RE: Offtopic: ?quien hizo las pruebas con el K7? Necesito consejo...

2000-01-26 Thread Ignasi Modolell
Jon Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: La placa que tengo yo es una Asus K7M, con tarjeta de sonido incorporada (que no funciona bajo linux :( ), por lo que le tuve que JN No tengo ni idea de si las tarjetas de sonido integradas que traen JN las Asustek han cambiado mucho, pero en mi tarjeta

Invitacion a visitar nuestra Web:Tecnologia y Servicios

2000-01-26 Thread Alejandro Alvarez
Este email, enviado por unica vez, tiene por objeto invitarlo a visitar nuestro sitio en la Web: El mismo detalla muestros servicios y soluciones tecnologicas en: Comunicaciones Meteorologia Energias no convencionales Radiodifusion. La direccion: http://www.ingalvarez.com.ar Agradecemos de

Re: OFF TOPIC: PINGUINO

2000-01-26 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Sat, Mar 01, 2036 at 04:57:45PM -0500, ZUMBIJUNIOR wrote: Una pregunta un poco estupida, pero que cuando me la hicieron no supe responderla: Porque el emblema del Sistema Operativo Linux es un Pinguino y no otro animalito u otra figura ? Que significado tiene el pinguinito? Al menos en

Re: Instalar Debian sobre SCSi -- No hay manera

2000-01-26 Thread José María Gálvez Aguiló
M. Angel Esteban wrote: Hola! Estoy intentando instalar la Debian Citius 2.1 sobre un nuevo ordenador y resulta que no hay manera. El sistema en cuestion es un 48666 al quese le ha puesto una Adaptec 2842 Vesa Local Bus. leo que para esta controladora debería de poner

RE: ISO9660 y mayúsculas

2000-01-26 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Barbie Dominatrix [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes 25 de enero de 2000 15:38 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: RE: ISO9660 y mayúsculas Ah, si te sirve que estén en minúsculas, tienes la opción map=normal (es la

RE: Offtopic: ?quien hizo las pruebas con el K7? Necesito consejo ...

2000-01-26 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Ugo Enrico Albarello [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes 25 de enero de 2000 17:03 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: RE: Offtopic: ?quien hizo las pruebas con el K7? Necesito consejo... At 09:43 a.m. 2000-01-25 +0100, Tejada

RE: ISO9660 y mayúsculas

2000-01-26 Thread Barbie Dominatrix
El día 26/01/00 Tejada Lacaci, Antonio decía: Muchas gracias por la información. Funciona de maravilla. Lo que me mosquea es que mi página de manual de mount(8) no dice nada de la opción nojoliet. Con esto se solucionan bastantes problemas que tenemos en nuestra red. :-) Pues no,

RE: ISO9660 y mayúsculas

2000-01-26 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Barbie Dominatrix [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 26 de enero de 2000 9:48 Para: Tejada Lacaci, Antonio CC: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: RE: ISO9660 y mayúsculas Muchas gracias por la información. Funciona de

RE: Offtopic: ?quien hizo las pruebas con el K7? Necesito consejo ...

2000-01-26 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 26 de enero de 2000 0:51 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: RE: Offtopic: ?quien hizo las pruebas con el K7? Necesito consejo... Jon Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

el no va más...

2000-01-26 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. Vamos a cambiar las tornas en la petición de opiniones... Necesitaría urgentemente, razones de peso por las cuales usar Debian en los servidores de Internet mejor que Red Hat. Y sobretodo, razones para usarlo en una máquina PPP+Radius Debian antes que en una Red Hat. Es muy urgente, ya

Re: ISO9660 y mayúsculas

2000-01-26 Thread Jordi
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:47:40AM +0100, Barbie Dominatrix wrote: El día 26/01/00 Tejada Lacaci, Antonio decía: Muchas gracias por la información. Funciona de maravilla. Lo que me mosquea es que mi página de manual de mount(8) no dice nada de la opción nojoliet. Con esto se

RE: Offtopic: ?quien hizo las pruebas con el K7? Necesito consejo ...

2000-01-26 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
Sólo una cosa para no seguir con el offtopic, los problemas que yo encontré con el athlon están descritos y resueltos en http://www.asus.com/Products/Techref/Tech-report/mthmbqa.html Antonio Tejada Lacaci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depto. Análisis y Programación Banca March S.A.

