Perl en linux

1998-10-30 Thread Antonio Luque
Hola a todos!: Antes de nada gracias por las respuesta al mail que envie. Voy a aclararlo; lo que me ocurre es que estoy haciendo algunos script en perl,en principio en W95, para usarlos en Linux o/y Unix. Lo de los privilegios lo había hecho, ya que dichos script me los ejecuta, pero

Nuevo con las X

1998-10-30 Thread Gabriel B.
Hola. Soy nuevo en esto. He instalado las X y funcionan, pero no me ocupan toda la pantalla del monitor. Si alguien me puede echar una mano. La tarjeta es S3 Trio64V+ 1MB. Monitor Sony Multiscan 100sx 15'' Si alguien tiene estos trastos y me puede pasar su configuración, la compararía con la mía,

Software para modems bajo Linux

1998-10-30 Thread Aurora Sanchez Garrido
Hola: Tengo que instalar un modem en Linux y me gustaria saber si alguien conoce de algun software para su uso. Gracias por adelantado. Aurora - Aurora Sanchez Garrido Dpcho: 2.2C09 Dpto.

Re: Perl en linux

1998-10-30 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Antonio Luque wrote: ... ya que dichos script me los ejecuta, pero sólo en el directorio donde está el Perl, es decir que si dichos script los ejecuto en /usr/bin me funcionan de perlas pero si me creo una carpeta y los guardo ahí sólo me funcionan, gracias a algunos de vosotros

Re: Software para modems bajo Linux

1998-10-30 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
mgetty : para controlar el modem mgetty-fax: con añadidos para enviar faxes mgetty-voice: para utilizarlo como contestador automatico minicom: para comunicacion directa con el modem y envio de ficheros zmodem: idem seyon: idem ppp: para

Knews no-domain-name

1998-10-30 Thread M. Angel Esteban
Holaas Primero disculpas por escribir con Outlook 98, pero necesito arregñlar algunas cosillas en mi linux. Bueno, voy a la pregunta: resulta que me he instalado el hamm 2.0 y me dice que no puedo postear con el Knews porque no tengo definido un nombre de dominio Con el RedHat no

unsuscribe

1998-10-30 Thread Cymoril sin patas
--- Cymoril sin patas I believe this is heaven to no one else but me, and I'll defend it as long as I can be left alone to linger in my own silence. ---

Re: Solved!

1998-10-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
IG == Imran Geriskovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IG P.S: How can I report this? IG This means this: :) IG dinstall does not report any errors which may occur in base system IG installation. It just falls back to main menu instead. Please use the bugtracking system at

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Jens Ritter
Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: I think that dd will have no problem to truncate you file : dd if=tarfile of=just_a_try bs=1k count=200 would give you a file named just_a_try containing the beginning of your tarfile but limited to a

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:38:13PM -0200, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez anti - spamspanm=if\ wrote: Dear Sir : I have installed the hamm distribution without problems, apparently. The system is working well. My problems is with the talk daemon. All other services (telnetd,

Re: Anyway to kill a virtual console without rebooting?

1998-10-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 10:25:21AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any way to kill a virtual console without rebooting? I ask because for some reason I keep getting lockups when using vim to edit multiple buffers. I can switch to a different vc and carry on, but no other keys work on

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Jeff Katcher
Somewhere in this thread I saw that this might be possible on an unpartitioned drive. Would it (dd) work on unpartitioned space on your existing drive. I read SOMEWHERE about lossless partitioning. apparently you can partition your drive without losing your data.

