kde mirror

2000-08-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Sorry but I'm not subscribed to the list, so can you please answer directly? I actually use an rsync connexion to mirror sunsite.tut.fi, unfortunately, this one is hugely sloow, does anybody knows about a *fast*, reliable and up to date mirror (with rsync) for DEBIAN-KDE? Thanks in

Re: DNS slow?

1999-12-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 11:55:33AM +0100, Onno wrote: My experiance with older versions of netscape under windows is the same, so this -could- be a netsacpe issue... Regards, Onno Thanks Onno, I checked with lynx, which does not give the error, so it is really a nestcape issue :( JY --

Re: ??? :undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

1999-12-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 07:27:45PM -0500, Bob Brown wrote: Here is my problem: My end goal is to install StarOffice 51. I loaded hamm from my cd, upgraded to slink using apt-get from ftp.debian.org, then pulled down XFree86 3.3.5 (current) for glibc. When I run startx I get this:

DNS slow?

1999-12-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I've a 486 as DNS/FW/ROUTER and a PII400 as a station. Sometimes when I surf the net, if I quit a site and instantly click on another link (netscape 4.7), the browser tells me tha site is unreachable. When I click a second time, it works w/o problem. Have you any clue? (i.e. a parm to

Re: Two problems to solve...(i hope)

1999-12-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:22:47PM +, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: First of all Linux is unable to find my UDMA66 HardDisk. I know that exists some patches to make it working. Anyone have already tryed them? Yep, I use slink with kernel 2.2.12; patch comes from:

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:41:26PM -0800, aphro wrote: I dont know what exactly is installed when(if) your using a debian binary kernel but if your compiling from source make sure you enable the Parellel printer support option in character devices when your making the kernel. Hi Nate, Sure I

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:33:29PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what happens. at least then you know you have communication and later you can work on the lpd/magicfilter

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:11:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). jybarb I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. What kind of TV card? I have been using Bt848

lpr problem

1999-12-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I didn't print for a long time; when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ), lpq says: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) I check the cable, I de-installed/re-installed the 'lpr' package (always using my conf files for a Epson 750, on /dev/lp0). Still nothing (even under

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:12:27AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Hi all, I didn't print for a long time; when I try to print a simple text file (lpr ZZZ), lpq says: waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) Motherboard is an ABIT BE-6. Of course, // port is in the kernel. I also

Re: databases, which one? (THANKS)

1999-11-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanxs to all of you, I think I'm gonna try MySQL + Perl JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad

Re: your mail

1999-11-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 06:28:03PM +0100, Skynet wrote: 212.210.122.9 ??? = agmemnnone.penters.it

Re: kern.log error/hdb: irq timeout

1999-11-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:29:25PM -0600, ktb wrote: I'm getting these errors listed below. When these errors show up on my xconsole my screen is frozen for some time and then recovers. My X . Nov 23 23:08:19 xyf kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Nov 23 23:08:24 xyf kernel:

Re: Help

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:05:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please send me anything you can send. -On any and everything. I've got a boring ex-wife, can I send it to you? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] U X e dUdX, e dX, cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159...

Re: Ethernet irq #3

1999-11-23 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 12:24:36AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I`m fairly new to all this so before I go to the extent of replacing the kernel, which I hadn`t intended to do until potato was the stable version, please could someone tell me in laymans terms how to change the IRQ that

Re: How to savely copy a disk? (a bit off topic)

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:10:30PM +0100, Francis Pirotton wrote: For the win95 partition :. 1 - Create another primary partition. I have already tried to do it with the fdisk of linux but I had messages like partition table corrupted Hi, just a word about this kind of error and

Re: +64 mb ram

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:06:17PM +0100, luis wrote: which are the options to have recognized by linux more than 64 mb of ram? i have put a line in /etc/lilo.conf, stating : append=mem=128m You should read the HOWTOs before, it says that giving the whole RAM is dangerous, because you run

Re: Can't make menuconfig

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I can make config and make xconfig but I can not make menuconfig. When I try, I get the following: westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all

Re: Botting a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: Try `mem=256M' instead. Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. Try `mem=255M' instead. JY -- Jean-Yves F.

phoenix maxi gamer 3D xserver [URGENT]

1999-11-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'm going to help a friend tomorrow mornig to setup Linux on his computer, he's owning this card, and I don't know if the xserver exists (and if so, where I can download it). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] PURGE COMPLETE.

