Re: lost+found

1999-05-09 Thread Alexander Gieg
'As 9:40 de 8 May 99, Gleydson enviou o texto que respondo abaixo. Ola'! (...) Aconteceu que, da última vez utilizei o comando fsck.ext2 com a opção -f. Ele encontrou vários problemas com o sistema de arquivos e todos eles foram corrigidos para o diretório lost+found. Para minha surpresa,

Re: lost+found

1999-05-09 Thread Adriano Freitas
Bom, o que eu posso falar para vc é que pode ter ocorrido algum problema logo na parte de particionamento do disco. Eu tive um problema desse tipo há alguns anos (hehe :) quando a minha partição de swap, por algum motivo alheio ao meu conhecimento, se apresentava maior do que realmente

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #824

1999-05-09 Thread Steve Gore
Andre wrote: 3) Why does debian say 'only the root can do that' when I type the line below: $ mount /dev/fd0 (or any other floppy drive) I've been following this thread, and I haven't noticed this answered completely yet. I have the following lines in /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static

Re: xwin

1999-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 10:06:29PM +0200, J Horacio M G wrote: Sorry to take back on an old issue. Since Ctrl+Alt+Fn can switch from X to almost any V.C., and supposing you can then take on any task under the command line, I'm seeing no real point in removing xdm or preventing it from

Re: X works, but no mouse?

1999-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:33:30PM -0500, Brent Metzler wrote: I noticed no one else replied to this, so I'll give it a stab. I had a similar problem with the mouse. The problem seemed to be caused by running gpm, the command-line mouse proggie, before X. This apparently causes

Re: xset - global settings

1999-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 12:45:44AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Problem: I would like to go a step further and set this feature to work even wiht graphical login screen. So that if I boot up my computer, but don't want to login, the screen would be blanked after certain time. Which script do I

printer stoped working after upgrade to potato

1999-05-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I upgraded my computer from slink to potato and it wont print anymore. Under slink it printed ok (terible quality, but its a dot matrix :( ) Only reson i can think about is the lines when it loads the modules: lp: no IEEE1284 device found lp using parport0 (polling) from lpq i get a message:

changing resolve.conf for deferent providers

1999-05-09 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it posible to make the use of deferent resolve.conf for deferent providers automatic? ie: pon provider1 will use resolve.conf.provider1 pon provider2 will use resolve.conf.provider2 I've checked, and i do need different resolve.conf (deferent dns numbers and a search line). Thanx

hebrew keboard mapping and XKEYBOARD (writing hebrew letters)

1999-05-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I need the ability to write hebrew letters under aplications (such as netscape). it doesn't neceserily need to be in the right direction. under hebrew vim i can write hebrew without a problem. I tried to remap the keboard in order to use hebrew letters under xterm and netscape etc. The problem is

Boot sticks on Parallelizing fsck...

1999-05-09 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
The other night, the power went out, and after it came back on, Debian 2.2 hangs on boot. I don't know wether my problem is related to that or the kernel compile as listed below, but it sits forever on the line: Parallelizing fsck version 1.14 (9-Jan-1999). When I do a Ctrl-C, it mounts the

networksetup problems

1999-05-09 Thread blutgens
Reply-To: A friend and I are trying to setup up a network of SuSE machines (they're his) We have the ethernet cards setup and responding, we think we have picked the right addresses (class C), netmask, etc. However we think the routing is our problem, they all know they're IP addresses but we

2 network cards

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

make-kpkg and an error message

1999-05-09 Thread Jayson Baird
okay, thanks for all the other help, now when I type this make-kpkg --revision=test1 kernel_image the kernel compiles it's little heart out ..until.. **Error Message** /tmp/ccc05362: In function 'main': /tmp/ccc05362(.text+0x42b): undefined reference to '__bzero' make[2]: *** [tools/build] Error

Re: Apt still not working

1999-05-09 Thread sballard
Curiouser and curiouser - the files http.us.debian.org_debian_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages http.us.debian.org_debian_stable_non-free_binary-i386_Packages in /var/state/apt/lists are identical (and contain what non-free should contain). I can delete the files and run apt-get update, and the

Re: changing resolve.conf for deferent providers

1999-05-09 Thread John Hasler
Micha Feigin writes: Is it posible to make the use of deferent resolve.conf for deferent providers automatic? You need to put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that replaces /etc/resolv.conf with the one appropriate to the current provider, and another in /etc/ppp/ip-down to restore resolv.conf.

