Re: Pregunta sobre particiones.

1999-06-26 Thread Antonio Castro
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Xose Manoel Ramos wrote: El Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 10:10:24AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Tengo una partición montada en /usr, que está casi llena, entonces, decido crear otra, para liberar un poco de espacio moviendo algunas cosas. Supongamos que la nueva partición

Re: Problema al compilar el núcleo

1999-06-26 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 09:25:58PM +, Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes wrote: Hola a todos, resulta que al intentar compilar el núcleo en Debian 2.1 una vez puesto las opciones del núcleo a mi gusto, y de darle a las opciones: make dep make clean

Ahora sí mutt...

1999-06-26 Thread Juanmi Mora
Hola!!! Una preguntilla sobre el mutt... como puedo purgar los mensajes marcados para borrar sin cambiar de buzón? Gracias -- Juanmi Mora Barcelona - España [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by Linux - Debian 2.0 Hamm

Re: Ahora sí mutt...

1999-06-26 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:20:51PM +0200, Juanmi Mora wrote: Hola!!! Una preguntilla sobre el mutt... como puedo purgar los mensajes marcados para borrar sin cambiar de buzón? Yo lo hago con SHIFT+[4] -- Best regards, Rafa C. Marcos BCN Art Directe (Promotora d'Art)

Re: Ahora sí mutt...

1999-06-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Rafael Cordones Marcos escribió: Una preguntilla sobre el mutt... como puedo purgar los mensajes marcados para borrar sin cambiar de buzón? Yo lo hago con SHIFT+[4] Con lo que sea que esté asignado a sync-mailbox ('x' para mi). Presiona '?' (o la tecla que esté asignada a

AverMedia TVcapture 98 y /dev/video

1999-06-26 Thread Agustin MuNoz
Pues eso que el kernel me la detecta al arrancar: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn: 112, irq: 15, memory: 0xf4008000. bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. bttv0: NO fader chip: TEA6300 bttv0: model: BT878(AVerMedia TVCapture 98) pero cuando intento ver la tele con el xawtv me dice esto:

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection to the ISP. Before the error message in the subject line there were two other error lines:

Problem installing 2.1 from multicd

1999-06-26 Thread Guy Jacobson
Here's the nature of the problem: I go through the Access, Update, and Install steps of dselect. Access works fine, Update works fine, but on Install I get this message: -- cut here -- Usage: mount [-hV] mount -a [-nfFrsvw] [-t vfstypes] mount [-nfrsvw] [-o options] special |

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection to the ISP. Before the error message in the

How to intall a Modem in Linux

1999-06-26 Thread Zhao Ming
Hi There, I have a problem with installing an US Robotics 56K Internal Modem in a Linux system (Slink Debian 2.01). The vendor assure me it is not a WinModem. How to install it ? It Your suggestions are highly appreciated. Ming - End Forwarded Message -

Re: How to intall a Modem in Linux

1999-06-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi There, I have a problem with installing an US Robotics 56K Internal Modem in a Linux system (Slink Debian 2.01). The vendor assure me it is not a WinModem. How to install it ? It Your suggestions are highly appreciated. Ming If it's not, then you just stick it into the computer

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, William T Wilson wrote about Re: Autofs for root only?? On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote: Unfortunately, the filesystem ext2 recognises neither the gid= nor the umask= options, and refuses to mount! I can find no similar options for Those options are only valid for

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, Gertjan Klein wrote about Re: Autofs for root only?? On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:47:29 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to change the permissions of the volume's / directory, change them with chmod once it's mounted. Under normal circumstances

Re: How to intall a Modem in Linux

1999-06-26 Thread Brad
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: I have a problem with installing an US Robotics 56K Internal Modem in a Linux system (Slink Debian 2.01). The vendor assure me it is not a WinModem. How to install it ? It Your suggestions are highly appreciated. If it's not, then you

OPTi931 How-To, sort of...

