Configurar Modem

1999-04-08 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola a todos. Quisiera configurar mi modem, el problema es que no tengo idea de por donde comenzar. He leido algunos HOWTOs pero no he conseguido una lista de pasos a seguir. Podria alguien decirme que debo hacer, y como probar que el modem esta funcionando correctamente luego de configurarlo?

Re: Archivos Xenix

1999-04-08 Thread Julio Cesar Gazquez
Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: ¿Puedo leer archivos Xenix? ¿Que sistema de ficheros tendría que compilar en el nucleo? Gracias Segun la pagina de man, hay soporte para sistemas de archivo sysv, xenix, coherent. Notese que los ultimos tres son equivalentes y que xenix y coherent seran removidos en

Re: Configurar Modem

1999-04-08 Thread Felipe Sanchez
On 7 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Quisiera configurar mi modem, el problema es que no tengo idea de por donde comenzar. He leido algunos HOWTOs pero no he conseguido una lista de pasos a seguir. Podria alguien decirme que debo hacer, y como probar que el modem esta funcionando

Re: Directorio mqueue

1999-04-08 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Tue, Apr 06, 1999, Vázquez, Gustavo... Tengo un problemita. A veces (soslo un par de veces y con cierto usuario) sucede el siguiente error: sendmail[38608]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(user): The chdir system call failed, chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): The file access permissions do not

Configurar modem-conexion

1999-04-08 Thread Dragonbreath
* pppconfig Ya esto lo he hecho y se que esta bien configurado. De todos modos no he iniciado una conexión (para ser sincero no se como). Pero corriendo apt-get update por ejemplo, no se conecta (creo que el deberia iniciar una conección, no??) * minicom Lo instale y lo corri. Dice

Re: Configurar Modem

1999-04-08 Thread Ximo Nadal
Date forwarded: 7 Apr 1999 23:11:39 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Date sent: 7 Apr 1999 19:07:00 EDT Subject:Configurar Modem Forwarded by:

Re: Configurar modem-conexion

1999-04-08 Thread Felipe Sanchez
On 8 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creo que el modem sencillamente no existe dentro de Linux. Desactive el com 2 del Bios segun una recomendacisn de un HOWTO. Enseguida el modem salto al com 2, pero linux solo reconoce un puerto UART, el com 1. hmmm... configuraste la puerta

buscador de paquetes de Debian

1999-04-08 Thread José Illescas Pérez
Buenas, no quisiera ser pesado pero el buscador de paquetes de Debian sigue sin funcionar. Es raro que tarden tanto en implementar el nuevo buscador. ¿Sabe alguien algo, Enrique o Santiago? Salute. | _ \ ___ _ __ _ _ ___ | |_) / _ \ '_ \| | | / __| | __/ __/ |_) | |_| \__ \ AOL

Ejecucion en cliente NFS

1999-04-08 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Saludos a todos los usuarios de la lista, y gracias por la ayuda. Mi problema es el siguiente: al montar, a traves de NFS, en una maquina cliente un directorio del servidor NFS no puedo ejecutar en el cliente los programas de ese directorio. He puesto en /etc/exports del servidor lo

LILO y MBR

1999-04-08 Thread Oscar Castell Marcos
Hola, tengo un ordenador con el Linux instalado y estoy interesado en transformarlo a Win98, ya que me han traido un ordenador nuevo mas potente con todo para instalar, de manera que el viejo sea Win98 i el nuevo Linux. El problema es que los CD's del nuevo equipo son licencias unicamente para

Re: LILO y MBR

1999-04-08 Thread Fernando
Oscar Castell Marcos wrote: Hola, tengo un ordenador con el Linux instalado y estoy interesado en transformarlo a Win98, ya que me han traido un ordenador nuevo mas potente con todo para instalar, de manera que el viejo sea Win98 i el nuevo Linux. El problema es que los CD's del nuevo

