RE: Problemas en X-Window con tarjeta AGP

1998-08-20 Thread Burning Ice
Que tal meu: Una solucion parcial :( para tu problema es que instales las XFree86 3.3.2, pues estas ofrecen soporte para el puerto AGP, así como para algunas tarjetas Leadtek (aunque me parece que no la Winfast 3D S900). Otra opcion sería un driver comercial (Xi Graphics, Metro-X) que

Re: Inclusión de Debian 2.0 en Linux Actual 9/98

1998-08-20 Thread M.G.
Cuanto estarias dispuesto a pagar por una revista (Linux Actual) con CUATRO Cds? - 1500? - 1995 ? - 2250 ? - otra cifra? En principio, por una revista que es bimensual (y por tanto no hay un desembolso semanal o mensual), que trae cuatro CDs, no creo que 2500 pelas sea exagerado.

Configuracion de smail.

1998-08-20 Thread Ugo E. Albarello
Hola, como andan... Tengo un pequeno problemita con mi correo en Debian 2.0 Mi direccion de correo real es [EMAIL PROTECTED] Puedo hacer que el correo que salga, cambie el nombre de mi servidor (europa.jupiter.net) por el servidor de mi universidad (correo.javeriana.edu.co). Hasta aqui todo va

RE: Uso de fuentes TrueType con xfstt e impresión con Ghost script

1998-08-20 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
puedes explicarme mejor eso del unix/:? Sintaxis, uso, etc. Pues la verdad es que yo tampoco lo tengo muy claro, tengo entendido que es una notacion para inidicar un puerto de escucha de un servicio inet, pero no debe ser eso exactamente, porque en mi /etc/sevices, no figura ningun servicio

RE: Inclusión de Debian 2.0 en Linux Actual 9/98

1998-08-20 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Otra opcion es sacar dos versiones de LA como hacen los ingleses con sus versiones CD y FD Pues tambien es cierto, cuando Solo Programadores saco la Debian 1.3.1, lo hizo com una edicion aparte de la revista. Angel Vicente Perez Dpto. Informática KNIPPING ESPAÑA S.A. Tfno. +34-1-6070-311

Re: Dotfiles

1998-08-20 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 05:34:15PM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas ¿Para qué sirven exactamente las utilidades Dotfile que vienen en la nueva Debian 2.0? Según dice es una herramienta de configuración, con la cual configurar cosas básicas y características exóticas de nuestros programas

jed y mutt

1998-08-20 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Por más que he mirado (a lo mejor lo he tenido delante mismo), no encuentro la manera de hacer que el mutt, cuando hago un reply, me pregunte si quiero hacerlo a todos, o usar el CC. ¿Cómo puedo ponerlo para que me ordene los mensajes por llegada, en vez de fecha? Es que si no, cuando

sigo Mutt

1998-08-20 Thread TooManySecrets
Por cierto, se me olvidaba... ¿Tiene el Mutt alguna utilidad/combinación_teclas, para poder usar una agenda de direcciones, al igual que el Pine? Gracias. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets

Re: Uso de fuentes TrueType con xfstt e impresión con Ghost script

1998-08-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:39:30AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: puedes explicarme mejor eso del unix/:? Sintaxis, uso, etc. Pues la verdad es que yo tampoco lo tengo muy claro, tengo entendido que es una notacion para inidicar un puerto de escucha de un servicio inet, pero no debe

kppp

1998-08-20 Thread Emilio Tejedor
Buenas:Tengo un problema con el kppp (estoy con hamm)Slo lo puedo utilizar como root. Al intentar utilizarlo como otro usuariome dice que tengo que darle permisos suid a kppp. Creo que lo he hecho perosigue sin funcionar. Los permisos que traa por defecto eran: _rwsr_xr_x. Yocrea que al

LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-20 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
Hola! He compilado el sample2e.tex con el LaTex y al imprimirlo me han salido unos margenes supergrandes. Creo que el LaTex sigue formateando la pagina como si fuera formato letter y no A4. Alguno/a sabe que comando/paquete usar para tener unos margenes mas razonablemente europeos? Rafa