Re: perfiles profesionales, Engrama

2000-01-26 Thread Antonio Castro
Bueno ha llegado a mis manos una oferta de trabajo para varios puestos. Hasta el momento este tipo de asuntos me ha parecido que son muy bien recibidos pese a no ceñirse al tema de las listas. Aclaro que no me mueve un interés particular en todo esto salvo corresponder a la ayuda que en

Re: Informacion de Licencias

2000-01-26 Thread Antonio Castro
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jordi wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 01:42:31PM +0100, Antonio Castro wrote: No soy un especialista en temas de debian as? que si digo algo que no se ajusta a la verdad y alguna tonter?a espero=20 que me corrijan. Te puntualizo algunas cosas. Debian tiene una

smail errors

2000-01-26 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Hola gente, de vez en cuando, cuando tengo algún problema (físico) con la red, o cuando mi nis server no está disponible, el smail del resto de las máquinas no puede encontrar el destinatario de algún mail. En tal caso, cuando todo vuelve a la normalidad, recibo una serie de mails avisando que

Re: [el no va más...]

2000-01-26 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Estimado Manuel: He usado Red Hat durante un año, y te dire que si sabes usar la utilidad apt-get debian es la mejor distribucion que existe. El sistema de actualizacion por internet es insuperable. Ademas la organizacion es clara, y no tiene problemas como los que tiene Red Hat. Para que te des

Re: [el no va más...]

2000-01-26 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 10:13 a.m. 2000-01-26 ARST, Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga wrote: [...] En Red Hat hubo cosas que no compilaba y tuve miles de problemas que debian no tiene. Eso sin contar que las últimas dos versiones de RedHat (6.0 y 6.1) han sido un desastre, y requieren una bárbara cantidad de updates (hasta

GNU parted y Mutt 1.0

2000-01-26 Thread Hue-Bond
Buenas. ¿Alguien usa GNU Parted? Yo con la 1.0.4: # e2fsck -f -v /dev/hda7 e2fsck 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5:

Re: smail errors

2000-01-26 Thread Nestor A. Diaz L.
Preguntas concretas: - existe algún comando como: smail --sendpending ? # runq y si quieres ver el contenido de la cola : # mailq -- Desde ya agradecido, O__ El concejo que yo le doy es instalece el qmail, smail venia por defecto

Re: Potato y Woody

2000-01-26 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Jaime Fernández Martínez! El día Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:43:16PM +0100 decías: Para los más expertos y en el ajo: ¿cuándo creéis que potato será estable? Me vendría de perlas un kernel 2.2.X sin necesidad de pelearme con las dependencias. si es por eso no hay problema: coge un

Re: ¡No veo nada!

2000-01-26 Thread SKaVeN
Hell-o Ricardo Villalba! El día Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:46:24PM +0100 decías: Desde hace unos días no me funciona el servidor de correo de jazzfree, así que no recibo ningún mensaje de esta lista, aunque sí puedo enviar (por wanadoo). revisa tu soft porque yo uso el mismo servidor y me

Problemas con pon

2000-01-26 Thread Lluis Vilanova
No se pq, al arrancar la conexion con pon, no se ejecutan los archivos almacenados en ip-up Podria alguien ayudarme? Gracias __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Cambiar el password

2000-01-26 Thread César Morillas
¿Alguien sabe como cambiar el password de un usuario directamente desde la linea de comandos en una sola línea, indicandole tanto el password como el grupo?. Gracias.

Re: GNU parted y Mutt 1.0

2000-01-26 Thread Alberto F. Hamilton Castro
El Wed,26/Jan/2000 a las 18:59:19+0100, Barbie Dominatrix escribió: El día 26/01/00 Alberto F. Hamilton Castro decía: [...] los Xterm ahora dicen senciallamente 'xterm' mientras que con las versiones anteriores decian ser 'xterm-debian'. Es decir, que al abrir ahora un xterm:

Pregunta?

2000-01-26 Thread Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo
Alguien contrato el servicio de cablemodem de 128 Kbps. Sube por modem baja por cable. Si alguien sabe si rinde este tipo de servicio y me puede decir cuanto mas rapido es que el servicio de modem comun y si conviene contratarlo por la diferencia de precio. Gracias

Re: Pregunta?

