Re: 3c509b

1999-04-26 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Mauricio E. Ruíz Font [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oigan, no logor que mi maquina detecte la tarjeta ethernet 3c509b, que debo hacer? Una Vortex? He visto varias, y con solo cargar el módulo es suficiente. $ modprobe 3c50x # no estoy seguro si ese era el nombre, puedo estar

libstdc++: ¿Tedré algo mal instalado?

1999-04-26 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola. Tengo problemas para compilar/ejecutar cógigo en C++ aparentemente simple. Este es el código ejemplo: //*** #include iostream.h class Test { public: char *string; Test(void) { string = new char[16]; } ~Test(void) { delete []

Re: Debianizar paquetes

1999-04-26 Thread Han Solo
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:09:27PM +, Barbwired wrote: Pues no sé si soy yo la persona adecuada para evaluar el grado de complejidad de un paquete. Empezando por que he sido incapaz de compilarlo normalmente por el método tradicional, aunque sólo genera un par de binarios:

Re: Compilador de pascal

1999-04-26 Thread Skup
Saludos. On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, David wrote: Hola, como dice el tema, ¿sabe alguien de algún compilador de Pascal para Linux? Gracias, David Aunque con un poco de retraso... ^_^U Prueba con gpc esla version del pascal de GNU lo

Re: 1FA: al tratar de arrancar desde HD

1999-04-26 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
1FA es, aunque no lo parezca, un menú: 1. Arranque de partición 1 de tu disco duro. F. Arranque de diskette (floppy) A. Otros arranques (alternatives) Si pones 1 o F, intenta arrancar de esa partición o de diskete. Si pones A, te saca otro menú más

Re: Escoger fuente Xterm (Re: Tamaño de las letras de XTerm)

1999-04-26 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Yo lo he solucionado arrancando xterm con la opción -fn 9x15 ó -fn 10x20 etc. Existen estos ficheros en un subdirectorio que cuelga de X11 (no me acuerdo de si /usr/X11 ó etc/X11), no obstante, los puedes buscar con find. Yo normalmente hago de vez en cuando un du -a / ficherosistema. y en

Re: DEBIAN 2.1 + KERNEL 2.2.6!!!

1999-04-26 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 05:42:33PM +0200, Hue-Bond wrote: El jueves 22 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 18:24:08 +0200, benalb contaba: ¿Tiene alguna ventaja sobre el método tradicional? Lo digo por que yo siempre lo he usado, y salvo errores míos, nunca he tenido problemas Varias

Correo

1999-04-26 Thread Fernando
Hola: Quiero enviar correo desde mi maquina Debian Linux utilizando el comando mail de UNIX, pero me gustaria que en el mensaje apareciera mi verdadera dirección de correo. ej. con el usuario fernando de mi Debian aparece From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fernando) y quiero From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interacción de NT y Linux

1999-04-26 Thread Enzo A. Dari
Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes wrote: Hola a todos, mi pregunta es muy sencillita, ¿es posible desde Linux montar una partición que tiene un sistema de ficheros NTFS? ... En los kernels 2.2.x hay una opción para montar particiones ntfs. Si además habilitas las opciones experimentales, aparece

NO PUEDEO CONECTARME A INTERNET

1999-04-26 Thread Antonio Beamud Montero
Hola a todos: Tengo un problema al intentar conectarme a internet por modem. Aqui van todos los datos: La distribución es la Debian 2.0 proveedor de internet: ono.es la orden que hago como prueba es: pppd /dev/ttyS1 user esono.es01365 defaultroute connect 'chat -v ATDT968263022 CONNECT ' (

Re: 1FA: al tratar de arrancar desde HD

1999-04-26 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Jesus M. Gonzalez escribió: 1FA es, aunque no lo parezca, un menú: 1. Arranque de partición 1 de tu disco duro. F. Arranque de diskette (floppy) A. Otros arranques (alternatives) (..) Nunca he estado seguro de si es algo

Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?