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:01:37AM -0600, John Foster wrote: I have sound working fine as the root user, but it is screwed as any other. I am using commercial OSS as I have NEVER been able to get any of the other stuff to work. I presented this problem to the tech folks at 4Front and their

Re: ethernet card irq

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:29:36PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0: transmit timed out with status 8180, IRQ conflict? eth0: timeout registers: 8180 8182 0106 e85a d920 8080 4000. What driver did you inclued in the kernel? is it a module or inclued in the kernel? Also the value

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 03:55:55PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? I'll be encoding wavs into

Re: X and the ATI Xpert 128

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 04:45:43PM -0800, Jon Hughes wrote: We have the 3.3.5 version of X, but he has a ATI Xpert 128 video card. The documentation states that it is not yet supported, but has anyone managed to get the card to work yet? I don't know this card, but if it has a Rage128 cpu,

Re: Extremely Strange Problem (keyboard mouse die)

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:38:39PM -0500, Harlan Crystal wrote: Hello: Sometimes, when I boot up my machine, it'll boot normally but when I get to the login prompt, my keyboard and mouse get no response on screen. The cursor keeps on flashing and everything seems to be working (I can

Re: Kernal Upgrade and WINE questions

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 04:08:08PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Tom Allard wrote: VMware is kinda heavy on the requirements side, too (minimum 96MB memory recommended). If you just need to run an app or two, VMware is overkill. And it's not so

open ports

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I made a 'netstat -a --inet', and it returns me 3 ports I don't know opened: tcp 00 *:sunrpc *.*LISTEN udp 00 *:sunrpc *.* raw 00 *:1 *.* raw 00 *:6 *.* Is it normal? Am

Re: open ports (1/2 oops!)

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: I was also returned an 'imap2' opened port??? I did not installed such a package (in fact it was purged long ago). Why is it still present? Sorry, forget about this one, it was still opend by inetd. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier

Re: OSS from 4Front Tech problems

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:43:09AM -0600, John Foster wrote: Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group? -- Yes. I did check and it made no difference. Thanks for the idea. Any others? Huuh? that's

Re: Ethernet irq

1999-11-21 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 06:17:59PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0: AT1700 found at 0x320, IRQ 5, address f4aacbbd auto-sense interface. at1700.c:v1.15 4/7/98 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Good, its well recognized /proc/interrupts and ioports are as follows;

little www svr

1999-11-20 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I'm on a cable connection, and my isp changed its upolod limit from 150 to 500 MB [ better than nothing :( ]. So I intend to have a small www svr, BUT I would like to be able to contain it within my limits: stop the svr if my upload is 400 MB; and I don't know which svr I must use

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:25:00PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether it's possible to load ne.o module for a dual ethernet machine. Can it be done? I have tried to load the same module twice (with different iobase's), but it wouldn't work. Do I have to recompile the kernel

Re: 2nd Linux installation

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
One of the things I use the linux box for is an FTP server for my LAN, and I was wondering if it is okay to share the /home/ftp/pub directory between the 2 distros so that as it gets modified in one distro the modifications will be updated in the other. For example if my partitions are:

Re: Linux as a router

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:16:40AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, would using a floppy for the system be better than a HD in terms of security? Or, it just means that a floppy will have less data so that even if the system badly hacked, the recovery would be pretty simple (just make a copy from the

