Re: Mirror Debian

1999-10-02 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On 30/Sep/1999, Fernando Sanchez wrote: este fin de semana pasado desde las 05:00 o así de la noche del sábado hasta las 10:00 del lunes, más o menos, estuvo caído un chisme (léase router, switch o cable que explota por exceso de bits :) en mitad de camino hacia el resto del mundo, así que

Howto del tcsh

1999-10-02 Thread Mauricio E Ruiz Font
Alguien me podria informar donde puedo encontrar un howto de tcsh, asi como el de bash. -- Mauricio Enrique Ruiz Font UG FAMAT Computacion

RE: Cron root@debian run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

1999-10-02 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 1 de octubre de 1999 23:27 Para: Debian Users Spanish Asunto: Re: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Hola a todos. Duda existencial. Antes de nada,

RE: Error al compilar kernel 2.0.37

1999-10-02 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Sergio Blanco Cuaresma [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 1 de octubre de 1999 17:00 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: Error al compilar kernel 2.0.37 Hola a todos, He intentado compilar el kernel 2.0.37 pero me da el

Re: me fallan las cuentas

1999-10-02 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Juan Ignacio Llona wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Antonio Castro wrote: No creo que sea problema del lastlog. Al fin y alcabo du proporciona una información correcta y otra erronea dependiendo de las opciones. Lo más lógico es que sea un bug del du. Por ejemplo que no

Re: Imprimir

1999-10-02 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On vie, oct 01, 1999 at 07:17:23 -0300, Enzo A. Dari wrote: Yo suelo usar el último, además de convertir a postscript te permite poner más de una página virtual en una página física. Lo podés usar para convertir un archivo en otro, o como pipe para mandar derecho a la impresora, por ejemplo:

Re: Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Doble ps. M'as exactamente, 1.0.50 Jesus. Roberto Suarez Soto writes: On Sep/28/1999, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: Con respecto a GNOME en potato, todo se deber'ia estabilizar en unos d'ias, justo seg'uns ale la nueva versi'on estable de GNOME

Re: Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
Cierto. Sorry. Jesus. Roberto Suarez Soto writes: On Sep/28/1999, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: Con respecto a GNOME en potato, todo se deber'ia estabilizar en unos d'ias, justo seg'uns ale la nueva versi'on estable de GNOME (1.40, si no estoy

Re: No funciona APT con el nuevo kernel?

1999-10-02 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
La violaci'on de segmento podr'ia ser debida a los locales. A mi no me pasa, pero es que no lso tengo puestos ;-) Comprueba si lso tienes puestos a algo distinto del defecto, y c'ambialos para probar, si fuera as'i. Naturalmente, esto no deber'ia pasar, pero tengo leido por

RE: Cambiar gcc por egcc (slink)

1999-10-02 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Xose Manoel Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: lunes 27 de septiembre de 1999 14:41 Asunto: Cambiar gcc por egcc (slink) Este es un pequeño problema, que seguramente se solucione con un

RE: Linux colgado como un jamón

1999-10-02 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: martes 28 de septiembre de 1999 1:34 Asunto: Re: Linux colgado como un jamón [...] ¿Dónde está la opción para el Fram Buffer? Tengo el kernel 2.2.10,

RE: Instalación de Netscape-Mozilla.

1999-10-02 Thread Ricardo Villalba
-Mensaje original- De: Emilio Hernández Martín [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: miércoles 29 de septiembre de 1999 5:48 Asunto: Instalación de Netscape-Mozilla. Hola, saludos a todos. Estoy intentando instalar el Netscape una vez que ya

Re: ipchains

1999-10-02 Thread RESET
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hue-Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hue-Bond:: El miércoles 29 de septiembre de 1999 a la(s) 11:55:23 Hue-Bond:: +0200, RESET contaba: :: :: Si la dirección de destino es correcta (y tienes una RSDI) :: debería estar funcionando. Eso

Re: Lista de Correos solo para mujeres

1999-10-02 Thread RESET
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ricard P.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Ricard:: No tengo nada en contra de las mujeres con inquietudes ni Ricard:: de las empresas argentinas, pero esta lista no podria ser Ricard:: moderada? [borrada basura sobrante... RFC 1855 `Netiquette

Re: Justera timingparametrar för 2.2-framebuffert

1999-10-02 Thread Per Lundberg
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote: Fungerar bra för mig hemma med samma X-version. Fast med ett annat grafikkort iofs (RIVA TNT2). Med det kortet kör du knappast Mach64-fb :-) Jasså, har du inte VESA2/3-stöd?

