Re: Debian em Portugu?s - Sistema de Instala??o

1999-08-28 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Cool! :) Onde está? Quero testar e colocar na página. Abraços,PH Quoting Gleydson Mazioli da Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Iaaah! Ola para Todos, Terminei a compilação do Boot-Floppies da Debian em Português (para computadores Intel

Envio da Debian em Português

1999-08-28 Thread Gleydson Mazioli da Silva
Ola pessoal, Eu fiz os testes com a Debian em Português e ela esta funcionando 100% !!! Passei o dia procurando um FTP para poder fazer os lancamentos dos discos de instalacao da distribuicao (boot-floppies) e consegui com meu provedor! Para minha surpresa o provedor adora o Linux (apesar de

Re: X-Window help the debian way?

1999-08-28 Thread John Carline
Chris someone wrote: Hi there, I am new to debian using SuSE for the last two years. I installed hamm last night and every thing was pretty easy to install even though, I did come across a problem with my mouse getting assigned to my modem com port, hehe, dunno how, but fixed that, and it

Re: setting up .Xresources

1999-08-28 Thread Ernest Johanson
The X man page has the info. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:46:17 + From: Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-28 Thread John Gay
Well, after reviewing the replies I've received and having another look through www.x11.org's comparison chart, it look like the best candidate for most features, ease of configuration via GUI tools and good displays on my daughters remote X-Terminal with it's 8 bit colour limit, is WindowMaker.

Debian newbie question

1999-08-28 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was somethin called smbmount there, can't find it on Debian. Thanks in advance for all help Ari Sigurðsson

Re: sendmail: to queue or not to queue

1999-08-28 Thread John Forest
Remco van de Meent wrote: Hey, I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to deliver immediately . if an incoming email is being

Re: X-Window help the debian way?

1999-08-28 Thread Kent West
Chris someone wrote: And I did edit the file /etc/X11/Server like it said and put the name of the That's Xserver, not Server.

Re: setting up .Xresources

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Thanks guys. :) -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
A. M. Varon wrote: Use the libc5 Netscape version. Adam Shand has posted on the debian users mailing lists the steps on how to install it. An addendum: Install also xlib6g. Without it, netscape will do a segmentation fault. I'm a heavy netscape user running on a Debian Potato system. I let

Re: Mutt headers

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen R. Gore
I found the solution on my own (usually the most educational way G). Needed to enclose the field values in quotes. -- Regards, Steve

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:22:02PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:22:23AM -0500, Brad wrote: | I've always used, for example, --revision=2.2.12-hostname.1 because | dselect always wanted

Re: Debian newbie question

1999-08-28 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Aug, Ari Sigurðsson wrote about Debian newbie question hi, I'm new to this list and new to Debian. Can anyone tellme how I can mount SMB shares on my Debian, I used to have RedHat and if I remember correctly there was somethin called smbmount there, can't find it on Debian.

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On 27 Aug 99 20:28:24 GMT Ryan Chouinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith G. Murphy wrote: Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an

Re: SNMP

1999-08-28 Thread David Engel
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:38:16PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: Why is it that I get incorrect results for my ATM interface atm0? The interface thruput that MRTG displays is only about one half (or even less) of the real thruput. Is this due to a problem in the SNMP agent, or is it a bug

Re: Talk

1999-08-28 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Stephen R . Gore wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:52:10PM +0200, Tony Schonfeld wrote: Since i use Debian i can't use talk command i've always this message : [Your party is refusing messages] ---end quoted text--- Debian's default config is mesg n. To

Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?

1999-08-28 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:20:19PM -0700, Jack Lee wrote: Hi: Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: Paul -- such a system sort of exists -- the popularity contest package, which reports via email the most commonly used packages. I haven't a clue how that thing works, I haven't looked into its source code yet;

Re: sbpcd CDROM Problem! Need Help!