RE: Ejecucion en cliente NFS

1999-04-08 Thread José Illescas Pérez
Hola, yo lo tengo mas o menos igual y me va bien. Solo tengo cambiada la linea del fstab por: servidor://directorio nfsrsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr Prueba asi a ver que hace. Salute. _ __ __ | |/ ___/ ___| \/ | José Illescas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOLScreen:

Problema al enviar post a las news

1999-04-08 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, tengo inn+sucks y utilizo slrn para leer y postear. Recibir si recibo los mensages pero a la hora de mandarlos se quedan en mi servidor local, lo se pues los bajo también con Netscape para ir probando. ¿Alguien me puede ayudar?, gracias. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL

Cliente LPD

1999-04-08 Thread Ximo Nadal
Hola:-) Alguien sabe de un cliente LPD para Windows'9x que sea GNU o freeware? Aunque tengo instalado Samba y las impresoras me funcionan perfectamente con Debian, necesito un cliente LPD en algunas impresoras que quiero compartir con un SCO. Ya he probado a importar las impresoras (que

Re: LILO y MBR

1999-04-08 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 12:11:03PM +0200, Oscar Castell Marcos wrote: Hola, (...) eso lo que hace que el programa de instalacion se pare. Alguien puede decirme que debo hacer para que el ordenador viejo pase a ser un equipo nuevo sin datos escritos y de esta forma engañar a los programas

Re: LILO y MBR

1999-04-08 Thread ~ Miguel P.C. ~
At 12.11 8/4/99 +0200, you wrote: Hola, tengo un ordenador con el Linux instalado y estoy interesado en transformarlo a Win98, ya que me han traido un ordenador nuevo mas potente con todo para instalar, de manera que el viejo sea Win98 i el nuevo Linux. El problema es que los CD's del nuevo

Re: LILO y MBR

1999-04-08 Thread jose . ballesteros
Jose Ballesteros 08/04/99 16.38 To: Oscar Castell Marcos [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: LILO y MBR (Document link not converted) Hola, Hay varias posibilidades: 1) Hay una copia del MBR original en el directorio /boot, se deberia hacer lo siguiente: dd

Re: LILO y MBR

1999-04-08 Thread Mario Camou
Hola, Si tienes por ahi floppies con DOS o una version vieja de Winbugs, puedes bootear con ellos y usar el comando: FDISK /MBR Esto reescribe el MBR y deja el MBR original de DOS. La otra, claro, es bootear con un rescue floppy y darle: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda Con eso te va a poner

Re: Configurar modem-conexion

1999-04-08 Thread luis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creo que el modem sencillamente no existe dentro de Linux. Desactive el com 2 del Bios segun una recomendación de un HOWTO. Enseguida el modem salto al com 2, pero linux solo reconoce un puerto UART, el com 1. El modem es un 33.600 interno PNP. Y como digo, al

Mas sobre el error de ldd

1999-04-08 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... He hecho la siguiente prueba: - He copiado una de las librerias que producen el error en otro sitio. - Le he cambiado los permisos de ejecucion para que sea ejecutable. - Le he vuelto a pasar el ldd, con resultado positivos y correctos. ¿Quiere decir esto que las librerias deben

Mensaje de error de ldd

1999-04-08 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... He observado, que cuando hago ldd sobre una libreria, y esta no es un link a otro fichero, me da el siguiente mensaje de error : ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for libreria /usr/bin/ldd: libreria Tengo instalada la glibc2.1 ¿Que puede ser esto?