Re: [Debian]: Linux-Zeitschriften [was: lilo.conf, KDE-Dateimanger und das I-Net]

1999-05-09 Thread Bernd Mayer
Christoph Lange schrieb: vorsichtwerbung Guckt mal bei http://www.cul.de/freex/ vorbei (da bin ich webmaster). Die zeitschrift freeX beschaftigt sich mit allen freien Unix-systemen, d.h. auch mit den freien BSDs und den freien privatanwender-versionen von SCO und Solaris. Der schwerpunkt

Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Lawrence Wickline
As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix system) Here is my dilema after searching though several different dists I have come to

ICQ Woes

1999-05-09 Thread Lawrence Wickline
THe Java Portion Of ICQ did not install correctly any I deas how I get this to work ?

defrag, non-contiguous file system

1999-05-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Each time my system runs fsck on reboot (when the disk reaches it's mount count limit) the file system appears more fragmented. On the last fsck run it reported 5.7% non-contiguous. Is this a problem and if so what should I do? === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze

Re: slink and netscape/mozilla

1999-05-09 Thread Jan Muszynski
It's even less clear cut than that. While in Netscape enter the following URL about:mozilla Don't forget that Netscape was Mozilla before it was Netscape. Mozilla comes again. On 6 May 99, at 10:23, Jerry Gardner wrote about Re: slink and netscape/mozilla: Ray writes: Netscape

Re: Q: multi-cd method.

1999-05-09 Thread johnny
Actually, you need to insert the second or last CD of your multi-cd archive first if you have more than one cd.. I don't know why but from the Debian Installation Manual that's the correct way to roll.. On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:55:48PM +0200, Tony Schonfeld wrote: hello , i've just

partition problem

1999-05-09 Thread Yong-Ho Ham
hi, I'm having trouble installing linux on my pc. I ran the install.bat and setup the monitor and screen. Then it asked to partition my hard drive. I selected ok but it came up with an error and returned to the main menu. I have a compaq deskpro pc with a 1.2 gb hard drive. I partitioned it into

PS/2 router with MCA nic

1999-05-09 Thread Robert Rati
Can linux recognize a micro-channel nic? I know how to setup the kernel to recognize an ISA/PCI nic, but does linux support mca cards? If so, how would I configure the kernel to recognize the mca card? Would I treat it just like an ISA card? TIA.

Re: PS/2 router with MCA nic

1999-05-09 Thread Alec Smith
The kernel does do MCA... Just choose the option when you're compiling. I know the 3c523 and 3c527 boards are listed as options also. Dunno about any other MCA boards. On Sat, 8 May 1999, Robert Rati wrote: Can linux recognize a micro-channel nic? I know how to setup the kernel to recognize

dhcp

1999-05-09 Thread Joel Keating
I'm having problems with dhcpd. For somereason no matter what I change dhcp sets my hostname to dhcpc1 or something. I've changed it in the hostinfo-eth0 file to be a different name i've change /etc/hosts. I'm don't know where dhcp is getting this hostname and if there is a way to fix it? Any

(KLUDGED) Re: home compiled sysutils has broken dependency

1999-05-09 Thread Robert King
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Robert King wrote: Hi All, I compiled sysutils myself because procinfo complains that it needs to be compiled to display all IRQs. I unpacked the debian source file and used debian/rules binary to make a binary. When I installed the .deb using dpkg (which happens

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix system) Here is my dilema after

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package... I'll probably just wait until Wine gets better and run Paint Shop Pro...

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package... I'll probably just wait

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Lawrence Wickline
P.S on a happy note I got Netscape to work Finaly! and TinTin++ rocks (please include it in a furture debian release. They are working on it again finally and I would love to be able to apt-get it as they improve it. Version 2 coming soom:) Thats good to know... btw - what's

web password changing

1999-05-09 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hi list ! ive looked all over freshmeat and cgi-resources.com and i just cant seem to find a some cgi that allows a user in ur system to change his/her password thru some web interface, that is, w/o havnig to telnet to the server and manually invoking passwd. anyone have any ideas where to