Re: Re-Partioning

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:37:43PM -0600, Brian Neal wrote: Hi, I put my /var on it's own partion, but didn't realize it got used so much and made it too small. Several times it has almost filled up during apt-gets. I also have /usr/local on another partion which is pretty much empty. Can I

Re: Dual-ethernet

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 09:19:57AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: I did that (append=ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=10,0x320,eth1), it wouldn't boot. I recall that boot options will not work for modules. Is this correct? I don't really know, since I only use modules for sound in my kernels. If it is, the

Re: Xfree-changing default

1999-11-19 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:17:57AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do I change my default starting of Xserver to 32 from 8 or so? I have several modes avalable, but if I try from the command prompt: startx -- -bpp 32 it says: Xserver already running. Can't, or something similar. So, what

Re: secure pop3 via ssh

1999-11-18 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 01:38:08PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? Don't know, I'm interested too ;) How do I implement the server? The qpopper package work perfectly for me (without touching any config file) JY --

Re: Debian 2.0 booting problem

1999-11-17 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 05:25:02PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: Sometimes it boots up well. I have installed only the base system and netwoking code (NIS and Automount) Sometimes the boot process hangs with the following error message: qlogicisp: PCI bios not present eata_dma : No

Re: fetchmail and deleting read mail

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 06:49:17AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any way to make fetchmail delete each mail at source as soon as it's fetched? I have nearly a thousand mails to fetch and I keep getting errors and having to start again from scratch. Please mail answers to me at

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:19:56AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Hi, Is there a way to prevent X11 from scrolling when you have a virtual display size larger than the physical display size ? I think the answer is contained in the question ;) If you set a virtual screen larger than the

Re: X11 virtual display size

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:48:52AM +, Bernhard Rieder wrote: Maybe I re-formulate my Question: Is there something (a Key combination) that locks the physical display to a fixed position on the virtual display (=prevents scrolling). Sorry Bernhard, I don't know it it exists. JY --

Re: Capture sound/video under linux

1999-11-16 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:14:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: For all of those of you that have been(like me) dreaming for the day of being able to capture FMV with audio under linux there is now a stable(appears) program available. XawTV 3.01 (Nov 14) Sorry to disturb you again Nate, I'm under

Re: ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP)

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Sergey Lishchuk wrote: Hi What X server must I use to make potato work with ATI Rage 128 VR (AGP) video card? VGA16 works, but I need larger resolution. SVGA does not work. I tried to install manually the SUSE package XFCom_Rage128, but

tracing the HD access

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'd like to optimize my partitions locations for the maximum of speed Is there a utility which can trace the partition access (in order)? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D.

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: .. to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf. Now the only problem is that I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just sitting there, still unused... (Any suggestions?) You could enlarge

Re: Interested

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:25:14PM -0500, Donta' Watson wrote: Hello I am trying to find my way in this gigantic way of networking and communications. I have recently graduated and I am looking toward working with some other product other than Microsoft. I have heard about Linux and I linked

Re: networking options

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:09:48PM -0800, Michael Hunter wrote: I have a six-year-old 486DX with 24MB running Debian, and I'd like to connect it to my home network, which currently consists of two Win98 machines connected by 3Com network cards. What is the best way to connect my Debian box

Re: Realtek NIC speed issues

1999-11-13 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 08:21:44AM +1000, Daniel Thomas wrote: Hi, Hopefully someone can help me on this as I've just about given up. I have a realtek8029 based PCI network card. Under windows this card performs well, getting good (50+kb/s) from local sites. Under Debian however I'm

Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!

1999-11-12 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:17AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full permission to

Re: FIXED: audio cdrom broken in 2.2 kernels???

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 07:48:12PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: One of my friends reminded me that hdparm works on ATAPI drives too. It turns out that the CD-ROM was going to sleep and not waking up properly. hdparm -S 0 /dev/cdrom fixed the problem. Will I break anything by adding this to

Re: creating ttyS5?