Re: anacron read out

1999-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Oct-99 eric k. wolven wrote: Ray: You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get dselect say the newest version is installed. (textutils-2.01). Generally system is ok but the most recent update of gpm, message error says id not found. Whatever is missing/not

Re: Sound: no sndstat device, yet there it is

1999-10-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command cat /dev/sndstat and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I get cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device. Yet when I do an ls -l

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Taupter wrote: John Hasler wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming

Re: Sound: no sndstat device, yet there it is: More info

1999-10-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command cat /dev/sndstat and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I get cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device. Yet when

Re: Permissions for non-root user to use ppp

1999-10-02 Thread Robert Waldner
Some (like me) who need send/expect may also have to chown root:dip /usr/bin/expect which is root:root by default (at least in slink). This way it worked for me. rw Brian Servis wrote: The default setup for Debian is to make everything for ppp use with ownership of root.dip. So you should

Compiling XEmacs-20.4 from source package

1999-10-02 Thread Salman Ahmed
I am using XEmacs-20.4 on a Debian 2.1 box that has been updated to glibc-2.1 (not all the way to potato). Since then, XEmacs occasionally locks up on me and I think its because of the glibc upgrade. I have the Debian source CDs and was wondering if I could rebuild the XEmacs-20.4 debs from all

Re: Sound: no sndstat device, yet there it is: Even More info

1999-10-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command cat /dev/sndstat and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I get cat: /dev/sndstat:

How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the /etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's

How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the /etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's

Re: How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread Joe Emenaker
Sorry about the duplicate... I'm still trying to figure out why Outlook Express does that sometimes

Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread John Gay
First, IBM, HP, Sun etc . . . join in supporting Linux, Then Apple starts releasing portions of Mac OS, and now . . . SUN MICROSYSTEMS, TO PARALLEL SUCCESS OF LINUX, MAKES SOLARIS CODE AVAILABLE Sun plans to open the source code for its Solaris operating system in hopes of replicating the

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:07:18AM +0100, John Gay wrote: First, IBM, HP, Sun etc . . . join in supporting Linux, Then Apple starts releasing portions of Mac OS, and now . . . Sorry, but this is far from fully open source. If you fix bugs, you are required by the license to report the

ssh configfile

1999-10-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm trying to enable X11 forwarding in ssh, by way of the ~/.ssh/options file. As the file didn't previously exist, I created it with the following contents: -- Host * ForwardX11 yes -- [Note: The Host * is just for testing purposes, and will be replaced by the local

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
No offence intended to either you or SUN, but I'd hardly call the SCSL fully open source. Just my opinion, mind... On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:07:18AM +0100, John Gay wrote: First, IBM, HP, Sun etc . . . join in supporting Linux, Then Apple starts releasing portions of Mac OS, and now . . .

Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam

1999-10-02 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:42:54PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Hi, I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this in the log: Oct 1 21:17:08

Re: ppp refusing connections due to pam

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 08:39:20AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: Hello Ben, You are quite correct - as usual. It turns out that my caller simply got her name or password wrong. Ahem! It would happen on the first call when I saw UNIX_pam in the logs. Sorry to bother you over this. No

Re: Upgradeing to 2.2 kernel broke X

1999-10-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Upgradeing to 2.2 kernel broke X Date: Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:37:33AM +0200 In reply to:peter karlsson Quoting peter karlsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer (ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows

Re: wvdial hangs?

1999-10-02 Thread Dave Baker
is wvdial hanging when the cursor gets a blank line after: - - starting pppd @ (date/time) 1999? or am i supposed to do something? shouldn't i get some sort of prompt? wvdial stays in the foreground after connecting. either run it witha on the end if you want to do something else

slashdot like poll application

1999-10-02 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello LIST, i was wondering if theres anyone who knows of a slashdot like poll application that i can use on our website ... and where to get it. thanks, Chad

Re: pgcc compiler for slink?

