Re: Publicación 'profesional'

2000-09-13 Thread Santiago Calvo Ramos
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:12:06PM +0200, Santiago Calvo Ramos wrote: En mis sistema la utilidad psnup no tiene página de manual, no obstante hay dos opciones, -pTamaño -PTamaño, que son la solución de tus quebraderos de cabeza y de los mios. Estas opciones tienen el mismo significado que en

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-13 Thread Antonio Castro
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jaime E. Villate wrote: Alberto Rodríguez wrote: El problema es que no lo quiero hacer de manera interactiva. passwd funciona de manera interactiva, y yo tengo que crear unas 1500 cuentas de correo... Se me ocurre lo siguiente: si ya creaste las 1500 cuentas (o sea

Re: Comportamiento extraño de traceroute

2000-09-13 Thread void
Asi a la que salta podrías comprobar a: a) es posible que alguno de los distintos routers o gateways este configurado para filtrar paquetes udp en puertos altos, puede que incluso tu mismo router , pero ... deberia hacerlo en la salida ... o bien están filtrados parte de los icmps , o los icmps

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-13 Thread void
Perdonadme si ando un poco perdido ya que he seguido sólo de lejos el tema pero , al hilo de todo esto me surge la duda, no se exactamente si sólo buscaís password generados aleatoriamente , o comprobación proactiva de passwords, ... , pero no seria mas sencillo definir una politica de passwords

RE: Expansión en series de Taylor alrededor de x0 (series de MacLaurin)

2000-09-13 Thread Ignacio García Fernández
¿Alguien conoce algún paquete Debian con el que pueda hacer expansión en series de Taylor de funciones sencillitas? Con debian viene el SciLab que hace cálculo simbólico. No se que tal va ni si calcula o no series de Taylor. Trae demos y puedes ver si hay alguna que te haga lo que buscas.

Quotas

2000-09-13 Thread Carlos López
Saludos a todos. Mi pregunta es la siguiente. ¿Existe alguna forma de asignar cuotas de disco a usuarios o grupos sin tener que saber los inodes y los blocks en uso? Lo digo porque el escribir a pelo con edquota como que me lio un montón y nunca consigo asignar el espacio de disco que quiero. Si

Re: Expansión en series de Taylor alrededor de x=0 (series de MacLaurin)

2000-09-13 Thread Marta Pla i Castells
los cuatro primeros términos alrededor de x=0 de sqrt(x^6/36+(1+x/2-x/(1-exp(-x)))^2)*(12/x^2) Yo he calculado a mano que debería dar 1+119*x^2/60-991*x^4/504, pero me gustaria que un programa me lo confirmara. ¡Gracias! -- Bueno, señor mio, no iba usted muy desencaminado. A

MuPad y bibliotecas

2000-09-13 Thread Ignacio García Fernández
A cuento de lo del MuPad que se acaba de comentar, hay dos versiones para linux. -Linux 2.0 con libc 5.4.X -Linux 2.X con glibc 2.X ¿Cuál de las dos sería la apropida para instalar en mi patata? Supongo que la segunda, pero me guastaría que alguien lo confirmara. Gracias.

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-13 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Antonio Castro wrote: Tu script genera claves dentro de /etc/passwd lo cual no se suele usar, porque todo el mundo puede copiarlo y luego procesarlo con fuerza bruta. Lo mejor es usar shadow pero afortunadamente se puede pasar la claves de /etc/passwd a /etc/shadow con: pwconv No genera

Re: Expansión en series de Taylor alrededor de x=0 ( series de MacLaurin)

2000-09-13 Thread José Luis Ayala
Si estás acostumbrado a trabajar con Matlab o similares, Scilab es la mejor opción ya que se asemeja casi por completo a Matlab 4.x; es decir, trabaja de forma vectorial, no simbólica. Si prefieres los paquetes matemáticos simbólicos, estilo Mathematica o Maple, deberías usar la

RE: Expansión en series de Taylor alrededor de x0 ( series de MacLaurin)

