Re: package dependency

1999-07-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, How do I know if the package is no longer dependent by others? for example, if I have a lib-blah package installed, and I want to know if there are any other packages installed on my system that depends on this package. I don't want to try to remove it

Re: x11amp still available?

1999-07-09 Thread fsavage
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp. xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. that looks like quite consistent number. On my cyrix-333 i usually got 18-19%. I installed the latest

modemu and cr/lf

1999-07-09 Thread fsavage
I'm using modemu/minicom so I can transfer files with zmodem to a couple dialup accounts. But it's unusable with one account because text scrolls off the right -- all line feeds and no carriage returns incoming? I've played with TERM settings on my machine and minicom's translation table (lfs -

a driuver for Windows NT

1999-07-09 Thread A Benchissou
I would like to get the driver for Windows NT of the ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP video card. Can you help me ?? Thanks regards ALAIN BENCHISSOU -- CADLM 9, rue Raoul Dautry 91190 Gif/Yvette Tel : 33 1 69072922 Fax : 33 1 69072809 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package dependency

1999-07-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[ my `debquery' script ] Right, this is the first update... %) [...] ex $STATUSFILE _EOF_ | cut -d: -f2 g/^$FIELD:.*\$PACKAGE\/ ?Package? p The previous line works better if it replaced by these two: g/^$FIELD:.*\$PACKAGE\[^-]/ ?Package? p g/^$FIELD:.*\$PACKAGE\$/ ?Package? p This

Granting access

1999-07-09 Thread Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe
Hi I have a user arround here who has explicitly asked to have the permissions on his home directory to 0700. He wants to access some info on his home dir throug a browser (he will put it in public_html), but in a way that only he can access it. I suggested using .htaccess to ask for a password.

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Hi there, The upstream maintainer of one of my packages is having problems with his code. with his code? I thought it would be nice to use the debian mailing lists, to see if we can an answer on this. I will forward any solution to him.

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: to not be handled properly. Even though I specify -fpack_struct the generated code does not appear to actually do this. Structure fields are offset and the return from sizeof() returns a value that is not valid. what do you mean it is not

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: to not be handled properly. Even though I specify -fpack_struct the generated code does not appear to actually do this. Structure fields are offset and the return from sizeof() returns a

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
#pragma pack(1) struct {}; #pragma pack() Which forces the layout to be as you specified. Using a command line option is a Bad Idea (tm) as it may corrupt glibc's structures To test a resonse to the original message, I made the follwing c file ( I was not familiar with the attribute flag, so I

RE: a driuver for Windows NT

1999-07-09 Thread wim
As your are posting to a Debian list, I will assume your are using some version of debian. Through dselect, select xserver-mach64. By selecting it, dselect will automatically install it's dependancies. If you have APT, run 'apt-get install xserver-mach64 -u'. '-u' will show the packages that

Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)

1999-07-09 Thread Nate
GO AGS! I'm a UCD alum. Now I'm a law student in Sacramento. Cool. I'll be going to the Linux Users Group of Davis next Tuesday. See http://www.lugod.org for time and place. First off, if you are really interested in this project, you should take a look at the mailing list archives at

Re: unable to install - new user

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Leach
Read the installation HOWTOs! One suggestion that I can think of is that there are machines with BIOS related problems. The installation HOWTO tells you about some BIOS setting that might cause problems. Note that some of these problem may only affect some kernel versions and configurations.

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

1999-07-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For instance, if the structure were: struct foo { char text[3]; int num; }; sizeof would return 6 and not 5. 6? Are you sure you're using Linux/gcc? jg Yes, 6, it will insert a single extra

Help me

1999-07-09 Thread fabrice blain
Hello, I'm french, and i'm looking for the HP CD-Writer 7100E's drivers. But ther is nothing interesting on the web . So i saw your message with altavista, and that's why i am asking you for this drivers. If you could help, can you send me an e-mail with tis drivers? You'll be welcomme,

Re: Exim SMTP

1999-07-09 Thread Sami Dalouche
I don't know how to do this but I tried this and it made the same. Maybe it's a netscape bug because on another machine with netscape for Windows, it works ! On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:38:10PM +0300, Ali Onur Uyar wrote: I am using Debian Slink with Exim, configured for an Internet Site, to

Re: BUG ??

1999-07-09 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:13:38PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote: Sami Dalouche wrote: see http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/www/lexique.html and http://opdaf1.obspm.fr/ to have more infos (sorry, french links) the UTC time IS THE reference but the GMT acronym is used in 99% of the cases to say UTC.

