Scripts de creación de dispositivos de sonido

1999-07-19 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola todos!! Resulta que me compilé un kernel 2.2.10, y pues ahora si estoy seguro que mi configuración de sonido debe funcionar, pero como reinstale mi debian hace no mucho, pues perdí los dispositivos de sonido, y el script para crearlos. Como el Sound-HOWTO dice que el script está en las

Re: Scripts de creación de dispositivos de sonido

1999-07-19 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hola! Resulta que me compilé un kernel 2.2.10, y pues ahora si estoy seguro que mi configuración de sonido debe funcionar, pero como reinstale mi debian hace no mucho, pues perdí los dispositivos de sonido, y el script para crearlos. En /dev hay un script que se llama MAKEDEV y hace lo que

Re: Scripts de creación de dispositivos de sonido

1999-07-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Dragonbreath escribió: Como el Sound-HOWTO dice que el script está en las fuentes del kernel y NO ESTAN, pues agradecería que por favor alguien me enviara el script, una vez alguien lo hizo, pero no recuerdo... ahh, y de ser posible un lugar seguro donde conseguir este script, porsia se

Soporte para sonido

1999-07-19 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Hola, es mi primer mensaje en la lista. Me llamo Marcelo Ramos y soy de Uruguay. Tengo una duda: como se hace para tener sonido en Linux. Tengo Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Instalé un paquete llamado cdtool que sirve para reproducir CDs de música y funciona perfectamente. O sea que si se reproduce un CD de

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Soporte para sonido

1999-07-19 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Hola, es mi primer mensaje en la lista. Me llamo Marcelo Ramos y soy de Uruguay. Tengo una duda: como se hace para tener sonido en Linux. Tengo Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Instalé un paquete llamado cdtool que sirve para reproducir CDs de música y funciona perfectamente. O sea que si se reproduce un CD

Re: Debian free pero ...

1999-07-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:26:17AM +0200, Antonio Castro wrote: La licencia de Debian especifica que solo los trabajos independientes y separados por si mismos pueden evitar que los terminos de la licencia GPL le sean aplicados. Ademas insiste mucho en el derecho a la informacion del

Re: ¿Qué tal `potato'?

1999-07-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:44:12PM +0100, Tomas Bautista wrote: Hola! He visto que alguno parece estar hablando maravillas de `potato'. Quisiera saber si tan estable es o qué, pues me acuerdo que hace algunos meses la instalé y tuve que volver a `slink'. Hombre, como toda unstable, tiene

Re: =??Q?Scripts_de_creaci=F3n_de_dispositivos_de_sonido?=

1999-07-19 Thread Jon Noble
Hola On lun, 19 jul 1999 03:32:31 Dragonbreath wrote: P.D. Una preguntilla tonta pero que me curiosea: Aun no termino de decidir como quedará mi entorno de trabajo en linux. Se que utilizare gnome pero ando saltanto por los wm. La duda es que muchos de los wm tienen una barra de tarea o

Re: Soporte para sonido

1999-07-19 Thread Jon Noble
Hola On lun, 19 jul 1999 09:23:50 Marcelo Ramos wrote: Tengo una duda: como se hace para tener sonido en Linux. Tengo Debian 2.0 (Hamm). Instalé un paquete llamado cdtool que sirve para reproducir CDs de música y funciona perfectamente. Para tener sonido en Linux, tienes que habilitarlo al

Grupos de usuarios

1999-07-19 Thread jvicente
Alguno sabe cuales son los grupos de usuarios que se crean por defecto con la instalación?