Re: clearing screen after logout login screen

1998-10-30 Thread Jeff Katcher
jim r wrote: How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? I created a file ~/.bash_logout with one command in it, clear Works like a

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ? (the saga continues)

1998-10-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote: I installed Windows (see what you made me do??). [...] So unlike our beloved Unix utilities, winzip CAN seek past 2gb. BUT it can't untar and unzip at the same time, and since I don't have over 5.2gb of fat32 storage space, I don't have enough room to

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows. [...] - Pehaps it's time for the ex3fs? Hmmm, might look at the source for ex2fs (and all utilities) for file pointers and change

smail user suffixes

1998-10-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Is it possible to configure smail to support user suffixes on email addresses eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I know you can do it with qmail, exim, but don't have time or motivation to switch from smail at present. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

/var/log/utmp missing

1998-10-30 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
After a previous upgrade to slink, I notice that /var/log/utmp is now missing. Can I just touch it to create it? What should be its file permissions? who and w are showing strage results probably because utmp is missing. S. -- I've figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically,

xterm configuration

1998-10-30 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Can't seem to find a way to change the configuration of my xterms in fvwm2. I would like to change the default scrollbars from the hatched display to a more solid type. I've been through a lot of documentation and I've either missed it or haven't found the right info yet. Can someone

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darxus writes: Well, I remembered seeing something somewhere that let me find the inode number of a file, and found it in ls's man page. Any chance I can use an inode number to tell dd where to find it ? Isn't the file on a fat32 filesystem? Seems like this is

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: * Get and install mtools.deb * Edit /etc/mtools.conf, set it up so it can access your dos partition, as say, drive c: (follow the comments, looks easy). * mtype c:/huge.tar.gz | tar Hm, looking through the mtools docs, you may need to first mcd c: and then mtype

debian bootup and aic7xxx module

1998-10-30 Thread Rob Collins
okay, I've got this adaptec 2940UW card which was a major pain in my a$$ when I installed RedHat 4 on my system a while back. I've just installed debian, and on startup (from the rescue disk), couldn't load the kernal without the lilo flag aic7xxx=extended,no_reset. The funny thing is, half

RE: lilo (linux only hd - dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-30 Thread Shaleh
/dev/hda is pure linux /dev/hdc is pure windows /dev/hdb is a cdrom Been using it for a year. Next time please use Subject:'s that catch the eye. I skipped the catch-22 discussion. 1000 e-mails a day makes one read selectively. boot=/dev/hda1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map

Re: exim filters and/or procmail (Solution)

1998-10-30 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:59:26AM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:@pop.mindspring.com SIZE=2249 fetchmail: SMTP 501 @pop.mindspring.com : colon expected after route Sorry to follow up my own post, but I got the answer from the exim list. Install a new version of

IDE CDROM drive

1998-10-30 Thread Randy Cain
Greetings, Am trying to configure linux on a Dell Pentium box with a IDE CDROM drive attached to the 2nd controller. Machine boots up fine from hard drive which is /dev/hda1, but I can't seem to find the cdrom drive. Any help would be much appreciated. Randy Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:28:52 +1300 (NZDT), Michael Beattie wrote: Any clue? the portmap and inetd.conf are right. Stupid question... have you msg y with the recipient? Stupid comment.. The original poster maybe didn't know this, or had, and It still doesn't work. I was going to suggest he

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Darxus
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Aha!!! I'll bet John is right - mtools should not go through the VFS layer, and should be able to read a file this size. It's too bad we don't have an mcat... Aha again! We do. Ok, here's what you need to do: * Get and install mtools.deb * Edit

mgetty prevents calls

1998-10-30 Thread Dennis Runolfson
This is the first time I have used the list so I hope I don't make a major faux paux. I have mgetty 1.1.14-2 on a 2.0 box and am having a strange problem. With the mgetty statement commented out in the inittab, ppp will dail out and connect just fine. With the mgetty statement not commented out

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread john
Darxus writes: Well, I started out being really excited. Within seconds I had the index of my 2.6gb home.tgz scrolling down my screen. But it looks like it will only extract about 1.2gb this way, and unfortunately, as I now know, the stuff I need is at the end :/ Something to try with dd:

RE: IDE CDROM drive

1998-10-30 Thread Shaleh
On 30-Oct-98 Randy Cain wrote: Greetings, Am trying to configure linux on a Dell Pentium box with a IDE CDROM drive attached to the 2nd controller. Machine boots up fine from hard drive which is /dev/hda1, but I can't seem to find the cdrom drive. Any help would be much appreciated.

apt-0.1.7 on Hamm?

