Poglema con `umask'.

1999-04-07 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, creo que el funcionamiento de umask no le he entendido del todo bien... si pongo `umask 077', cuando creo un nuevo archivo queda con permisos 600. O sea, 077 es octal, ¿verdad?, que en binario queda 11. Es decir, que eso hace que los permisos para grupo y resto por defecto

Re: Suck en Debian

1999-04-07 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Tue, Apr 06, 1999, Han Solo... Resulta que el script /usr/lib/suck/get.news.innxmit, que es el encargado de bajar y subier las news en RedHat, en Debian no existe. /etc/suck/get-news.conf /usr/sbin/get-news.inn Te pongo algunas líneas críticas: ETCDIR=/etc/suck# location

Re: Ajustar la hora del sistema a la hardware

1999-04-07 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Mon, Apr 05, 1999, Oscar Ferrero Guerra... Estoy hecho un lio con el tema de la hora en linux-debian. ¿Y quien no lo ha estado alguna vez? ;-) Mi configuración, que parece que funciona sin problemas, después de unos dias locos cuando se cambio a horario de verano aqueí en

Re: rc.d

1999-04-07 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 04:47:47PM +0200, M. Angel Esteban dijo: Holas! He leído en la doc del dhis que he de poner una linea en el fichero rc.d de mi sistema pero... ay sorpresa! En la debian no se llama asins :(( Alguien sabe ande lo tendría que poner? En un archivo de /etc/init.d/, o

Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...

1999-04-07 Thread drequena
Usando una fuente ISO-8859-15 que lo incluye y es practicamente igual a la ISO-8859-1 al menos en lo referente a laos caracteres españoles. Tendras que modificar tambien el mapa de teclado de la consola y de Xwindow. Hay un paquete con fuentes y los mapas en:

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread Manuel Batista Dominguez
Han Solo wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba wrote: > > Tenemos Windows NT 4.0 instalado en una particin del primer disco y en > otra(s) > particiones del mismo disco instalamos Debian y onfiguramos Lilo para > que arranque de los 2 sistemas. El arranque de Linux ningn

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread Jose Marin
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Manuel Batista Dominguez wrote: nbsp; Esa solucioacute;n es perfectamente vaacute;lida, pero creo que pierdes la funcionalidad del Bcargador LILO./B BRBnbsp;/B Copia el contenido de lo siguiente y ajustalo a tus necesidades, lo importante es que la particioacute;n de

Fuente no encontrada

1999-04-07 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Hola lista, me ha ocurrido un problema utilizando el JDK1.2 para Linux con mi distribución Debian 2.0. El problema está en que al ir a ejecutar una aplicación que tengo hecha, me sale un mensaje de que no encuentra una fuente especificada en la aplicación. Sin embargo, sí me ejecuta la

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread José Enrique Álvarez Martín
Hola que tal. Veo que el tema se animo. Lo primero que yo intente fue instalar primero NT y despues LINUX pero al poner LILO en el MBR, NT ya no puede arrancar ya que necesita su propio MBR, es decir el boot loader de NT, me temo que NT usa el boot loader para algo o es una nueva conia

Re: rc.d

1999-04-07 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mar, abr 06, 1999 at 04:47:47 +0200, M. Angel Esteban wrote: Holas! He leído en la doc del dhis que he de poner una linea en el fichero rc.d de mi sistema pero... ay sorpresa! En la debian no se llama asins :(( Alguien sabe ande lo tendría que poner? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-07 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, abr 07, 1999 at 11:23:30 +0100, Jose Marin wrote: Supongo que lo mejor seria poner LILO en el MBR (i.e., boot=/dev/hda), y Si tenerlo asi de master bootloader. Qué creeis? Pero, en ese caso, sabe alguien como guardar el MBR original (el bootloader de NT), por si interesa dejarlo como

Re: Fuente no encontrada

1999-04-07 Thread Mario Camou
Manuel, De los archives de la lista java-linux (los puedes encontrar en algun lugar de java.blackdown.org): For the font problems: look on the website of www.blackdown.org: Copy the 2 ghostscript fontfiles in the jre/lib/fonts directory and add these 2 font files in the fonts.dir De otro