1999-04-26 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola todos... Un amigo me traera las fuentes del kernel 2.2.6 en tar.gz, quisiera saber como debo hacer para instalarlas, osea, me he bajado todo eso del kernel-pakage, y todo lo demas, solo me faltaba el .deb del kernel-source, que como comente hace tiempo siempre que lo bajo me llega corrupto.

lesspipe.sh

1999-04-26 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Hola, He creado el scrip /usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh y le he dado permisos 755 y he establecido en /etc/profile la variable LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/home/ijalonso)$ ls /usr/local/bin total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 abr 24 20:35 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root

Re: lesspipe.sh

1999-04-26 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Ignacio J. Alonso decia: El problema es que cuando intento usarlo recibo el siguiente error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/home/ijalonso)$ less cg02.zip /bin/bash: lesspipe.sh: command not found cg02.zip may be a binary file. See it anyway? y puedo asegurar que el directorio está en el path:

Información sobre este sistema

1999-04-26 Thread Rudolf Federisk
He leido una nota en un diario argentino sobre las bondades de este sistema y es mi intención en conocerlo. Les ruego me indicquen de donde lo puedo bajar y la manera de instalarlo. gracias rodolfo __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: Correo

1999-04-26 Thread Juan Leseduarte
Hola: On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 03:42:07PM +0200, Fernando wrote: Hola: Quiero enviar correo desde mi maquina Debian Linux utilizando el comando mail de UNIX, pero me gustaria que en el mensaje apareciera mi verdadera dirección de correo. ej. con el usuario fernando de mi Debian

RE: Haciendo funcionar la SiS530 con el XFree

1999-04-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
[...] Bueno, una vez que corrí lilo para grabar las modificaciones, reinicié la máquina y... he aquí... lo mas cool... te pone un Pingüinito en la esquina superior derecha de la pantalla mientras se carga el kernel. ¡Lo que todo linuxuario siempre a querido! :) El problema que tengo yo es que

RE: Frame buffer

1999-04-26 Thread Ricardo Villalba
[...] _*mucho*_ mejor... aunque se recomienda no utilizar otro servidor que el XFB cuando se tiene soporte FB en el kernel, yo utilizo un servidor XBF Pues yo he puesto el frame buffer única y exclusivamente para ver al pingüinito (además de que mejora la legibilidad de los caracteres). Para las

proxy

1999-04-26 Thread jon
Leyendo la linux actual 7,me dicidi a instalar el squid proxy.Compila y lo instala bien pero al ejecutar squid -z para crear los directorios de la cache me dice que permission denied,igual que cuando intenta crear los ficjeros acces.log,cache.log. alguien lo ha instalado o me aconseja

Re: Frame buffer

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 23 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 01:46:32 +0200, Hue-Bond contaba: Yo he conseguido también 64K a 800x600 con el servidor de www.xxedgexx.com (está en .rpm pero rula con un pequeño hack). Perdón: http://glide.xxedgexx.com/ -- Just do it. David Serrano

Re: no utmp entry available

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 24 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 19:28:30 +0200, Xose Manoel Ramos contaba: - Que no tengas el fichero utmp (que es uno de estos dos, creo que hay uno que es un backup) /var/log/utmp /var/run/utmp Tengo el /var/run/utmp. - Que tengas algún problema entre

Re: Frame buffer

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 22 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 23:16:03 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon contaba: bueno, tambiEn estA el tux al bootear... que es la razón verdadera por la cual uno quiere utilizar el FB :-) Por más que lo leo, no lo acabo de entender. Yo no le veo tanta importancia al

Re: Mas ayuda con Signal 11 en dselect

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 25 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 21:55:20 +0200, Antonio Castro contaba: Otras cosas no las puedo eliminar. Por ejemplo algunos paquetes de Linux-Gazette he debido moverlos o borrarlos hace tiempo pensando que eran descargas de internet realizadas por mi y ahora no hay forma de eliminar

Re: Hablando de Logos

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 23 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 15:11:34 +0100, Correcaminos contaba: ¿ Tiene alguien un Pingüino de Debian en ascii ? Yo lo intenté con gimp pero no; gimp tiene la opción inversa (de ascii a bitmap). ,,#HHHMM. ,dMMMH*'\.

Re: Debianizar paquetes

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 25 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 13:16:50 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon contaba: /usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd/fsstnd-1.2.txt.gz allí dice donde debería en teoría ir cada cosa. Ya hay versión 2.0. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html -- Just do it. David

Re: route y kernel-2.2.5

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 23 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 14:22:29 +0200, Ramiro Alba contaba: acabo de instalarle el kernel 2.2.5 y cuando en /etc/init.d/network se ejecutan las lineas de route add -net ..., envia el siguiente mensaje: SIOCADDRT:Invalid argument Cosas de los 2.2.x, no hay problema.