Re: rc.d

1999-04-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 07 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 12:57:49 +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez contaba: Alguien sabe ande lo tendría que poner? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /etc/init.d/dhid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61 feb 17 00:48 /etc/init.d/dhid [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/init.d/dhid

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-04-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 07 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 11:23:30 +0100, Jose Marin contaba: comment No mandes HTML a la lista, please, que queda feo. /comment El mutt soporta MIME y al ver el attachment me llamó al lynx automáticamente. Aunque no deja de ser una pesadez. Podrias explicar

Re: Tarjeta de Red DEC 21140

1999-04-08 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 06 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 15:28:27 +0200, José Enrique Álvarez Martín contaba: No consigo cargar la tarjeta de red, tengu una tarjeta de red basada en un chip DEC 21140, en ventanucos 98 la cosa funciona, intento utilizar el controlador tulip, creo que es el adecuado, y le doy como

Re: Configurar modem-conexion

1999-04-08 Thread Han Solo
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 12:42:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * pppconfig Ya esto lo he hecho y se que esta bien configurado. De todos modos no he iniciado una conexión (para ser sincero no se como). Pero corriendo apt-get update por ejemplo, no se conecta (creo que el deberia iniciar

Re: Linux crashes on fiest boot

1999-04-08 Thread Jeff Katcher
Wolfgang Ginolas wrote: i have installed linux on a 386 over NFS. After writing a bootsector on disk, and makeing a boot-Floppy debian boots the new system. Everything looks fine until he sais: Configuring serial ports...Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enaled tty00 at

Re: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host

1999-04-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host Date: Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:42:01PM + In reply to:Jim Quoting Jim([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, I am able to get Lynx and Telnet to connect to an (non local) IP address such as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, but when I enter in a URL such as

Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Stutz
What is the One True Debian way to allow users access to special devices such as floppies, CD-ROM drives and modems (ie., ppp, efax and minicom)? The Debian FAQ has this to say on the subject: 12.2 How can I provide access to hardware peripherals, without compromising security?

Re: XWindows and Debian

1999-04-08 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 00:57:14 -0500 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org From: Jayson Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-08 Thread shaleh
What is the One True Debian way to allow users access to special devices such as floppies, CD-ROM drives and modems (ie., ppp, efax and minicom)? But simply doing the following for user foo does not work (at least on my 2.1 system): # addgroup foo floppy # addgroup foo

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Stutz
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the One True Debian way to allow users access to special devices such as floppies, CD-ROM drives and modems (ie., ppp, efax and minicom)? But simply doing the following for user foo does not work (at least on my 2.1 system):

Re: enlightenment locks system

1999-04-08 Thread Julio Cesar Gazquez
Rob Mahurin wrote: I had my system choke and die a couple of times for no good reason last week (after 51 days of uptime!). The first time was a blown fuse. The second, I had both WP and staroffice open (dumb) trying to read an excel spreadsheet some cretin sent me. Started hearing a lot

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-08 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:19:47PM -0400, Michael Stutz wrote: This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; chgroup audio /dev/hdc as root (should I have done that?) but doing mount /dev/fd0 /floppy as a user still gets mount: only root can do that: $ mount /dev/fd0

TrueType Font Previewer for Linux

1999-04-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi: I ran across a cdrom with a bunch of TT fonts on it, and I thought that I'd expand my choices under Linux with them. However, there are 1,000 of them. Is there some type of previewer I can use to screen which fonts I like? TIA -- __ _ Mark

question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-08 Thread Ferathonur Luthienell
Hello After recently downloading Linux from the Debian website and installing it on my machine, I had trouble connecting to my ISP through Linux. After a little reading I realized my UsRobotics Winmodem is not compatible with it. Can you suggest and inexpensive modem that is compatible with

Courtney in stable (slink)?!

1999-04-08 Thread Brock Rozen
Hi, I'd like to know why was courtney removed from slink? I do see it in unstable though Thanks, -- Brock Rozen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Technical Services (410)358-9800 Project Genesis

re: APC BACK-UPS 600

1999-04-08 Thread debian
Anyone had problems setting up a BACK-UPS 600 on Debian? I just got a UPS unit and I will be attempting to follow the UPS-HOWTO and making a cable as stated in the howto for my particular model. Anything I should read or update. Regards, Michael