1998-10-30 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, the apt package 0.1.7 depends on files not present in Hamm. Is there another version for Hamm? Thank you, Ingo --- Ingo Hohmann, Otto-Speckter-Str.17b, D-22307 Hamburg, Germany Tel/Fax: + 49 40 / 69 79 24 80eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-0.1.7 on Hamm?

1998-10-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ingo Hohmann wrote: the apt package 0.1.7 depends on files not present in Hamm. Is there another version for Hamm? Yes, for the moment it is kept at http://www.debian.org/~jgg Eventually it will go into an update-i386 directory as was done with bo-hamm Jason

Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-30 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Take a look at cfengine package in slink. Sergey. On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, It's a little bit off-topic. We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or

kvt and xterm-color

1998-10-30 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
The KDE's kvt keeps setting TERM to xterm-color, which is no good since other systems do not like it. I'd like to make it just xterm on a system-wise basis (so that every user does not have to do it manually). Do you know which file is to be modified ? What puzzles me though is that another box

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: * Get and install mtools.deb * Edit /etc/mtools.conf, set it up so it can access your dos partition, as say, drive c: (follow the comments, looks easy). * mtype c:/huge.tar.gz | tar Hm, looking through

custom made drv1440.bin resc1440.bin

1998-10-30 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I am planning to upgrade my system with aic7890 and 3c905B. there are not boot disks that supports the new drivers for aic7890 and 3m905B. I would like to patch the source of 2.0.35 with the news drivers and make the drv1440.bin, resc1440.bin and root.bin disks on the old system. How do I

/etc/init.d/isdnutils

1998-10-30 Thread Thomas Keusch
Dear Debian users, just about two hours ago I succeeded in setting up my ISDN subsystem. :-) I can start /etc/init.d/isdnutils and interfaces will be created correctly, which do dial on demand and neat stuff like that, so I assume it is basically working (after a lot of trial and error). :) The

exim on a smarthost configuration

1998-10-30 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
A server exports /var/spool/mail via NFS and acts as a smarthost for the satellites to relay their messages to outside. Everything works except for relaying. Server refuses to relay with the message: 550 relaying to whatever address prohibited by aministrator How should I setup /etc/exim.conf

Re: xterm configuration

1998-10-30 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Hi. | | Can't seem to find a way to change the | configuration of my xterms in fvwm2. I | would like to change the default scrollbars | from the hatched display to a more solid | type. I've been through a lot of | documentation and I've either missed it

Re: IDE CDROM drive

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
Am trying to configure linux on a Dell Pentium box with a IDE CDROM drive attached to the 2nd controller. Machine boots up fine from hard drive which is /dev/hda1, but I can't seem to find the cdrom drive. Try /dev/hdc (nb you need to put a CD in and mount it before you'll be able to read

Daemon rpc.nfsd dies.

1998-10-30 Thread Llista mail debian
Hi! We have a serious problem with daemon rpc.nfsd. This daemon dies very often and we don't know why. The problem happens in two machines with Debian 2.0 (Pentium 200MM, 128Mb Ram, 5HD UWSCSI 8GB for each one and Pentium II 266, 128Mb Ram and 4 HD UWSCSI 8GB each one).

Re: /var/log/utmp missing

1998-10-30 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:11:33PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: After a previous upgrade to slink, I notice that /var/log/utmp is now missing. Can I just touch it to create it? What should be its file permissions? who and w are showing strage results probably because utmp is

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Darxus wrote: The command I used is: mtype c:/linux/home.tgz | gunzip home.tar This was after I noticed mtype c:/linux/home.tgz | tar -zxvf - home/darxus didn't restore everything. Why did both variants fail? Any errors? -- see shy jo

Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?