1999-06-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
How to make the OPTi931 sound card run in potato (2.2.9): 1) Go to RedHat and get the rpm's for sndconfig and newt40. 2) Use alien to make these into debs, and install. . 3) Run sndconfig. 4) Ignore the midi problem and save the versions of isapnp.conf and conf.modules. 5) Put these two lines

RE: Samba/Windows/etc over IP Masquerading

1999-06-26 Thread Paul Miller
I'm not using a NT domain controller, but I think NT, as well as Win95/98, will hold local elections to see which machine will carry the browsing list every 15 minutes or so... I'm not sure if additional information is sent from NT (without an initial client message); a DHCP service may operate

vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??

1999-06-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb. Rob 23:53 ~ $ sudo apt-get install vncserver xvncviewer Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: vnc-doc The following NEW packages will be installed:

installing packages

1999-06-26 Thread Jason Errol Draut
I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files are listed as executables, so I

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-26 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, Just noticed something called VMware, a pc emulator which creates a virtual pc. Rock solid, runs ms-dos, windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000 beta. Needs a fast machine with heaps of ram and doesn't support DirectX. Has anyone tried this software ? http://www.vmware.com also, is there any way to

Problems with new hardware

1999-06-26 Thread Karen Hanson
I just built a system from motherboard up and am having a few problems and looking for pointers. I used the latest Debian version from Cheap Bytes, slink, I think. Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes too. Sometimes the crash is severe enough to kill the

Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread Marshal Wong
Hi! I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet connection with pon. I was wondering what would be the best way to allow normal users to start the ppp connection? I hope this hasn't been asked 6

Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread Brad
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet connection with pon. I was wondering what would be the best way to allow normal users to start the ppp

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:38:48PM +1000, Colin Tree wrote: Hi, Just noticed something called VMware, a pc emulator which creates a virtual pc. Rock solid, runs ms-dos, windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000 beta. Needs a fast machine with heaps of ram and doesn't support DirectX. Has anyone tried

Re: Problems with new hardware

1999-06-26 Thread ktb
Karen Hanson wrote: I just built a system from motherboard up and am having a few problems and looking for pointers. I used the latest Debian version from Cheap Bytes, slink, I think. Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes too. Sometimes the crash is

Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
Add the user names to group dip. On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 05:19:22AM +0100, Marshal Wong wrote: Hi! I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet connection with pon. I was wondering what would be

Re: installing packages

1999-06-26 Thread ktb
Jason Errol Draut wrote: I have downloaded the linux base system from debian, and want to install some of the other packages, like man pages, gcc, emacs, etc. Simple stuff that I've used in Unix... But when I get the downloads onto my base system, I don't know what to do. The *.deb files

how to burn CD with IDE/ATAPI CD-RW burner?

1999-06-26 Thread William Park
Hi, I am trying to burn CDs using Mitsumi CR-2600-TE which is IDE/ATAPI cd reader/writer. 1) ISO-9660 image is made with mkisofs -r -D -o /tmp/local.iso /usr/local -x /usr/local/lost+found which produces CD image file 'local.iso'. 2) 'SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI

Network printing

1999-06-26 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, I have a small LAN and am having problems printing from one Debian box to the other. The workstation is igra and the server is doma. Here is doma's /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 216.39.144.57 mail.mattyt.net mail 192.168.1.1 doma.mattyt.net doma 192.168.1.5

Re: problems with egcc

1999-06-26 Thread Sean
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I've installed egcc as in potato, I get this error message, while trying to compile linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory

Re: slink server crashing

1999-06-26 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:55:57PM +1000, Ed Breen wrote: Hi, We are running a slink debian distribution with kernel 2.0.36 on a celeron 333 as our file server. Our SCSI adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW PCI card, with this configuration: 2940UW Adapter |

Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread Sean
Brad wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet connection with pon. I was wondering what would be the best way to allow normal users to start

Re: Emacs psgml mode?

1999-06-26 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Timothy == Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml mode? I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set sgml-set-face to '1' as specified in the psgml doc files, but html files are still quite normal looking:(.