1999-08-28 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On 27 Aug 99 17:17:56 GMT Tam Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you guys should know these information; When I install the module, it gives me this message sbpcd-0 [11]:Drive 0(ID=0); CR-563 (0.81) at 0x340 (type 0)

Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?

1999-08-28 Thread John Carline
Jack Lee wrote: Hi: Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Patrick Olson
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at

Re: kde

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:48:22PM -0500, jason wrote: anyone have a working apt entry to get kde? snowcrash doesn't seem to like me anymore.. deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/debian potato kde contrib works fine, snowcrash merged with a KDE rpm site and they got a new server. -- Stephen Pitts

Re: Working with mail in /home not /var

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 05:17:15PM -0400, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: Hi, is there a simple solution to move folders in /var/spool/mail/$user to /home/$user/mailbox, i'm working with exim and qpopper and symlinks seems not to work. Thanks. One way is to implement a per-user

Re: modules loading (possibly zip driver quesiton too...)

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 08:47:20AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote: I just posted a question last night about some problems with a ZIP drive. One thing I read that could be a possible solution is the module lp is loading before ppa (at least, that's what the book says...). I haven't yet figured out

Re: removing kdm

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:12:20AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem of dselect message. I was trying to remove kdm. However the following error message appeared, and I can not go further now. Please somebody give me any suggestion. ---error

Re: z/bzImages, shell scripts

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 08:00:57PM -0600, Tom Lineman wrote: NOTE: I sent this message five minutes before I got my mailing list subscription confirmation. Since the confirmation message said all my submissions would be returned, and I didn't get this mail back, I am assuming that my mail

Re: Help with compiling

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:41:20PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: I have downloaded and installed g++ and binutils and all the packages they depend on. How do I compile and link a C++ program? e.g. what is the proper syntax of the c++ and ld commands? Please send answers to me directly ([EMAIL

Re: Fetchmail Errors in Potato

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
I was wondering if anyone has received errors when receiving mail through fetchmail (both version 4.6.4-1.1 and 5.0.5-1). When I upgraded to potato a couple days ago I having been getting the following error message from the fetchmail log: fetchmail: Starting fetchmail 5.0.5 daemon

How to get the good kernel from boot diskette to hard drive

1999-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I just installed Debian 2.1 on a system with an Adaptec 2940 controller which ran, among other things, the CD I used. After running into the well-known problems with that controller, I made a boot floppy from the site pointed to in the release notes (in sweden, I think). From there on I pointed

800x600 Xwindows screen format

1999-08-28 Thread Brian May
Does anyone have tips on using XWindows on a low resolution screen (eg laptop)? I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward have to resize the window automatically after reloading. I don't

[bam@snoopy.apana.org.au: xemacs20-bin: Error when pointing to button]

1999-08-28 Thread Brian May
Hello, I sent this bug report on xemacs a while ago (bug #37027), but the the maintainer (assuming James LewisMoss is the maintainer) was unable to assist. This problem is driving me crazy, and I tend to expect more from xemacs... so... the next question should be obvious... does anyone have

Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Brian May wrote: I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward have to resize the window automatically after reloading. I don't particularly want to go into each application one by one

Time disparity between system time and netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it? TIA -- (

3com905c vs Rage128: In this corner, wearing the white trunks....

1999-08-28 Thread Kent West
Just dandy. With the help of Heikki Vatiainen I was able to get my 3com905c NIC working. Yea! With the help of others on the web (names not in front of me at the moment) I was able to get my Rage128-based video card working. Yea! But! Apparently the 3com905c requires a 2.0.x kernel, and won't

Connect pc to linux with tcp/ip without a network card

1999-08-28 Thread André Bell
If you are like me and are trying to figure a way to connect your windows pc to a linux system without a network card than you may find these links handy. I've found several sites that offer freeware, shareware, and trialware that connect the pc to linux via tcp/ip connection of the serial port.

Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format

1999-08-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Brian May wrote: I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is You can have X handle a virtual screen for you. Then you can scroll around (in my case with alt-arrowkeys). In

Re: [LILO] how to boot a second IDE HD?