Re: Hacer que el ordenador NO pite (Re: Hacer que el ordenador pite)

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 23 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 02:20:51 +0200, Xose Manoel Ramos contaba: while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do case $1 in [...] on|ON|On|oN) [ $DISPLAY ] xset b on setterm -bfreq 220 Se puede hace un 'setterm -bfreq $2' y mola más :-)

Re: Interfaz dummy

1999-04-26 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 24 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 13:18:26 -0300, Miguel Angel Velando contaba: Estoy intentando utilizar la interfaz dummy, pero no se por donde empezar a configurarla. Alguien me puede echar una mano?. # ifconfig dummy dirección IP -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL

Estou produzindo uma revista

1999-04-26 Thread Márcio Antônio Rezende
Estou preparamdo uma revista e as bases para uma distribuicao do Linux. Gostaria de saber o que temos em portugues? Marcio 011 6221 5430

Re: smail, not open email relay

1999-04-26 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
:-) Done, and with the new version the attrib you suggested is exactly what I needed :-) I put this link in /usr/lib: /usr/lib/libnsl.a - libident.a Compilation of smail-3.2.0.102-1 needed libnsl, none of the packages in the Debian1.3.1 binary CD contained such file, but I started thinking it

Re: Exim allowing external mail...

1999-04-26 Thread Matt Folwell
On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 09:51:12AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: How do I configure exim to allow mail from non-local hosts? It seems as though my current (mostly default) exim setup will not allow me to receive mail from anywhere other than my domain, uiuc.edu. I currently have all my mail

debian 2.1 installation with additional HD

1999-04-26 Thread wolfgang zeikat
i added a second HD (200 MB) to a system that already had the basic debian from the first installation steps installed on its 500 MB HD. now i wonder where would be the best mountpoint for the second one so that it will easily be used by the installation of one of the 500+ packages from the

Re: Direct serial connection

1999-04-26 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:39:53 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: Is this possible? Yes. See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt. I've just done it (after having some trouble due to an incorrect /dev/console device). You need a 2.2.x

Re: Direct serial connection

1999-04-26 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Robert Vollmert wrote: Hi, On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:39:53AM -0500, Jor-el wrote: The what I would like to do is to use the monitor that I have as a console for both machines A and B. Unfortunately, I cant accomplish this via a CPU switch, thanks to the

isapnp modem

1999-04-26 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I have edited my /etc/isapnp.conf file, did isapnpdump and it found my isa modem. It reconizes my serial card on boot, but I can't seem to make it work. Can someone show me an example of a properly uncommented /etc/isapnp.conf? thanks NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk

proxy/firewall for debian?

1999-04-26 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I heard about IP masquerading as the best way of connecting my internal net to internet and keep it safe if that is true can somebody point to a howto of it. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Cdrdao problems

1999-04-26 Thread Arcady Genkin
Mailed and posted Hi all: I have a SCSI Panasonic 7502b CDR-drive. I've been fighting the whole day to burn a copy of an audio CD, and am ready to give up. :( The drive happily extracts audio at x8 and writes at x4 under Windows. I'm using Slink and uninstalled all cdr tools, that came with it,

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution (?)

1999-04-26 Thread Bernard de Rubinat
I got into the same trouble as many people who tried to get staroffice 5.0(1?) to work with glibc2.1. I also did try many things I have seen, and I also had many failures to make it work with most recepes, BUT I FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK. Here is a recipe I made out of my various attemps. I made a

Re: Direct serial connection

1999-04-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:41:44 -0500 (CDT), Jor-el wrote: You need a 2.2.x kernel for this to work or a patched 2.0.x one. Basically you use a kernel command-line parameter of console=ttyS0 to make a serial terminal (box A in your setup) hooked to /dev/ttyS0 on machine B the display for

Re: Sound

1999-04-26 Thread Trevor Glen
Thank you to everyone who helped with my sound problem. Especially Will. This is the best customer service I think I have ever seen, and it's provided by the customer! ;) Thanks, Trev

Re: proxy/firewall for debian?

1999-04-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I heard about IP masquerading as the best way of connecting my internal net to internet and keep it safe if that is true can somebody point to a howto of it. Hi Eliezer This is going to be my first project after the end of the semester. Check out

Re: How can I permentently get rid of the Enlightenment 15 pager?