Re: LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: He compilado el sample2e.tex con el LaTex y al imprimirlo me han salido unos margenes supergrandes. Creo que el LaTex sigue formateando la pagina como si fuera formato letter y no A4. Alguno/a sabe que comando/paquete usar para tener unos

Nuevo pie

1998-08-20 Thread Santiago Vila
Buenas tardes. Como os habréis dado cuenta, el pie de todos los mensajes (ese que antes decía To UNSUBSCRIBE...) ha cambiado. Detrás de la nueva dirección, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hay actualmente tres personas al menos: Los que se encargan del resto de las listas de Debian (Martin Schulze y Hanno

Re: LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-20 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 08:03:37PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: He compilado el sample2e.tex con el LaTex y al imprimirlo me han salido unos margenes supergrandes. Creo que el LaTex sigue formateando la pagina como si fuera formato letter

(lista fantasma?) Re: Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de funcionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-20 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
Buenas, no voy a contestar tu mensaje Josep, entre otras cosas porque no se la respuesta, sin embargo voy a plantear otra pregunta: Yo no me suscribí a esta lista, no es que me moleste mucho estar suscrito pero vamos, me sorprende un poco. Por otra parte, me llegan muy pocos mensajes y nunca las

Re: jed y mutt

1998-08-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 11:47:29AM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: Por más que he mirado (a lo mejor lo he tenido delante mismo), no encuentro la manera de hacer que el mutt, cuando hago un reply, me pregunte si quiero hacerlo a todos, o usar el CC. yo tengo: bind index R group-reply bind pager

Re: sigo Mutt

1998-08-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 11:50:30AM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: ¿Tiene el Mutt alguna utilidad/combinación_teclas, para poder usar una agenda de direcciones, al igual que el Pine? Dices como esto: alias debian-user-spanish Usuarios de Debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Se hace con

Re: LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:52:32PM +0200, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: pongo \usepackage{a4wide} pero al compilar me da error de que no encuentra el paquete a4.sty. Pues efectivamente no esta... :-( En CTAN (ftp.dante.de, creo que el directorio se llama tex-archive) busca:

Re: Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de funcionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:59:43PM +0200, J.Parera wrote: De todas maneras, hay alguna forma de verificar que no haya sido dañado ningún archivo? Mediante el dpkg o lo que sea. Debo reinstalar algún paquete? Entiendan que volver a reinstalar la Debian 2.0 no es precisamente sencillo.

Re: LaTex con papel A4

1998-08-20 Thread jgb
Es posible que el paquete geometry sirva para lo que quieres tambi'en. Con 'el puedes poner cosas del estilo \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{top=2cm,bottom=1cm} S'olo con el usepackage ya te deja unos m'argenes muy razonables, para mi gusto... Jesus. Marcelo

Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de funcionarme los acentos!!!

1998-08-20 Thread J . Parera
Hola, el /etc/X11/Xmodmap lo tengo vacio, sin ninguna linea (solo alguna de descripción comentada). En /lib/libc5-compat no hay ningún archivo. Puede alguna de las dos anteriores descripciones (no se como llamarlo) ser la causante del problema de los acentos? Anunque el resto de aplicaciones

Uso leafnode como servidor de news y no consigo conectarme a el.

1998-08-20 Thread J . Parera
Hola, no consigo conectarme al server de news (localhost) desde ningún cliente, si lo intento mediante telnet me hecha al cabo de unos dos segundos. Observando el /var/log/news/news.err (y el news.notice) leo lo siguiente: Can't stat /var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo no such file or directory Y asi

SANE y un Mustek Paragon 800 II SP

1998-08-20 Thread J . Parera
Hola, he instalado el paquete SANE (proveniente de la Debian 2.0) y tengo un scanner Mustek Paragon 800 II SP (model: MFC-800S), en la documentación de SANE se comenta un programa que te detecta donde tienes el (/dev/sg*, creo recordar) scanner, el problema es que al correr dicho programa no me

Re: Uso de fuentes TrueType con xfstt e impresión con Ghost script

1998-08-20 Thread J . Parera
Hola, puedes explicarme mejor eso del unix/:? Sintaxis, uso, etc. Pues la verdad es que yo tampoco lo tengo muy claro, tengo entendido que es una notacion para inidicar un puerto de escucha de un servicio inet, pero no debe ser eso exactamente, porque en mi /etc/sevices, no figura

Re: linux laptop resources?

