digest list and GLX extensions

1997-12-19 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
I have a couple of unrelated questions. First, I subscribe to the digest version of this list (debian-user-digest) and it seems to be broken (at least I haven't gotten anything from it in about a week). I sent email to debian-user-request about the problem yesterday and haven't heard anything

Re: Monitor Specs for Xfree86

1998-01-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory, I believe that the dot clock setting is from the video adapter and not the monitor. Gregory Guthrie wrote: Gateway informs me that my GW2000 Vivitron 17 monitor is Hscan = 30-64 Vscan = 50-100 dot-pitch = .26 but that they have never

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #193

1998-02-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
William R. Ward wrote: [snip] The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search

Re: Remote OpenGL applications

1998-02-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | A co-worker is installing Debian alongside NT on his new machine. | He has asked if Debian (in X11R6) can display a remote application | from an SGI machine that uses the OpenGL library. When we tried | to do such a thing on my machine (up-to-date hamm), it would fail

TeTeX (was Re: SGML-Tools)

1998-03-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |However, I don't have latex (nor latex2e). I have tetex instead. I |thought tetex is a latex substition, at least when looking at basics |functionality. Indeed the sgml-tools package did not comment on this, |even though latex is one of its sugestions. And

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In an article Peter Paluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no | experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well | with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western

Re: losing track

1997-10-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In a post [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Fleureck) wrote: I run debian 1.3/kernel 2.0.30 and have PCMCIA card 3C562D/563D. I am trying to access the network. I began installing pcmcia-cs 2.9.5-3 together with pcmcia-modules 2.9.5-3. So I had to upgrade to kernel 2.0.30, which I did. This still gave

Year 2038 problem (was Re: Year 2000 Debian)

1997-10-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 19:51:07 +1000 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two digits.

Monster 3D (was Re: best Linux video card)

1997-11-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997 Oleg Krivosheev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: Oleg, are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. you'll have accelerated OpenGL under Linux and Windows and can play GLQuake with decent frame rate. Does the monster need a 2D

Re: log rotation package?

1997-11-22 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
There's a rotatelogs program in one of the web server packages, I think. It should be broken out into its own package. I'd like to see a separate package for this as well. It's a pain doing it by hand and I'm too busy/lazy to write a shell script to do it automatically! Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Backup systems: opinons wanted

1997-12-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Udjat the BitMeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use bru 2000 and I am _very_ happy with it. I also us cpio to copy my whole filesystem(/) to a different partition (/snapshot) to have a online read-only backup of files. You could get by with cpio but I like the tape verify and features of bru

Re: emacs *very slow* to launch

1998-06-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Nick Moffitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Eric House wrote: | | I'm running 1.3.1 in terminal mode. I launch emacs by typing 'emacs' | at the cmd line, and it takes *at least* five minutes to come up. | Once up, it works just fine. And

Re: internal gcc error

1998-06-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jens Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi! | | I've tried to compile the kernel-source (-2.0.33 -2.0.34) with | make-kpkg. I've got some messages i cant explain to me. [hopefully someone else can help you with the make-kpkg stuff] | And final | make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.0 kernel-image

Re: memory leak

1998-06-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In a message [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Something that I'm running is leaking memory like crazy. How do I | find this memory leak and more importantly, how does one fix it? I | have 128Meg of memory on the system and when I first boot up, the | system has 99Meg free. After running for a day or

Re: adding pcmcia module for updated kernel

1998-06-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In a message Tom Kuiper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I recently installed the 2.0.33 kernel. Now I want to add the pcmcia | module, which is in a separate package. This module is already | installed for the previous version of the kernel, 2.0.30. I strongly | suspect that I cannot just create a

Re: Debian Mirror

1998-06-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
matthew tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I keep a local debian mirror of the i386 stuff for both stable frozen, | for a bunch of people here at the isp, and a few friends. | | Anyways, | I think I have the mirror config file and local directories setup | correctly. Is anyone also mirroring

Config file for mirror of frozen

1998-06-30 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
There was enough interest that I felt it was worth posting my configuration for mirroring the Debian frozen distribution. Note that my mirror is behind a firewall and I have to do ftp via a proxy, so there may be something I'm doing in my configuration that won't work on machines out in the open.