2000-01-26 Thread dfm
¿Dónde cuando y como? En Madrid? debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org con fecha 26/01/2000 19.48.55 Destinatarios: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org CC: (cci: Daniel Ferradal Marquez/INFO/URQUIJO) Asunto: Pregunta? Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Alguien contrato el

Re: GNU parted y Mutt 1.0

2000-01-26 Thread Agustin MuNoz
El mié, 26 de ene de 2000, a las 04:31:43 +0100, Hue-Bond va y dice: Bueno, con respecto a mutt, resulta que la versión de slink, coloreaba los campos From y Subject de las cabeceras, de forma que era fácil localizar algo, pero la de potato ya no lo hace. ¿Lo han

Dependencias en debian

2000-01-26 Thread Barbie Dominatrix
Antes de instalar un paquete debian es muy fácil saber de qué paquetes depende. Pero si los paquetes de los que depende necesitan a su vez de otros, ¿cómo me lo monto para saber absolutamente todos los paquetes que necesita el que yo quiero instalar? Gracias. -- En todo cálculo,

Invitacion a visitar nuestra Web:Tecnologia y Servicios

2000-01-26 Thread Alejandro Alvarez
Este email, enviado por unica vez, tiene por objeto invitarlo a visitar nuestro sitio en la Web: El mismo detalla muestros servicios y soluciones tecnologicas en: Comunicaciones Meteorologia Energias no convencionales Radiodifusion. La direccion: http://www.ingalvarez.com.ar Agradecemos de

Re: smail errors

2000-01-26 Thread Blu
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:48:51AM -0300, Enzo A. Dari wrote: [...] Hago lo que me dice: mv /var/spool/smail/error/* /var/spool/smail y no pasa nada. Es decir: los mensajes quedan allí, sin ser reenviados nunca. [...] Hola Enzo, Prueba a mover los mesajes a /var/spool/smail/input. Ahi es

Sobre Exim

2000-01-26 Thread Antonio Beamud Montero
El otro dia escribi sobre que no me enviaba los mensajes, era problema de que me conectaba con un proveedor distinto al que me daba servicio de correo, por eso me salia el error. Ahora ya puedo enviar, pero tengo un problema cuando recojo el correo con fetchmail, todo ok, pero exim no me reparte

GNOME

2000-01-26 Thread peter karlsson
Hej! Hur i helskotta tar man bort de eländiga ljuden som GNOME envisas med att spela varje gång man trycker på en knapp? I inställningspanelen för ljud kan jag inte välja inget ljud för någon av händelserna, och om jag manuellt skriver dit ett icke-existerande namn (typ none) så blir det

man

2000-01-26 Thread Henrik Andersson
Hej Jag har gjort en någorlunda blank installation av debian och nu slkanr jag kommandot man. Vart hittar jag det? /Henrik Andersson

Re: Feedback Linux in Brazil (fwd)

2000-01-26 Thread Rogerio Neves Batata
Eu mandei um mail pro Augusto sobre o destaque que ele dava a mais no site dele para a Conectiva, e tive a resposta abaixo... Parece-me que ele esta interessado em publicar informacoes sobre outras distribuicoes (Debian em particular :) O pessoal que esta mais a par da

Re: Feedback Linux in Brazil (fwd)

2000-01-26 Thread Carlos H. S. Laviola
Isso eh realmente importante, ja que no Brasil o Debian praticamente eh desconhecido. Sejamos todos colaboradores :-)... Seria interessante ver alguma companhia/organizacao (talvez a propria conectiva) desenvolver um os baseado no debian em portugues. Alias, o que voces acharam do Corel Linux?

Re: Feedback Linux in Brazil (fwd)

2000-01-26 Thread Lalo Martins
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:16:19AM -0200, Carlos H. S. Laviola wrote: Isso eh realmente importante, ja que no Brasil o Debian praticamente eh desconhecido. Sejamos todos colaboradores :-)... Acho interessante organizarmos um esforço do gênero - umas 3 ou 4 pessoas que assinem a

Re: Feedback Linux in Brazil (fwd)

2000-01-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Caros, OLinux (http://www.olinux.com.br) roda Debian e todos da LinuxSolutions (http://www.linuxsolutions.com.br) usamos a Debian. Quanto tiver qualquer notícia da Debian, mande-nos que daremos destaque em OLinux. Quoting Rogerio Neves Batata ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Eu mandei