1999-08-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi jack Currently, I'm running linux well on my first IDE HD, but the problem comes when I try to use lilo booting the second IDE HD. Please give me some advices. Thanks :) Oh, by teh way, the first IDE HD (/dev/hda) is the master drive on first IDE controller. The second IDE HD

Dell Xpi 90 T laptop

1999-08-28 Thread MARK DAVENPORT
I have struggled getting Mandrake to load on a laptop so I decided to try Debian. Im trying to install from the Harddrive but I the machine continues to reboot after the boot prompt. I ve entered my harddrive geometry at the prompt but it keeps rebooting. Im trying to load 2.1. Ready to

Re: Time disparity between system time and netscape

1999-08-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it? IP

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: i've heard vague rumors that it's some interaction between Netscape and the libc6-based X libraries and the egcs compilers used to compile them all... (which could explain

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-28 Thread meridian
I used --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image with 2.2.11 and it worked fine. I applied an ac patch at a later time and when using make-kpkg with the same as above gave an not in control info error. But with 2.2.12 did not get this error as it did with someone else. Im using a frequently updated

Re: Tightening security

1999-08-28 Thread meridian
The best solution would be using ip filters such as ipchains to block the port from outside users, so no conections at all can be made to the xserver port. You might also check Xaccess and ensure only ip addresses that need access to port 6000 have it, which is often only the local machine

Please help a poor gaijin!

1999-08-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
Hi! I'm trying to figure out what level of Japanese input support exists in Debian. Ideally, I'd like to be able to receive messages written in Unicode with mutt (via the mutt-ja package), and type messages/documents in kana/kanji with vim and have them stored as Unicode. Being able to print

Printer Okidata OL400e config?

1999-08-28 Thread Stefan Langerman
Hi, I have a Debian (slink) system connected (parallel port) to an Okidata OL400e printer, and of course, I don't have the manuals of the printer. I've been unsuccessful until now to find documentation on how to configure it, and my random trials have failed. Could anyone give me a hint on how

Re: How to get the good kernel from boot diskette to hard drive

1999-08-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:02:02PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I just installed Debian 2.1 on a system with an Adaptec 2940 controller which ran, among other things, the CD I used. After running into the well-known problems with that controller, I made a boot floppy from the site pointed to in

Re: removing kdm

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Seems there are some files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm and /etc/X11/kdm that dpkg does not know about. Maybe kdm put them there. Try removing those by hand. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: Installing slink with a 2.3 kernel

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
With kernel-package you can create a *.deb from your compiled kernel. Can you install this? bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread André Bell
I have several perl scripts saved to my pc I need to convert to linux-able ascii so I can transfer them to my local linux system via disks or tape. I now get the following error message when I copy from my pc to diskette to linux: illegal character \015 (carriage return) at admin.cgi line 2

2.3.14 kernel bootdisk

1999-08-28 Thread mcmi0037
I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD cannot find any devices on which to install). so, i compiled her a 2.3.14 kernel,

Re: 2.3.14 kernel bootdisk

1999-08-28 Thread Joey Hess
Hello. Please limit your lines to 70 characters. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who has only win98 installed on her computer. she would like linux instead, but the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels do not have support for her hard drive controller (the stock debian install from bootable CD cannot

Re: 2.3.14 kernel bootdisk

1999-08-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
Colin, I would suggest you change your mailer to use no more than 80 columns... 76 or so seems standard. As for the exact reason why your kernel panicked, I can't say. However, IU have *never* needed to specify init=anything. It could just be me.,. :) but, most people seem to boot their kernel

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
Andre (sorry, no accented characters from me :) when the nice unix people made text files years ago, they decidedthe end-of-line character should be \n -- aka ^J. When the not-so-nice DOS people made the same decision, they used two characters ^J and ^M. I would imagine you need to strip out the