1998-10-30 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: Under DOS, type is for text files and will termiante reading at the first ^Z I would guess; if mtype mimics this, it won't work. If that's so, it should be pretty eacy to hack up a mcat from the mtype sources that behaves better. -- see shy jo

Re: /var/log/utmp missing

1998-10-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:11:33PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: : After a previous upgrade to slink, I notice that /var/log/utmp is now : missing. Can I just touch it to create it? What should be its file : permissions? who and w are showing strage results probably because utmp :

Strange? error with slink ISDN

1998-10-30 Thread Rene Hogendoorn
I am trying to get ISDN working on my new system. While I had a working configuration on my old system, I am now stupified by an error while trying to dial out, i.e. after isdnctrl dial ippp0, I get isdn_ppp_bind: Can't find usable ippp device ippp0: Resource temporarily unavailable I checked

Re: IDE CDROM drive

1998-10-30 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Randy Cain wrote: Am trying to configure linux on a Dell Pentium box with a IDE CDROM drive attached to the 2nd controller. Machine boots up fine from hard drive which is /dev/hda1, but I can't seem to find the cdrom drive. Hi, As two previous posters have pointed out,

Re: xterm configuration

1998-10-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
tony mollica hat gesagt: // tony mollica wrote: Can't seem to find a way to change the configuration of my xterms in fvwm2. I would like to change the default scrollbars from the hatched display to a more solid type. I've been through a lot of documentation and I've either missed it or

Help

1998-10-30 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi When adding a new user to a linux system the command adduer is used. What is the command to remove a user from the systems. Thanks

Re: Anyway to kill a virtual console without rebooting?

1998-10-30 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Log in as root, type `lsof /dev/ttyx' where /dev/ttyx is the `hanging' vc. This will show you the process that occupies this tty. Kill it and the getty process for that vc should respawn. I tried this but I get the message: 'can't determine system map file path'. I don't have

Re: Help

1998-10-30 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi When adding a new user to a linux system the command adduer is used. What is the command to remove a user from the systems. try deluser

Re: mgetty prevents calls

1998-10-30 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:24:04PM -0800, Dennis Runolfson wrote: [...] I have mgetty 1.1.14-2 on a 2.0 box and am having a strange problem. With the mgetty statement commented out in the inittab, ppp will dail out and connect just fine. With the mgetty statement not commented out ppp fails

Question about include files and recompiling kernel

1998-10-30 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, Here's a practical problem I encountered when recompiling 3c59x.c with kernel source 2.0.34. I followed instructions from Donald Becker: 1. install source code in /usr/src 2. cd /usr/src/linux; make include/linux/version.h 3. cp 3c59x.c /usr/src/linux/modules 4. gcc

Re: Help

1998-10-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi When adding a new user to a linux system the command adduer is used. What is the command to remove a user from the systems. `userdel user` Use `userdel -r user` to remove the home directory as well. Michael Beattie

Re: Question about include files and recompiling kernel

1998-10-30 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, Here's a practical problem I encountered when recompiling 3c59x.c with kernel source 2.0.34. I followed instructions from Donald Becker: 1. install source code in /usr/src 2. cd /usr/src/linux; make include/linux/version.h 3. cp 3c59x.c /usr/src/linux/modules 4.

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Ah - did you install the talkd package? without it you will be lacking the talk daemon (note that this is separate from the talk and ytalk packages) Matthew Matthew : In HAMM don't exist any package called talk nor talkd. In BO exist, I will install that.

RE: lilo (linux only hd - dos only hd), no solution possible?