1999-04-26 Thread Jason Murray
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 12:42:29PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: I guess the subject line says it all. I am running the latest potato, enlightenment and gnome. Cheers. Well I can't help you, but I do have a question. Which gnome are you running? The .debs or did you compile the latest. I've

Re: modeling software

1999-04-26 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-04-24 23:05, George Bonser wrote: http://www.cool.sterling.com I checked out the url and although their credentials look good, I was looking for something usable in a free project. Thanks for the pointer though! /Allan

Unwanted routing table entries

1999-04-26 Thread Avery Fay
Hi, I'm new to this list so if this is the wrong place to ask this please tell me. I recently bought the Debian CDs and managed to get everything installed. My first project was to get my modem properly connecting to my ISP. After finally getting my modem working and the scripts set up I still

Re: ipaccounting

1999-04-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 01:46:47AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: What is it? Do I need it on my system (desktop)? It's from the ipac package. You probably don't need it on your desktop, so just remove it (dpkg --remove ipac). I've been getting emails from cron every six minutes and finally got

Re: Debian Menu under Unstable Gnome

1999-04-26 Thread The Doctor What
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 02:08:31PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: I can't think of any obvious reason for this, but you can manually try to figure out what's going on by looking in /usr/share/gnome. There should be a directory here, apps/, which contains the Gnome menus. Under apps/, there

Creating PDF files

1999-04-26 Thread wonglhg
Is there a non-commercial package (.deb or otherwise) to create pdf files from other file formats (jpeg, tiff, bmp)?

make 10,000 with 2 of 100

1999-04-26 Thread allen
I am writing you because we have spoke in the past if this has reached by error please let me know and im sorry! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST please take the time to read this it really worked for me and Ill tell you how to do it right!!If you're like me and wish to work in

Re: proxy/firewall for debian?

1999-04-26 Thread Jan Muszynski
For the most recent docs check out http://ipmasq.cjb.net/ HTH On 25 Apr 99, at 17:08, Eliezer Figueroa wrote about proxy/firewall for debian?: I heard about IP masquerading as the best way of connecting my internal net to internet and keep it safe if that is true can somebody point to a

new imagemagick?

1999-04-26 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi, does anyone know if there is newer version of imagemagick already packaged? I could swear I have seen an e-mail either on this list or debian-devel-changes announcing the 4.2.* imagemagick NMU, but that was weeks ago and all the sites I have tried to ftp, still only have the 4.0.4*. If anyone

Newsx problem in slink.

1999-04-26 Thread Tony Schonfeld
hello , i'm using without problem newsx 0.11-5 in Hamm, since i've upgrade my pc with slink newsx 1.2-2 don't work correctly at home and at work. I can't fetch articles because i've a error message about a path missing in a messages at the remote server. Any idea ??? at this time i've downgrade

Re: make 10,000 with 2 of 100

1999-04-26 Thread Philip Thiem
allen wrote: DID YOU MAKE YOUR DONATION THAT IS REQUIRED TO POST ADVERTISEMENTS LIKE THIS ON DEBIAN MAILING LISTS?? In case you forgot about it Let me reiterate it. --- Mailing list advertising policy This

$10,000 2 IN 100 HOMERUN

1999-04-26 Thread allen
I am writing you because we have spoke in the past if this has reached by error please let me know and im sorry! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST please take the time to read this it really worked for me and Ill tell you how to do it right!!If you're like me and wish to work in

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-04-26 Thread Brad
That's pretty close to the system i came up with, i was just waiting to hear back if it worked for anyone else before i claimed i solved the problem ;) Let's see... diffs. psetup works for me without patching, did you try that? Also, if you put the glibc 2.0 libs into ${StarOffice}/lib you don't

Installation

1999-04-26 Thread rlorin
I am trying to install Debian 2.1 from Official Debian CD on a system with WIN98 installed, and SCSI CD Rom, which is connected to Adaptec AVA-1505 adapter (according to the list supported by Linux). My goal is to have Linux as the only OS. I am starting the installation from the CD; after

Re: isapnp modem

1999-04-26 Thread Ajith Peter
Hi Paul I had the same prob trying to cfg my Sierra AccuModem. I downloaded isapnptools-1.18 from www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools. Installed it and did some tweaking on the isapnp.conf and it is working perfectly. I have enclosed a copy of my isapnp.conf along with this mail. I

Re: Creating PDF files

1999-04-26 Thread Brad
The way i usually do it is to get the file as postscript (in most apps, just print to a file, using a postscript printer as the 'destination' if necessary). Then you can convert that using the ps2pdf utility in the gs package. i'm interested to see how many other ways people post, though... On

Re: new imagemagick?