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-09 Thread Debian Mail
Try modprobe ppa.. Chances are you have conflicting IRQs. Look at your /proc/interrupts and make sure everything is correct. Make sure you don't have ldp running and that you also have removed your lp module. Good luck. Hm, there shouldn't be any conflicting IRQs, since the ZIP is a

The mysterious '2 '

1999-05-09 Thread per_adua32
A while back I noticed that there was a number 2 in some of my directories. Initially my first reaction was to delete them as I had not created them. Even this took a while as they were actually named 2space ie '2 ', which was not obvious to me. Last week I discovered some more

[s2192888@cse.unsw.edu.au: Re: Can you help me with scsi in debian please]

1999-05-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, My anwser to this question is to compile the scanner driver as the module. But I am not sure. Any other suggestions?? Thanks. - Forwarded message from CyrusP [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: CyrusP [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 9 May

Local LAN + scanpackages

1999-05-09 Thread Sarel Botha
I have a small local mirror of unstable of all the packages I have installed. I make this mirror available to other people on the lan. As the unstable packages keep being updated I end up with different versions of the same packages and when i run dpkg-scanpackages I get '! Package blah is

about 2 games in linux

1999-05-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I know both acm and abuse are good games in Linux. But I can never get them to work in my slink box. I am about to delete them!! If I run abuse.console, it complains about my mouse. I tried to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config but never succeeded. Never Mind.

Re: [s2192888@cse.unsw.edu.au: Re: Can you help me with scsi in debian please]

1999-05-09 Thread Leen Besselink
I think the module name is general scsi support. Hope this helps you. Lennie. On Sun, 9 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, My anwser to this question is to compile the scanner driver as the module. But I am not sure. Any other suggestions?? Thanks. -

Re: changing resolve.conf for deferent providers

1999-05-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it posible to make the use of deferent resolve.conf for deferent providers automatic? Yes. What I do is create files relevant to the different providers I use - there are three essential files for me: /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/chatscrips/provider and

SCSI PB

1999-05-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi, Since I upgrade from 2.0.36 to 2.2.7, Linux do not recognize my CD-writer anymore !? SCSI card is a TEKRAM DC-390 simple adapter (fast-SCSI I guess) Id #4: Pioneer CD-ROM DR-U16S (always recognized) Id #5: Yamaha CRW4416S (no more recognized) No more devices on other Ids help me --

Re: The mysterious '2 '

1999-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
per_adua32 wrote: A while back I noticed that there was a number 2 in some of my directories. Initially my first reaction was to delete them as I had not created them. Even this took a while as they were actually named 2space ie '2 ', which was not obvious to me.

SCSI CDR+CD-ROM setup help needed (off-topic)

1999-05-09 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I had a CDR that was working perfectly. I bought a SCSI CD-ROM, and when I connected it the CDR stoped working. When I boot up the devices are displayed this way: Device No. Adapter SCSI ID LUN 81 0 2 0 Pioneer DR966 ... (The CD-ROM) 82 0

Re: partition problem

1999-05-09 Thread johnny
What is the error? On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 11:40:25PM -0400, Yong-Ho Ham wrote: hi, I'm having trouble installing linux on my pc. I ran the install.bat and setup the monitor and screen. Then it asked to partition my hard drive. I selected ok but it came up with an error and returned to the

Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

1999-05-09 Thread johnny
Just modprobe ppa and e-mail the output to this list. There should be an interrupt here for your parallel port, and yes, the parallel port can have conflicting irqs with other devices. Do that and let me see the output. On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:55:51AM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: Try

Re[2]: changing resolve.conf for deferent providers

1999-05-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a really simple matter then of having an executable script for each provider which copies the files around. Here is an example for one IP, eidosnet: cp /etc/resolv.conf.eidosnet /etc/resolv.conf cp /etc/chatscripts/provider.eidosnet

Re: Exim + Procmail + Mutt

1999-05-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JHMG == J Horacio M G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JHMG /var/spool/exim/input/ and /var/spool/exim/msglog/. I believe JHMG Exim complained about |exec and IFS (I tried both with JHMG .forward). This is what I had in my ~/.forward: JHMG |exec /usr/bin/procmail In /etc/exim.conf, you have to

Re: Q: multi-cd method.