RE: AWE64 pnp

1999-04-07 Thread Miguel Angel Velando
La configuracion que tenia en el /etc/isapnp.conf era la correcta, el problema lo tenia en la carga de los modulos (actualice el kernel a 2.2.1 y no lei la documentacion ... que indica que hay que actualizar las modutils). Me queda por resolver un

Re: Tamano de las letras de XTerm

1999-04-07 Thread Cubikice
Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: No me salen menus haciendo click y ctrl en ningun sitio de xterm, ni en el icono, ni en la mini ventana. Lo unico que consigo de menus de xterm esta en attributes del menu de la ventana de xterm, pero no veo nada de fuentes ahí. Es pulsando Control primero, y sin

Re: Configurar Canon BJC-210

1999-04-07 Thread Cubikice
Josu Arenas wrote: Tengo una Canon BJC-210 y Debian 2.0 Hamm. He instalado el magicfilter y puesto la impresora como bj-200, tengo el gs-aladdin 5.10-9. El texto plano imprime bien, pero al imprimir postscript me saca basura... Es normal, yo tengo una BJ-200 y a mi el magicfilter

GIMP 1.1.3 em Portugues

1999-04-07 Thread Marcus Brito
Ola pessoal, Terminei hoje a tradução do potfile do GIMP 1.1.3, e já mandei pra revisão. Em breve você poderão achá-lo na págine da LIE-BR: http://lie-br.conectiva.com.br E divirtam-se com o GIMP brasileirinho :) -- Ja ne, Marcus Brito Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Que o

Re: GIMP 1.1.3 em Portugues

1999-04-07 Thread Clovis Sena / Itautec Servicos Recife
Oi marcus, fiquei curioso, sera que vc podia me esclarecer o que vem a ser um potfile ?? significa que se eu baixar um gimp ( eh claro depois que for revizado ) ele estara em portugues?? que magica eh esta?? Atenciosamente, Clovis Sena -Mensagem original- De: Marcus Brito [EMAIL

Onde comprar debian no Brasil

1999-04-07 Thread Eduardo Dias
Ola, Gostaria de saber aonde posso conseguir uma cópia da distribuição debian aqui em São Paulo. []'s Eduardo

Re: Onde comprar debian no Brasil

1999-04-07 Thread Lalo Martins
On Apr 07, Eduardo Dias decided to present us with: Gostaria de saber aonde posso conseguir uma cópia da distribuição debian aqui em São Paulo. Fiquei sabendo hj dessa empresa: http://www.linuxstore-br.com/ mas infelizmente eles ainda não têm o Debian 2.1 []s,

linux at ibm

1999-04-07 Thread Clovis Sena / Itautec Servicos Recife
O novo site linux at ibm: http://www.software.ibm.com/is/mp/linux/index.html t+ Clovis

Re: O que é um potfile (Era: GIMP 1.1.3 em português)

1999-04-07 Thread Marcus Vinicius Brito
- Oi marcus, - - fiquei curioso, sera que vc podia me esclarecer o que vem a ser um potfile - ?? significa que se eu baixar um gimp ( eh claro depois que for revizado ) - ele estara em portugues?? que magica eh esta?? - - Atenciosamente, - Clovis Sena Clovis, um potfile é uma vantagem dos

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-07 Thread Holanyi Janos, jr.
Hi Chris, I'm glad that my idea worked for you. To be honest, everything you described suggested that you had a problem with the firewall. Also, you wrote that the were some paranoia messages during bootup... check tcplogd daemon about that. There is a paranoia option in the firewalls (used to be

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Gary Singleton
--- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
AFAIK, your problem is neither new nor soluble: what's happening is that your pixelsize is too large for the default windowsize to fit within the screen boundaries--either set a higher resolution or live with it. The problem is not that your virtual resolution is too high, it's that your screen

SiS 6236 XF86Config

1999-04-07 Thread Carl Mummert
Getting these silly cards to work seems to be a recurring theme on this list. Hopefully, this message is enough that newcomers can just rtfm about it. Carl Mummert --cut-- How to get an SiS 6236 video card to work with slink: I performed these steps when I set up an SiS card earlier this