1999-04-26 Thread Joey Hess
Damir J. Naden wrote: does anyone know if there is newer version of imagemagick already packaged? I could swear I have seen an e-mail either on this list or debian-devel-changes announcing the 4.2.* imagemagick NMU, but that was weeks ago and all the sites I have tried to ftp, still only have

RE: Installation

1999-04-26 Thread Dan Willard
Provided that scsi loaded the cdrom should be /dev/scd0 (that a zero, I miss the ones with a dot/slash). Just enter that at the prompt and hopefully it will work. If write back to the list and someone will let you know whatever more is needed. --Dano -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

IP Masq troubles

1999-04-26 Thread Richard Drisko
Hi I'm trying to set up masquerading for our lab at school. We have an existing network of wintendo machines with Samba running on my Potato machine (skippy). Just recently we got an internet hook up. We're behind a firewall and get an IP via DHCP. I put another NIC in skippy and now I can

Re: Humor a bit....

1999-04-26 Thread Michael Beattie
Um, I dont know why, but I seem to have seen 90% of these before... 18. Your hard drive has been scanned and all stolen software titles have been deleted. The police are on the way. Um This probably applies to 99% of windows installations out there today. 20. Netscape.exe... Bad

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread Michael Beattie
[snip] Using wildcards can dangerous when used with the rm command. From experience, I know it is all too easy to type rm -rf * ~ instead of rm -rf *~ I get jittery even thinking about typing that in email Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key

Re: remote login configuration/TERM question

1999-04-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Luis Villa wrote: 1) I am logging in remotely to my machine (using xdm) from my laptop on a regular basis. For a variety of reasons (speed, resolution, etc.) I prefer to use enlightenment on my laptop and windowmaker on my desktop. Has anyone worked out a clean way to a)

getting WP to run in Potato

1999-04-26 Thread Chris
Hi. After much struggle getting the file itself, I've finally installed WP 8. Unforunately, I am having some trouble with it. When I first installed it, the program refused to find the library libXpm.so.4 even though that exact file was in /usr/X11R6/lib, a directory which is (of course) in my

Re: StarOffice 5 and Potato - Solution

1999-04-26 Thread Ryan Losh
[Lengthy instructions for tricking Star Office 5.0[1] into executing on a glibc2.1 system deleted] I'd like to know if *ANYONE* out there has gotten Star Office 5 to *PRINT* on a potato system running glibc2.1??? If so, would you please post your recipe to this list. **EXECUTING** Star

Unable to compose mail in all mail programs

1999-04-26 Thread Emil Soleyman
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a reason why mail programs (mutt, pine, mail) will not compose, reply to, or forward mail. Earlier this afternoon everything was working fine and I came back and neither pine, mutt, nor mail would allow to perform this function -- the programs just freeze

dpkg broken?

1999-04-26 Thread Svante Sörmark
hi all! i just intalled slink, and now i have a problem with removing some packages i don't want: # dpkg -r tetex-bin (Reading database ... 26991 files and directories currently installed.) Removing tetex-bin ... install-info: No dir file specified dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--remove):

RE: getting WP to run in Potato

1999-04-26 Thread marmoset
On 26-Apr-99 Chris wrote: Hi. After much struggle getting the file itself, I've finally installed WP 8. Unforunately, I am having some trouble with it. When I first installed it, the program refused to find the library libXpm.so.4 even though that exact file was in /usr/X11R6/lib, a

Installing Slink via NFS

1999-04-26 Thread Larry de Graaf
Hello, The following question seems to be a difficult one because up to now there were no sensible answers. It would be nice however if someone can tell what is wrong. And please, I don't want to use FTP ! I am trying to install the base system of Slink via nfs. I think I have found a valid nfs