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-26 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for taking some of your precious time to help me out. I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial cannot find my modem. I sent a message to them like they suggested because I am 100% sure that my modem

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-26 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Have you tried calling your modem by /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS3? Hint: on boot-up you will see some serial port info like: /dev/ttyS[0-4] I/O Address IRQ Number UART Type -Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 39679408

disconnected environment

1999-06-26 Thread Konstantin Kivi
Hello All Can someone explain me what should I put in my /etc/hosts if I am not on the network and sometimes dial to my ISP 127.0.0.1 localhost myname or 127.0.0.1 localhost It seems that first cause sendmail to hang at startup (and it keep complaining like calhost sendmail[1921]: My

Re: Name of Select and Install Profiles program?

1999-06-26 Thread David Teague
On 24 Jun 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: KS == Kevin Septor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KS program pops up allowing you to choose between tasks or profiles KS and it then passes that info on to dselct so that you don't have KS to tool around with 2000+ plus packages on your own. KS

Re: crystal sound on dell

1999-06-26 Thread scratch
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Pedro Sanchez wrote: Off course, you have to compile the kernel with sound support and enter the proper parameters (you can take those from the isapnp.conf file). Alternatively, install the ALSA drivers at http://www.alsa-project.org/ (in fact, that's how I have my PC

Re: Name of Select and Install Profiles program?

1999-06-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David == David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Even with a fresh install, I couldn't get a script. If I leave David dselect after it starts in the initial boot up to start a David script, that screen never appears again, if memory serves. You David say thse parts of the script are

Re: problems with egcc

1999-06-26 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Sean == Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds like you have a bad symlink. What I do is make a symlink in /usr/bin from egcc to gcc, after moving gcc to gcc-old just in case I want to use the old compiler, When I first spotted this problem I tried totally removing all

Multiple Screens in XF86Config?

1999-06-26 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I want to set up different virtual screen sizes for XF86 using the same server and color depth. I know how to add a new Section Screen to XF86Config, but how do I specify this from the command line at startx (or xinit)? TIA, Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Isabelle Poueriet writes: This is really confusing. I thought the garbage test I was receiving when I typed pppd was a sign that the modem sent a signal. That was coming from pppd itself. Type 'setserial -a /dev/ttyS2' and report the results. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)

Re: Autofs for root only??

1999-06-26 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:54:22 -0500 (EST), Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to do it everytime, just once. The mounted disk keeps the permisions you set for it. Example with a ext2 floppy: [Sound of coin dropping] Ah, now I see! The permissions are saved somewhere on the

Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread scode
I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet connection with pon. I was wondering what would be the best way to allow normal users to start the ppp connection? I hope this hasn't been asked 6

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-26 Thread Andrew Holmes
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:52:50AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrew Holmes wrote: I've looked through the man pages for splay and mpg123 but I can't find an option to output the trackname information from an mp3 file. Have a look at the 'mp3info' package (which gives

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Johann Spies
On 26 Jun 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what is causing it. I have a single computer that uses a dialup ppp connection to

no sound

1999-06-26 Thread fadly
Hi all, When i tried to activate my sound card in Debian 2.1 i got this error message sox : invalid audio buffer size 0 I don't know exactly what does it mean ?? Actually i've tried this one in Slakware and Redhat but it works fine ... Just for information when i use the command cat /proc/sound my

tacacs and radius

1999-06-26 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello everyone ! i friend was asking me whether i can help him convert his slackware system to debian (since imthe only debian user in our group and their slak admin jumped ship) from tacacs to radius ... whatever those are. can someone please help point to me where i should look for more

Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much. It's just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet connection with pon. I was wondering what would be the best way to allow normal users to start the ppp connection?

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread David Teague
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Johann Spies wrote: On 26 Jun 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I got this message after recompiling my kernel and I cannot find out what is causing it. I have a

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Johann Spies: On 26 Jun 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: It also says (because of request_module[block-major-22]) that IDE disk support was not compiled into the kernel, which ofcourse poses a small problem if the root file system is on an IDE disk. Thanks Mike. That was

Nameserver activity

1999-06-26 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, I user an isdn dialup network with two isdn ppp interfaces for connections to the ISP and to an IBM host on two telephone lines. 1. I get spontaneous nameserver requests (port) without doing anything. 2. When I connect to the IBM host there is a nameserver request (to the ISP) AFTER dialing