Re: module dependencies

1998-07-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hmm, did you run 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' after building | the kernel? When you ran 'depmod -a' did it give any errors? depmod is the | prog that builds the modules.dep file in /lib/modules/2.0.34/ (On a Deb | system, depmod

Re: path environment under x

1998-07-02 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Not changing it in the non-login shell script (.bashrc, .cshrc, ...) was your | problem. When you start X, the shells that run in the xterms aren't login | shells...therefore your path must be set in your non-login shell script. I have | mine setup so that my

Using YARD to create boot floppies?

1998-07-05 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine, i.e., it gets to the login prompt. But at that

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-05 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'd really like to be able to get the list in digest format. Then why don't you subscribe to the digest version? That's what I do. Just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe as the only word in the message and viola, you're subscribed to the digest

Re: dual boot?? win98???

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Evan Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | From: S K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:29 AM | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: dual boot?? win98??? | | | I'm trying to install Debian linux, but not entirely ready to | throw away | my windows 98. is it

Re: Using YARD to create boot floppies?

1998-07-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Gary L.Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for | emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and | I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and | prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine,

Re: Micropolis

1998-07-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote: | | : I have a Micropolis scsi drive model 3243 and was wondering if anyone new | : of a site or a person that may have the jumper settings for this drive. | : The company has filed bankcrupsy(that is

ps command in 2.0 frozen

1998-07-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I noticed that the version of ps in the frozen Debian 2.0 distribution is different than what was in 1.3. The thing I miss most about the version in 1.3 was the ability to define PS_PERSONALITY as POSIX and ps would act like the Posix version (or SYSV). I'm much more familiar with this but now

Re: What should I mirror?

1998-07-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Fernando Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi! | | I have a private mirror of debian in one of our servers so that I | can install/update a machine fast with the *latest* versions. | | The problem is that I have not much disk space and I would like | to keep the mirrored files to a minimum.

Re: What should I mirror?

1998-07-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Fernando Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | (...) My config file for mirror can be found at | | http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9806/msg02464.html | | In summary, the recommended method of mirroring debian is using | | mirror root/debian

Problems with digest of this list

1998-07-10 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Is anyone else who's subscribed to debian-user-digest having problems? I'm getting digests from days ago, that I've already received, and just now got a digest from the 28th of June! This has been happening since Monday or so. I sent email to debian-user-digest-owner but haven't heard anything

Re: fvwm2 config hook rant

1998-07-14 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Tom Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am very upset by these hook things. I do not understand them. They seem | to be much harder to work with than regular configuration (.*rc) files. | They seem to require that the user know which hook file to edit. There | are several, prethis.hook

Re: crc error ( install )

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have just started to install Debian Linux. I don't think I got past first | base. | After making my floppies I rebooted with the resc1440.bin disk firmly in the | drive. On the first screen I pressed Enter heres what I got : | boot: | Loading

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Martin Oldfield writes: | | | I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE | controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: | | IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). | | The drives are older: | | Model=QUANTUM

Re: xbase broken?

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Michael B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am trying to install hamm on a friend's system. All went well till | I started on X. The xbase install script fails with the following: | mv: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit : no such file or directory | | Is there some work around, or should I just wait

Re: Mirror question

1998-07-19 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm trying to set up a mirror of the i386 hamm distribution using the dists/frozen/main directory at | ftp.debian.org site as the source. | | It's mostly working except for one thing. The symbolic links in the binary-i386 directories (and the | files

Re: sfxload at boot-up

1998-07-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | How can I make sfxload load synthgm.sbk at boot time. The account for | myself can load synthgm.sbk. You can create a script to do this in /etc/init.d and link to that script from one of the rcn.d directories. Depending on your default level (if you