Question for mail guru's

1999-04-26 Thread Michael Beattie
Here's a problem for an exim guru. George? Two computers: netware --- linux --- internet(netware is part of internal subnet, linux is the gateway) mail on netware from [user] goes to linux via smtp. from: gets rewritten to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

Re: Unable to compose mail in all mail programs

1999-04-26 Thread Michael Beattie
I was wondering if anyone knows of a reason why mail programs (mutt, pine, mail) will not compose, reply to, or forward mail. Earlier this afternoon everything was working fine and I came back and neither pine, mutt, nor mail would allow to perform this function -- the programs just freeze

Re: X Windows installation

1999-04-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 01:47:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which packages do i have to install for x windows? The description of the xfree86-common provides some advice: Package: xfree86-common Description: X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure xfree86-common contains the filesystem

Re: xterm/top horizontal scrollbar

1999-04-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have Top loading in an Xterm window in Fvwm2. I set Top to display the command line instead of the command name and some of the command lines are well off the right edge of the Xterm window. I can resize the window to view these command lines but I was hoping I could find an option to

Address book in mutt?

1999-04-26 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! Is it possible to use the address book in mutt? I couldn't find anything about it in the documentation. Maybe it is possible to use mutt combined with another program providing the address book facilities? (I know the simplest solution: Use any database for address book and copy the

Re: MUTT keys and SCREEN

1999-04-26 Thread Nidge Jones
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 08:35:02PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problem with mutt and screen. I just tried exc-k and it worked. This is from ncsa telnet on dos, vt100. Well unfortunatley that doesn't help me here :-( It makes no difference if I am telneted in from a WIN95 machine

Re: Getting Rid of Unnecessary Files

1999-04-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[... please don't use mime on this list ...] I want to know if there is a way to clean out all of the copyright,copyleft,changelog, and other non-essential files in my Debian installation. i also want to clear out all of the non-English related stuff and the non-i386 stuff fron the tree. All

Re: screen corruption

1999-04-26 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Carl, Question: when I cat a binary file to the screen, all the characters get replaced with graphical symbols. Sometimes, 'reset' will fix this, and sometimes it won't. Is there some utility that can restore such a corrutped screen in every case? What happens is that I slowly

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread John Stevenson
If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) alias rm='rm -i' This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter how your shell is set up. I guess you

[OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?

1999-04-26 Thread Ries van Twisk
Hai, I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported? Where can I find the doc's on witch

Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ralf G. R. Bergs: Ok, now that I corrected /dev/console and started a getty on /dev/ttyS0 my setup is working almost as intended with one exception: If I include append=console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 in my lilo.conf EVERYTHING that one would expect gets output to the

Re: getting WP to run in Potato

1999-04-26 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris wrote: Hi. After much struggle getting the file itself, I've finally installed WP 8. Unforunately, I am having some trouble with it. When I first installed it, the program refused to find the library libXpm.so.4 even though that exact file was in /usr/X11R6/lib, a

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread Harald Weidner
Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to delete all file ending by the symbol ~ with the command without risk : rm -R *~ I have more and more of them every day. I would consider that command harmful in that it even removes complete directories matching *~. But if that's what you

Linux 2.2.x virtual filesystem?

1999-04-26 Thread Gunnar . Isaksson
In the 2.0.x series of kernels there is a 2Gb size limit on a single file. The reason was a limitation in the virtual filesystem (VFS) in the kernel. Is that limitation just history with the new 2.2.x series of kernels or is it still there? //Gunnar Isaksson

linux

1999-04-26 Thread Aiello Carmine
Convinto di porer installare linux-debian non riesco ad andare oltre la configurazione della tastiera non riesco propio a partizionare il disco ed andare avanti sar colpa che io non conosco l'inglese potreste aiutarmi con delle spigazioni in italiano? vorrei propio installare linux e

Re: How can I permentently get rid of the Enlightenment 15 pager?

1999-04-26 Thread Stephen Pitts
Peronsally, I compiled it from source and it was fine. There are some RedHat instructions on the site that you can use to determine what order to compile the stuff in. After that, get a book, and do CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnome for all of the files. I'd suggest shoving the

COAS 1.0

1999-04-26 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello all, I am wondering if there is someone thinking on using COAS (Caldera Open Administration System, I think) with Debian? It have reached 1.0 stage and I heard good things of it in a LinuxJournal some time ago. Although It is using QT as one of it widgets (and for that reason Debian may

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread David Z. Maze
John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to JS your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) JS JS alias rm='rm -i' JS JS This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do JS not use the -f option. The -f option

HELP !!! Need help for VIRUS scan !!!