1998-10-30 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hi I've been following this thread as I have W98 on /dev/hda and Debian on /dev/hdb (Keep them nice and separate, I thought) and I havn't configured lilo yet, I'm still booting off a floppy. I was planning to sit down with the LILO manual (recommended reading) sometime and fix it up, but

Compile new kernel without losing old one

1998-10-30 Thread Marc Fleureck
Hi, What are the steps to return to the original or previous kernel if (after compiling a new kernel) the new kernel srews up my system ? Thank you very much in advance. lease mail. Marc __ Marc Fleureck Ministry of Agriculture Brussels

Re: /etc/init.d/isdnutils

1998-10-30 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 07:06:56AM +, Thomas Keusch wrote : The only obvious error I get is this one when calling the script: Starting isdn services : isdnlogline0: Operation not supported by device What

Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! I've got a problem with Emacs. I want it to be started in auto-fill-mode. No problem so far. But I have to use an numeric argument with it. This is not possible with the '-f' CMD-line option. So how can I start Emacs in 'auto-fill-mode 70'? My e-mail client invokes emacs as the editor and

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote: Ah - did you install the talkd package? without it you will be lacking the talk daemon (note that this is separate from the talk and ytalk packages) Matthew Matthew : In HAMM don't exist any package called talk nor

Deity or apt or...?

1998-10-30 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello friends, == it seems that I missed a lot about the new package manager under Debian (please don't beat me ;-). Could one of you kindly explain me about what is deity and what is apt? Also, I've installed apt, but I doesn't look like frontend to dpkg... it seems like new dpkg.

Re: Anyway to kill a virtual console without rebooting?

1998-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 1998q, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 10:25:21AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there any way to kill a virtual console without rebooting? I ask because for some reason I keep getting lockups when using vim to edit multiple buffers. I can switch to a different

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread dpk
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mika Fischer wrote: Hi! I've got a problem with Emacs. I want it to be started in auto-fill-mode. No problem so far. But I have to use an numeric argument with it. This is not possible with the '-f' CMD-line option. So how can I start Emacs in

HOW: APT ftp-method with squid

1998-10-30 Thread Florian Hinzmann
Hi! Normally I use apt with some http URIs and have the environment variable http_proxy set to use the installed Squid proxy. How can I use the Squid proxy with ftp URIs? TIA, Florian Hinzmann --- Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SAMBA is slow

1998-10-30 Thread Matthew Myers
I have switched a WinDOH's 95 workstation from a 95 peer server to a Debian Server running the SAMBA server. Now applications load a lot slower. Where it would take 5 to 8 seconds to load from the Win95 peer, it now takes 60 to 80 seconds to load from the Linux server. Have I configured

gpm has gone screwey

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, running gpm or gpm -k now just sits and stares at me now Any good diagnostics I can do? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/

gpm again

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I can get rid of gpm by killall -9 -v gpm, and can then run it OK, but the mouse now misbehaves - it doesn't move the pointer, and moving vigourously sometimes highlightes bits of the top of the screen for no apparent reason :( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward

Re: custom made drv1440.bin resc1440.bin

1998-10-30 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, Section 8.3 of the installation manual may help. It says to copy your custom kernel to over the file named linux on the rescue floppy and run the rdev.sh script that is found on the floppy. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SAMBA is slow

1998-10-30 Thread servis
*- Matthew Myers wrote about SAMBA is slow | I have switched a WinDOH's 95 workstation from a 95 peer server to a | Debian Server running the SAMBA server. Now applications load a lot | slower. Where it would take 5 to 8 seconds to load from the Win95 peer, | it now takes 60 to 80 seconds to

Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Carpenter, Dean
I have a situation here where we have users needing to print *huge* Powerpoint presentations to a high-color Xerox printer. These print jobs are at times over 3gig in size. The trouble is that the lusers are at one site, while the printer is at the other end of a dinky T1 ... When these things

Re: gpm again

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: I had this problem once ... the result's that now I don't have a mouse on my machine... :(( The symptoms were exactly the same .. in a while the mouse will go dead (you will know because when you try it out on another machine it will only be able to