Re: hdparm

1998-07-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi... | | Umm: | | /dev/hda: | Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61 seconds =39.75 MB/sec | Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 6.87 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec | | Buffer-cache reads? Uh... explain that to me please, this particular UDMA | can't go

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Yeah, memtest takes words as arguments. That's 32 bits on 386/486/Pentium so (256*1024^2)/32 = 8388608 memtest 8388608

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I noticed my error. I used bytes instead of bits. That calculation should've been:

Re: Having problems compiling a kernel

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Nico Fritschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am using Debian 1.3.1 with the 2.0.30 kernel. My version of gcc is | 2.7.1 . I wanted to compile a kernel. The first problem was that i | wasn't able to use make menuconfig (error was: make error 1) and make | xconfig so i used make config. After having

Re: memtest

1998-07-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I want to test my 256megs but can't figure out arguments. Can anyeone | | tell me the proper command line arguments to run the memtest? | | Oops! Right after I sent that first reply I

Re: [?] 2.0.35 doesn't boot

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Steffen R . Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Don't have any info for Dirk, who has a different problem than the following] | You're using IDE hardware while mine is all SCSI using an Adaptec 2940UW. | When booting the kernel gets loaded and then fails on initializing the SCSI | devices

Re:

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Chiou, Violet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | I read the Debian announce title Debian and the millenium bug which | mentioned If you expect to run your 1.3 system through the millenium, you | can get a copy of the 'hwclock' program from 2.0 and replace the 'clock' | program presently on

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used | before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \ tex | | Put (global-font-lock-mode t) in your .emacs file, prepare yourself | for a lot of colour, and restart emacs.

Re: hdparm

1998-07-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
seen one myself but have seen them advertised in high-end hardware magazines. They are generally VERY expensive. Gary | On 20 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Hi... | | | | Umm: | | | | /dev/hda: | | Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 1.61

Mirror after release

1998-07-23 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at /debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do they just rename/relink frozen - stable? I just want to know how to adjust my mirror configuration file

Re: xemacs not starting unless connected to the net

1998-07-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes: | My xemacs does not start unless I am connected to the internet. I do not | use emacs for anything that needs me connected to the Net. I am assuming that | it has something to do with the email part of xemacs is there a way | to make it not try adn dial the net

Re: kernel compile errors

1998-07-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Ulrich) writes: | I just recently abandoned my own linux setup and installed debian (hamm). | This is a pretty much stock setup -- the only thing un-debian I've done so | far is change /bin/sh to point to pdksh, but that *shouldn't* be the problem | because I've

Re: TeTeX and timing package

1998-07-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: | Hi, | | I'm trying to use a package for drawing timing diagrams I downloaded from | CTAN. I'm pretty new to TeX and haven't figured out all the programs yet. | Specifically I don't where to place all the files in the package. I put them | in a local

Changing hamm?

1998-07-31 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Is all development work going into slink now? I'd really like to get a couple of new things, kernel-source-2.0.35 in particular, but I don't want to upset my very stable hamm system with slink stuff. Seems like for bo when a new kernel came out it was only about a week or so and you could find it

Re: ASUS P2B-S and Debian

1998-08-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
nebu . [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | along with my video card upgrade, I want to get a new motherboard and am | thinking of the Asus p2b-s (onboard scsi based on AIC-7890). Has anyone | used debian with this board? The 7890 support is still pretty rough around the edges. I don't believe the 7890

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I didn't ever notice an announcement of the release of Debian 2.0 on Linux | Announce (apart from the beta announcement). Maybe I just missed it --- | did someone see it? | | Just thought I'd mention it because we do want people to know about it I |

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-04 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hmm. I started this thread, but it moved to a different topic very | quickly! Getting back to the original point: there have been a couple of | responses from people who have said that they did see the release of | Debian 2.0 on Linux Announce, yet I

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-05 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 5 Aug 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: | | Please: This is an englisch speaking mailing list. Thanks, | | Some German on the list and even other languages contribute to the variety | on the list. I like it. Well, you may enjoy it but I think it would've

Re: non-US status? stable-bo

1998-08-06 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | So, we're a few hours away from *two* weeks since hamm was officially | released as Debian 2.0. | | **HOWEVER**, nonus.debian.org still has stable pointed to bo and | hamm identified as frozen. | | Any ideas on when this will be updated? Huh?