Re: online help on c/c++ functions/libraries

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
Install package manpages-dev--that has manpages for most popular library functions. Also Deitel Deitel's C++/how to program is a good reference--I got it for a class and like it a lot. As for getting a list of all functions in all libraries, that's asking QUITE a bit--most of Dietel Deitel's

Re: xisp

1999-04-07 Thread v . polasek
On 6 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski responded very promptly: vp == v polasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: vp I would like to run xisp without logging in as root. Right now vp when I run it as a regular user, xisp gives me an error message: vp /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires

Re: Dial-on Demand with Masq Setup Box

1999-04-07 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: Hello guys. Okay.. I got a little project to work on in few days and I would appreciate some pointers and help on this one. Basically I am little familiar with the Masq system...but what I would like to do is setup this

Re: where is Pine?

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
It's in non-free, in source form, so you have to get pine396-src, pine396-diffs, and roll your own binary deb--there's been a few non-official binary debs built by various ppl, but I can't remember where they are, nor can vouch for their continued presence. On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:

Re: Discussion with Pine developers Debian Issues

1999-04-07 Thread Terry Gray
Bruce, I would have been much happier with phrasing such as has not yet responded rather than the much more pejorative broke off communications... Sigh. Whatever. Brock, we actually had been having discussions on this topic, and were working on a reply to you. I apologize for the delay in

Re: .rpm -- .deb conversion

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
Probably alien, that's what I've used in the past. On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote: I did this once before, I copied the file xf86setup.rpm from my old installation CD and used a tool to either convert that .rpm package directly to .deb format, or had used an intermediate

Re: .rpm -- .deb conversion

1999-04-07 Thread Pollywog
On 07-Apr-99 John Galt wrote: Probably alien, that's what I've used in the past. Yes, it is alien. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
Frankly I couldn't care less about whether or not you use procmail, exim, or UUCP. Any and all of them have the capability to accept attachments. My point is that there are times when large attachments to email are not only desirable, but the easiest solution. I agree that there is abuse, but

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
Try the HP-UX porting page--they have quite a few GNU-style progs ported to HP-UX: I remember getting the pages when I searched for tcsh. HTH On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: However, vim is not standard. I routinely work on HP-UX these days and doubt that vim is installed

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:23:35 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: Basic-4 many a moon ago, those things are HEAVY). In fact, I asked for the correct protocol, and all you gave me was sneakernet. Sneakernet is never the correct protocol, it's just a quick

Rather Odd freeze ups (and more :)

1999-04-07 Thread Matt Kopishke
I have a not so related Linux question (with the exception that I run Linux) about some really weird, hard, lockups. Here's the deal: I had a ageing Cyrix 586/120 that started to seem *really* slow. Any how, I bought a Abit-BH6 Board, a Intel Celeron 300A, some PC-100 RAM, and used the following

RE: SiS 6236 XF86Config

1999-04-07 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, the only sad thing is that after having performed this list of tasks you end up with a card running very slow compared to what it is capable of. All acceleration is turned off. I have one box with a Matrox MGA200 and one with a SiS based card (Diamond A50). Comparing the two under Linux

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
When boot up, type linux single or linux emergency Rob Lundahl wrote: Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on the xdm login. To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically to X windows? Rob _ Do You

Re: do I need inetd?

1999-04-07 Thread shaleh
Hi! I have a debian firewall with inetd still running the only services it offers are the internal ones: time, daytime and discard. Do I need them? Do any apps rely on them? Can I simply remove inetd altogether? Should be safe.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
Let's just agree to disagree, shall we? We're both right as far as it goes--you have the most elegant solution, I have the quick and dirty solution. Both are partly right and partly wrong, mine because there's abuse, yours because it's a hassle beyond the worth of most attachments and dependent

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:40:56AM -0500, J.L.M. wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: However, vim is not standard. I guess I would respond, why not? It's not unavailable, by any means. The fact that it isn't bundled with your OS should not be a problem after the first

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
I posited a problem wherein FTP and HTTP were both unavailable, so the obvious solution is mail--NOT snail mail, email. The abuses are there, but there are times when FTP and HTTP are unusable-- in fact, there are bridge sites that let you FTP - email, HTTP - FTP is regularly done in most

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Gary Singleton
Sure, sounds good to me; I'm tired anyway. Truth be known I've sent a more than a few files through the mail myself G. Anyways, I'm down in Boise, if you ever get down this way let me know. Best wishes, G.S. --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's just agree to disagree, shall we?