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-08 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Ferathonur Luthienell wrote: Hello After recently downloading Linux from the Debian website and installing it on my machine, I had trouble connecting to my ISP through Linux. After a little reading I realized my UsRobotics Winmodem is not compatible with it. Can

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Apr, Ferathonur Luthienell wrote about question regarding hardware conflict and linux Hello After recently downloading Linux from the Debian website and installing it on my machine, I had trouble connecting to my ISP through Linux. After a little reading I realized my UsRobotics

Re: newbie linker error - RESOLVED

1999-04-08 Thread matt
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:01:53PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:41:30PM -0500, Matt Miller wrote: 1. You don't need to compile the object files and then link them in two seperate steps. This fixed it for me. I changed my Makefile to have only a single line:

Doh! Hosed my printer config

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, since apt-get has been very zealous with its interdependency upgrades, I seem to have hosed my printer configuration somewhere along the way. See, when I try to print a page using Netscape, it dumps postscript at my printer. Nasty! I don't think the problem is in my printcap, unless the

Re: TrueType Font Previewer for Linux

1999-04-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
George Bonser wrote: Will tkfont work? Thanks for the prog. It works nice, but I think that it requires the fonts be the font path to view them. I just rebooted to windows and checked them out. I then realized why they were lost to begin with ;) --

Re: X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 12:14:33PM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: 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

Re: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host

1999-04-08 Thread John Galt
Enable the defaultroute in wvdial--that'll solve your DNS probs. On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Jim wrote: Hi, I am able to get Lynx and Telnet to connect to an (non local) IP address such as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, but when I enter in a URL such as http://www.foo.com I get the error can't resolve host.

Re: X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-08 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: 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

[off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I don't need the screen locked necessarily. xlock does this for me: xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank but I have to run it manually. When I log back in, it does kill the running command (startsetiathome) just

Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?

1999-04-08 Thread XRDLAB
Hi, IIRC, to add an user to a group, the syntax is adduser username groupname I have done that to add users to floppy, audio, etc. From the man page of adduser . Add an existing user to an existing group If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-08 Thread John Galt
from sunsite's rfc-index 196 Watson, R. Mail Box Protocol (Not online) 1971 July 20; 4 p. (Obsoleted by RFC 221) On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:36:40 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: But the emailing

System Security and Program for editing sysv runlevels

1999-04-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
I just got a cable modem and I'm loving it, but I am concerned about security. I was instructed to comment out many lines in my /etc/inetd.conf file, especially the ones that I didn't know how to configure or what they were. In addition, I was told to turn off any services that I didn't want to

Re: xdm won't start X

1999-04-08 Thread Paul Harris
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Craig Hancock wrote: 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: when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes back! as if

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-08 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hey All, Err...I don't mean to nag or anything, but hasn't this thread gotten a little out of hand? I mean, it's like ten days running now, it no longer bears any semblence to the subject, and there has been flaming

Re: What do I do with tarballs?

1999-04-08 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Stefan Langerman wrote: Subject: What do I do with tarballs? dselect is great, but what do I do when there is no deb package for the soft I want? I know of course how to install somethng from a tarball, my question is just: where do I do it? Where do I put the

Re: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host

1999-04-08 Thread scratch
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Jim wrote: I am able to get Lynx and Telnet to connect to an (non local) IP address such as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, but when I enter in a URL such as http://www.foo.com I get the error can't resolve host. If you don't have a file called /etc/resolv.conf, you need to create one.

How to determine actual modem speed

1999-04-08 Thread Ookhoi
Hi, Is there a way to measure the actual speed at which a modem is connected? As modems negotiate the speed al the time, the CONNECT string at the start of the connection is not up to date some time later. Thanx in advance! Groetjes, Ookhoi

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 06:27:41PM -0600, John Galt wrote: 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 I do remember visiting such a site a few months back (when I first started working on HP-UX).

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:28:08PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Internet Protocols: FTP: Name says it all. HTTP: Not as nice as FTP, but it still is worlds better than email. Intranet Protocols: SMB: Microsoft to the rescue FTP: Still works HTTP: Hey, still works. NFS: Works wonders, esp.

