through the config KDE locked up on me. I couldn't do anything. Ctrl-alt-F#, etc wouldn't

Re: procmail pine

1999-06-09 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended Check this log file. Is anything appended to it when you receve mail? -- Brian May

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
Pollywog wrote: On 09-Jun-99 Craig McPherson wrote: 5. Don't get frustrated! For me, figuring out which files I had to download to get a base system up running was much harder than the installation itself! :) (well, except for rescuing my partition table from the brink of oblivion,

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
debian wrote: I agree George.. I went from Slackware (used it for 4 years) to using Debian just 7 days ago.. Debian and apt-get rocks. Amen! I installed SuSE and RedHat on my other computer, and then realized that I couldn't upgrade quite as easily. Needless to say, I scrubbed its drives

make-dpkg: Version number stays the same

1999-06-09 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
Whenever I compile a new kernel, I give it a new version number with --revision, thus: # make-kpkg --revision custom.2.3 kernel_image ...yet the version number of the resulting .deb package stays the same as the first time I compiled that kernel version's source. In this example, it would stay

apache with cgi

1999-06-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Can anyone help me set up apache so that all the users can execute their own cgi scripts?? I have set the following, but it does not work: in srm.conf: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi in access.conf: Directory /home/*/public_html

rsync over proxy/firewall

1999-06-09 Thread Peter Bartosch
hello, i want to rsync my local mirror from the debian-ftp-mirror in our country (germany) at my work, but they trust on M$, so i have to deal with their M$-proxy 2.0 :-(, but i don´t know how to become through it. which setting can i do (i´ve got access to it) to enable rsync??? -- until next

Re: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-09 Thread Jens Ritter
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Samuels) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: I am not impressed with Debian so far. [...] I have been using SuSE since v5.2 ( now on 6.0 ) and, having heard about apt-get, I thought that I would give Debian a try. [...] After finishing the install,

Re: fd0 deviation question

1999-06-09 Thread Jens Ritter
Jonathan Lupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Quick question on floppy deviation. Everytime that I use superformat to format a floppy, it does a little warmup test and tells me to set a deviation flag in /etc/driveprm. Well, before I did that I tried again and superformat gave me

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