Re: xterm configuration

1998-10-30 Thread tony mollica
Thanks to the both of you who suggested the different widget set. I installed the Xaw95 package and it does just what I want. thanks, tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Mika Fischer
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998, dpk wrote: Create a ~/.emacs file with the following lines: (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode 70) I tried it and it didn`t work. As I don't understand it I can't say why. (I'm using v20.2.2) The second point is that I don't

XF86Config (was Re: gpm again)

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Sriram Bhamidipati wrote: I should point out that this has nothing at all to do with the gpm thread. I just installed my Debian Linux via ftp . I want to know where to get X86Config sample file. I looked for it in XFree86.org but got lost . There is no sample file,

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
I'll try out it, but I think I will have to read the docs if I really want to understand Emacs (and I do). Is there somewhere some kind of 'Getting started with Emacs'-guide on the net? start emacs M-x gnus [enter] j gnu.emacs.help u g [enter][enter] H f [enter] HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila

Re: I can't use talk.

1998-10-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Err try installing the hamm ytalk - bo packages use the old libc, so may not work properly. ytalk is the client, I believe the problem is with the server. Debian boxes can talk to debian boxes. But, I think the daemon has changed and the problem is

Re: xterm configuration

1998-10-30 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
Install packages: xaw-wrappers, xaw3dg and/or xaw95g - you'll get a nice 3D scrollbar in xterm, ghostview etc. Sergey. On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, tony mollica wrote: Hi. Can't seem to find a way to change the configuration of my xterms in fvwm2. I would like to change the default scrollbars

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Adam Lazur
The second point is that I don't want emacs to always use auto-fill-mode but only if it is invoked by mutt. But I noticed that the auto-fill-mode breaks always at 70 chars. Even if I try to override the value. Strange thing. here's what I have in my ~/.muttrc to accomplish the auto-fill-mode

Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Carpenter, Dean wrote: The jobs themselves are just postscript - plain ascii. So I'm thinking I can set up a Linux box as a local printer at site 1, pipe the print job through gzip which should cut it down to less than 1/10 the size, ship across the T1 to another Linux

Any help on X86Config file

1998-10-30 Thread Sriram Bhamidipati
I need a sample X86Config file for my system any one can mail theirs ? I can edit it for my purpose. I could not locate it on XFree86.org site. thanks Sriram

Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Dean == Carpenter, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [big print jobs using all the bandwidth] Dean The jobs themselves are just postscript - plain ascii. So I'm Dean thinking I can set up a Linux box as a local printer at site 1, Dean pipe the print job through gzip which should cut it down to

help w/ postgres

1998-10-30 Thread Shaleh
Hi all, new to SQL and having trouble finding docs I need. I want to have a database that user a administers and users b, c, and d can access. How do I set this up w/ postgres? I am writing a web site and would like the user that the scripts use to not have any more priviledge than needed.

printer not spooling

1998-10-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
It seems that I need to get a direct connection to print on the networked printer. I'm (supposedly) running my own printter spool. However, if there is already a connection to the printer, including a document printing from my machine, I get a connection to 'printername'

C++ header for 'push_back'

1998-10-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
I'm posting this here because I suspect my question may concern the c++ setup on this Debian 2.0 install I have here. I'm trying to compile a sample snippet of code (from the STL docs at SGI) and I can't find the right header to declare push_back: //my headers

Problem building a compressed kernel image

1998-10-30 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) from the Greenbush distribution. When I make from /usr/src/linux, everything works fine. When I try to build a compressed image (make install, make zImage, etc.), the make fails in arh/i386/boot directory, complaining that it can't find /include/config.h It looks

Gcc tries to compile C programs as C++ !