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Robbie writes: I had this problem...just touch .ppprc, and everything should be OK. It worked for me, at least. Yes, but you shouldn't have to. It's a bug somewhere. The puzzlement is that I have the same version of pppd as Bob does but I don't have the bug. -- John Hasler

Re: netscape and libXpm

1999-04-07 Thread KaHa
Vincent Murphy wrote: because netscape kept giving my crap about illegal instructions in libBrokenLocale, which is in the libc6 pkg (thanks to the people who told me that BTW), i'm trying to run navigator 4.08 libc5. here's what happens: $ /usr/local/netscape/netscape

Re: email threat

1999-04-07 Thread Keith Beattie
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:52:30AM -0700, Britton Kerin wrote: When the leader or representative of a group is stigmatized as a dangerous gun nut this rubs off on the rest of the group, so please be careful what you say. Ah, but this is one of the reasons why the open source / free software

Why was gs-aladdin removed as recommends from magicfilter?

1999-04-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
magicfilter 1.2-29 changed Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin to Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL

HELP - gethostbyname() no longer works

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I played around with my /etc/resolve, /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname. And now, the function gethostbyname() returns NULL. This seriously broke up all of my programs. I am connected in a LAN with a given ip address using ethernet. At a moment: my /etc/resolve.conf has nameserver

Re: Discussion with Pine developers Debian Issues

1999-04-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote: [snip] One difference between sharing patch files vs. redistributing the resulting binaries is that the ultimate user or site administrator will tend to be more conscious of what is standard Pine vs. modified Pine if they go through the process of

Re: HELP - gethostbyname() no longer works

1999-04-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:59:31AM +, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I played around with my /etc/resolve, /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname. And now, the function gethostbyname() returns NULL. This seriously broke up all of my programs. I am connected in a LAN with a given ip address using

Re: X thinks my screen is larger than it actually is

1999-04-07 Thread Ian Peters
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:11:37AM +0200, Marcus Claren wrote: Hi! I've got a very annoying problem. My X server seems to think that my screen is bigger than it actually is. I'm using wmaker, and when a program window drops out of the desktop I can usually maximize it and make it fit the

IBM Ultrastar U2W problems

1999-04-07 Thread Jozef Skvarcek
Hi, I am experiencing problems with IBM Ultrastar 9es u2w disk which is supposed to allow 80MB/s transfer rate. I guess the problem has to do with the parity (see the listing below), the drive appears to work fine when I set in the SCSI BIOS max rate to 40MB/s. However, when I set the speed to

Re: xisp

1999-04-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
vp == v polasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I am wrong with my guess, please run find /etc/ppp -type f | xargs grep name as root, so that I can see where this parameter comes from. vp This output is somewhat long to post, so here is a list of only vp the files that came up: vp

Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as recommends from magicfilter?

1999-04-07 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Apr, Bob Nielsen wrote about Why was gs-aladdin removed as recommends from magicfilter? magicfilter 1.2-29 changed Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin to Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far? Just a

Re: IBM Ultrastar U2W problems

1999-04-07 Thread illusion
One thing you may want to check is the cable. That's one of the biggest trouble-makers when dealing with SCSI problems, especially in Linux, from what I've noticed. Low quality or older cables are notorious for giving headaches, especially with high-speed SCSI. Another thing I would recommend

pppd success! Now, on to more configuration questions!

1999-04-07 Thread Chris Mayes
Hi, everyone! After much struggle and turmoil, I have gotten my pppd to quit dying on me as a user! With a thousand thanks to Avery of wvdial fame, here's what I had to do: I added connect true to my etc/ppp/options file. I also touched both /dev/ttyS1 and my .ppprc file, which might have

Re: .rpm -- .deb conversion

1999-04-07 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Yes I used alien and took care of the rpm packages thank you. Fethi i On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 07-Apr-99 John Galt wrote: Probably alien, that's what I've used in the past. Yes, it is alien. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:10:33 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: I posited a problem wherein FTP and HTTP were both unavailable, so the obvious solution is mail--NOT snail mail, email. And if email isn't available? And the protocol after that? And

newbie linker error - 'undefined reference'