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:52:21AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I just purchased a pci-modem from Actiontec that uses a Lucent chip and on the box it says it is compatible with Linux. I have to create a ttyS4 (com 5) I have done a /dev/MAKEDEV ttyS4 and this appears to create the file.

Re: Mirroring

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:08:38PM +, Brian Schramm wrote: Is there a way to mirror directories in a two way fasion? I want to update the directories that have older files in it with it's counterpart on another machine. This way my mini network will always act the same no mater what

Re: netscape navigator 4.5

1999-11-11 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:35:17PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: Hi, I installed the following packages from slink: navigator-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-4_5.deb now I try to run netscape from X, but the only netscape executable around is `netscape-remote'

Re: Pine

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:23:25PM +, John wrote: [SNIP] Also, Pine depends on libc6 =2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses ^^^ Forget this version, lic6-2.1 is for potato, and it is almost impossible to go back once ver. 2.1 is installed; use a former

Re: X screen resolutions.

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me. Hi, are you sure this resolution was 'plain' and not compresses, like on LCD for projectors? If so,

Re: MiroPCTV and ATI 128

1999-11-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:19:56PM -0800, aphro wrote: its best to avoid the video4linux drivers in the kernels, they are somewhat outdated. try grabbing the latest bttv drivers from the homepage http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html i use the latest driver with both a TNT and

drive not ready...

1999-11-08 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi, this is for those who met the same errors I just have this kind of problem; I was scared about a HD failure, as many mails are talking about. Since it is an 8 months HD, I was quite sure is was not a failure. So I opened the beast and had a look: it was simply the power supply connector of

Re: KDE 1.1.2 for slink problem - kfmclient

1999-11-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 08:30:11PM +0100, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote: Hello! I've used KDE 1.1.1 (naturally from kde.tdyc.org) on my slink system without problems but some days ago I've upgraded it to version 1.1.2. Everything works OK except kfmclient. When I try to browse any directory on

MiroPCTV and ATI 128

1999-11-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I wonder if I'm alone with the following problem: When I watch TV (xawtv, KDE 1.1.2, kernel 2.2.12), sometimes, it hangs; evrything is stuck for # 7-12 seconds, then it goes on; I really mean goes on, because if I have a clock opened, the hand of seconds don't jump: it go fast from the

sblive and speak-freely

1999-11-07 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, Does anyone succeeded to run speak-freely on an sblive? I can't even have it to work in loop mode (local). JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil.

Re: SB Live Module

1999-11-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:22:18PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: Hi! There are still problems with the SB Live kernel module. I have added the following lines... Makefile: -I/usr/src/linux/include to the line CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEDIR) -I. newline-- CFLAGS += -I$(INCLUDEDIR) -I.

Re: SB Live

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:45:52PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: I used th e dpkg -S command but no file was found. The other problem is I have installed the libc6-dev. Do you have now any idea??? ;-) Hi Sven, I finally found what's wrong with sound.h : The program refers to /usr/include/.

Re: SB Live

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:42:36AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: I finally found what's wrong with sound.h : The program refers to /usr/include/. instead of: /usr/src/linux/include/.. Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( (BTW I work under 2.2.12, and the part

Re: Obscure Hardware

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 01:50:51PM +1100, Andrew Clark wrote: I'm wondering if anyone out there knows where I could get a pH probe with serial output and a water hardness probe with serial output. Hi Andrew, You can call HANNA INSTRUMENTS, they have a Ph-meter with RS232 Sorry I don't have

Re: SB Live

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:29:44AM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Raaahhh, too simple: there are many things to change :(( Sorry, forget it: the PB was comming from the include directories as many people, I began with 2.0.36, which is always set in /usr/include; so I just changed

Re: Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to accelerate it?