Re: patch 2.5-2 problem

1998-08-07 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Bjoern Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | while setting up a small network from scratch with hamm, I found that | /usr/bin/patch ( patch_2.5-2 ) fails to locate files in directories | deeper than one (eg. *** drivers/sound/lowlevel/init.c ). When patch | prompts for an alternative file name I

Re: What dist is vararg.h in?

1998-08-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Well, I bit the bullet and installed HAMM last night. Everything went | pretty well with only a few error messages during the install. | | I have noticed that some of the include files I have been using in a C | project are now missing. | | One

Re: Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

1998-08-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jameson Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 | years. [snip] | I happen to still have a bo rescue disk from 11/17/97: it works with | my Adaptec 2940UW. | | I got my Adaptec 2940UW two years ago with a new Dell computer. A | sticker

Re: kermel make overrwites symbolic link, confusing lilo

1998-08-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I don't think I've seen this one before . . . | | I have /boot mounted on the first partition, a single cylinder. | /vmlinux is a symbolic link to /boot/vmlinux-2.0.33. Rather than | following the link, make zImage zlilo is placing a vmlinuz

Re: Play sound with xmailbox

1998-08-11 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Guido Bozzetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm trying to use the sound playing without success. | How I can play a sound when arrive e new message ? | I've tried with: | | .Xresources: | *xmailbox*mailsndfile: /usr/doc/xmailbox/examples/dingdong.au | *xmailbox*mailsndcomm: /usr/bin/play %s | |

Re: Silly Question... VERY simple :)

1998-08-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote: | | | On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: | | Where is the documentation for C ? i.e. language help? | | I have a hard time remembering syntax and stuff.. :) | | | You're best off just

Problems with debian-user-digest?

1998-08-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I haven't received anything from the digest version of this list in about 6 days. Our power went out for the weekend and I haven't received anything since. I unsubscribed and re-subscribed to the list, and despite a successful subscription to debian-user-digest, as automatically reported back to

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | E == E L Meijer \(Eric\) E.L. writes: | | E Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy) | E loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created | E kernel-image package offer the option of copying the

Re: xv package for deb?

1998-08-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
the lone gunman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the XView program | by John Bradley. | | When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important | stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted | to this mailing

Re: linux laptop resources?

1998-08-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | does anyone know of a mailing list or whathaveyou for linux laptops? | there's some (probably) easy answers I need from folks who have | already solved them, but i don't know where to look. | | (such as, how to get a thinkpad to charge)

stable-updates?

1998-08-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
What's the plan for files in the stable-updates directory on ftp.debian.org? Will these eventually be moved into the hamm distribution? I understand they're bug fixes for stable but why are they in a separate directoy instead of just replacing whatever's buggy in hamm/stable? Thanks, Gary

Re: shutdown not unnmounting

1998-08-21 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | David B. Teague wrote: | | The problem is that SOMETIMES, not frequently, | | shutdown -h now | | will stop before unmounting drives | | The correct answer is to upgrade, but is there anything I could | do in the interim? | | I have a

RE: Multi-Boot

1998-03-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lewis, James M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | How you partition a system depends a lot on what you are going to do | with it. My system is just a local workstation and looks like this: [snip] | Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can | add some comment...