1999-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
I want to compile, and then link, even. (Imagine that.) I think my basic problem is how to learn what libraries to include on my link command line. Here's my first attempt at building a program from scratch on my slink system: t.cc: #include fstream.h int main (int argc, char

Re: newbie linker error - 'undefined reference'

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
The compiler does not understand what cout and is. You forgot to include iostreams.h Matt Miller wrote: I want to compile, and then link, even. (Imagine that.) I think my basic problem is how to learn what libraries to include on my link command line. Here's my first attempt at building

Mars_nwe as deb

1999-04-07 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Hi, where can I find mars_nwe in deb package ? przemol

problem compiling KDE

1999-04-07 Thread Pollywog
I was told that my mimelnk stuff should be in a certain place, but it was not there and although I seemed to not have any problems because of this, I went about removing all the Debian KDE 1.1 packages and QT. I then installed QT from source and then installed kdelibs and kdesupport from source.

Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Subject says all. Trying to get apps to display on remote machines. I can do it fine to my Winbox, but that is because it isn't using Xauth. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ:

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:34:41 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: Steve, you do not want to get rid of xauth ... exactly what problem are you having? Why not? There are other methods of protecting the X port than Xauth. Since all machines that I

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
I may be missing something here. But is xhost + what you want?? Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 23:34:41 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: Steve, you do not want to get rid of xauth ... exactly what problem are you having? Why not?

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 16:49:00 +, Shao Zhang wrote: I may be missing something here. But is xhost + what you want?? Ah, my savior. xhost +[machine name] worked nicely. Thanks for the help. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Pollywog
On 07-Apr-99 Shao Zhang wrote: I may be missing something here. But is xhost + what you want?? I believe that is one way to do it, but not the best way. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
That is right. According to the HOWTO I read a while ago, hackers can overflow the buffers to lock the keyboard and mouse. The standard way is to use the Xauthority to generate a cookie to the client. But if on a private network, xhost + will just do. :) Shao. Pollywog wrote: On 07-Apr-99

Re: Mars_nwe as deb

1999-04-07 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, where can I find mars_nwe in deb package ? It is in project/experimental. przemol Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 12:11:54AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: But now any user at [machine name] may monitor everything you do. Considering it is my laptop and I am the only user, I'm not all that worried. And if I were on my laptop going to my main machine (sometimes happens) then it is

Unidentified subject!

1999-04-07 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Hi, where can I find mars_nwe in deb package ? It is in project/experimental. Does it mean that I cannot download it ? If I can - where ? przemol

re: mars_nwe

1999-04-07 Thread PRZEMYSLAW_BAK
Hi, where can I find mars_nwe in deb package ? It is in project/experimental. Does it mean that I cannot download it ? If I can - where ? przemol

Re: Discussion with Pine developers Debian Issues

1999-04-07 Thread Bruce Sass
Terry, Sorry if I misrepresented your position, broke off does carry too much connotative baggage. - Bruce -- On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote: Bruce, I would have been much happier with phrasing such as has not yet responded rather than the much more pejorative broke off

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1999-04-07 Thread Shaikh Abdul Tahir
I am having some problem with sendmail 8.9.3 which i have recently compile on my operating system Bsd/Os 3.0 the error what i am getting is relaying denied Please check the message recipients and try again I have check my relay domains entry or some other configuration but i did'nt find any

KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I've installed the Hamm (=2.0) distribution of Debian Linux from CD, and I intended from the start to install KDE as quickly as I could, but Debian has since gone to Slink (=2.1). On the Hamm CDs, the Qt library required by KDE is not included for licensing reasons. However, the Troll Tech

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Sean
Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. This way when you decide to upgrade you won't have to worry about qt-kde getting broken unless some of their support libraries change. And even if that does happen, it would just mean that you would need to

Re: Sendmail

1999-04-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaikh Abdul Tahir wrote: Where i can find sendmail listserver or somebody have that link please sendme Tahnx -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:10:33 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: I posited a problem wherein FTP and HTTP were both unavailable, so the obvious solution is mail--NOT snail mail, email. And if email

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the source to install outside the package manager controlled directories, e.g. by

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 00:45:31 +, Terry Hancock wrote: On the Hamm CDs, the Qt library required by KDE is not included for licensing reasons. However, the Troll Tech website claims the newer versions of Qt are free software, Qt 2.0 will be licensed under the QPL 1.0, which is a license

Re: Netscape immortal?