1999-10-02 Thread ferret
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:21:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [suggestion to build stock egcs/pgcc in /usr/local] Okay, might do that. I recently updated one of my testing machines to Potato, and the patched gcc seems to be working fine.

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread markzimm
Based on some advice in this thread, I decided to try upgrading a few non-critical packages to see how it would go. After getting a few things upgraded without a hitch, I decided to give samba a try. It broke. After downgrading samba (also easy) so it would keep working, I looked for the problem

keymap error when closing X

1999-10-02 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I get the following when closing Xwindows. What does this mean? How do I fix it? System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86

no /dev/dsp

1999-10-02 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I keep getting an error that there is no /dev/dsp whenever I exit from Xwindows. This error is associated with Esound. I also get the error when trying to start ViaVoice. I have a Sound Blaster PNP16. What is dsp? Is there a way I can get the device /dsp on my system. Lance

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread John Gay
True, not quite 'Full Open Source', but as Linus says, think of free speech, not free beer! Just having access to the source code puts programmers years ahead of where Microsoft would like them to be. By Sun's licence, I, and many others, can download and run Solaris on my own system, make as

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:02:46AM +0100, John Gay wrote: download and run Solaris on my own system, make as many modifications as I like, as long as I don't re-distribute the changes. Sun is only trying to protect it's Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Taupter
I don't think the original poster intended to imply that Brazil was uncivilized. Rather, being in the tropical zone, the country gets roughly the same number of hours of daylight all year long and so a summer daylight savings time doesn't make sense. - Kris Kris, I understand your

RE: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-02 Thread B. Szyszka
download and run Solaris on my own system, make as many modifications as I like, as long as I don't re-distribute the changes. Sun is only trying to protect it's Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap and they are only hoping to capitalize on the

Re: pgcc compiler for slink?

1999-10-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 06:41:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:21:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently updated one of my testing machines to Potato, and the patched gcc seems to be working fine.

Install headache - no network

1999-10-02 Thread Jordan Howarth
I am trying to install slink from my DOS partition on an NEC Versa note (inbuilt ethernet device based on the dc21143). When it comes to dselect, I cannot download packages as I install, as my ethernet card is not supported by the drivers in the current drv1440.bin. The alternative is to

make-kpkg problems

1999-10-02 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hello, I have been using make-kpkg for a long time for compiling kernels and making deb packages. Yesterday when I made a deb package, I got a deb package kernel-image-..._1.00.deb instead of kernel-image-2.2.12_1.00.deb I upgraded kernel-package from the unstable tree but it did not help.

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better though, it leaves room for replies. On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: ---stuff snipped here-- Depending on the particular

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My real question is: To upgrade from slink to potato, should I go to a 2.2 kernel under slink first? I know those issues are documented on the Debian site. If so, what kernel version is most likely to prevent

Re: no /dev/dsp

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I keep getting an error that there is no /dev/dsp whenever I exit from Xwindows. This error is associated with Esound. I also get the error when trying to start ViaVoice. I have a Sound Blaster PNP16. Is it

Fw: Boot/Installation problem i386 slink

1999-10-02 Thread Richard Turner
I don't know if this original message was accepted - I don't think I had properly registered. If it is a dupe, I am sorry. - Original Message - From: Richard Turner To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 27 September 1999 20:22 Subject: Boot/Installation problem i386 slink I'm

RE: How do I switch between JDK versions?

1999-10-02 Thread George Bonser
The debian /usr/lib/jdkwhatever/bin/java is really a symlink to a .java_wrapper script. Having a look at that script may clear some things up for you. On 02-Oct-99 Joe Emenaker wrote: Probably a FAQ... but, here goes I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist

weird xmms behavior

1999-10-02 Thread Vaughn J. Lujan
I'm running potato, kernel v2.3.18, gnome, and enlightenment cvs. I'm using xmms for potato. When I start a track in xmms all other programs stop responding, when I stop xmms, everything I tried to do ex. start apps, minimize or maximize windows, happens and everything works properly again. I

Re: Debian homepage and apt: releases/stable

1999-10-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Dave, I didn't see anyone reply to your message. I think Jonnie took it off his site because it got accepted as a package in the proposed-updates section of slink, if I remember correctly. Hopefully this is helpful! On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:07:22PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: The debian

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Taupter wrote: Really, daylight savings could be useful during all the year. Is this a joke? - Kris

RE: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread B. Szyszka
As for the version, i'd go with the latest stable (2.2.12, unless they released 2.2.13 just today). There's even a brand new Debian package so you won't have to compile your own if you don't want. Where would I be able to find that package? -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B

Isn't texi2dvi included with potato ?