1999-05-09 Thread Tony Schonfeld
On Sun, 9 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, you need to insert the second or last CD of your multi-cd archive first if you have more than one cd.. I don't know why but from the Debian Installation Manual that's the correct way to roll.. On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:55:48PM +0200,

wine configuration

1999-05-09 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I just installed the potato version of wine and have put my window mount point into fstab in order to run the wineconf program. Unfortunately I keep getting an error saying Cannot read ./wine.ini and I don't know how to fix this problem, can anyone help me? Thanks for any help.

Re: xwin

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

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Peter Ludwig wrote: On a side note I will be needing a Database to connect a website to fairly soon. Any suggestions (I am leaning towards mySQL but I would like a GUI interface to work in if possiable) Someone is ahead of you here, I do believe... There is a GUI interface for it, but

Re: 2 network cards

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

How to use intelligent signature generator with mutt?

1999-05-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I'd like to use the perl script to generate the signature for my mail messages, depending on the addressee. For example: when the address ends with .pl the signature is in Polish etc. Now I have the signature var set to ~/.generate_signature|. Is it possible to transfer addressees' list

Re: Newer version of GNOME on slink?

1999-05-09 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 01:02:24PM -0400, William R Pentney wrote: Is there any way I can get a newer version of GNOME than the 1.0.3 in the slink staging area without upgrading to potato? Do the newer GNOME packages really use glibc2.1? i just upgraded to potato last night and the

Re: defrag, non-contiguous file system

1999-05-09 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 07:49:26PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Each time my system runs fsck on reboot (when the disk reaches it's mount count limit) the file system appears more fragmented. On the last fsck run it reported 5.7% non-contiguous. Is this a problem and if so what should I do?

Re: (KLUDGED) Re: home compiled sysutils has broken dependency

1999-05-09 Thread Andrew Chung
I compiled sysutils myself because procinfo complains that it needs to be compiled to display all IRQs. I unpacked the debian source file and used debian/rules binary to make a binary. When I installed the .deb using dpkg (which happens without complaint and the programs work),

Re: NEW Samba + Printer woes

1999-05-09 Thread Michael Steiner
Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: NEW Samba + Printer woes Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 05:13:32PM + In reply to:Jose L Gomez Dans Quoting Jose L Gomez Dans([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! I've finally installed samba + lprng on an ageing i386. I have two parallel ports,

moneydance 2.0

1999-05-09 Thread Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva
Hello, Is there someone using moneydance 2.0? I have downloaded it, installed jdk1.1 .deb, and then I ran the installer (sh install.bin) and... nothing happens. It just ask which java to use a choose it and them it gives the prompt. I succeded installing it under Solaris, so I may have to

Help on getting libc6 working !

1999-05-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm unable to get my linux box working cause I'd broken glibc2.1 ! I'd an older rescue disk (Debian 1.3) and I can mount my linux box meanwhile I also have lastest libc6-2.1 package on it but i'm unable to get dpkg working ! :( Is there any good rescue disk or what should I do ? Thanks.

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Peter Allen
Peter Ludwig wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix system) Here

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Peter Allen
Peter Ludwig wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix system) Here

mozilla

1999-05-09 Thread Ralph Winslow
I recently downloaded and installed mozilla at the request of someone on this list. The .debs were libnspr21_19990415.M4-1_i386.deb and mozilla_19990415.M4-1_i386.deb. I installed them on my unstable system running 2.2.1 using dpkg -i. When I run mozilla from an xterm I get nsComponentManager:

Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? 2 - Is there any kind of autoexec.bat at Debian? Where? 3 - How do I mount my Windows file system at hda1? Then so it'll mount every time I log, I'll have to add the mount

The mysterious '2 '

1999-05-09 Thread per_adua32
Thanx to olly, when he mentionned a possible mistake to do with redirection I pretty much guessed what that the problem was. In the file /etc/profile I have an alias that runs the following command: alias upD.='updatedb --prunepaths=/var /cdrom /tmp /proc /mnt /dev/null 12 \'

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 9 May 1999 15:25:11 +0100, Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote: 2 - Is there any kind of autoexec.bat at Debian? Where? System wide - /etc/init.d, /etc/cron.* 3 - How do I mount my Windows file system at hda1? man mount

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread Robert Norris
1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file /etc/X11/config. In their will be a line 'start-xdm' which you should replace with 'no-start-xdm'.

Installing Debian on a dos partion

1999-05-09 Thread Paul L. McNeely
I want to set up debian on a dos partition using umsdos, can anyone give me step by step instructions on how to do this? Is there a way to do this from the installer? If not any thoughts about adding it? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paul L. McNeely ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ#

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread John Foster
Peter Ludwig wrote: On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package...