Diferencias entre Slink y Citius

1999-07-19 Thread Ángel Carrasco
Hola a todos, En Citius compilé el kernel 2.2.10 y desde entonces el aptcdrom no me reconoce los cdroms de Citius. Por cierto, es muy buena y tengo la completa pero tengo otros compañeros también la tienen y les pasa lo mismo. Por favor, me podeis ayudar? Un saludo. Angel

sALudos(Voodo Banshee en .deb)

1999-07-19 Thread Alberto Ladron
Hola: Pues ya baje los paquetes de Xfree y Glide para la Banshe y los converti de rpm a .deb y tambien he recompilado los paquetes de mes con aceleracion para la Voodo y los tengo como .deb. Si alguien los quiere envieme un email. sALudos P.D. Los paquetes son para Debian

Tarjetas de video on-board

1999-07-19 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Hola a todos, Estoy leyendo el readme para tarjetas de video con chip Cirrus Logic y en algunas partes habla del bus que utiliza la tarjeta (VLbus, ISA, PCI). La preguna es: si la tarjeta es on-board como se yo que tipo de bus usa? O es un tipo de bus especial? Pienso que la pregunta puede

RE: sALudos(Voodoo 2 Banshee)

1999-07-19 Thread Shasquash
Umm, si la gente de gillemot no nos informo mal durante la presentacion de la banshee, la voodoo2 y la banshee son bastante diferentes, la voodoo2 lleva un procesador 3d y 2 texels para el mapeado de texturas (por eso rinde tanto en juegos multitextura), la banshee lleva un procesador 2d-3d

Problemas para ejecutar la barra de GNOME

1999-07-19 Thread daniel
Hola, Siempre suelo usar WindowMaker sin aditivos ni colorantes pero me apetecía probar la versión compilada con soporte para GNOME, en la web de GNOME viene claramente explicado qué poner en el .xsession para cargar GNOME xterm wmaker-gnome panel Pues bien.. así es como está, pero cuando

Re: Diferencias entre Slink y Citius

1999-07-19 Thread Iñaki
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ángel Carrasco wrote: Hola a todos, En Citius compilé el kernel 2.2.10 y desde entonces el aptcdrom no me reconoce los cdroms de Citius. Por cierto, es muy buena y tengo la completa pero tengo otros compañeros también la tienen y les pasa lo mismo. Por favor, me podeis

Instalacion Debian 2.1 con NE200 ISA

1999-07-19 Thread Iñaki
Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED], Estoy intentando instalar el Debian 2.1 en un 486 con una ethernet ISA Realtek 8019 compatible NE2000. Sin embargo cuando llego a la seleccion de modulos el modulo de NE2000 (ne) me falla en la instalacion, por lo que no puedo seguir (quiero instalarlo por NFS).

Re: Tarjetas de video on-board

1999-07-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:42:30PM -0300, Marcelo Ramos wrote: Estoy leyendo el readme para tarjetas de video con chip Cirrus Logic y en algunas partes habla del bus que utiliza la tarjeta (VLbus, ISA, PCI). La preguna es: si la tarjeta es on-board como se yo que tipo de bus usa? O es un tipo

are Debian PERL packages still broken?

1999-07-19 Thread Pollywog
Are Debian's PERL packages still broken? I removed a series of packages so that I could fix postgresql. I fixed it and when I tried to reinstall one of the removed packages, I got this: The following packages have been kept back python-zlib python-examples libxbase-perl libcompress-zlib-perl

E2fs failures

1999-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, recently I detected problems with 2GB harddisk in an old 486 machine. The disk worked for two years very well. I tried several checks under DOS including a check routine from Quantum (it's a Quantum Bigfoot disk) and Calibrat (from Norton Utilities). No DOS check program detected any

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
Perhaps dselect is best seen as a tool for advanced managers and something a little easier found for proplr who are new ti Linux and trying a first installation. Or is Debian aimed at those house-trained bt Caldera, Red Hat and SuSE? Patrick

Re: Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0

1999-07-19 Thread Ian Stuart
Evan S wrote: I'm just wondering, if I want to upgrade to 2.2.10 in potato, how do I do that? I want to apt-get the source code so I can enable sound and such, do you know what command I do? And what steps are involved? There's a package kernel-package (warning, dependent on Perl, so you won't

pcmcia ethernet

1999-07-19 Thread Luis Erasmus Perez Moreno
hallo i have installed debian linux on a notebook travelmate 5300 (texas instruments) but my pcmcia ethernet (compex linkport) card does not work what can i do? which are the steps i have to follow in order i can connect to the net with my pcmcia card? thanks

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
Sorry about appalling spelling in my previous post.