2000-09-13 Thread Ignacio García Fernández
Si prefieres los paquetes matemáticos simbólicos, estilo Mathematica o Maple, deberías usar la versión Linux del primero o MuPad. Matlab también hace cálculo simbólico con una de sus Toolboxes. Lo he probado y va también muy bien. __ Ignacio García Fernández [EMAIL

Re: MuPad y bibliotecas

2000-09-13 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, sep 13, 2000 at 03:37:07 +0200, Ignacio García Fernández wrote: -Linux 2.0 con libc 5.4.X -Linux 2.X con glibc 2.X glibc -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey

Re: Expansión en series de Taylor alrededor de x0 ( series de MacLaurin)

2000-09-13 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mié, sep 13, 2000 at 04:33:32 +0200, Ignacio García Fernández wrote: Matlab también hace cálculo simbólico con una de sus Toolboxes. Lo he probado y va también muy bien. Yu he usado intensívamente MatLab, Mathematica y Derive y de después las opciones que da el software libre: Octave y

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-13 Thread Antonio Castro
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jaime E. Villate wrote: Antonio Castro wrote: Tu script genera claves dentro de /etc/passwd lo cual no se suele usar, porque todo el mundo puede copiarlo y luego procesarlo con fuerza bruta. Lo mejor es usar shadow pero afortunadamente se puede pasar la claves de

Re: todavia estan los problemas en las imagenes de potato?

2000-09-13 Thread Jaime E. Villate
daniel wrote: gracias por contestar, y sip, la cadena es esa misma, el resultado al ejecutar el comando es: c4a8591b64efe58e0acd39f7eac30ac6 binary-i386-2.iso por lo que la imagen estaria bien, no? de donde puedo bajar las imagenes correctas de potato? Que extraño; yo me bajé la misma

Re: generador de passwords

2000-09-13 Thread danielp
* [2913 08:04] Antonio Castro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) decia: On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jaime E. Villate wrote: Alberto Rodr?guez wrote: El problema es que no lo quiero hacer de manera interactiva. passwd funciona de manera interactiva, y yo tengo que crear unas 1500 cuentas de correo

No puedo entar como usuario.

2000-09-13 Thread root
Hola listeros. Sigo teniendo problemas para iniciar mi máquina. El kernel parece cargar bien, se inicia INIT, y éste entra en el runlevel 2 (llamado desde '/etc/init.d/rc start'). Parecen ejecutarse todos los scripts de '/etc/rc2.d', y parece terminarse el script '/etc/init.d/rc' (he puesto echo

cfinger Era:[Re: Lista de usuarios]

2000-09-13 Thread Unikoke
Coordenadas temporales: Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:58:26AM +0200 Sujeto: Fernando Comunicaba sobre: Re: Lista de usuarios Por cierto por que existe un cfinger, el GNU finger ? Saludos. apt-cache search cfinger cfingerd - Configurable and secure finger daemon Parece ser un finger que se puede

códigos de error de wget

2000-09-13 Thread David Muriel
Buenas... Estoy haciendo un pequeño script para automatizar el bajar ficheros cuando me conecto a internet mediante el wget. Mi problema está en que quiero que para cada fichero que se intente bajar lo ponga en una lista si lo baja bien, y en otra si da algún error. Me he mirado la página de

Kernel no debian

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel
Ate agora nao entendi como funciona a compilacao de kernel no debian, eu estou acostumado ao padrao (make config, etc...) Outra coisa, os kerneis 2.2 sao compativeis com o debian 2.1 r4 ??? Sem mais para o momento, Daniel

Re: SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 driver

2000-09-13 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Mirek Kwasniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:27:03PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Dear .deb, I've installed potato, but I can't seem to find the right driver for a SMC9332/9334 EtherPower 10/100 card. Any idea? I've tried epic100 and the smc* drivers

Re: VPN

2000-09-13 Thread George Bonser
Might try CIPE On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Will Trillich wrote: i'm doing debian VPN research for a red-hat fan. hopefully we'll get another 'sale' under our belts shortly... short version: if i've got ipmasq (which i do) working, can i conjure up a few more settings for VPN? if so, how?

Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5)

2000-09-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:56:09PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: A friend of mine bought a new usr modem that is set to com5, unfortunetly the pc has no jumpers on the outsideso how can I get him a com5 in /dev? Is it PCI? or is it on an expansion board? or? If it's PCI, better check:

Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5)

2000-09-13 Thread William Jensen
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Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-13 Thread Ariel Manzur
At 23:42 04/09/2000 -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: Here is the situation, I'm a Debian user. The company I work for, so far, will only allow Red Hat as it's Linux OS on it's servers. I need some good reasons to justify using

Offtopic: M$ FUD meets Linux ICE at LinuxToday...

2000-09-13 Thread Eric G . Miller
Tired of the Linux ICE saying Windows will never be a competitor on the desktop? Read more at http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-09-12-001-21-OP-MS-SM -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found

xdm/Xserver/olwm problems

2000-09-13 Thread r.l.
hello I have a couple of seemingly intractable difficulties getting aspects of the X windows system to work. Firsty, I am using OLWM (yes I know its old and primitive but I like it) and it works fine so far except for the 'save workspace' menu item. Error is that it fails due to a lack of an

fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread Pang Li
Dear sir or madame: we are a fishing goods trading company located in China mainland, our products include Banksticks, Rodrests, Boxes, Baskets, Seats, Floats Float accessories,etc,if your want to import these products from China.please feel free to contact us. Tel:0086-757-6239656

Re: strange package dependencies

2000-09-13 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Christoph Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why? Sure, xtux depends on `libesd0 (= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the point in replacing `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `libesd0

Re: Old packages between upgrades

2000-09-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200 or thereabouts, Julio Merino wrote: Hi all, I have a question about upgrading the system. When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is really old, but it's

Re: Stupid... Stupid...

2000-09-13 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:16:28AM -0400 or thereabouts, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I'm so ashamed... I stress to my wife and kids backup, backup, backup. And what do I do?? I screwed my lilo.conf file up royally w/o making a backup :( Now I CAN boot Debian 2.1 but can NOT boot W98 with my

Does Debian/Apache Web server support Signed Applet's Cab files

2000-09-13 Thread Vijay Peter Simon
Hello, I 'am running Apache Webserver on debian/Linux 2.2 and on the webserver I've placed a signed Applet Cab file for Internet Explorer Clients. But looks like the same cab file which executes properly on Internet Explorer through Microsoft's IIS does not work on the debian server

Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5)

2000-09-13 Thread Ed Cogburn
- Original Message - From: Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:29 AM Subject: Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5) On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:56:09PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: A friend of mine bought a new

Re: digest version broken?

2000-09-13 Thread Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster
Seth Cohn wrote: Looks like digests are broken, could someone fix please? Digests are broken at the moment. I sent out a bunch of digests this morning, catching up with the email from the last couple of days. I hope it will be business as usual quite soon. Cheers, Remco. --

Problem with Firewall and FTP

2000-09-13 Thread Sebastian Heckrodt
Hi all, I've a (for me) confusing problem with my Firewall and FTP. I can connect to the server, list files, download files and so on, it all works fine, but when I try to access the server with dselect for updating my system or installing new files, I only get tomeouts :( When I shut down the

Re: OffTopic: how do I add /dev/ttyS4 (com5)

2000-09-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:53:00 -0600 Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6]) by fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA77710

Re: ssh, gethostbyname, and hosts.deny, oh my!

2000-09-13 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:39:25PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 12-Sep-2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [...] Sometimes ssh works. Sometimes it doesn't: ... looks like a dns problem (?) Agreed. Though I'm not quite sure what's going on. Sep 12 01:10:32

Quake II server with debian

2000-09-13 Thread Paul McHale
Hi, I am getting speakeasy DSL soon (I Hope). They offer $10/mo rebate if you send them server logs indicating your server has speakeasy in the name. My plan is to use a dual PII-333 system as my mail/ftp/web server and run QII on it in dedicated server mode. I have seen QII/Linux in

Re: advanced power management and linux?