1998-10-30 Thread brettv
I'm having a problem with gcc on my Debian 2.0 Linux system. I have the egcs compiler (gcc --version reports egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)). When I try to compile any .c file, gcc attempts to compile it as C++ instead of C and so often fails. If I use the -x c option, gcc compiles .c

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Adam Lazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The second point is that I don't want emacs to always use auto-fill-mode but only if it is invoked by mutt. But I noticed that the auto-fill-mode breaks always at 70 chars. Even if I try to override the value. Strange thing. here's what I have in my

postgres and php = error?

1998-10-30 Thread Shaleh
The following is from my postgres log (log level set to three) usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 353 user www-data db wea ther socket 5 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster child[0]: execv(/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postg res, -p, -d3, -P5, user=user, password=passwd, -v 65536,

RE: Any help on X86Config file

1998-10-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I need a sample X86Config file for my system any one can mail theirs ? I can edit it for my purpose. I could not locate it on XFree86.org site. thanks --- Here is mine. There are two easy ways to configure X. 1: use XF86Select 2: use

Netscape problems, questions

1998-10-30 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I tried to install netscape 4.04 on my system but the .deb package tells me, that libg++27 is not installed and xpm4.7 also. What should I do ? Finally what deb package do You recommend and what netscape version should I use ? Please help me. Marcus

Re: C++ header for 'push_back'

1998-10-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: reverse(s.begin(), s.end()); s.push_back('\n'); cout s; } The compile complains that: /home/bernie/cpp/stl.cpp: In function `int main()': /home/bernie/cpp/stl.cpp:17: no matching function for call to

top vs. ps?

1998-10-30 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I have Debian 2.0, 2.0.34 running with xdm and fvwm2. When I display processes with top, two xdm's appear to be running with different pid's. However, displaying with ps shows only one. Is there an explanation for this? -- thanks, tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSH logon

1998-10-30 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I want to login as root user without give it password. I already had it working but since last week it's always asking me for the password! I'm using: ssh -l root my host I made: ssh-keygen as nemanuel username and copied identity.pub as authorized_keys on /root/.ssh directory !

wmaker 0.20.0 wmakerconf crashes

1998-10-30 Thread Person, Rod
I just completely installed wmaker 0.20.0 and the wmakerconf ( I believe that the name. I had been using WPrefs which still works fine. But wmakerconf will crash when I try to switch tabs. I canonly edit the misc tab when I switch it just crashes. Has this happened to anyone else. Is there a fix.

Re[2]: C++ header for 'push_back'

1998-10-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the methods for string are in the basic_string class declaration; if push_back() isn't there, there is no push_back() implementation for string. So I've concluded this afternoon! I took a snippet off one of the newsgroups that demonstrated

RE: Any help?

1998-10-30 Thread David Karlin
In my machine is also a Intel EtherExpress. With RH 4.2 (2.0.30) it works with eepro.o. With Debian 2.0 (2.1.125) it works NOT! -Egon On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Paul Baloo Johnson wrote: Can't seem to get that Intel EtherExpress to work. It says that device or resource is busy. Please

Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 / 4 megs

1998-10-30 Thread Eric
I too run the Diamond Stealth 2000. I have had it running in both hamm and slink and it has always worked perfectly with both the SVGA XServer and svgalib. What exactly is the problem that you're having? Eric. On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 08:29:27AM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Yo- I have

Strange Netscape font problem, '=?

1998-10-30 Thread servis
Hi all, I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(') appear as question marks(?). This problem as been around since bo and since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly. When I look at the source it shows question marks as well. The funny thing is that some of the

Re: SSH logon

1998-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 08:43:05PM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: I'm using: ssh -l root my host Add a -v to that so you can see what's happening more closely. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 334 Oct 30 20:21 authorized_keys SSH is quite picky about the permissions of ~/.ssh (is should be

Re: Gcc tries to compile C programs as C++ !

1998-10-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 05:50:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with gcc on my Debian 2.0 Linux system. I have the egcs compiler (gcc --version reports egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)). I can't think of anything in the packaging that might have caused this. On

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