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: Peter Ludwig wrote: On a side note I will be needing a Database to connect a website to fairly soon. Any suggestions (I am leaning towards mySQL but I would like a GUI interface to work in if possiable) Someone is ahead of you here, I do believe...

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread Luis M. Garcia
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:47:04AM +1000, Robert Norris wrote: 1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file /etc/X11/config. In their will

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread John Foster
Luis M. Garcia wrote: On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 12:47:04AM +1000, Robert Norris wrote: 1 - My X server since installation starts automaticly... I don't want it to auto - start. How do I take that option out? I'm guessing you mean xdm. If your system is like mine, you'll have a file

Re: ICQ Woes

1999-05-09 Thread William R Pentney
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: What happened? Did you get an error message, and if so, what was it? I had to change the shell script that loaded it up a bit when I installed it - had to add classes.zip in my JDK diretory to the class library parameter. - bill THe Java Portion Of

[OT] Low versus medium priced scanners

1999-05-09 Thread Rick Macdonald
When comparing a cheap scanner (under $100) such as the Plustek 96xx series with a medium price scanner such as the so-called business-class HP 5200c, I can't tell what claims are due to the scanner hardware itself, or simply the bundled software. Obviously, the bundled software does a Linux user

Thanks, John! Re: crypt?

1999-05-09 Thread kaynjay
Just a note of thanks to John Foster for his help in providing me with a well-documented replacement program for crypt. Thanks, John! Kenward Vaughan

Re: update-menus, does it work?

1999-05-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:32:22PM -0400 In reply to:Andrew Chung Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ?package(gtcd):needs=x11 icon=none section=Apps/Sound \ title=Gtcd command=/usr/X11R6/bin/gtcd but it still doesn't

Kernel Compile Error Messages

1999-05-09 Thread Jayson Baird
Anyone know of a spot where I can get common or rare error messages for kernel(2.2.5) compiles? Thanks, Jayson S. Baird Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter -- Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Russian: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X Error

1999-05-09 Thread Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy
Hi, I have X installed in my new Debian 2.1.3 (Slink). Sometimes X stops and an error occurs. It says: Fatal Server Error: Hung in ApmSync() It seems that when this function is called it hungs my X (it seems that this function is important because it happens often and then I have to reboot linux

Re: moneydance 2.0

1999-05-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there someone using moneydance 2.0? I have downloaded it, installed jdk1.1 .deb, and then I ran the installer (sh install.bin) and... nothing happens. It just ask which java to use a choose it and them it gives the prompt. I

Re: SCSI CDR+CD-ROM setup help needed (off-topic)

1999-05-09 Thread illusion
Since you say the CDR is terminated, I'm assuming it's last on the SCSI chain. The Term Power jumper on the CDR is the jumper that sets termination on or off on the device. With that jumper shorted, the CDR is a terminating device on the chain, so in your current setup, it should be the last

hdparm

1999-05-09 Thread Johan Pettersson
Hi! try to put my hd in standby/sleep, but it dose not work so well. When I type hdparm -y/Y /dev/hda I can hear my hd spindown for 2-5 sec and then it goes back to normal mode! Does anyone know why it does not stay in standby/sleep mode ? (have a IBM Deskstar 10,1 7200Rpm) -- //thx Johan

Re: NEW Samba + Printer woes

1999-05-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: NEW Samba + Printer woes Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0200 In reply to:Michael Steiner Quoting Michael Steiner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The printcap is designed to work with a remote printer, e.g. I use such an entry for a hplj with a build-in ethernet

Re: 2 network cards

1999-05-09 Thread MR
At 01:58 PM 5/9/99 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, 8 May 1999, MR wrote: I have two network cards (1 Intel etherexpress 16, 1 NE2000) in a debian system. Both are detected on boot up and both are ifconfig'd. This system will be used to connect my little LAN through IP masq to the Internet. For

Re: Some newbie questions

1999-05-09 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
to remove xdm : try : Ctrl+R in the xlogin or as root, in shell : switchdm

counting traffic

1999-05-09 Thread Vaidas
Hello! Does somebody know the simple way to count traffic bytes in/out debian server?

Any danger in dselecting emacs packages?