2000-09-13 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:50:08PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: Squeaky brakes make alot of noise, but nobody'd confuse that with 'power' and 'goodness'. In fact, the opposite conclusion might be drawn. It's always wrong to make sweeping generalizations, even about Micro$oft! *Sometimes*

RE: Exim rewrite question

2000-09-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
Thanks Oswald all the others - I'm going to try all of those suggestions. If I manage to implement something working I' ll report back! Cheers! Christian -Original Message- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 4:04 AM To: Gregory

Re: Problem with Firewall and FTP

2000-09-13 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:40:06AM +0200, Sebastian Heckrodt wrote: I'm green to ipchains and the protocols, but I think the following lines (which I have in my Firewall config.) should allow active and passive ftp: 1) -A output -s [$myIP] 1024: --dport 21 -p tcp -i eth0 -j ACCEPT 2) -A input

Re: Problem with Firewall and FTP

2000-09-13 Thread Bernhard Josef Rieder
Dear Sebastian, It would be nice to check your mailbox from time to time Bernhard -- 8 -- Dear Sir/Madam Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box storage limit has exceeded. The summary of your

Taylor series expansion about x=0 (MacLaurin series)

2000-09-13 Thread Conrado Badenas
Does anyone know of a Debian package with which I could make Taylor series expansion of simple functions? I've tested Derive 3.0 (february 1995) for MSDOS, but it finishes the whole memory when trying to obtain the first four terms about x=0 of sqrt(x^6/36+(1+x/2-x/(1-exp(-x)))^2)*(12/x^2) I

Re: gnutella search

2000-09-13 Thread mike
Well i think the search results are only for the current connected hosts. So to search again just add more hosts or replace the old ones and query again. Just keep connecting new hosts from the host catcher and re-searching.Within a few minutes my stats showed 1347 hosts. On Tue, 12 Sep

OT: One .emacs file for both Emacses

2000-09-13 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Is it possible to have one .emacs file which can handle both GNU Emacs and XEmacs? If so, what elisp construct do I have to use in order to distinguish between both Emacs flavors? Any help is greatly appreciated! Greetings, Holger

Maybe OT: Debain and Real Time Kernel

2000-09-13 Thread Sven Garbade
Dear List! Maybe this is OT. I wanted to install a KU Real Time (KURT, http://www.ittc.ukans.edu/kurt/) kernel on a SuSE 6.4 system without succes. My question is if anyone of you have got some experiences with installing a realtime kernel on a debian system, maybe a KURT system, which is

Firewall Box

2000-09-13 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the router side, one for the switch, and one for a backup cable connection. We have a block

Re: OT: One .emacs file for both Emacses

2000-09-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HR Is it possible to have one .emacs file which can handle both GNU HR Emacs and XEmacs? If so, what elisp construct do I have to use in HR order to distinguish between both Emacs flavors? One possibility is to look at the emacs-version variable: (defvar

phpMyAdmin problems...

2000-09-13 Thread Giovanni dos Reis Nunes
Hi, I'm trying to configure phpMyAdmin (a MySQL front end in PHP3). My PHP3's Apache support is correctly enabled but I can't check if MySQL PHP Support is OK. I'm not a PHP programmer only know to do Hello World :) The error is: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function

Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Ziad Afra
Hi all, I am a bit stuck here with my new install of debian 2.2. The problem is I have installed Windows nt on to an ntfs drive and later on I wanted to install debian, thing is as you all know I need to have had a small fat16 partion in order to run lilo from. I didnt have tha7t at the time

complex shell scripts

2000-09-13 Thread Mark Simos
I am looking to understand the everyday admin of unix and how people put together the common commands into compound/complex shell scripts. does anybody know of a good place for samples (this is how you import users form a text file or some such thing) the example might be way off, I really just