Re: FreeBSD, Linux and NFS

2000-01-26 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:39:48AM +0100, Thomas Keusch wrote: Is my assumption, that _only_ NFS v2 via TCP/IP, *NOT* UDP, will work between FreeBSD and Linux, correct? At all? If it ever was? (I just seem to have remembered this sort of stuff popping up on the lists and v2/tcp NFS being the

RE: dhcp-client trying to configure `lo'(loopback)

2000-01-26 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Add the following line to the bottom of /etc/dhclient.conf... interface eth0 {} Modifying the configuration file (/etc/dhclient.conf) is a much cleaner solution than modifying the init-script (/etc/init.d/dhcp-client). Enjoy! Bryan On 25-Jan-2000 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 25-Jan-2000

xterm-debian and SunOs

2000-01-26 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have copied Debian's xterm-debian terminfo onto a SunOS computer (under $HOME/.terminfo), so I can connect from a Debian xterm without problems. However, recently I have started noticing it doesn't work properly on initial login (backspace doesn't work). Instead, I have to type in

Terminal flow control, noting errors during `apt-get install' (Was: Re: random comments and requests for information)

2000-01-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Ross == Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ross Third, is there a standard way to capture errors? During Ross most of the install things just sail by. Use the terminal flow-control keys to stop and start the output of `dpkg'. `C-s' should stop the output, blocking the `dpkg' when

Re: Terminal flow control, noting errors during `apt-get install' (Was: Re: random comments and requests for information)

2000-01-26 Thread Joey Hess
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Use the terminal flow-control keys to stop and start the output of `dpkg'. `C-s' should stop the output, blocking the `dpkg' when it tries to print anything -- the OS stops it, blocked on IO. `C-q' will start output again. This is a feature of the terminal

Re: FreeBSD, Linux and NFS

2000-01-26 Thread Coleman Kane
I had this running beautifully on ReHad 6.1 and FreeBSD 3.2 before I moved my own box from RedHat to FreeBSD. --cokane Thomas Keusch had the audacity to say: Hello, does anybody happen to be running NFS between FreeBSD und Linux successfully and painless? I've got FreeBSD 3.4S cvsupped

Problems with gateway on LAN

2000-01-26 Thread Andrew
I have a network of 4 machines. Two running Debian, one Win98 and one WinNT. I have been trying to setup one of the Linux machines as a masqurading gateway with aliased interfaces. Currently all 4 machines are on the same segment of ethernet. The problem is that with my current configuration,

Re: Allowing users to shutdown

2000-01-26 Thread Svante Signell
At last somebody has an acceptable solution for this use of GNU/Linux!! This question has been sent to the gnome, debian, redhat and suse lists in December with no answer like this, see the summary in the gnome-list or the debian-user list dated December 14 1999. The closest was to use sudo or

Fast serial port for modem?

2000-01-26 Thread Svante Signell
Having an ISDN external modem and the possibility to use two channels simultaneously, gives the theoretical speed of 128 kbps. However, the UART's 16550A on the motherboard have a maximum speed of 115.2 kbps. Including overhead the transfer speed is further reduced. Measured speed are 62 kbps for

Re: FreeBSD, Linux and NFS

2000-01-26 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:39:48AM +0100, Thomas Keusch wrote: Ok, so if I get things right, which I think (hopefully) I do, this means that Linux mounts NFS filesystems via TCP/IP, the FreeBSD server forces NFS v2 via the -2 switch given to mountd and the 4 nfsd only serve stuff via TCP/IP

X coming up in 320x240!!!!

2000-01-26 Thread Josh Orfanakis
I upgraded to Xfree3.3.6 to support my Diamond Viper 550. The installation goes fine but when I startx X comes up in 320x240. Shift-Alt + or - on the number pad or the keyboard does nothing but put a + and - sign on the xterm prompt. I don't understand how to get it into a different

Epson AGAIN

2000-01-26 Thread Jonathan Markevich
OK, more investigation... Ghostscript 5.10 doesn't seem to have the escp2 driver! (okok, that's what it was telling me.) I get this: Available devices: x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11mono lvga256 vgalib t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 appledmp ccr lp2563 lbp8 lips3 m8510 necp6 cp50

Re: Menu empty?