problem with .xsession

1999-07-19 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi guys, I recently made the switch from fvwm to enlightenment as my default window manager. Currently, my .xsession file looks like this and works fine: enlightenment But when I tried to add other progs at startup using the new .xsession file: enlightenment

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs. It's in

pcmcia ethernet 2

1999-07-19 Thread Luis Erasmus Perez Moreno
hallo i have isntalled debian in a travelmate 5300 notebook ti, with a compex linkport ethernet card when i choose the Intel i82365SL-compatible type controller the card ligths its leds but the machine freezes in the booting process after: starting pcmcia services: modules cardmgr if i

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Jeff Bachtel
I'm inclined to believe that apt-get (and in fact most of the apt tools) are useful mainly script writers, and those trained on Red Hat. One of the reasons I still only show linux newbies how to use dselect, is that it is simply a matter of browsing the appropriate section or / searching for part

Re: problem with .xsession

1999-07-19 Thread Jeff Bachtel
Try: swisswatch xload xbiff enlightenment a .xsession is executed similarly to a shell script, and it expects the last application to be blocking, until the x session itself is complete jeff On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:26:36PM +1000, Cyrus Patel wrote: Hi

Printing pronlem with Potato

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi I am trying to print to a Netware prionter using Potato and apsfilter. I had this running fine using the Debain supplied kernel but I have now compiled my own 2.2.10 kernel and I can't print anymore. lpc reports the following when I try and start the printer:- lpc start all ascii:

Re: problem with .xsession

1999-07-19 Thread Buddha Buck
Hi guys, I recently made the switch from fvwm to enlightenment as my default window manager. Currently, my .xsession file looks like this and works fine: enlightenment Yep, that should work fine -- but is a bit bland. I can see why you would want to spiff it up some. But

apt-get on linux / download on NT

1999-07-19 Thread Joel Gautschi
I want to do the following thing: I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update some packages or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian dist. the problem is that I don't have a static connection to the internet (or sth like that) at home. My connection isn't fast enough if

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:31:16PM +1000, Carley, Jason (Australia) wrote: I think that is a little harsh. I totally agree that everyone should read the docs. However, that does not create an excuse for unintuitive interface design. An app that is designed to cover new as well as experienced

pcmcia ethernet

1999-07-19 Thread Luis Erasmus Perez Moreno
hey fellows! this is my fourth email in the same topic can anybody help me? instaled debian on a travelmate 5300 ti notebook, linkport compex etehrnet card used modconf to add modules if i add the i82365 controller, the machine freezes after starting pcmcia modules if i add try to add the

Re: postgres install error from apt

1999-07-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Pollywog wrote: On 19-Jul-99 Oliver Elphick wrote: There was a filename clash between libpgsql2 and a previous release of postgresql. You will probably find that libpgsql2 is not properly installed. This was because the psql executable was moved between the two packages and

ProFTPd runs as root?

1999-07-19 Thread Debian Mail
I realized that in the standard configuration for ProFTPd the daemon now runs as User and Group root. In an older version it used to be User nobody and Group nogroup. What's the reason for this change? Stef

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Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT

1999-07-19 Thread virtanen
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Joel Gautschi wrote: I want to do the following thing: I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update some packages or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian dist. the problem is that I don't have a static connection to the internet (or sth like

SB64 PCI Problem

1999-07-19 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Hello. I have an SB64 Pnp PCI Sound Card. I have problems with configuring it. My kernel is 2.2.4. I tried to use pnpdump, but it didn't find my card. Maybe because it'a PCI and not ISA ? Or maybe I don't have the latest version of pnpdump ? The card still works fine with Bill's stuff. Can

Re: SB64 PCI Problem

1999-07-19 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hi Petru, I have a SB64 PCI sound card as well. When compiling the kernel I chose the Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371) option in the sound menu and it worked fine. But I think some SB64 cards may use the ES1370 chip - in which case there is an option for that in the sound menu of the

Remove cronjob is safe?

1999-07-19 Thread andreas pålsson
Hello. My logfiles are filled by the line /USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a). And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules since I have no modules and no module-support in my kernel. Since cron.d seem to be something debian-specific my

Upgrading.