About kde web site

1999-08-28 Thread Takanori Suzuki
Hello! Today I installed kde from http://kde.tdyc.com in the morning. It successed. After 3 hours later, I tried to install kde into another computer, but I couldn't do it. It seemed to me that the site is alive. I wonder if somebody has same problem, or this is my own problem. sources.list

eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt

1999-08-28 Thread Gerhard Poul
Hi, The system I'm using was used for about 2 years as a 24x7 system. Today I had some real problems with it. It's an i486 (DX-50) with one 3c905 (ISA) ethernet card. It worked really good, but today I get many of the following kernel messages: eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status . Is

Security Question

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I'm looking at Firewall and Security listing on Freshmeat, but I have no idea what I should consider installing to tighten up my box. My immediate goal is to not allow anything into or out of my home network, unless it happens to be for email/news, ftp to other sites, and Internet

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread André Bell
The way to get rid of those ^M characters is to either transfer the files using ascii mode in ftp, or use the dtox program or dos2unix program or :%s/^V^M//g in vi, or a sed script or write a program or .. half a million ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) Thanks Seth, that's

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Phillip Deackes
Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I have that problem, I click (once, not a double-click) on the title of the Netscape window and that brings the keyboard back to life. YMMV though. Maybe this has something to do with focus method - I use sloppy focus, where the position of the

Some missing depends in potato

1999-08-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
There appear to be some missing dependencies in potato at the moment. Perhaps I got the Packages.gz in the midst of uploads? Anyway, found these problems: *** Std base netbase Basic TCP/IP networking binaries netbase depends on tcpd tcpd does not appear to be available netbase

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho
André Bell wrote: Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. You have

Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?

1999-08-28 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: SMC unfortunately only has a dual one (couldn't find anything else on their website). But Znyx has exactly what I want and even seems to have good support for Linux so I'll probably buy a Znyx Netblaster ZX346Q. I have been doing a lot of

Re: Some missing depends in potato

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:27:34AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: netbase depends on tcpd tcpd does not appear to be available netbase depends on libwrap0 libwrap0 does not appear to be available tcpd and libwrap have been pulled out of netbase in the latest upload (just the other day) and

Re: Some missing depends in potato

1999-08-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:09:17PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:27:34AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: netbase depends on tcpd tcpd does not appear to be available netbase depends on libwrap0 libwrap0 does not appear to be available tcpd and libwrap have been

Re: Automatic software installing (like Win. 2000)

1999-08-28 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 01:19:56PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I would like to know if there's a possibility with apt (or something else) to do the same that windows/Office 2000. It

Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie?

1999-08-28 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:33:30AM +0100, John Gay wrote: available, but the desktop is still 1024x768. At lower resolutions, I can use the mouse to scroll around the screen. How to I get the desktop to change with the resolution? In the XF86Config, check the size you've got for Virtual in

Re: Working with mail in /home not /var

1999-08-28 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Marius Aamodt Eriksen writes: The best way is probably to use procmail. Marius. I don't think so. What if a user want to fetch his mail, then qpopper sees nothing in his mailbox cause procmail has moved it. I need a solution system wide and exim and qpopper compatible. --

Re: Working with mail in /home not /var

1999-08-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
Is it possible to change the local delivery transport to: local_delivery: ... file = /home/${localpart}/Mail/inbox or something? I wonder if user/group mail would have permissions? Also, this could get tricky if all of your user's home directories don't have the same pathing:

E! problem..