Re: Firewall Box

2000-09-13 Thread Ray Percival
Try looking at the section on firewalling at the link pretty good info on testing and rule design. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/index.html -- Original Message -- From: Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:07:22 -0500

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Quigley
lilo.conf is where you describe what bootable partitions are available. To enter information about your cdrom, etc., you need to edit the file /etc/fstab. See man fstab and man MAKEDEV for more information. Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, September 13, 2000 14:28 +0100 Ziad Afra [EMAIL

RE: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Holland
FYI, there is a little program called Bootpart, that will allow you to add linux to the nt boot manager menu. having done that, you would no longer need the floppy. floppies are slow, and die often! you will, of course, need lilo installed, but pointing to the root partition of your linux

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread romeu
thing is as you all know I need to have had a small fat16 partion in order to No, you don't need a small fat partition. There is a How-to called NT-Bootloading How-To somewhere in the net that show you how to Boot-load with NT but the lilo.conf file doesnt exist now does it! NT overwrote

Printing Problem on a Network

2000-09-13 Thread complaw
I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe, all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but to no avail. Incidentally, the Linux box has not been rebooted.

Re: fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread USM Bish
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:39:23PM +0800, Pang Li wrote: Dear sir or madame: we are a fishing goods trading company located in China mainland, our products include Banksticks, Rodrests, Boxes, Baskets, Seats, Floats Float accessories,etc,if your want to import these products from

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
question 1: install a scsi-enabled kernel package. configure it add the new drives to /etc/fstab question 2: to get this working, you need a primary partition, where you can install lilo on. 1) boot linux from the floppy. 2) install lilo to your root partition (hda6 - this is a problem. it

remote backspace/delete problems

2000-09-13 Thread loren jan wilson II
i have debian 2.2 installed to my computer (a very recent install via ftp). when i make a remote connection via ssh or telnet to a solaris box or a redhat box, my backspace/delete keys don't work in nvi/vim. this is ONLY in X...everything works fine at the console. attempting to backspace this

Re: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-13 Thread John L . Fjellstad
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Re: Problem with Firewall and FTP

2000-09-13 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:40:06AM +0200, Sebastian Heckrodt wrote: Thiss seems to tell me, that the problem is the firewall, but why does it work with manual ftp, but doesent with dselect? Add the following to your apt.conf file: Acquire { ftp {

PPPD

2000-09-13 Thread Alberto Pereira
I suceffull have a remote access to my linux box, the server have a internet conection with ip 200.200.200.200 and I set my mgetty to set local ip 10.0.0.1 e remote 10.0.0.2. In the server I ping 10.0.0.1 ( this ip local with pppd get) but don't ping 10.0.0.2 In the client I ping 10.0.0.2 ( this

PPD ( client can't ping the server)

2000-09-13 Thread Alberto Pereira
I suceffull have a remote access to my linux box, the server have a internet conection with ip 200.200.200.200 and I set my mgetty to set local ip 10.0.0.1 e remote 10.0.0.2. In the server I ping 10.0.0.1 ( this ip local with pppd get) but don't ping 10.0.0.2 In the client I ping 10.0.0.2 ( this

Package configuration at installtime (was Re: Debian VS. Red Hat)

2000-09-13 Thread Fraser Campbell
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: Debian allows for configuration during package installation, so you don't have to poke around so much to figure outwhat needs tweeking to make your nifty ne app working. This is a great feature and (besides automated upgrades) one of the main reasons I started using

Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 invalid

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

2000-09-13 Thread USM Bish
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:40:18PM +0200, Stephan Kulka wrote: 2. LINUX: a) Do a dmesg. Check which device your printer is polled IF polled THEN No kernel problems Move to b) ELSE lp support in kernel (!)