Re: pppd success! Now, on to more configuration questions!

1999-04-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CM == Chris Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CM I (probably) upgraded my packages, I was getting errors amounting to SMTP CM listener does not like ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such, at which point CM it kicks out. Now, I get this error: You have to have local_domains=localhost in the exim

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 09:06:09PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Well, one guy came up with a great situation. What if... What if I were on a machine that had no compiler, had no net access, no floppy drive, had no other editors or things which could be used *as* editors (sed ed come to mind)

Re: Mars_nwe as deb

1999-04-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:47:56AM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, where can I find mars_nwe in deb package ? It is in project/experimental. Please read the documentation before using it! Hamish (mars_nwe maintainer) -- Hamish

Re: mars packagae

1999-04-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:33:53AM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote: what is this mars package I keep seeing If you mean mars_nwe, the netware server, it's in the project/experimental directory on all good debian mirrors. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-08 Thread John Galt
You may be right, tcsh ain't exactly freshmeat's newest. But then again, neither is vim. It certainly can't hurt trying. On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 06:27:41PM -0600, John Galt wrote: Try the HP-UX porting page--they have quite a few GNU-style progs

Re: Re: Linux crashes on fiest boot

1999-04-08 Thread Wolfgang Ginolas
i have installed linux on a 386 over NFS. After writing a bootsector on disk, and makeing a boot-Floppy debian boots the new system. Everything looks fine until he sais: Configuring serial ports...Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enaled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-08 Thread Mike Carter
Date sent: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 05:11:27 -0400 From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists Just bypass the whole

Co-operation

1999-04-08 Thread Kateøina
Sirs; our company is interested in the Linux market. We have started with marketing our CAD system worldwide recently and are loking for a Linux OS distributor partner. We would like to make a personal contact with your company representative during the Linux EXPO exhibition in Paris in June

Re: line printer problems / DEC Alpha

1999-04-08 Thread Paul Slootman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Does the Debian distribution for the DEC Alpha have problems with certain motherboards or other hardware? I am planning to get an alpha system, and I would like to install Debian. The best thing to do is to ask on debian-alpha (I've cc'ed that and put that

Re: [off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I don't need the screen locked necessarily. xlock does this for me: xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank but I have to run it manually. When I log back in, it does kill the running command

Re: Doh! Hosed my printer config

1999-04-08 Thread Richard Harran
Firstly, do you know what netscape uses to print. Eg, when I press print in NS, the dialogue box says: Print Command: lpr Also, what are you using to filter? I use magicfilter, 'cos it does everything for you. If you use this, make sure you have run magicfilterconfig and this sets up a

RE: Video Card Recommendation

1999-04-08 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi Nick, I'd recommend a Permedia 2 based card, and not just because I work for 3Dlabs. * They are dirt cheap these days. 8MB card for around $80 (I would have thought. I'm in the UK) * XFree86 now has a nice fast and stable X-server for them, although not included in slink as you

RE: Video Card Recommendation

1999-04-08 Thread Javier Perez Mayos
Hi all. I bought recently a STB Velocity, which uses the Riva TNT chip, and it works fine with the last Xfree86 version (3.3.3.1). I think is a good chip and it's very standard. It's supported under the SVGA server in the last version. I hope this will help you. On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Paul Sargent

Re: Lynx, Telnet won't resolve host

1999-04-08 Thread Javier Perez Mayos
Hi Jim, the problem is easy: your machine don't know where to ask in order to solve the addresses. You have to create a file in /etc called resolv.conf, and put in the DNS Servers you want to use. This is an example file: nameserver 127.0.0.1 domain upc.es nameserver 147.83.2.3 search upc.es

deskporte 28.8

1999-04-08 Thread Ladislav Sretter
hello, today i've got one old deskporte modem and it seems is not working. i tried to connect it to my portable to check initialization strings and enable autoanswer, but the modem does not answer to my at commands. i tried to connect other modem ( zyxel) and it works without problems. how it