2000-01-26 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sean: Just downloaded the latest menu. (7:30PM EST) Menus still weird. eric wolven On 25-Jan-2000 Fam. Engelen wrote: A friend of mine has recently installed Debian (well I did it for him, most of it). Now he's suddenly having trouble with his X Menus:

Re: GnomeICU dies

2000-01-26 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 24 Jan 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: FYI licq also dies with: X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9 Major opcode: 134 Aborted I'm running potato (updated today, 2000-01-24) and they both still die. Argh. Another case for debugging and/or removing. Something's

modem support

2000-01-26 Thread James Taylor
Hello: I am using a US Robotics 56k Voice Win modem. I ran pppconfig (correctly) and get a log that indicates: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 tcgetattr: Input/ouput error (5) Exit I assume Linux does not support the Win modems. Is that correct? Is there not a patch or something

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-26 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:57:13PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in /etc/init.d. DO NOT do this. /etc/rcS.d scripts are executed at bootup before any

Re: Lilo hdb

2000-01-26 Thread jchristensen
Thanks Christian, that did the trick. I did a little further research. I should be able to use this technique to boot an OS from any disk as long as I use the correct hexadecimal values. Jason On 25 Jan, Christian Rishøj wrote: Subject: Re: Lilo hdb Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:27:50 -1000

Need CHOWN Problems solution

2000-01-26 Thread John Foster
What I did was: chown -R user:user / I meant to put the directory name to change these to; however my finger spazzed out and I hit the enter key. The result was that every file and directory was affected. I folowed some advises and got most of the system restored, however my mail recieving is

Re: modem support

2000-01-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hello: I am using a US Robotics 56k Voice Win modem. I ran pppconfig (correctly) and get a log that indicates: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 tcgetattr: Input/ouput error (5) Exit I assume Linux does not support the Win

Re: modem support

2000-01-26 Thread Todd Suess
Unfortunetly at this point in time win modems are really not supported, and due to the way they function, probably never will be. I recommend a good external modem, such as a USR/3COM Sportster or if you can afford it/find it for a good price a USR/3COM Courier. I have an external courier I have

Re: Need CHOWN Problems solution

2000-01-26 Thread John Foster
John Foster wrote: What I did was: chown -R user:user / I meant to put the directory name to change these to; however my finger spazzed out and I hit the enter key. The result was that every file and directory was affected. I folowed some advises and got most of the system restored,

Fwd: Corel Install/SetUp

2000-01-26 Thread Joe Bouchard
Can anyone help this guy? REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I don't think he is on this list. .. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup Supposedly an award winner for ease of use and install, especially a Linux

Re: A quicky on kerneld and kmod.

2000-01-26 Thread David J. Kanter
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:57:15AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: From the docs that I've read in the kernel source, I gathered that kerneld and kmod are two different utils to load modules. But how do I know which one is being used on my system, and does it really a make big difference? ---end

Re: modem support

2000-01-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 07:38:10PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, James Taylor wrote: I assume Linux does not support the Win modems. Is that correct? Is there not a patch or something available? NT doesn't even support winmodems. ONLY Win95/98 supports winmodems. You

Re: HARD DRIVE NOT FOUND!!!

2000-01-26 Thread Kent West
NETO KWADJO wrote: Hello there! I own an AST ADVANTAGE! pc. It worked perfectly until I formatted the hard disk(c:\).I typed FORMAT C:\ at the C:\ prompt in a desperate attempt to free disk space and reinstall windows. But I noticed that when I restarted my pc,It asked for a system

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. I pronounce it demon but I

Re: GnomeICU dies

2000-01-26 Thread Ron Farrer
Christopher C. Chimelis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Argh. Another case for debugging and/or removing. Something's getting brain-damaged during the build somehow. I've tried doing all of the normal stuff (removing optimisation, etc) and nothing worked for gnomeicu. I'm going to keep

Re: Attention: imapd gpoing back to $HOME as mailbox root

2000-01-26 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Joe Block wrote: Joe Emenaker wrote: Actually, what we *really* need is some sort of consensus. I mean, it would be pretty nice if imapd and other tools (like procmail) all looked in the same default location without any configuration. I know Elm and Pine used

