Hi,
I just got debian linux up, got everything configured (including X),
but I have one problem. I have a microsoft intellimouse which has a
PS/2 connector. When I run xf86config and pick microsoft intellimouse
from the list, my mouse immediately goes to the top left corner when I
run X, but
Is there any program where I can extract files from that MS-DOS
expand/compress format under UNIX?
Isn't unzip from the utils section what you are looking for ?
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Where is the mgetty home page? The site I found in the info file did not
exist. Or do you know the mgetty mailing list address?
The following is copied from the info file:
Also, I have created a mgetty mailing list, for discussion of problems and
suggestions. You can subscribe by sending
shaul writes:
Is there any program where I can extract files from that MS-DOS
expand/compress format under UNIX?
Isn't unzip from the utils section what you are looking for ?
No. AFAIK the expand/compress progs store data in a zip-like for
(called MS_ZIP in the M$'s site). This must be a
I've seen the same problem. I assume it is a problem with dselect because if
you mount the nfs filesystem by hand, choose mounted as the access method,
and point to the mount point, dselect works OK. It appears that dselect does
not try to mount the filesystem because of what it perceives as an
Helmut Leinfellner writes:
Did you create the DOS partitions in Linux or in DOS? If you did
it from Linux, you should delete the partition and recreate it using
DOS's fdisk. In general, partitions should be created using tools
from the OS that will use them.
I tried, but DOS fdisk
On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 07:12:51AM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
I've had to install the bo smail, and leave it htere the last few months.
About the time the spam provisions went in, the new smails don't seem to talk
to the outside world; everything bounces both ways. I last tried
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
Part of the security behind the .rhosts files are that they will
not work unless they are mode 644. This way only the owner can
add to them. Make sure the ownership is correct too.
I didn't know that, but it turns out that they were 644
(default umask
[snip]
Hmm, I used to have that running with my tseng et4000, but when I went to
my new s3 virge, It died completely... anyway, 80x34 is fine... 80x25 is
just too large... I hate DOS so much... :)
Died how? Don't forget that you absolutely HAVE to load fonts if you use
any S3 based card in
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:08:26 EST, Daniel Martin wrote:
My interpretation is that smail only makes use of the from_field
variable if incoming mail has no From: or Sender: fields already;
further, if there is a From: field already, then smail inserts a
Sender: field using the from_field
My signify signature's, when used with pine sometimes die completely, and
I am completely frustrated :) And to top it all off, I only sometimes get:
[1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature
I suppose I should mention that I use the fifo option...
Has anyone had
I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with
Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a
client.
Sure is! We have 6 APC BackUPS-Pro 650's here (4 workstations and 2
servers) under genpower using the apc-pnp cable supported by the
version
Hi Manoj Srivastava; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
Hi,
Create or download a kernel-headers-2.0.32 package, and
install that. Then you should be able to remove the kernel sources.
manoj
Thanks. I'm doing the d/l right now. But, why is that necessary in the first
place? I
Hi Oleg Krivosheev; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
Hi,
looks like lyx 0.12 binal bo version
live now in hamm tree.
Is it known probelm ?
regards
I'm running a lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb from hamm tree and this one is libc6
dependant:
ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/lyx
libforms.so.0.88
Cool. Thanks!
matty
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, B. Bell wrote:
I got the same problem with xemacs19. I believe it was fixed by
installing libcompfaceg1. It appears there is a dependency here which is
not accounted for in the control file.
xemacs19 and xemacs20 both list a dependency for
Someone else has advised you that a 1.3.1r6 CDs are available at
farily cheap prices. Another approach is to reinstall from the 1.3
CD, then use dselect/dpkg-ftp to upgrade. That would greatly reduce
the amount of data to be downloaded by ftp, which would be beneficial
if on-line time is a
Hi,
Damir == Damir J Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Damir But, why is that necessary in the first place? I thought the
Damir libc6-dev dependancy to kernel-headers (or source) =2.0.32*
Damir would accept 2.0.33 as a replacement...