1999-08-28 Thread Harlan Crystal
My X works fine with other window managers, but when i tried to use enlightenment, i ran into a problem when loading it: I 'apt-get'ed Enlightenment and all it's dependencies (ftped from the stable slink), and when i load it up, my cursor stays as an X. I can click on the little exit button and

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-28 Thread Shao Zhang
How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to determine which distribution of Linux a machine is running? I know that Debian has a file

CODA network filesystem

1999-08-28 Thread Michael Laing
I am considering setting up a CODA network filesystem for our widely spread out school district. Currently we have linux servers in each of 7 school buildings that use samba and netatalk to provide filesharing services. Each server has 10-40 GB of storage. This works well, but we would like to

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii Date: Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 01:31:17AM -0700 In reply to:André Bell Quoting André Bell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. dpkg

eth0 and rpm questions

1999-08-28 Thread Ari Sigurðsson
what's. eth0: XMT status = 0x400 or eth0: XMT status = 0x440 this appears sometimes on my screen, rather irritating. And how to I find out where to get a missing file that .rpm package depends on? and why this? rpm -i --force --nodeps package.rpm 5 min later.. rpm -e package.rpm package

StarOffice 5.1

1999-08-28 Thread Carl Greco
Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB system. But it does a decent job of importing Word 6 documents. I'm guessing SO 5.1

RE: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread B. Szyszka
I know it's because the file is in pc binary instead of true ascii (despite being saved as a text file). My question is this, is there any way I can convert the file to true ascii while it's still on my pc then copy it to floppy then copy it to linux, without the need to ftp the file between

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread André Bell
At 11:20 AM 8/28/99 +, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: André Bell wrote: Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread André Bell
dpkg -S dos2unix Thanks Wayne. Interesting that worked just fine but dselect then / searching for dos2unix turns up nothing. Is it common for dselect not to find specific items as requested or is there some other command I need to enter in order to get dselect to search and find the files I

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Ernest Johanson
An easy way to find whether a file is in Debian is to do a zgrep on the Contents-i386.gz file (assuming Intel platform). You may need to pipe the output into whatever pager you like. The output will tell you what package the file is in (e.g. dos2unix is in sysutils). If you're getting Debian over

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
/ will find a package name, not a file that is contained within the package. dos2unix is in the sysutils package (and is a symlink to fromdos). Bob On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 09:14:25AM -0700, André Bell wrote: dpkg -S dos2unix Thanks Wayne. Interesting that worked just fine but dselect then /

KDE doesn't start after crash

1999-08-28 Thread B. Szyszka
Hello, Last night, KDE crashed on me and ever since then, it won't load. When I do startx -- -bpp 16, all I get is that checker/basket pattern with the 'X' cursor and nothing loads. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, this gets repeated over and over until I press Ctrl+Z: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't

cannot open -lXm

1999-08-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I can't compile Ted (richtext word processor) I keep getting the error ld: cannot open -lXm: No such file or directory Usually this means that the -L is set wrong but it says: (beginning clipped) -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXp -lXpm -lXt -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11

Re: eth0 and rpm questions

1999-08-28 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
rpm -i --force --nodeps package.rpm 5 min later.. rpm -e package.rpm package package.rpm is not installed ??? Since I use to use rpm on other distro, IIRC you should rpm -e package instead of rpm -e package.rpm Chanop --

Re: Security Question

1999-08-28 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I've been lurking in a few lists, and I keep reading about port scans, so I'd like to learn more about them, and how to detect/log them, etc. The only thing I recognize is tripwire, and that from reading it in few posts, but it appears to be available only in rpm format, and as source

Install problem: LI, than nothing else

1999-08-28 Thread Walthier Mate Tamas
Hi! I'm a real beginner so please forgive my fool questins. I tought I've allready installed DebinLinux but I never got over the LI after several times. I installed it from a CDROM and during the installation there was only one problem: I couldn't create a bootdisc because my a: (LS120 UHD) drive

Home Network Setup Help

1999-08-28 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I installed my Debian system as a single user PC but now want to configure this machine as a Server for a Network. I realized very quickly that the slackware book I have that describes setting up a network is a little different than the debian system I have installed. Where can I find any

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:04:25 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# ls libXm* libXm.so libXm.so.1 libXmu.so libXmu.so.6.0 libXm.so.0 libXm.so.1.2 libXmu.so.6 Try ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so and check that it points to an existing file. HTH, Ray --

Re: How to clear console before login promtp ?