Re: SCSI and Tape Drives

1998-04-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me | Loosing everything lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive | I have been told that with linux most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI | tape dirves will work | I have had a secret

Re: Bash help

1998-04-23 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | to make bash wait a certain amount of time... | sleep(X) # X = number of seconds to sleep | as for detecting an error | scripts can return errors just like any program... | I think maybe hmmm I forget exactly how...but I know its no differnt than a

Re: ADSL?

1998-05-13 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Tue, 12 May 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: | | | Coudl someone tell me what ADSL is? | Thank you | | ZORO | | DSL means Digital Subscriber Loop. [snip] That's Line not Loop, and you can find out just about anything you want to know about

Re: dump again

1998-05-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm new to using restore(1), and can't quite figure out how to extract a | single file from a dumped filesystem. | | I first restored the dump image from amanda onto an empty partition (the | image is called dragon.hda2.19980523.0), then I tried to

Re: xemacs splits mail

1998-05-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article Stefan Gvdel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | David Z. Maze writes: | | Stefan Gödel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | SG I'm trying to send a mail with some big attachments. I use xemacs for | SG mail reading and writing and it splits this message into several | SG pieces. This is a

Re: time is off

1998-08-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
(Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 24-Aug-98 daryl wrote: | folks, | | both of my my debian systems have the wrong time. they are 7 hours | too early, although they are in the correct timezone (PDT). i can | use the date command to set the date right, however i still have the |

Re: problem w/dselect via ftp

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Daryl Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | i am having a problem using the ftp option with dselect. | i am able to login to ftp.debian.org and various mirros | however i am getting an error message that states: | | Could not find Packages in stable/binary-i386 | | is this a known problem, or

Re: How do I prevent Ctrl+Alt+Q from killing my X server?

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Eric Hanchrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I've installed Debian 2.0 from the official Debian 2.0 binary. Things | are working well, but while using Emacs, I discovered that Ctrl+Alt+Q | immediately kills my X server. This is annoying, because that

Re: How do I prevent Ctrl+Alt+Q from killing my X server?

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'll have to go with Jens on this one. Doesn't happen on either of my | Debian boxes. One running a Matrox MilleniumI (XF86_SVGA) and the | other an IBM Thinkpad 755C (also running the XF86_SVGA server, I | believe). It must be specific to

Re: 755c Thinkpad issues

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | Plus, we've had this 755 for a couple of years now and I think the | battery has quit accepting a charge. Even when it's powered down the | battery will not recharge. The battery status LED

Re: X / Xemacs weird behaviour

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | | This is my problem: | if i try to run $ xemacs -display mymachine:0.0 from the shell it does not | complain but no window appears at the sceen. | | if i do $ xemacs -display othermachine:0.0 it works fine. | also if i simply do

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT | (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this? | I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I | think xntpd is installed. I'm not sure

Re: smail config...

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | tp == terence pua [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | tp i am looking to... | tp 1) access my mail via POP3 | | So you want to access the mail stored at this box via pop3? You need | cucipop or qpopper. Or the imap package, which provides pop2, pop3 and

Re: set clock to GMT?

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT | | (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this? | | I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I | | think xntpd is installed. |

Re: SCSI peripherals?

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |I have an external SCSI zip drive scanner. However, it seems |that when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, |they don't get recognized. Is there any way I can get it to read them |after boot time? Or do I have to leave them on permanently

Re: SCSI peripherals?

1998-08-27 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rafael Cordones Marcos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 02:53:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have an external SCSI zip drive scanner. However, it seems that | when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, they don't get | recognized. Is

Xisp and mutiple ISPs

1998-08-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I've had this headache for a long time, using Linux with multiple ISPs. Generally I've resorted to writing my own scripts to accomplish different setups for different ISPs but I'm getting tired of the pain involved in modifying the script when I want to add/remove an ISP, so I thought I'd take a

/etc/ppp/options

1998-08-29 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Related to my previous post about learning to use Xisp, I'm trying to get PPP to work from a user account, my own, and so far haven't had any success. Whether I use Xisp or just pon ISP_Name I get the following in /var/log/ppp.log: pppd[2513]: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: No such