Re: Allowing users to shutdown

2000-01-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 25/1/2000 Bill Wilson wrote: ln -s /sbin/shutdown /usr/bin/shutdown chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown this will allow ANYONE on your system to shutdown or reboot your system, whether they are logged into gnome or logged in via ssh from anywhere.. if security is not a big deal for

pity this newbie

2000-01-26 Thread Steve Winston
I am stumbling through gnome, etc. in Slink. HELP. GNOME comes up when I type startx. __ But the desktop is way too large. __The applications I would start with icons on the upper lefthand side of the desktop don't work. __Help doesn't work. THe error message says I need dox. But apt-get install

Re: Allowing users to shutdown

2000-01-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 26/1/2000 Svante Signell wrote: This question has been sent to the gnome, debian, redhat and suse lists in December with no answer like this, see the summary in the gnome-list or the debian-user list dated December 14 1999. The closest was to use sudo or similar since I don't want to use

Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-26 Thread Art Lemasters
Potato is running here. After trying to subscribe a new user to a list, majordomo told me MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! shlock: '.' is not writable by UID 30 GID 31 -- and of course, the user was not subscribed.

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread Friedemann Schorer
Hi Brendan, Am 25 Jan 00, um 11:54 schrieb Brendan Cully: People who pronounce it Lie-nucks have probably just been using it since before the Great Pronunciation Controversy... ... or may just be coming from an other country ;-) Friedemann

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
At 11:35 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. I've always pronounced it day-mun. No reason why. I guess if you look at other

Sound

2000-01-26 Thread petereades
Just looking through the list archives and saw mention of a sound program called AU Real which worked well. But no other mention of it and cant find it at freashmeat. Where is it? Thanks Peter

Re: Menu empty?

2000-01-26 Thread James Sleeman
It's possible that update-menus was run under the user account with the recently broken menu package (which is now fixed), update-menus would have been run by root when the menu package was upgraded but the users own menus will not have been updated. Short version : run update-menus as the user,

How to fix apt/dpkg/dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Guyren G Howe
I have been trying for three or four days to get my x server to run. I can't get dselect or apt to do the intelligent thing when it comes to re-installing anything. If I fix something (by brute-force: download via ftp and install), something else breaks. apt and dselect are hopelessly trapped in

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread DWM
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as

Re: How to fix apt/dpkg/dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: [...] Unpacking netstd... dpkg: error processing... netstd_3.07-7slink... trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/finger', which is also in package finger dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: problem to load NLS charset cp437(nls_cp437) and others

2000-01-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
I looked at /lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/ and the files nls_cp437.o and nls_iso8859_1.o are there, as are several files with similar names, could these two be currupted? I read the man modconf as you suggested, but I don't know if I really understood. /etc/modules holds the following entries: vfat

hylafax passwd?

2000-01-26 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi I installed hylafax on my slink 2.1r4 machine the other day. After running the setup scripts faxsetup(i think it was called so) and faxaddmodem the daemons faxq and hfaxd can be started and are so at boottime. I also included my user in the fax group (it was already earlier in the dialout

is 'smail' sleeping ?

2000-01-26 Thread lorenzo . zampese
In the last days I disturbed you all about exim, because I wasn't able to send e-mail. A lot of you helped me and I wish to thank you all for the attention. But exim didn't work anyway on my system. I SOLVED my problem using 'smail' than 'exim' and BINGO !!! When I tried to use exim, fetchmail

Re: Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

2000-01-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:57:13PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in /etc/init.d. DO

Re: X coming up in 320x240!!!!

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- Josh Orfanakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to Xfree3.3.6 to support my Diamond Viper 550. The installation goes fine but when I startx X comes up in 320x240. Shift-Alt + or - on the number pad or the keyboard does nothing but put a + and - sign on the xterm prompt. Try

Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount

2000-01-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Adam Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Okay, but the current RAID in 2.2.14 doesn't work now (for SMP), and doesn't work right (if it's being replaced). I guess one could ask, how did this happen? IIRC, Ingo was rewriting RAID during the Linux 2.1 cycle. Somehow it didn't make it into the main

apt-get dist upgrade

2000-01-26 Thread Marco Giardini
trying to upgrade to the potato, i get several error in MDsum for differents deb files. One of this is the cpio. This sound quite strange. Any idea? PS I'have just mirrored with rsync the potato release for i386. It's the last release for sure! .oesse. --

newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread DOUGLAS HUNTER
When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast.Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page bypage and change pages when I want to ?I've also got a problem with GNOME in that the screen only

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Dänzer
--- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by page and change pages when I want to ? ls | more The

Re: relocating mail server

2000-01-26 Thread Robert Varga
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-01-25 01:55:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know how to forward all the emails from my current email server to this new potato box? You were not really specific in what you wanted to do, so I assume that you have an mta

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Paul Huygen
Quoting Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page by page

Hard drive partitioning. My thoughts.