1999-08-28 Thread Nathan Duehr
Alex, You may also take a look at the linuxlogo package. You can add a neat Debian logo to your console login screen with the linuxlogoconfig script that comes with it. Fun stuff... On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: Is ther any way to clear console window (text mode) before login

Re: Dell Xpi 90 T laptop

1999-08-28 Thread Nathan Duehr
I recently had this problem with a Toshiba 3015CT. I needed a zImage kernel instead of the default bzImage kernel on the standard boot disks. There's floppy images called Tecra images (named after the Toshiba laptops which seem to exhibit this problem the most) which you might try to boot from.

safe upgrade of potato

1999-08-28 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have a stable potato distributaion installed that has not been upgraded in 2-3 weeks. I would like to upgrade it with current packages. is there a way to save old packges as I install the new one. would the simplest thing would be just to save all /usr /etc /bin /lib directories. thanks

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) recode ibm-pc:l1 dosfile unixfile -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL

Soundcard (Crystal CS4236) configuration

1999-08-28 Thread Johann Spies
I could use my soundcard to produce sound using the speakers, but not record anything. When I tried I got the following error message: Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? Now I am trying to correct that. According to pnpdump my card is a Crystal CS4236. The kernel

http - telnet

1999-08-28 Thread Oz Dror
have DSL at home, at work I have an internet access through proxy but only http access is alowed. telnet, ftp and irc are blocked. is there a way to access my home computer using http session simulating telnet session. is there a free version of http server that I could install on my computer

Re: Security Question

1999-08-28 Thread Nathan Duehr
Check out Abacus PortSentry if you're looking for pretty good portscanning detection software. He also does a log scanner and a host protection scanner. http://www.psionic.org/ On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all: I'm looking at Firewall and Security listing on Freshmeat, but I

Re: Page length using a2ps

1999-08-28 Thread Jor-el
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I have a text document that is formatted with page length = 68 rather than the 65 which is the default for a2ps. However, whenever I try to format the text using a2ps into a 68 lines per page document (using the --lines-per-page

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Ernest Johanson wrote: An easy way to find whether a file is in Debian is to do a zgrep on the Contents-i386.gz file (assuming Intel platform). You may need to pipe the output into whatever pager you like. The output will tell you what

Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: Here's one solution from http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Linux/0053.html: save as dos2unix - #!/bin/sh sed 's/^M//' $1

Re: Soundcard (Crystal CS4236) configuration

1999-08-28 Thread Eric G . Miller
I don't think you need isapnp. Try adding something like the following (replacing appropriate io,irq,etc) to /etc/modutils/aliases. alias sound cs4232 pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=7

Re: OT: How to determine which distro(Debian,RH, etc)?

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: How about telnet to localhost?? Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 localhost What if /etc/issue.net has been edited? For example, i'm running potato but i

Re: http - telnet

1999-08-28 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Oz Dror wrote: have DSL at home, at work I have an internet access through proxy but only http access is alowed. telnet, ftp and irc are blocked. is there a way to access my home computer using http session simulating telnet session.

Re: http - telnet

1999-08-28 Thread Jim
Your proxy probably just filters based on the destination port number, without even looknig at the network traffic. You might want to just run a telnet (or ssh) daemon on port 80 of your home machine, that should do the trick. Just connect to your machine on port 80 (normally used by HTTP)

Re: Soundcard (Crystal CS4236) configuration

1999-08-28 Thread Alexis Maldonado
Hello! I have the same sound board in the company's portable computer. It is a Dell Inspiron 3200. (PII 233MHz 96MB 4.1GB) On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 08:20:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I could use my soundcard to produce sound using the speakers, but not record anything. When I tried I got the

Re: 800x600 Xwindows screen format

1999-08-28 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:49:57PM +1000, Brian May wrote: Does anyone have tips on using XWindows on a low resolution screen (eg laptop)? I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is awkward

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