Re: /etc/ppp/options

1998-08-31 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I would say that pppd looks at /etc/ppp/options and at | /etc/ppp/peers/ISP_name. | Since you can connect to the ISP as root, I guess that your problem is pppd | permitions. does ls show the existance of /etc/ppp/options when you are | looking as root ? Does pppd is

Re: Xisp and mutiple ISPs

1998-08-31 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Frederic Breitwieser writes: | I do this in NT currently with no issues - but I have a program to do so. | At the rate I'm going, give me a month to have something that works for | you guys to lobotomize. | | The problem is not so much one of code as it is one of

Re: Linux question, not specifically debian

1998-09-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi All: | | With VMS VAXen the virtual memory architecture is paging, | with executables for a process always loaded at 0x200. | | I understand that Linux is also paged. Does Linux start | executables at any particular virtual address? What does | Linux

Re: /dev/audio

1998-09-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | Every time I use tkdesk as a user it says permission denied to write to | /dev/audio. As root I hear the sounds fine. | What permissions do I have to cahnge. | Thanks Alot You just need to add yourself to the audio group. man adduser should help you

Re: Gnus for mail: How do I setup my system.

1998-09-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have heard that I can use gnus for handling my mail. I have looked at | the huge amount of documentation on gnus mainly dealing with the reading | of news. I do not want to use gnus for that as I am reading my news | offline using slrn. You can

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | During the installation of Hamm I was asked if my PC was running on GMT | or not. I guess I answered this wrong as the time is displayed an hour | ahead of what it should be. | | It should be showing British Summer time now which is GMT + 1 but is in |

Re: winmodem

1998-09-08 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Default Debian Reader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Does anyone know if a winmodem, (in particular, the us robotics x2 | 56 winmodem) is useable under linux? This used to be the default modem | shipped with dell machines and it seems like i can't get this *[EMAIL PROTECTED] to | work. Winmodems

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | skribis Gilbert Laycock: | Pete Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous | Pete word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. | | What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key (windows 95) |

Re: HELP: Even More Problems Configuring Email

1998-09-10 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
DMDP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have figured out a cheap way to use PPP a regular user login as root, | connect, log back out, log in as a regular user... You can use XISP and, by adding yourself to the proper groups (dip, dialout, are the two I can think of), and creating a very minimal

Re: XRINGD AGAIN

1998-09-15 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Just curious if anyone had succeded in configuring and using xringd. | | It does not work on my machine | | I have an external modem on /dev/ttyS1 and even when I tell | #xringd -m /dev/ttyS1 | | it can not find it . | | tryed to make /dev/modem

Re: can't compile 2.1.121 under Debian Hamm 2.0

1998-09-15 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Using a typical installation of Debian Hamm 2.0, I am having trouble | compiling the current development kernel. Can anyone give me a clue | on the following error message: [snip] I seem to remember something about the development kernels requiring

Re: core dump user + memory map

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I understand that it should be possible to feed core to an editor | that will clear it up (remove lines of nulls for example), and will show | the hex characters and ascii equivalents. In addition the c compiler | should I think be able to produce a

Re: Adaptec AIC-7890 and kernel 2.1.121

1998-09-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Has anyone been able to get the latest development kernel (2.1.121) | working with an Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI controller? I compiled the | kernel with AIC-7xxx support built in, but it refuses to recognize the | SCSI interface at boot time. I'm currently running

Re: mkdosfs simply exits

1998-09-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Glenn Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have built a linux rescue floppy that I am using to do restores of a | win95 system for a school lab environment. The floppy is intended to | be able to reformat the hard drive and re-load a valid setup over the | network or from a CD. Here's my problem:

Re: Problems with Mail

1998-09-18 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm having some preplexing mail problems, and was wondering if someone | could help me resolve the problem. | | I have 2 linux boxes networked together. My production box also has | the connection to the internet. It is running all of my servers, and |

Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

1998-09-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify sources.list to point to

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