Re: Printing Problem on a Network

2000-09-13 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe, all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but

Re: Firewall Box

2000-09-13 Thread Michael Smith
Check out the debian firewall list. It will tell all. Matt Kopishke wrote: Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the router

Permissions error

2000-09-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome, none of my native Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD Player) it doesn't run. so I opened an xterm and tried to run it from the shell and I got this error Gnome-ERROR **: Could not set mode 0700 on

Re: Taylor series expansion about x=0 (MacLaurin series)

2000-09-13 Thread John May
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:18:47PM +0200, wrote: Does anyone know of a Debian package with which I could make Taylor series expansion of simple functions? I don't know of a free package which works as well as comercial Computer Algebra packages, namely Maple or Mathematica. Both are available

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-13 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Hmm, I actually have never upgraded using apt, but manually from 2.1 to 2.2. No problems (almost). But I can tell you debian is very well-known for that a install is only needed one time in a computer life and then you can always upgrade without problems. At least since apt came out. Kind

Re: fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Quigley
HI USM Bish! Have you verified that the ad wasn't paid for? Debian allow it for a fee. I suppose it wasn't paid for, but before implementing policies such as yours, we should at least check with the list owners first. It may also be a good idea to put this url in your message:

Re: OT: One .emacs file for both Emacses

2000-09-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here is a snippet from my startup files, and also the emacs-vers.el file. manoj === ~/.emacs === (load-file ~/lib/emacs/functions/emacs-vers.el) (if (string-match xemacs (emacs-version)) (load-file ~/.xemacs)

Re: complex shell scripts

2000-09-13 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:06:48AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: I am looking to understand the everyday admin of unix and how people put together the common commands into compound/complex shell scripts. does anybody know of a good place for samples (this is how you import users form a text file

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

2000-09-13 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
I found a good one, www.worldshare.net http://www.worldshare.net , they want $15/year charity donation but I think most of us can afford that (and they will take less should you not be able to). I've been using them for a couple of months now on linux/windoze9x/2K and I've been very happy with

pump replacing dhcpcd?

2000-09-13 Thread Bryan K. Walton
When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump package, one of the things that the page tells me is: This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd package. I take this to mean that the dhcpcd client is no longer be worked on? The reason I ask is

Re: cable modem: does my hostname matter?

2000-09-13 Thread Bob G
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My cable provider tells me my hostname is cr275960-a. So I've put cr275960-a in /etc/hostname and everything works. My /etc/hosts looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 24.115.135.172cr275960-a cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com Anyway,

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks. If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the problem, I could say yo to buy a new

Re: Permissions error

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:34:42AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome, none of my native Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD Player) it doesn't run. so I opened an xterm and tried to run it from the

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' - system doesn't boot

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
I'm getting the same errors (not identically) to you, but with the difference that my system doesn't hungs. I think this has happened since when I upgraded gnumach and hurd packages (but installing everything from scratch)... I still have to recompile gnumach for myself and try it. Hurd also gives

Re: Permissions error

2000-09-13 Thread Wayne Sitton
That fixed it...thanks! Julio Merino wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:34:42AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote: I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome, none of my native Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD Player) it doesn't run.

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread romeu
question 2: Here's NT-Bootloading How-To I was talking about. You won't need a fat partition: NT-Bootloading-Linux-HOWTO You have Windows NT installed on one partition using NTFS, one partition with DOS as C:\, and Linux on a third. You wish to use NT's bootloader to load all three OSes.

RE: fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Normally I'd agree - I hate spam as much as anyone - but this was so bizarre and out of context I thought it was hilarious. I thought the att must have been a virus but it was a nice picture of chinese fishing hooks. Tim (still viciously anti-spam) On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at

Boot Problem - Pls Help

2000-09-13 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I'm a novice to Linux and Unix in general. I've installed Debian on my system - a 133MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM and 2 Hard Disks with the Linux Swap partition being 8 MB and the core Linux Partition being 484MB.I dont have an idea as to the Debian version however at boot up the Linux

Package configuration at installtime (was Re: Debian VS. Red Hat)

2000-09-13 Thread Fraser Campbell
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: Debian allows for configuration during package installation, so you don't have to poke around so much to figure outwhat needs tweeking to make your nifty ne app working. This is a great feature and (besides automated upgrades) one of the main reasons I started using