That happens not to be the case. Please look at the file
There is substantial wide character support in the GNU LIBC 2. That will
be in Debian 2.0 . There is unicode support in the console driver in the
yet-unreleased Linux 2.1 kernel, although it seems to be mapping a
256-glyph code-page to Unicode, it is not making the entire Unicode set
available via
Hello all,
I try to find the popclient package but I cannot find it. It seems that
the popclient package has become obsolete. Can someone tell me which
package has the popclient program.
Thanks in advance!
Anthony
We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have
found
At 15:32 -0500 1998-02-27, Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\) wrote:
I've got ls working - using libc6... but the owner/gid names are
not displayed, only the numeric values.
I verified that Joel's system exhibits the same problems!
We must be missing something in ~ftp/etc that deals with the getgrnam
On Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 02:51:36PM +0800, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
Hello all,
I try to find the popclient package but I cannot find it. It seems that
the popclient package has become obsolete. Can someone tell me which
package has the popclient program.
Your looking for the fetchmail package.
one thing i would suggest in your case is that if you had a big enough
hard drive,you can allway copy the content of you CD to the hard disk (in
DOS) and start from that,i did it,but in my case,it was more in the
interest of speed rater than incompatibility,my HD is a 1.7 gig unit.
Alain
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Is there a good package available to log time while using a dialup
connection? I ask because I have a monthly limit of 10 hours/month with my
ISP, before I start paying through the nose for extra hours.
Thanks,
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Jonas Bofjall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now I can't get networking to actually work. I can't ping anything except
the loopback (127.0.0.1) and my own IP address. Does the latter mean that
my network card works or does the packet never leave the machine?
It could be a configuration error. The
Charles Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a partially installed X. The pointer/mouse device in the
center of the keyboard doesn't work! (it does work when I'm running
Windows 95).
You should:
1. Load the psaux module. Run `modconfig' and select it, or just edit
/etc/modules,
Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I forward pop3 over ssh?
This is described in question C4 in the fetchmail FAQ (at least for
version 4.3.6). Basically you need to install ssh on the client and
sshd on the mail server (mailhost) and put something like this in
your
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, but there is no known way to force the ftpclient to do such
things. The client doesn't accept any commands and any data it gets is,
well, data, so it is not executed, just written to disk.
Well, there are a few exceptions, but they won't
David Stern writes:
I wonder what chance there is that MH is causing this turmoil (I switched
back to MH from nmh, but at the higher hamm level.)
For these sorts of experiments I find it best to just use the 'mail'
command. This eliminates any confusion about who is doing what to which
-Original Message-
From: Bujtar Janos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, 25 February 1998 15:46
Subject: re: wwwcount from hamm
Bujtar Janos wrote:
HI!
Is there anybody who uses wwwcount package fro hamm?
Solved !!
I called the
I've loaded kernel-source-2.0.32-3 and kernel-package 3.28 from
Cheap*Bytes' Debian 1.3.1 (Update) CD and run make-kpkg buildpackage.
This failed, not finding pgp, but AFAICS all the kernel*.deb objects are
now in /usr/src. When I dpkg -i
/usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.32_1.00_i386.deb, however, I
I try to find the popclient package but I cannot find it. It seems that
the popclient package has become obsolete. Can someone tell me which
package has the popclient program.
fetchmail
And the program is called fetchmail, not popclient.
Be aware: both poclient and fetchmail use configuration
Hi,
Hi,
I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be
installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install
RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to
Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've
Hello all,
I have just installed the debian fetchmail package and now I cannot
download mail from my server. Before I install debian fetchmail package, I
use popclient and it works perfectly. Now I change to fetchmail, it gives
me the error:
reading message 1 (2561 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP
I'm running a lyx_0.12.0.final-0.1.deb from hamm tree and this one is libc6
dependant:
Which means the hamm tree is the right place for it...
yes, but mark it with an = in deselect to hold it, so it doesn't get replaced
with the bo version mentioned, which requires obsolete xforms packages
Hi
If you know about good tape streamers, please contact me by e-mail.