1999-07-19 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, I installed Debian Hamm in my computer three months ago. Recently, I wanted to install a more recent version of the xscreensaver package, and downloaded xscreensaver_3.10-1.deb from freshmeat.net. Before trying to install it, I did dpkg --info xscreensaver_3.10-1.deb and got, among other

fsck: Duplicate blocks error

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I just had this filesystem check error while booting: Duplicate blocks found ... invoking duplicate block passes ... File /lib/libungif.so.3.0.0 (inode #12302, mod time Wed Jul 8 02:36:34 1998) has 2 duplicate block(s), shared with 2 file(s): /bin/skill (inode #8284, mod time Fri

Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's home directory was created, and so was the line in /etc/passwd: usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash But if I try to log in as such user: login: usermaria Password: xxx Login incorrect What may I have done

pcmcia ethernet

1999-07-19 Thread Luis Erasmus Perez Moreno
hallo anybody knows what does mean the following? hd running, led of pcmcia ethernet card on last statement displayed starting pcmcia services: modules cardmgr but since that moment, the machine makes nothing (it freezes) what does it mean? notebook travelmate 5300 ti linkport ethernet

Download af linux

1999-07-19 Thread henriktrolle
hvor kan jeg downloade linux operativ system

Re: Download af linux

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
Go to www.debian.org, find a local mirror and burn a CD. Patrick - Original Message - From: henriktrolle To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:49 AM Subject: Download af linux hvor kan jeg downloade linux operativ system

Re: pcmcia ethernet

1999-07-19 Thread Frank Rosendahl
Luis Erasmus Perez Moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hallo anybody knows what does mean the following? hd running, led of pcmcia ethernet card on last statement displayed starting pcmcia services: modules cardmgr but since that moment, the machine makes nothing (it freezes) what

Unidentified subject!

1999-07-19 Thread Anders . ohrt
I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and install enlightenment. I don't have much experience with X... I've installed the X base stuff, and the enlightenment package (and all it depended on), now what? I did a locate for xf, but didn't find an xf86config or setup... Can I

SV: Enlightenment

1999-07-19 Thread Anders . ohrt
Oh, forgot one thing... I don't know what gfx card is in this box, has XF evolved since I tried it last, or do I still have to know what card it is? Anders Ohrt

Re: util-linuxi

1999-07-19 Thread Ed Kutrzyba
I'm having a hell of a time patching util-linux to mount crypt modules. Anyone have compiled util-linux (international version) that can support the kerneli modifications? Thank you. What is the problem you are having? It took me some time, but I was able to accomplish this. Did you read

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-19 Thread Hans van den Boogert
shutdown -h now is good. Remember to run it as root. reboot KDE comes with KDM which has a shutdown function which ordinary users also can invoke. Seems handy for stand alone PCs, but on a network this might be dangerous. -- Hans

E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Hans van den Boogert
There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found the following article in the Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for me at least), because of the real world example given. Sofar I have been less than enthralled with the

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 08:33:11PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found the following article in the Linux Gazette (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for me at least), because of the real

Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, When I add users, they get this when they login: enterprise login: newuser Password: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ No mail. Why is no home directory available for them and how do I get the system to create default directories by appending the username to /home? I need to be able

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
I have used this article to set up my home network and it is excellent. Clear, concise and to the point. One slight problem...I need to add and remove remote users a lot. Having all mail flushed into my account and then using a .forward entry for each user is a little clumsy. Anyone know if

Re: Upgrading.

1999-07-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:29:03PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: Hi, I installed Debian Hamm in my computer three months ago. Recently, I wanted to install a more recent version of the xscreensaver package, and downloaded xscreensaver_3.10-1.deb from freshmeat.net. Before trying to install

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check that in /etc/rc.d at the appropriate runlevel you have a umount script (it's the script that will get executed upon the shutdown to umount all the partitions). This should already be in place on a Debian

Re: Mails vanish after upgrading to potato

1999-07-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:49:50PM +0200, Tille, Andreas wrote: Hello, Hi! after happily setting up exim/fetchmail under slink (may be you remember the problems I had last week) I updated to potato today. Unfortunately I do now not get my mail on the local machine. After calling fetchmail