1999-10-02 Thread shaul
I am not able to locate texi2dvi in unstable. Am I missing something ?

Re: daylight savings

1999-10-02 Thread shaul
With my potato installation, the East time zone is changing on Oct 10. There is no such info for the other Brazilian time zones. [14:55:13 /tmp]$ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Brazil/* | grep 1999 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Brazil/East Sun Feb 21 01:59:59 1999 UTC = Sat Feb 20 23:59:59 1999 BRST

Help with Xfree and Gnome

1999-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I got (about a week ago) the official Debian distribution from Linux System Labs, and installed it after some adventures in a Packard Bell computer (pentium 60mh, desktop, etc, I know not enough, just to give you an idea). Now I have it finally running, but still trying to learn to move within a

make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
I compiled and installed a kernel with make-kpkg, but now apt-get seems to want to overwrite it with one from the archive. I do not want that to happen, how do I tell apt-get to keep its hands off it? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log

Re: daylight savings

1999-10-02 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Shaul, This was the first correct answer to my message. While others went to discuss if we should or not have daylight savings in Brazil, you was kind enough to answer to me. BTW, somebody provided me with a correct zic file for Oct, 3 daylight savings beginning.

Re: netscape killing my machine

1999-10-02 Thread shaul
Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is consuming too much memory. That one reason why I am considering to try the Mozilla deb (http://pandora.debian.org/~bfulgham) As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the past few days it

Re: ssh configfile

1999-10-02 Thread Norris Preyer
You might want to edit your /etc/ssh/ssh_config file and add the forwarding there (by default it is commented out). My file looks like -- # This is ssh client systemwide configuration file. This file provides # defaults for users, and

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread James Sasitorn
you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the package and prevent accidental upgrading. james [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of peter karlsson Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 7:58 AM To:

Re: Isn't texi2dvi included with potato ?

1999-10-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 14:28:07 +0200, shaul wrote: I am not able to locate texi2dvi in unstable. Am I missing something ? Yes. The contents search in http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages which reveals it's in the texinfo package in unstable. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa,

Re: weird xmms behavior

1999-10-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I'm not seeing anything like that here... running potato with kernel 2.2.12, gnome, and AfterStep (development snapshot). The system is quite responsive, in fact. It sounds to me like it's probably either a kernel or window manager issue (depending upon whether programs really stop responding,

More problems with Linux serial driver

1999-10-02 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! So I've checked the sources of linux serial driver (serial.c and n_tty.c) and stated, that the I_PARMRK mode is the one which allows me to detect the data with FRAME or PARITY errors. BTW why there is no doc with explanation of all these nice tty modes which are defined in termbits.h ? I

Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?

1999-10-02 Thread Bruno Goncalves Russo
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote: Taupter wrote: John Hasler wrote: I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million people, a high

Re: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
Use epochs for your revision= when using make-kpkg: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image (see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz) On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 02:57:39PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: I compiled and installed a kernel with make-kpkg, but now apt-get seems to want to

Truetype fonts

1999-10-02 Thread Robert Rati
Any know the name of some packages that are true-type font servers? I've been looking for them, but I haven't had any luck. TIA. Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999-00 | Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LI NN N U U X X

Re: Truetype fonts

1999-10-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
xfstt is the one I use on my box --- Mark Wagnon Chula Vista, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: As for the version, i'd go with the latest stable (2.2.12, unless they released 2.2.13 just today). There's even a brand new Debian package so you won't have to compile your own if you don't want. Where would I be

Re: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote: I compiled and installed a kernel with make-kpkg, but now apt-get seems to want to overwrite it with one from the archive. I do not want that to happen, how do I tell apt-get to keep its hands off it? I always give

cpu option of gcc g++

1999-10-02 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I have to compile and cross-compile several sources on a PII machine, for both its own and a 486. I'd like to know how to specify that to 'make'. I had a look at both 'man gcc' 'man g++', but these are huge, and I'm not a though programmer :) Also, I remarked that some software,