Re: Kernel Panick: VFS: Unable to mount root.fs on 16:02

1999-06-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to David Teague: Device with major 22 and minor 2 is /dev/hdc2 My reason for jumping in is to ask: Will somebody please tell me What the 16 in 16:02 means? 0x16 == 22 Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Help: Package install in 2.0

1999-06-26 Thread Albert Hurd
I just installed Debian 2.0 using the CheapBytes disk. At the end of the install, Just before I was popped into deselect, I encountered a screen which I thought was going to allow me to pick what kind of system I wanted to install (eg Administration, Standard, Developer, etc) with little check

Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??

1999-06-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about vnc-doc conflicts with vnc?? Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb. Because the old vnc and vnc-doc packages are replaced by the newer split packages vncserver, xvncviewer, etc. Package: vncserver Status: install ok

JDK 1.1.7:Can't find class

1999-06-26 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, just wrote a java-app that creates a class called Euro1.class. It compiles and the Euro1.class-file is created. When I try to start it with java Euro1.class I always get Can't find class Euro1.class but Im in the directory where Euro1.class is. The jdk-doc tells me not to set CLASSPATH...

new mail messages

1999-06-26 Thread Tim Nicholas
hey there, I have exim sorting my mail into several different mail boxes which works well but i have one question. When new mail arives on the system i get a message saying: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have mail in /var/spool/mail/tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to have whichever program does

Re: JDK 1.1.7:Can't find class

1999-06-26 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 06:42:48PM +0200, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, just wrote a java-app that creates a class called Euro1.class. It compiles and the Euro1.class-file is created. When I try to start it with java Euro1.class I always get Can't find class Euro1.class but Im in the directory

gnome-xml for Slink?

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, I am trying to compile Screem (http://www.screem.org) which says it needs gnome-libs and gnome-xml. When I try and compile I get this: interface.c:28: gtk-xmhtml/gtk-xmhtml.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [interface.o] Error 1 Which I think means that I am missing gnome-xml.

Re: Problems with new hardware

1999-06-26 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I just built a system from motherboard up and am having a few problems and looking for pointers. I used the latest Debian version from Cheap Bytes, slink, I think. Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes too. Sometimes the crash is severe enough to

Re: gnome-xml for Slink?

1999-06-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote: interface.c:28: gtk-xmhtml/gtk-xmhtml.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [interface.o] Error 1 Which I think means that I am missing gnome-xml. Problem is I can't find it on the ftp site, only a cvs module. There is a libxml-dev in the

No route to host?

1999-06-26 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Sorry for this stupid question, but what does it mean by the TCP/IP error message: No route to host (ftp works fine, but telnet and netscape don't)? Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

How to set default resolution in XF86?

1999-06-26 Thread Tracy Nelson
Whenever I start X, it comes up with a default resolution of (I think) 640x480. I normally run at 1280x1024, which means I have to hit CTRLALTKP+ two or three times to select the correct resolution. Is there any way I can specify that as the default resolution? Is it a matter of just

more fetchmail questions

1999-06-26 Thread Chris Flipse
I've got a ... well, what basically amounts to a kludge to get around a blocked SMTP port... I'm using a remote mailbox and fetchmail to serve as a sort of virtual mailhosting, which has, until now, worked just fine. I say until now because I hadn't noticed my setup's behavior where bounced mail

Re: How to set default resolution in XF86?

1999-06-26 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote: Whenever I start X, it comes up with a default resolution of (I think) 640x480. I normally run at 1280x1024, which means I have to hit CTRLALTKP+ two or three times to select the correct resolution. Is there any way I can specify that as the default

Re: changing default umask on useradd

1999-06-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Martin Bialasinski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Chad == Chad A Adlawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chad does anyone know of a way to change the default useradd or Chad adduser behaviour in terms of giving permissions to the new Chad users home directory ? that is, when u add a new user,

Re: How to set default resolution in XF86?