[OT] RE: fishing hooks

2000-09-13 Thread Krzys Majewski
Hahaha. I missed the att, can you re-post it? (minus the company info, for obvious political reasons) -chris On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote: Normally I'd agree - I hate spam as much as anyone - but this was so bizarre and out of context I thought it was hilarious. I thought

Re: (More on) Printing Problem on a Network

2000-09-13 Thread complaw
Okay, I have some more diagnostic information about this problem. I've run lpr to try a print job and get the following error message: lpr; connect: Connection refused jobs queried, but cannot start daemon ps aux shows lpd running (two processes). lpd restart and lpd stop/start don't make any

Re: DNS -- caching server inside firewall?

2000-09-13 Thread kmself
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:51:32PM -0400, Jason Lunz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 3:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I would like to configure my home OpenBSD firewall to reference my workstation for DNS queries. The workstation is a Debian GNU/Linux box,

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux? INFO

2000-09-13 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Not sure how my post made it onto debian-devel, but cross-posting anyway. Here's the important stuff from the thing worldshare.net sent me. Apparently the site now says they don't do Linux, but I use it all the time, it's just a normal ppp connection. Tim Anderson -Original

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' - system doesn't boot

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
Ooops. I mistaked of list posting this message. Sorry. On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: I'm getting the same errors (not identically) to you, but with the difference that my system doesn't hungs. I think this has happened since when I upgraded gnumach

ddt-server... Should I?

2000-09-13 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Greetings, I don't know about anyone else, but I have come to rely on dyndns.org. Since they were hit with a lighting storm recently, and there seems to be no hope of getting them back until Monday, I went exploring my options. I came across the ddt-server/client packages! The

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
Julio Merino wrote: Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks. If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the problem,

fsplit

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff Woodford
Hello, Would any of you know which Debian package would have the fsplit (Fortran split) utility? I am trying to compile some Fortran programs and the compliation requires fsplit. Thanks, -Jeff Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: free Interrnet provider for Linux?

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff Green
Yes loads but without you specifing some sort of geographical location how would I know which one to recommend? Jeff Dan Pomohaci wrote: Hi, Are any free Internet providers for Linux? Thanks, Dan Pomohaci _ Do You Yahoo!? Get

Re: Boot Problem - Pls Help

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
On Wed, Jan 03, 1996 at 01:17:56AM +0530, Jeetu Golani wrote: Hi, I'm a novice to Linux and Unix in general. I've installed Debian on my system - a 133MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM and 2 Hard Disks with the Linux Swap partition being 8 MB and the core Linux Partition being 484MB.I dont have an

Congratulations

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all, I've finished downloading the 2.2 base system and I'm really happy about the installation method! Congratulations to all the developers. I liked how it let me to setup the ppp connection from it, and how it is automated to setup apt! Just to say this ;-) Bye! -- Do you really think

RE: pump replacing dhcpcd?

2000-09-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Sep-2000 Bryan K. Walton wrote: When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump package, one of the things that the page tells me is: This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd package. I take this to mean that the dhcpcd client is no

X, GNOME, and Debian

2000-09-13 Thread Jeffry Smith
I installed Debian 2.2 on my home system (a dual PPro with 128MB of memory, S3 Trio3D video card w/4MB of memory, IBM POWERDisplay/20 monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 77 Hz, multifrequency], Logitech trackball). X works fine (using the recommended SVGA server, X version 3.3.6). However, when I try to

Re: Taylor series expansion about x=0 (MacLaurin series)

2000-09-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Try scilab, or octave. Both should do it. Scilab is probably easier Conrado Badenas wrote: Does anyone know of a Debian package with which I could make Taylor series expansion of simple functions? I've tested Derive 3.0 (february 1995) for MSDOS, but it finishes the whole memory when trying

proposed-updates

2000-09-13 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Hi, I found the proposed updates to debian 2.2 scattered across three sites: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/ ftp://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/proposed-updates/ ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/potato/updates/ What are the differences, if

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