Re: setting the date with date [ Netdate ]

1999-11-04 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:22:25AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: What's the difference between netdate and ntpdate (other than that ntpdate is a separate package)? netdate seems to be the former form of ntpdate. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy

Re: Backup Media

1999-11-03 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:03:37PM -, Bernadette McKevitt wrote: I am based in small office with 2 pc's and 1 laptop. The computers are set up on a local network and I am trying to decide which backup media device would be best for this office. Bernie, Hi Bernie, Well it depends on

Re: [LRP: DHCPCD] ISP rotate IP-Adresses

1999-11-03 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:58:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I have a 2 MBit cable modem with DHCP and my ISP rotate all 3-4 weeks the IP-Adresses. How can I check with a simpel and small program that the connection is broken ??? The program must force the router to rebooting

Re: Trouble getting local ntp server working

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 05:59:18PM -0800, Iain Lamb wrote: Note that netdate tcp 192.168.1.1 works fine on .2. That means your xntpd is not loaded, otherwise it should return: 2 Nov 03:21:51 ntpdate[5563]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting Check you've got a symlink in /etc/rc2.d, alike:

Re: Disk error! ACK!

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 10:24:27PM -0500, Jon Hughes wrote: I'm cautious about clearing some illegal block for fearing I'll lose data or what not. And you're right :) Try to change it again, but this time with 'fdisk' instead of 'cfdisk', some cdfisk versions are not very good, especially with

Re: problem with telnet

1999-11-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:58:22AM +0100, Markus Lenzing wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up a little server with debian linux. When I connect to my server via telnet and try to change my configuration files (like smb.conf), I get a 'permission denied'. The user account I have used has the

Re: Where I find kernel and netscape?

1999-10-31 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 06:17:49PM -0200, Ribamar FS wrote: Hello! Sorry my english (I brazilian) :) Where do I find the packages of the kernel of Debian? I bought Debian 2.1 in just a CD (Cheapbytes) and I am having difficulties of finding the kernel and the netscape. Can anybody

Re: samba questions : thanks

1999-10-30 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Thanks to you, I'm gonna mount it this W.E. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.

Re: boot sequence

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote: I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. What URL's have such a list? If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot

Re: 7s(%\%+3ufP,9q$l*=P2000:

1999-10-29 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: kewl, what kind of language is that? Ingo Seems to be korean. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... A booming voice says, Wrong, cretin!, and you notice that you

Re: Network config problems - please help

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:23:16PM +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: Hello! I've finally solved it! Great, now you should have a look at your MUA and MTA, because you posted the same mail 5 times! JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is easier to change the specification to fit

Perl hashing problem

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have a problem with 2 hash tables in perl: My first table contains long files names size in byte As it comes without ordering on sizes, I want to sort it in another hash table, so I make: @New_Table = sort { $File_Table{$a} cmp $File_Table{b} } keys %File_Table; but when I print both

Re: Netscape and exim?

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:23:45PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I have recently installed netscape 4.7 communicator on my slink system. I don't want to use for all my email, but would like to use it to email messages to webmasters or while I am browsing the web. I cannot figure out how to do

Re: modem speed

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Attila Csosz wrote: I'm looking for a program that measures the speed of downloading( for example for the wget program ). ( better if it is console based or can be X-based ) Thanks Attila Hun, hun :))) Use 'iptraf' on another console JY --

Re: Linux/X and LCD projectors (sort of video beamer)

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 06:06:57PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Hi, The hardware vendor said that the projector can't show up modes at high frequencies, only about 60--70 hz. There's no problem with flickering because basically it is a LCD display. AFAIK the LCD's projectors cannot go

Re: restart exim

1999-10-27 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Richard Weil wrote: How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon process pid. Hi Richie, do: kill -HUP exim pid, or /etc/init.d/exim restart JY --

Re: Outlook doesn't send over linux dialup gateway

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:51:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a little pc running as a dialup gateway to the internet. i hooked my stuff up with dynip.com to get a static ip and run my own mail server ... pop3 sending mail from linux pc does all work. but i can't send

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:19:55PM -0500, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Thats the idea. Make a small script in init.d directory and link from runlevel /etc/rc*.d to it. Andrew Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.0.38 binaries .deb??