2000-01-26 Thread John Gay
After reading the replies, and the FHS several times, I've decided to use the following partitioning scheme. Currently 6G hda2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 64M Swap, 1G for /home, and the rest, almost 2G for /usr. Proposed. 6G hda 2G for WindowsNT, 100M for /, 64M Swap, rest for /home. 13G

Voodoo Banshee Help

2000-01-26 Thread David Blackman
Hey All, I desperatley need help with my new voodoo banshee card. I finally got X working, sort of, and fixed the consoel by using the server from 3dfx. But I can't get glide to work. The debs are hopelessly broken: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:

Re: Problems with gateway on LAN

2000-01-26 Thread Johan Ur Riise
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:40:50AM +1100, Andrew wrote: I have a network of 4 machines. Two running Debian, one Win98 and one WinNT. I have been trying to setup one of the Linux machines as a masqurading gateway with aliased interfaces. Currently all 4 machines are on the same segment of

less and color

2000-01-26 Thread ljh
I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of more. However, when piping ls stdout to the less command, less displays the directory listing in

Re: less and color

2000-01-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 26/1/2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have setup the ls command to use the display color option using an alias. It works fine. Colors are also displayed nicely when piping ls stdout to the more command. I want to use less instead of more. However, when piping ls stdout to the less

Re: Help me with glibc

2000-01-26 Thread Tilman Kranz
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:25:08PM -0500, Robert Beranek wrote: could you please tell me exactly which packages did you install, beacuse when i want to install libc6_2.1.2-11.deb it says that i should update timezone package which i cannot find. Greetings, this is gonna be a looong

Re: Pathetic Performance

2000-01-26 Thread hawk
also make sure that you caches are turned on in the bios. I ran into sluggish performance a couple of months ago after a bios reset, and this was it. Of course, this gateway p120 is still about the same speed as my 486/50 thinkpad with 4m less memory (ok, except when rendering postscript or

Re: Majordomo Trouble

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
what user/group is uid 30/group 31 ? majordomo usually pukes when trying to write to /var/log/majordomo so check permissions on that thats the only directory where i have recieved a similar error with (although it was kind enough to tell me the exact directory) while your at it check the

I thought Potato used a 2.2.x kernel?

2000-01-26 Thread Michael Jessop
I upgraded to Potato (that's what it took to get XWindows to work correctly on my system -- now I have to figure out how to get KDE to be my default WM) but my KERNEL didn't upgrade?! It is still at 2.0.36 (or .39, I forget which). How? Why? Thanks btw for all the help yesterday! I had a

Re: newbie needs help veiwing files

2000-01-26 Thread Ron Rademaker
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Michel [UNKNOWN] Dänzer wrote: --- DOUGLAS HUNTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm in bash and trying to ls large files I can only see the last part of the file due to it scrolling past too fast. Is there a command to insert that means I can veiw the output page

Re: Voodoo Banshee Help

2000-01-26 Thread aphro
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, David Blackman wrote: david Hey All, david I desperatley need help with my new voodoo banshee card. I david finally got X working, sort of, and fixed the consoel by using the david server from 3dfx. But I can't get glide to work. maybe i can help.. david The debs are

Re: Any considerations for debian on Athlon processor

2000-01-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any special considerations when installing debian (probably potato) in a box with an Athlon 800 Mhz with 10,2 GB and a Matrox G400??? potato works well with a G400. And with an Athlon. Did not try both at the same time yet.

Re: Ponyprog

2000-01-26 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Sir(s), Problems with Ponyprog: --- I have Debian 2.0 with a 2.2.9 Kernel installed on my IBM x86 Cyrix Pentium 200. Having read the instructions from http://www.cs.unibio.it I have it impossible to properly install Ponyprog. I

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