Re: Problem: NFSROOT with netboot and 2.2.x

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Maechtel
On Fri (2. April 1999) at 09:59:50 (+1000), Brian May wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: whenever i try to boot a 2.2.x kernel with netboot everything goes all-right until it starts to mount nfs. 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 both work OK for me OK the epic driver (SMC9432BTX ethernet card)

Re: Doh! Hosed my printer config

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Mayes
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Andreas Persenius wrote: Actually, the ljet4m-filter _does_ assume that your printer handles Postscript. Use the ljet4-filter instead to get 600 DPI and Postscript conversion. Aha! Yeah, that certainly fixes things. If only I knew my LaserJet models better ;-) Thanks

help : java, kde don't run

1999-04-08 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Hello, I make a mistake when I downloaded some potato packages. Now I can't use java to run an applic, and kde make some mistake(don't load kedit). I believe someone speak about that, and says to downgrade some old lib. I have : potato+kernel2.2.1 an other question : what is the egcs

Re: [off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I'd like this exact behaviour but somehow I need xlock to always be running, waiting to jump in after the idle period. I thought about this problem before, and now realised you can check keyboard and mouse activity looking at /proc/interrupts.

Re: X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-08 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Brian May wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: This appears to be the case. I saved my old XF86Config, reran XF86Setup, and then replaced the auto-generated XF86Config with my old one. Now startx works just fine. [...] Yes, this is a serious problem. I am

Re: help : java, kde don't run

1999-04-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 15:47:39 +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: what is the egcs compilator ? See http://egcs.cygnus.com. It's basically gcc, the next generation. What have I to download to compile my kernel Select kernel-package, make and bin86 in dselect, fetch a kernel source

Re: X busted after 2.0 - 2.1 upgrade

1999-04-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the meantime, I will update the appropriate README files with a dire warning to not purge xbase, but to simply remove it instead. When I updated a hamm partition to slink (using apt-get dist-upgrade) the upgrade was easy and painless. I

Re: [off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:06:51AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: This is great! Thanks! I don't even need xlock now. I'll just start/stop the SETI program directly. Now, does anybody know if there is an equivalent to the /proc files on other UNIXs, particularly Solaris, to detect mouse and

Step-by-step upgrade

1999-04-08 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, sometimes I find I need to install packages from unstable. Last time was when I needed X11amp on my system. This meant I had to upgrade GTK also. Does upgrades like this compromise my system, and will upgraded later using dselect be aware of the fragment of upgrade that have been performed?

switching virtual consoles...

1999-04-08 Thread Alan Su
Hi everyone- we have a box that doesn't run X. i'd like to configure it to switch to a specific virtual console after some amount of idle time on the other virtual consoles. is there a solution out there? thanks. -alan

Re: [off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:06:51AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: This is great! Thanks! I don't even need xlock now. I'll just start/stop the SETI program directly. Now, does anybody know if there is an equivalent to the /proc files on other

Re: [off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread Michael Stenner
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Shouldn't nicing it to the lowest level mean it only runs in idle time anyway? Or does it display things when running? I need to try various nice values and pay more attention, but I could feel it's presence

Mouse Problems and xdm

1999-04-08 Thread Dinesh Nadarajah
Hi: I have a couple of problems and I would like to get an opinion from those who might have an insite into these issues. I recently installed Debian 2.1 on my system. I have had Debian 2.0 previously and wsa very happy with it but i decided to do a fresh install. The installation went well

Re: [off-topic] How to auto-run xlock?

1999-04-08 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Michael Stenner wrote: I need to try various nice values and pay more attention, but I could feel it's presence when it's running at nice=1. It's all numerical nice=19 is the LOWEST priority, nice=-20 is the HIGHEST. Negative numbers are only available to root. So,

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-08 Thread Ruben Leote Mendes
Hello Adam, On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local? The main reason is because I want to put several directories in the same partition. I create several directories in the partition and then make symbolic links there.