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Lars Nixdorf wrote: hallo, I want to update to kernel 2.0.38. Are there .deb packages to do that? Is it a problem for debian , when I install kernel-2.0.38 from a tar.gz file to komile the kernel (/usr/src/kernel-2.0.38 and link linux to this)? Hi

Re: getting exim to clear queue immediatly (w/o exim -qf)

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:42:15AM -0600, David Karlin wrote: in a queue. It is cleared out of the queue and delivered by exim -qf but it used to just go out right away, which was more convenient to me. Can anyone tell me what I need to change so mail will clear out from the queue right

Re: hdparm settings

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: Heeemm, hdparm is, by default, contained in script: /etc/rc.boot/hwtools Yummi, could you be so kind to tell us, in which package this script should be? I didn't find it on my system... Ooops, you're right, it's a

Re: gnu-pop3d

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:43:58PM +0100, Richard Clarke wrote: [SNIP] Hi Richie, Have a look to 'la gazette' #43, I think its all you need. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX enhancements aren't.

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

1999-10-26 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 02:38:43PM +, Pedro Sanchez wrote: Hello, My root partition is reported as full but I fail to identify the files that are taking up all the space. /tmp and /var are symlinks to /usr/local/{tmp,var} which are in a different file system just 1% used. I use the

expert engine

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi folks, I wonder if such an engine (in GNU/GPL) exists? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies.

Re: make to dep package?

1999-10-25 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:18:34PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: Hi again! I've a short question: If I download a tar.gz file and if I want to compile it, can I make from the source a deb package? Because If I install it from the source I can't purge it, not? But If I can make a deb from the

Re: adding win 95 partition

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 12:58:35PM -0500, James Ruby wrote: I'm wondering if this can be donw with out re-installing debian? I have a 20 gb drive with 5 gb for root and 5 gb for user and 128 mb swap they are all primary partitions. Now I have a little over 9 gb left, I would like to devide

Re: automated md5sum checks

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:25:27PM -, Pollywog wrote: Is there an app which can perform md5sum checks of binaries on an automated basis, like once a week or so? Would doing this just slow down my machine? thanks Have a look at the cruft package, and put it in a cron job, with a

Re: Debian and M$ Outlook Off Topic

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:12:46PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Is there an IMAP client [not Netscape] for Gnome or KDE that is at version 1 or beyond? Patrick I'm not so sure ('cos I tryied it only once) but I think ISHMAIL can do that. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I'd

Re: Parallel port problem - No printing possible

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, compiling with auto detect I can see the printer detected, but on parport0 (or something like that) instead of lp0. I am not able to print either way though. How can check that my parallel port works like it should? How

Re: Stateful Packet - Firewall

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:58:36PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: Does anyone know of a Stateful packet inspection firewall for Linux (preferably debian) ? I was given this URL, which tests my firewall; I don't know if it is an overall test, but it says I'm not attackable :)

Re: another question about my monitor

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 10:41:50PM -0600, jh wrote: [SNIP] My question is: What if I reinstalled Windows 3.11 Would there be some kind of utility that would show me what settings Windows is using for the monitor sync? Or Dos? Nope, they don't manage to tell you about SYNCs and refresh rates.

Re: kernel-source: make menuconfig does not run ?

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:18:18AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: I have no such problems with linux-2.2.13.tar.bz2 (not debinaized). I wonder if there is a problem with kernel-source-2.2.12 ? No: I use a pure slink, not any PB with 2.2.12. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Function

Re: Winbond-based generic NICs

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 12:51:49AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hi all - Trouble is, on this one machine I can't get the NIC driver to load :(. It has a winbond chip in it, and it's supposed to be 'ne2k compatible,' but the ne2k-pci module won't load. I get some of the more

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