1999-04-26 Thread Joerg Bode
We have a FILE and MAIL server running Debian Linux. Now we need a programm/tool with scans our incomming mail an our Filserver (and cleans/repairs it if there is a virus on it) !!! Jörg Bode

Re: strange mouse behaviour -- gpm

1999-04-26 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:26:18PM -0500, Preston Landers wrote: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven writes: I can't get my mouse configured with gpm (slink). Normally when X starts, the mouse doesn't work at all. Sometimes, when I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace a couple of times it starts working and

Re: the ~ files

1999-04-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But if I don't mistake, theire is a lot of software that add a ~ after a backup file. So I would like to know if there is a way do delete in one commande with secure way. when i'm not sure if the rm command i'm going to run is the one i actually

Linux hangs when net too used

1999-04-26 Thread Conrado Badenas
Hi all! I've been having problems with Linux the last months, but now I have isolated the problem: Linux hangs. 1) I thought it was the kernel but it hangs with 2.0.34, 2.0.35 and 2.2.1 2) Then I thought it was the memory but memtest (package sysutils) says it is OK. 3) Then I thought I was

Re: [OT] Whitch adaptec SCSI card?

1999-04-26 Thread David B.Teague
Ries van Twisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running Debian with a 2.0.36 kernel. I want to upgrade my system to the following: 12..18Gb HD DAT Tape Backup system SCSI card for connecting both. Witch SCSI card is best supported, and whitch DAT type is best supported?

Sed complains (in dh_make and dwww-build) after upgrading to glibc2.1

1999-04-26 Thread James Dietrich
So yesterday I finally decided to upgrade my machine to glibc2.1. Well, the upgrade of over 70 packages went very smoothly--many thanks, apt developers! Anyway, after upgrading I ran into a problem while running dh_make. Seems it doesn't like some of the sed expressions in there, but I can't

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1999-04-26 Thread Trevor Glen
Hi All, Frequent listeners to this mailing list, may have seen my name in the last couple of days: and I have yet another problem (surprise, surprise some of you may be saying) and this is it: I have a Mustek 1200 ED scanner. It is a parallel port model. I want to run it under GNU/Linux. I can't

deb vs. rpm

1999-04-26 Thread Thorsten Manegold
HI! Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality between deb and rpm packages? I'm especially interested in dependencies. Is this done on a per file basis, so that each package has info, what files the program needs, or on a package(name) basis (meaning the packages

Re: acct going berserk!

1999-04-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Quoting Max([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Has anyone else noticed their /var/account/pacct files growing out of control? Mine are reaching over 75 MB every day! Is there any way to figure out why they are so huge? I have a suspicion that bigbrother may

OPL3-SAx sound CLIPPING/SKIPPING under HDD+MOUSE activity

1999-04-26 Thread Rune Linding Raun
Hi HELP! I got a laptop(K6-23D 333+64Mb RAM S3 virge mg/mx) with a OPL3-SAx(yamaha 719) sound chipset. It works perfectly under win98, but i dont use 98. The problem is that sound through dsp device is clipped/disturbed by HDD+MOUSE activity in X and X-free sessions! Iam using kernel 2.2.x and

customising bounce messages with sendmail

1999-04-26 Thread thomas lakofski
hi, there's a large chinese isp with a domain name similar to mine, 188.net. consequently I get a lot of mail bounces. I'd like to be able to customise the message that sendmail sends back to them, adding a small boilerplate like: 'my domain often gets confused with 188.net, maybe you meant to

DHCPCD

1999-04-26 Thread Rune Linding Raun
How do i make the init.d/dhcpcd script work and load dhcpcd(dhcpcd_1.3.17pl2-1.deb) it should be working with kernel 2.2.x and it does if i manual run the script after a full runlevel 2 boot?

Re: pam-pwdb + NIS + ssh

1999-04-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Max wrote: I noticed that the latest version of ssh in potato introduced PAM support and totally screwed up ssh for me. It created an /etc/pam.d/ssh file with the following contents: Oops, my mistake. I just uploaded ssh 1.2.26-1.4 which fixes this problem and the wrong permissions

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