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread Carl Mummert
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in /etc/passwd

Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-19 Thread Stuart Ballard
I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere... I used the build sequence from /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.10/debian.README.gz, which essentially was make

Re: SV: Enlightenment

1999-07-19 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
Oh, forgot one thing... I don't know what gfx card is in this box, has XF evolved since I tried it last, or do I still have to know what card it is? You should know what video card you have. If it's PCI, then running 'scanpci' will give you the identifier string it responds with -- that should

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Jason Carley
Michael Merten wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:31:16PM +1000, Carley, Jason (Australia) wrote: I think that is a little harsh. I totally agree that everyone should read the docs. However, that does not create an excuse for unintuitive interface design. An app that is designed to cover

Re: Bootup logo

1999-07-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Jul, Gareth wrote about Bootup logo G'day all, I have heard its possible to display the linux logo on the screen at startup, does anyone know where I can find out HOWTO do this? Besides the other linuxlogo packages that have already been mentioned the 2.2.x kernels can also

RE: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Lewis, James M.
Ok, I upgraded to 2.2.10 kernel but my Samba still does not recognise my passwords from my win 95 system. My old samba configuration used plain text passwords if my memory serves me right. I think there was a problem with encription of passwords when I first installed it. If this is

Re: Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's home directory was created, and so was the line in /etc/passwd: usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash But if I try to log in as such user: login: usermaria

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi all, When I add users, they get this when they login: enterprise login: newuser Password: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ No mail. Why is no home directory available for them and how do I get the system to create default directories

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but you may have other reasons. Just make sure that the entry in

apache-ssl vhosts...

1999-07-19 Thread Jack Wilkinson
Hey everyone... I installed apache-ssl via apt-get (potato, etc) the other day, and it worked fine out of the box, but once I added a name-based virtual host to the httpd.conf file, it would die as soon as I restart the server... the vhost section of my httpd.conf is as follows: --

Netscape x 2 = 0

1999-07-19 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, all since I installed the netscape 4.50 packages I have had the problem that I can not close one of several instances without having all of them close on me. The problem is still there in the latest 4.61 I recently installed. I have posted about this earlier, and I think somone thought it

best video cards (riva? or maybe matrox?)

1999-07-19 Thread Samuel R. Scarano
I'm going to be buying a new video card soon, so I wanted to see if anyone had any advice to give me. (This isn't really Debian-specific, but I think it's something most of us Debian users care about, so I figured it would be worth a discussion on debian-user.) I think I'm in about the same

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-07-19 Thread John Carline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and install enlightenment. I don't have much experience with X... I've installed the X base stuff, and the enlightenment package (and all it depended on), now what? I did a locate for xf, but didn't find an

SV: Unidentified subject!

1999-07-19 Thread Anders . ohrt
I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and install enlightenment. I don't have much experience with X... I've installed the X base stuff, and the enlightenment package (and all it depended on), now

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread S. Massy
Hm. usually the home directory is set up and created in the adduser sequence. You usually get something like: home directory: (/home/$logname) what you can do by hand is check your /etc/passwd file and make sure the home directory field (ie the field before the shell path) points to an existing

Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm

1999-07-19 Thread Debian Mail
I want to remove lg-issue20, but dpkg gives me this perl error message: Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/lg/fixlinks line 25. ... J.H.M. Dassen said

Re: PCMCIA and interrupts?

1999-07-19 Thread tyler spivey
ok, get hte package strace. send that to the debian list . [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I recently installed Slink on a 5-year old laptop that had remained unused for some time. This was

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better than useradd? Patrick

Re: Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread tyler spivey
use adduser. it gives nice prompts and always works [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's home directory was created, and so was the line in

RE: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Daniels, Craig
I had the same problem when I upgraded to potato with samba 2.04. There's probably a better way to do this, but I fixed it using smbpasswd with the username for each of my users and entered a default password. After that, it seems to work fine. Craig -- From: Doug

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-19 Thread John Hasler
maxalbert writes: Since receiving your message, I tried ping debian.org. It responded... Once again, however, I'm only able to do this from within pon-poff. Yes, of course. You are only connected to the Net after running pon and before running poff. I haven't tried adding a default route