Re: Netscape strange errors

1999-04-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oh. I dont have motifnls installed. I dont know what to do now!! Thank you, Paulo Henrique Quoting Adam Di Carlo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Paulo == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PauloI send a message a couple

Help! ddd says: gdb: cannot open master pty

1999-04-08 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I'm trying to run ddd on a Debian box, and I get the following message if I'm not root: bash-2.01$ ddd gdb: cannot open master pty: No such file or directory gdb: communication setup failed ddd starts, but the gdb prompt never appears. If I'm root, things work just fine. If I start gdb

Re: Netscape strange errors

1999-04-08 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Quoting Adam Di Carlo Do you have the motifnls package installed? You may need to set your XNLSPATH environment variable to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls in order for some Motif applications to work. Paulo == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paulo Oh. I dont

Base Installation problems.

1999-04-08 Thread Assad Khan
Hello. I just got Debian 2.1 with the official cds. In the installation when it asks for the path to base2_1.tgz, even though it is there, it says there is a file error and it cant extract /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22/base2_1.tgz. I don't know how to fix it,

PPP-pam - problem

1999-04-08 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I can not seem to get PPP-pam to install right. Do I need it? I have tried to remove it also, but dependency problems prevents me since general PPP seems to be dependant on it. Help would be greatly appreciated. TIA P.S PPP works fine (running slink) ---

Logo Contest

1999-04-08 Thread ProZak
Hey, You chaps still running the logo contest? (I see the logo hasn't changed, but contest.gimp.org is borked. Big surprise. :) Thanks, Justin Burns Level Seven Networking

Re: timezones FAQ

1999-04-08 Thread Kevin Dalley
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I 'had' the same problem. The only clue I had was to read the manpage for tzconfig. It led me to look at /etc/timezone which contained 'EDT'. It also led me to see what /etc/localtime was pointing to, wonder of wonders, /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT. As

netscape

1999-04-08 Thread Andi Monari
hi an alle, ich habe mir netscape runtergeladen und installiert. es lauft debian 2.0 hamm. wenn ich es aber zu starten versuche mit: /opt/netscape/netscape bekomme ich folgende fehlermeldung: /opt/netscape/netscape: can't load library libXt.so.6 muss ich eine library dafür installieren? danke

Re: System Security and Program for editing sysv runlevels

1999-04-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
This is to keep this thread active, and to pose another question: I downloaded a program called gRunlevels, but it looked for my rcN.d and init.d stuff in /etc/rc.d. I created a /etc/rc.d directory and symlinked the above files to it. Now gRunlevels works and all my services are displayed. Is

Re: PPP-pam - problem

1999-04-08 Thread John Hasler
Christian Dysthe writes: I can not seem to get PPP-pam to install right. Do I need it? No. I have tried to remove it also, but dependency problems prevents me since general PPP seems to be dependant on it. I show ppp as suggesting ppp-pam. What is the error message? -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Re: netscape

1999-04-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 19:05:47 +0200, Andi Monari wrote: /opt/netscape/netscape bekomme ich folgende fehlermeldung: /opt/netscape/netscape: can't load library libXt.so.6 That's what you get for not using the installer package for netscape. The installer packages take care of this kind of

kmem_free error/warning..

1999-04-08 Thread Chris Brown
Hi, a question to those more knowledgable than I; Under periods of heavy disk access my Debian slink system w/ 2.2.3 kernel and raid-1 on two 13gig IDE's occasionally spits out a console message: kmem_free: Either bad obj addr or double free (objp=c266fe00, name=size-512) The machine

fdformat missing

1999-04-08 Thread Pollywog
I am missing fdformat. Which package contains it? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-08 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
I am missing fdformat. Which package contains it? superformat in fdutils, i believe thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] OK

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