1999-04-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 04:18:32PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote: [...] This happens to me often with Netscape 4.51 and 4.08. Although it is immortal when faced with a windowmanager kill signal, is has always died properly when faced with a kill -9 pid I found that kill -12 (USR2) is more

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Sean
J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the source to install outside the package manager controlled

Re: X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Apr 1999q, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I upgraded (at least, with CD 1) from 2.0 - 2.1 last night, and everything seemed to be fine. I quit dselect, fired up X, and while running X, looked at some notes I had made preparing for the upgrade. I purged xbase, since it's been claimed

re: mars_nwe

1999-04-07 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, where can I find mars_nwe in deb package ? It is in project/experimental. Does it mean that I cannot download it ? If I can - where ? look for the project directory on any ftp server which has a mirror of ftp.debian.org przemol

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the source to install outside the package

Re: X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-07 Thread Richard Harran
I'm not sure about this, but perhaps you should remove, rather than purge, the xbase package. This is what I did, and I did not get this problem. The difference between purging and removing is that removing leaves configuration files alone, so perhaps purging xbase removes config files necessary

module ppp-compress-21 not found

1999-04-07 Thread luc
hi. List, I have no problem connecting to my isp and I don't have any problems with my transfer rate but in /var/log/messages I keep seeing this error messages; can't locate module ppp-compress-21. I have managed to disable this error message but I am still wondering exactly what

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:36:40 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: But the emailing standard predates both FTP and HTTP, thus the situation existed once. Excuse me? Which emailing standard? AFAICT by the RFCs email emerged as its own protocol around

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread David B.Teague
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote in response to Steve Lamb, on 6 Apr 1999: Subject: Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it? Steve, you do not want to get rid of xauth ... exactly what problem are you having? I have a slightly different problem: The presence of Xauth prevents me from

Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as recommends from magicfilter?

1999-04-07 Thread Jan Vroonhof
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin to Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far? In addition, the packages in main = * must not require a package outside of main

package dependencies

1999-04-07 Thread Bogus User
Hi, If I download the source code for something, compile it, and install it, how do I get dpkg to know that it's there? I downloaded a new version of qt from trolltech's web site and installed it on my machine. Then I downloaded kde debian packages and tried to install them. dpkg

Permission mismatch

1999-04-07 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I keep getting this fiendly email from cron: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to root.root 4755 I am using exim so the sendmail refered to is just a symbolic link. But I still would like to know why this happens. TIA

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Will Lowe
I may be missing something here. But is xhost + what you want?? Ah, my savior. xhost +[machine name] worked nicely. Thanks for the help. How about ssh? Do ssh remote_machine remote_app and ssh will set up the xauth stuff _for_ you.

Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?

1999-04-07 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:29:49 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote: How about ssh? Do ssh remote_machine remote_app and ssh will set up the xauth stuff _for_ you. M, IIRC that doesn't set up the environment, however, which I need.

xdm won't start X

1999-04-07 Thread Paul Harris
hi, when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes back! as if nothing happened. I'd like to tell you more, but I can't figure out where to look for error messages... I read the xdm man page (some of it) and I don't want to have to use the

Re: xdm won't start X

1999-04-07 Thread Craig Hancock
Look at your .xsession-errors or /var//log/xdm.log to see what is says for errors and get back to me craig Paul Harris wrote: hi, when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes back! as if nothing happened. I'd like to tell you

Re: netscape and libXpm

1999-04-07 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/6/99 5:44:49 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/netscape/netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' all the xpm pkgs in stable/x11 are installed. Is it possible you have the libc6 versions of xmp

mars packagae

1999-04-07 Thread Craig Hancock
what is this mars package I keep seeing

Re: flexfax: customizing coverpages?

1999-04-07 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: Daryl Williams wrote: hello, i have just set up a hylafax server and i would like to customize the cover page. it currently prints a silicon graphics logo. is there a way to change this? also the cover page does not contain company, regarding, or comment

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