Re: FreeLinux (Debian/GNU BSD)

1999-07-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:17:14AM -0700, Nate wrote: GO AGS! I'm a UCD alum. Now I'm a law student in Sacramento. Cool. I'll be going to the Linux Users Group of Davis next Tuesday. See http://www.lugod.org for time and place. First off, if you are really interested in this

Re: x11amp still available?

1999-07-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
hi On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp. xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. that looks like quite consistent number. On my

Re: Granting access

1999-07-09 Thread Ernest Johanson
Mario, Check out the UserDir directive in the apache docs. You could also put a symlink in the DocumentRoot if you wanted. One issue here will be the permissions on the user's home dir. It will have to be world executable for the web server to be able to read the html directory beneath it. The

Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?

1999-07-09 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
Hi, This is not Debian related, but if you're interested have a look at http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/linux-e.html. -Chris -- || | Dr. Christopher D. Judd | |

RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Rudy Broersma
Hi Y'all, Since I updated my RedHat 5.2 box to RedHat 6.0, I got some problems. For example, in RH 5.2 I edited /etc/securetty and aded pty1 and pty2, and ttyp0, ttypS1, ttypS2 etc, etc. So I could login with root at terminals and telnet sessions. But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all...

RE: a driuver for Windows NT

1999-07-09 Thread wim
Ok, I am an idiot, replying to my own messages. I didn't read the poster's subject. He is slightly lost, this is no NT list. Maybe this will help someone else though. On 09-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As your are posting to a Debian list, I will assume your are using some version of

Re: KDE

1999-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: I don't want it in non-free, I want it in main. = So, it'll be in main and nowhere else :-) But KDE packaging project guys are doing a so good job ... :( Until its really free, maybe they can supply apt-friendly .deb

Printing to WinNT lpd

1999-07-09 Thread mark . lake
Hi, I'm using lprng to print from Debian (Slink) via printcap to a laserjet and a deskjet which are both connected to a Windows NT printserver running NT's lpd. I can successfully communicate with the NT lpd (dequeue my jobs, list the queue, etc), but the files are always printed as text rather

Re: need monitor specs.

1999-07-09 Thread William Park
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:16:58AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My SVGA monitor is rapidly losing all contrast (I expect it is about to fail). I have two older SVGA monitors and I'd like to be able to use one of them until I get a chance to pick up a new

Re: help: setting up dial-in mail server

1999-07-09 Thread Brad
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 09-Jul-99 Carl Mummert wrote: Why not just set their shell to /bin/false or some such. That prevents login access, and should prevent ftp access (you have to check - try man ftpd ). But it allows pop access, and imap access. Does setting

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: Since I updated my RedHat 5.2 box to RedHat 6.0, I got some problems. For example, in RH 5.2 I edited /etc/securetty and aded pty1 and pty2, and ttyp0, ttypS1, ttypS2 etc, etc. So I could login with root at terminals and telnet

Poll at www.mozillazine.org

1999-07-09 Thread Andreas Persenius
Mozillazine is doing a poll on distribution usage on behalf of the mozilla.org people. So, go there and vote for Debian! -- Andreas Persenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? Security issues aside ... you can add these lines to /etc/securetty: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yes, that's 0..9 each on its own line. Why? I got this advice by On newer kernels ( I bet that Redhat 6.0 has one... ) ,

iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Wendell Buckner
Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux? I see from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done. Has anyone run into problems trying to do this? If so, please let me know, cause I plan on attaching one to my Linux P.C. soon and I'd like it to go a

RE: Segmentation fault

1999-07-09 Thread Patrick Kirk
Did that but makes no difference. Is it relevant that I am using telnet from a NT box and that I usually start a session by TERM=vt100? Found hwtools but man hwtools gets me nowhere, as does man memtest86. Anyone know how to start memtest86? Patrick -Original Message- From: Marc

Blowfish Keysize

1999-07-09 Thread Ed Kutrzyba
Hi all, I recently downloaded the int'l patch for 2.2.10 and compiled the kernel with crypto support. It seems to work fine, but I need a different key and block size for the blowfish algorithm. My goal is to mount previously generated encrypted filesystems that were created under windows using

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 9 Jul, Wendell Buckner wrote about iomega zip disk (100) Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux? I see from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done. Has anyone run into problems trying to do this? If so, please let me know, cause I plan

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-09 Thread Keith Beattie
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 08:29:18AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Keith Beattie wrote: Another invaluable NT setting is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse/ActiveWindowTracking set to 1 - This gives you focus-follows-mouse, yea!!! I tried it, because I