Setup Issues

1999-07-19 Thread Doug Young
Would someone please tell me where to find info on the following can't find anything relevant in HOWTO's or MAN pages or that makes any sense to me (1) When I ping a remote site . how to stop the stuff ?? (2)When I try to get Lynx working, it initially seems like its looking for

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere... I used the build sequence from

Defining Virtual Ethernet Interfaces

1999-07-19 Thread Butch Kemper
I have a problem with adding a virtual interface to the ethernet card. I have put an IFCONFIG command in /etc/init.d/network for the virtual interface: ifconfig eth0:1 inet 208.21.250.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 208.21.250.255 These are the messages

DocBook to html HOWTO

1999-07-19 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Can someone tell my how to convert a DocBook document to HTML ? Please send me a recipe because i've already looked at jade, sp and friends. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail:

Re: best video cards (riva? or maybe matrox?)

1999-07-19 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Samuel R. Scarano wrote: I'm going to be buying a new video card soon, so I wanted to see if anyone had any advice to give me. [...] Are there better sources of information than the XFree READMEs and the Linux Hardware Database (lhd.datapower.com)? At

Re: Remove cronjob is safe?

1999-07-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Remove cronjob is safe? Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:30:32PM +0200 In reply to:andreas pålsson Quoting andreas pålsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello. My logfiles are filled by the line /USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a). And I

Re: problem with .xsession

1999-07-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: problem with .xsession Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:56:52AM -0400 In reply to:Buddha Buck Quoting Buddha Buck([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi guys, I recently made the switch from fvwm to enlightenment as my default window manager. Currently, my .xsession

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: why so much hate? Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:09:40AM -0400 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi. from Altag. I can't figure out why Dselect package ,loving debian so strong, is so antiquate and really unfriendly. from

Re: Bootup logo

1999-07-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: Bootup logo Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:16:45AM +1000 In reply to:Carley, Jason (Australia) Quoting Carley, Jason (Australia)([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wayne. Can I just say that this is a very good way to answer this (or indeed many) question(s). It both gives the

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 11:19:16PM -0700 In reply to:Doug Thistlethwaite Quoting Doug Thistlethwaite([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the distribution does not have all of the

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but you may have other

Re: Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0

1999-07-19 Thread Brad
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ian Stuart wrote: There's a package kernel-package (warning, dependent on Perl, so you won't be able to do apt-based install under Potato). It's been updated, so it should install correctly no matter if you have perl-5.004 or perl-5.005 installed.

Unidentified subject!

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Edward Christman
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had any insight as to what might cause unresolved symbols. I am getting a large amount of these errors when running depmod -a. Thanks. Mike Christman p.s. I am using zlilo.

PCMCIA CD-ROM -- please help!

1999-07-19 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I guess this is an easy question, but can anyone tell me what device it should be to mount a PCMCIA CD-ROM? Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-19 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:06:59PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: About the 'no home' ting: it means that the system couldn't cd to the user's homedir after assuming the identity of the user. Usually this means that /home isn't mounted, or wasn't mounted when you added the user, but you

Re: SB64 PCI Problem

1999-07-19 Thread Brad
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: I have an SB64 Pnp PCI Sound Card. I have problems with configuring it. My kernel is 2.2.4. I tried to use pnpdump, but it didn't find my card. Maybe because it'a PCI and not ISA ? That's exactly it: isapnptools only work for PnP cards on the ISA

PGCC

1999-07-19 Thread Jeff Beley
Does anyone know of a place to get pgcc debs? I've heard pgcc greatly boosts system performance. --Jeff -- --- Jeff Beley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator PGP Key ID 0x0B2F82FD

Re: Remove cronjob is safe?

1999-07-19 Thread Brad
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, andreas [iso-8859-1] p?lsson wrote: My logfiles are filled by the line /USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a). And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules since I have no modules and no module-support in my kernel.

Finding orphans?

1999-07-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? For instance I just ran an install script for a non-Debian piece of software and it put some stuff in /sbin. It had a remove option that seemed to get rid of everything but it'd be nice to have something that would tell me that /sbin/junk

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