Thanks
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I have succesfully built gimp on this new Debian 1.3 setup except that it
will not build the jpeg plugin. The output from ./configure is
checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... (cached) no
configure: warning: *** JPEG plug-in will not be built ***
libjpeg.so.6a.0.0 is
Charles Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have succesfully built gimp on this new Debian 1.3 setup except that it
will not build the jpeg plugin. The output from ./configure is
checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... (cached) no
configure: warning: *** JPEG plug-in will not be
I have installed this package. /usr/doc/fvwmconf does not have much
info on how to run it. Neither does it have a man page. How do I get
started with thjs?
S.
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I've found that auctex cannot find default tex formats on my
recently upgraded hamm system. I do not yet know if this is a
problem with emacs, xemacs, auctex, or the tetex packages. Has
anyone else seen this behavior? To sort this out, I'm installing
my own emacs from scratch at the moment.
Out of the blue, that started showing up in my xconsole on twenty minute
intervals, as in:
Feb 28 04:35:53 mattyt -- MARK --
Feb 28 04:55:53 mattyt -- MARK --
???
TIA for any insight. :)
matty
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On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Matt Thompson wrote:
: Out of the blue, that started showing up in my xconsole on twenty minute
: intervals, as in:
:
: Feb 28 04:35:53 mattyt -- MARK --
: Feb 28 04:55:53 mattyt -- MARK --
:
: ???
:
: TIA for any insight. :)
: matty
Well, this showed up on the list
This is the last time I'll ask this question, I promise.
A while ago, Bruse Perens stated that there would be an effort to
provide some sort of centralized support for Debian. I'm interested in
this since the company I work for likes to have a signed support
contract with our vendors. Anyone
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
This is the last time I'll ask this question, I promise.
A while ago, Bruse Perens stated that there would be an effort to
provide some sort of centralized support for Debian. I'm interested in
this since the company I work for likes to have a
Hi,
I'm trying to install this adapter for hours.
with modconf I've choosen 'tulip'-driver for DEC 21040 (installation succeeded).
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
kein Gateway
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net
A commercial company will have a proposal on my desk this weekend
to coordinate the worldwide network of Debian consultants in a single
support organization.
Thanks
Bruce
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On 28 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: A commercial company will have a proposal on my desk this weekend
: to coordinate the worldwide network of Debian consultants in a single
: support organization.
:
: Thanks
:
: Bruce
Woohoo! This is excellent news! Thanks, Bruce.
Is there a kernel module and/or software that provides Network Address
Translation (something similar to what Cisco's PIX product does)?
I know about Masquerading; I have friends who use it, and I'm building
such a machine for my home network. However, we have some large
locations, and customers
On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Charles Shearer wrote:
checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... (cached) no
configure: warning: *** JPEG plug-in will not be built ***
libjpeg.so.6a.0.0 is installed on the system
try ln -s libjpeg.so.6a.0.0 libjpeg.so
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I'm trying to install this adapter for hours.
with modconf I've choosen 'tulip'-driver for DEC 21040 (installation
succeeded).
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
kein Gateway
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net
Hi,
Could you show us the output of
% ls -als /
% ls -asCF /boot
It is hard to tell from the information given what is going on
;-) (BTW, the out-of-the-box default should be --bzImage).
manoj
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Can RedHat motif (I used alien to convert a .rpm to .deb) co-exist with
lesstif? xscreensaver installation complains that it needs lesstif.
S.
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Sudhakar C13n
Hi,
Please send the output of
% fetchmail -a -k -v
where
-v, --verbose work noisily (diagnostic output)
-a, --all retrieve old and new messages
-k, --keepsave new messages after retrieval
I don't like the SMTP connect to (null) failed; maybe
A.D.Y. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
reading message 1 (2561 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.hkstar.com
I am sure I got the pop.hkstar.com server name right. When I change back
to popclient. It also
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