1999-05-09 Thread André Bell
I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's setup. One online message jokingly hinted that maybe microsoft created emacs due to the multiple issues that occur when running emacs. I plan on

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread André Bell
Here's a LARGE link to 1,370 debian files/apps via hotbot search (many of them are at www.debian.org). You may need to cut and paste the URL below if it is altered by my email writer before reaching you: http://hotbot.com/?clickSrc=searchMT=submit=SEARCHSM=MCLG=anyAM0=MCAT0

Re: Diagnostic message with Netscape 4.51 and Hamm

1999-05-09 Thread Todd 'Snoopy' Harper
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Todd 'Snoopy' Harper wrote: G'Day, I'm currently still running hamm, and I've installed Netscape 4.51 using the installer package (4.0-12). When I try to compose a new message in Messenger, I get a subprocess diagnostic dialog box Hi, I think it could

mutt: maildir-mbox

1999-05-09 Thread Attila Csosz
Using mutt I'd like to change from Maildir to mbox. What should I do? 1. Which type of mbox_type should I set? 2. set folder=~/Maildir # where i keep my mailboxes what to be in this case? 3. set sendmail=/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject # how to deliver mail

[Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage

1999-05-09 Thread mxu1
Hi, A short question: Does anyone know how to compile a debian source package into a binary? -- Min Xu City College of NY, CUNY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:(O) (212) 650-6865 (O) (212) 650-5046

Re: Any danger in dselecting emacs packages?

1999-05-09 Thread paul Huygen
Andr Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's setup [..] do you know if there any dangers in me running dselect on emacs packages? As far as I know, there are

Re: Any danger in dselecting emacs packages?

1999-05-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's setup. One online message jokingly hinted that maybe microsoft created emacs due to the multiple issues that occur when running emacs. I probably

Compiling non-debian source

1999-05-09 Thread Jake Bishop
Hello, Can non-deb source pkgs be compiled and installed with dpkg (like the kernel sources)?. Thank you

Re: Q: multi-cd method.

1999-05-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Tony Schonfeld writes: On Sun, 9 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, you need to insert the second or last CD of your multi-cd archive first if you have more than one cd.. I don't know why but from the Debian Installation Manual that's the correct way to roll.. That's correct. here

help with dynamic linker

1999-05-09 Thread Chad Reichenbach
I updated some of my packages to the unstable versions to try out the latest gnome packages. I subsequently removed the gnome-packages. But now I the following message when trying to complie a C++ program: bash-2.01$ g++ -o ass4 assign4.cpp BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 57:

Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage

1999-05-09 Thread Gregory T. Norris
It's pretty easy, usually. 1) Download the source components into the directory of your choice. There should be either two or three files: *.orig.tar.gz, *.dsc, and *.diff.gz (not present if it's a native Debian package). 2) Enter the command dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc. This will

Re: Compiling non-debian source

1999-05-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jake Bishop wrote: Hello, Can non-deb source pkgs be compiled and installed with dpkg (like the kernel sources)?. Thank you No, dpkg only knows how to handle Debian packages that end in '.deb'. The kernel sources are in '.tar.gz' format which requires the use of the

Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage

1999-05-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A short question: Does anyone know how to compile a debian source package into a binary? If you have the source package, which usually consists of three files, the *.dsc, the *.orig.tar.gz, and the *.diff.gz, you need

Printing from octave

1999-05-09 Thread Richard Harran
Could someone please tell me how to get octave to print graphs (preferably to a file). I've tried RTFM, but it's not really helping me here. Thanks in advance Rich

Problems with sending mail from mutt via DIP

1999-05-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! When I send mail from my home, the message header contains the sender address from my fake home domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED], nasz.dom is my unregistred local domain with IP's 192.168.*.*). This results in rejecting of my mail by many addressees (error: sender domain must resolve). Setting

wav mp3

1999-05-09 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
Hello Guys! Can anybody point to a software for converting .wav to mp3, or at least converting anything to mp3 compression? TIA.

wav mp3

1999-05-09 Thread Alexander Gutfraind
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Re: update-menus

1999-05-09 Thread Andrew Chung
Looks like I have opened a can of worms here. Looks like I will change WM to fvwm and start this all over again. Andrew, what WM are you running and do you see any of the above happening? Here's what I added to get the menu entries: In ~/.menu/tcd: ?package(tcd):needs=text title=tcd \

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