[OT] Win Blue Screen a la Airport terminal

1999-10-02 Thread Kent West
Sorry about off-topic post, but thought I'd share it. Most of you have seen the picture of the blue-screen airport terminal that shows Departures/Arrivals. I've got the locat educational channel on (The Learning Channel) and there's a program on about a big tornado in Oklahoma last year (sorry I

RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the package and prevent accidental upgrading. Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kernel. Plus that I have to go into dselect, which I don't

Re: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
Use epochs for your revision= when using make-kpkg: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image (see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz) Hmm, sounds good. Any way to get it to do that without me having to remember to add that each time? I couldn't find any parameter I could put in the

X-Server for AsusV3800 TNT2 Card

1999-10-02 Thread Attila Csosz
Hi, Where could I find X-Server for my AsusV3800 Riva TNT2 Card? What is its code name? ( XF86_??? ) If binary package dont't exists I can compile from source. I have got the 3.3.5 xserver source. I look around in the source package but I don't know what should I do. ( which part should I

rebuilding the package cache

1999-10-02 Thread Steve Robbins
So let's say you've done something really dumb and nuked /var/lib/* completely and have no backup of /var. Is there some way to recover (apart from reinstalling) so that things like 'dselect/dpkg' are happy? -S [Please CC me on replies, thanks.]

lyx 1.0.4 without xforms

1999-10-02 Thread Paolo Pumilia
I have just dowloaded lyx-1.0.4 I depends od libforms0.89 libs, but they cannot be found on potato dist. Pol = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: GNU Emacs-20.4 debs

1999-10-02 Thread Keith Harbaugh
On Fri, 1999-10-01 at 18:48:03 +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Hi! Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages? This doesn't answer your question directly, but it may help keep you up to date without having to wait for deb's: If you have the a gcc compiler (I use

missing LDD in Linux

1999-10-02 Thread Bruno Van de Casteele
hi, while compiling my kernel (and pine, but that's smth else), i get an error, saying missing ldd or smth like that (should be in usr/bin/ ?) what is ldd? it isnt a package in Debian, i think... is it smth special? B

Re: ssh configfile

1999-10-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
[sound of me smacking self on forehead with 2x4] OK, I'm an idiot... The per-user configuration file should have been ~/.ssh/config, NOT ~/.ssh/options. I can hardly believe that I could have overlooked something that simple. Thanx for your suggestions! On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:20:56AM

Tengo un Problema

1999-10-02 Thread Rob Zombie
Saludos [EMAIL PROTECTED] de Debian. Quisiera que se me resolviera un problema algo serio. Tengo una tarjeta S3 Trio 3D y el programa XF86Setup no me la reconoce. Por lo tanto no puedo disfrutar del maravilloso entorno gráfico que me ofrece Linux y esto me desespera. Por favor, ruego a quien sea

Re: missing LDD in Linux

1999-10-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
/usr/bin/ldd is one of the dynamic-linker utilities, and is provided by the ldso package. It definately ought to be present... I'd suggesr reinstalling ldso. On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 11:18:59PM +0200, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: hi, while compiling my kernel (and pine, but that's smth else),

LILO on second drive?

1999-10-02 Thread EVCom Support
Greetings all, Having read various docs, etc on Lilo, and having never used it before (Always had Linux on it's own primary drive, etc) I would like to use lilo to make a slave drive bootable (kinda tired of using boot floppies). Now, my BIOS supports booting from any drive letter, so even

xemacs: modifying cc-mode formatting rules

1999-10-02 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
I know that I've run across a facility that lets you modify cc-mode's style conventions for autoformatting. However, I blew it off, because I figured I'd never use it, and the default was fine for me. Now I'm in a class where I'm required to conform to very specific style, and I can't use

Re: make-kpkg and apt-get updates

1999-10-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:43:30PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Use epochs for your revision= when using make-kpkg: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel_image (see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz) Hmm, sounds good. Any way to get it to do that without me having to remember to add

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:17:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be nice is this information was collated at one location so that people could build on what's already been done and not have to try everything new every time. That's what open source is about--sharing. What I am

vi: line wrap?

1999-10-02 Thread bwarsing
can anybody tell me to set the line wrap to 80 in vi? i can't find this type of info anywhere. Thanks, bw