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Wright
There is a mini HOWTO on this. Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel, IDE or SCSI? My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra install*, this is trivial. The following commands: insmod ppa mkdir /mnt/zip(if this doesn't exist already) mount -t vfat

Lilo version problem

1999-07-09 Thread dmacdoug
I installed Debian Slink on a system that previously had a Caldera system on it. Then when I attempted to run lilo I got an error message that said something like The first somethingorother is version 18. Version 20 expected and then lilo exits. Eventually I figured that maybe I needed to

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Nate
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 03:18:15PM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: Has anyone out there attempted to use a iomega zip disk with linux? I see from the invformation on the debian website that it can be done. Has anyone run into problems trying to do this? If so, please let me know, cause I

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread eafarris
i've not used a SCSI or parallel Zip drive with Linux, but i have had good results with the internal IDE version (100MB). to use it, you need your kernel compiled with the ide-floppy support enabled. i have found some Zip disks (media) that i couldn't mount under linux. i don't know why, as

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Ben Cranston
Mark Wright wrote: There is a mini HOWTO on this. Which zip disk will you be using, Parallel, IDE or SCSI? My experience has been that as long as you don't use the Tecra install*, this is trivial... * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a 'insmod ppa'

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Jeff Beley
I just upgraded to 2.2.9 and when I do a insmod ppa or modprobe ppa, I get : /lib/modules/2.2.9/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy dmesg tells me : parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP] ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x) WARNING - no ppa compatible devices found. As of

Toshiba Mouse Problem

1999-07-09 Thread Stanley J. Benes
Hi all. I'm using 2.1 (slink?) on a Toshiba satellite pro 410CDT laptop. It has a built in mouse-like device called an accu-point. I've been trying to use gpm with the built in device without success. I read a few web pages about the toshiba and its mouse, and I've tried just about every gpm

Problem with removing package.

1999-07-09 Thread dave
Hello Everyone, I was hoping someone out there could help me with a problem with debian packages. For some reason, the python-base package currently installed in my system refuses to uninstall itself. dselect will not continue upgrading the rest of my packages until this one gets upgraded. These

Re[2]: Segmentation fault

1999-07-09 Thread Matthew McFarlane
I'm also getting a segmetation fault when I run xflame -- any iedas? Matthew McFarlane - Patrick Did that but makes no difference. Is it relevant that I am using telnet from Patrick a NT box and that I usually start a session by TERM=vt100? Patrick Found hwtools but man hwtools

what's a checksum?

1999-07-09 Thread Marlon Urias
I downloaded a tar file an tried to unpack it and got this: % tar xvf uri.tar tar: directory checksum error what's this mean?

Re: iomega zip disk (100)

1999-07-09 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Wright wrote: * Anyone know what the problem is with the tecra install? If I try to do a 'insmod ppa' on my laptop after installing the tecra base system, I get a error message saying that several functions (or entry points, or something like that) are missing. It

Re: KDE

1999-07-09 Thread Bradley Bell
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 05:29:03PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: I don't want it in non-free, I want it in main. = So, it'll be in main and nowhere else :-) But KDE packaging project guys are doing a so good job ... :( Until its really free,

Re: LyX not exporting PS

1999-07-09 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:03:56AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ooops, did I miss something? What new release do you mean? Lyx 1.03 is new, but it's a bugfix and far from 'prone to be buggy' Mea culpa, I should have referred to LyX (the 0.12BETA version I'm using) as early release not

Re: X Windows

1999-07-09 Thread Didi Damian
edit /etc/X11/window-managers to move the line with your favorite window manager to the top of the list The FreeStuff Web Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! A while back I had requested a way to set the default Windows Manager upon boot up. It was exec . I have no idea what else.

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of

Re: Howto to retrieve potato recursively?

1999-07-09 Thread Sami Dalouche
I want to download the whole debian/dist/potato-tree via ftp. How can I do that? E.g., if a wanted to do the same thing from our ftp-server, I would simply type ``get debian/dist/potato.tar.gz''. Our ftp-Server is configurated with this nice feature. Are there any other possibilities?

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? ssh? su? In general, there's no really good reason to log in as root directly other than on the console. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diald

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:00:58PM +0200, Mateusz Lapsa wrote: I'm using slink, and recently I wanted to configure this package. Unfortunatelly there some problems. Are you using kernel 2.2? The diald in slink is not compatible with kernel 2.2. There is a package of diald 0.99 which fixes

Re: RedHat 6.0 Root Remote Login

1999-07-09 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? ssh? su? In general, there's no really good reason to log in as root directly other than on the console.

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