1999-06-26 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote: Whenever I start X, it comes up with a default resolution of (I think) 640x480. I normally run at 1280x1024, which means I have to hit CTRLALTKP+ two or three times to select the correct resolution. Is there any way I can specify that as the

Re: disconnected environment

1999-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Konstantin Kivi writes: Can someone explain me what should I put in my /etc/hosts if I am not on the network and sometimes dial to my ISP Here's mine: 127.0.0.1 hasler.dhh hasler localhost 'hasler' is a made-up hostname and 'dhh' a made-up domain. -- John Hasler

emacs' delete behaviour changed?

1999-06-26 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Did someone else notice that emacs in potato doesn't differentiate delete and backspace keys any more, as it did in slink? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it

Re: gnome-xml for Slink?

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Cheers havoc that worked a treat! Def. a case of not seeing the wood for the trees :) Steve On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:13:37PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote: interface.c:28: gtk-xmhtml/gtk-xmhtml.h: No such file or directory make[2]: ***

Domain name not available (knews)

1999-06-26 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, after having installed the mnews package I have problems creating postings. When I try to do so I get the message: Domain name not available, posting will not be permitted What can I do to fix this? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New to the group: my 3 boxes....

1999-06-26 Thread Tony T.
Hi all, I was directed here by a very helpful person on the comp.os.linux.setup group, (thanks Tom!) looks like just what I need. I have been puttering with Linux for a few years, started with Slackware, tried Redhat 4x and 5x, and lately I got my hands on Debian 2.0, Caldera 2.2, Linux Pro and

Re: new mail messages

1999-06-26 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hi, On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 05:11:44AM +1200, Tim Nicholas wrote: When new mail arives on the system i get a message saying: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have mail in /var/spool/mail/tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any way to have whichever program does this also monitor other mailboxes for

No sound from CDROM

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Hi, I have sound running fine on my machine for example I installed GNOME today and esd works fine. What has never worked is sound from the cdromI remember the sound HOWTO mentioning that this was a 'different' issue but I don't know what causes it. Could anyone point me in the right

Re: No sound from CDROM

1999-06-26 Thread Ulrik Haugen
* Steve George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have sound running fine on my machine for example I installed GNOME today and esd works fine. What has never worked is sound from the cdromI remember the sound HOWTO mentioning that this was a 'different' issue but I don't know what causes it. Could

Re: How to pronouce Debian?

1999-06-26 Thread Frankie
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 23 Jun, tboy wrote about How to pronouce Debian? Hi all, I'm not a native english speaker so i don't know how to pronouce Debian --- it seems somewhat strange to me. When i introduce Debian to my friends i have to spell it out letter by letter. Any help

Re: Large .deb packages..

1999-06-26 Thread Frankie
John Foster wrote: Maybe having another section of debian would be better: eg main,contrib,non-free,non-US,marginal. [I'm sure someone could come up with a better name than marginal :-)] Marginal would contain really large packages, or packages that very few people might want to

Re: No sound from CDROM

1999-06-26 Thread Steve George
Thanks guys - that was ithonest hardware isn't my thing ;-) I can now annoy people immensely by playing my CD's loud!! Steve On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:44:45PM -0800, blutgens wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 09:37:30PM +0100, Steve George wrote: Hi, I have sound running fine on my

Re: more fetchmail questions

1999-06-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Chris Flipse wrote: ... I say until now because I hadn't noticed my setup's behavior where bounced mail is concerned -- basically, fetchmail grabs the mail, shunts it to my local sendmail deamon, and tries to deliver it. The problem is that when sendmail cannot deliver it, it sends

vim backup files

1999-06-26 Thread Alec Smith
When I use VIM, I get a backup file with ~ at the end. How do I go about stopping VIM from creating these backups on a system-wide basis? Alec

Re: How to pronouce Debian?

1999-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Frankie wrote: Further to this I understand the stress to be on the first syllable - DEBian. May well be wrong though :-), Yes, that's right - accent on the first syllable. ...RickM...

RE: dependencies

1999-06-26 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I now notice that apt-get is stuck at 99.2% CPU usage when its stuck. There are no pending packages to be configured. Aptget -f install hit the Correcting dependencies message ..and got stuck. bb -Original Message- From: Mark Wagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26,