1998-08-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | does anyone know of a mailing list or whathaveyou for linux laptops? | there's some (probably) easy answers I need from folks who have | already solved them, but i don't know where to look. | | (such as, how to get a thinkpad to charge)

RE: Debian Knowledge Base ?

1998-08-20 Thread Hank Fay
Well, wish and it shall be... or about to be. Linux.org has a search engine which will search all the relevant sources of information, it would appear. It's not up yet; and I would hope that the Debian site would be included in their searches. http://www.linux.org/search/index.html Hank

Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-20 Thread Kyle Amon
Try... man deb and read all the SEE ALSO's too. It's pretty simple really. Maybe disect a few odd .deb files first to get the lay of the land. Also, I believe you need to have installed the deb package building tools as well since I don't believe they are part of the base install. - Kyle

Re: Installion: Uncorrectable Error

1998-08-20 Thread shaul
Doesn't it simplly says that the HD has bad sectors ? I am trying to install debian onto a partition on my second hard drive, I get finished installing, and making my boot floppy, by i get a lot of error messages,when I reboot to continue installion. There are so many messages after a while

stable-updates?

1998-08-20 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
What's the plan for files in the stable-updates directory on ftp.debian.org? Will these eventually be moved into the hamm distribution? I understand they're bug fixes for stable but why are they in a separate directoy instead of just replacing whatever's buggy in hamm/stable? Thanks, Gary

Re: fixing my host name!

1998-08-20 Thread Lane
Although the scenerio you paint shouldn't be causing a problem, you could get a permanent hostname through dynip.com (see www.dynip.com). It is a for $ service but pretty cheap last I checked. No I do not use it (yet) but a friend of mine does and he is very happy. I understand they have or are

RE: fixing my host name!

1998-08-20 Thread Hank Fay
dynip does have a linux port, which I will be exploring shortly as I attempt to put up my ipmasq + portforwarding machine. I'm using the service on Win95 right now, and it works as advertised. For the dynip.com domain (you prepend your subdomain) the price is $24.95/year, with a 60-day free

diald and ppp problems

1998-08-20 Thread Will Lowe
I'm using the hamm pppd and diald packages. I've got ppp working fine I can do (as root) pppd call myisp and it connects. I'm trying to set up diald to do it and it's not working. Diald 1) doesn't seem to realize that pppd is successful in making a connection -- it kills pppd with a

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-20 Thread Pete Harlan
E kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the E place loadlin expects it in your setup? I would figure that ... There is no real standard place where loadlin users keep the images; and any hardwired solution is unlikely to satisfy more than a ...

ext2fs:64: et/com_err.h: No such file or directory

1998-08-20 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to build quota with the setquota patch and I'm missing a header file. Does anyone know what package contains et/com_err.h? $ debian/rules build test -f quota.c -a -f debian/rules make CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 -DRPC -DEXT2_DIRECT make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/quota-1.65/quota-1.65'

Is there a directory for calling scripts when a laptop awakens/suspends ?

1998-08-20 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Is there a directory in which scripts in it are called when a laptop goes into wakeup from a suspend mode ? This would be similar to the directory /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, where scripts in it are called when the ppp connection goes up. The reason for asking is that the suspend/awake mode works *very*

diald not recognizing a good ppp connection via pppconfig - help !

1998-08-20 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I have my ppp connection working wonderfully via the package pppconfig. I assumed that I could use the '/usr/bin/pon' command with diald. Here's what happens if I look at diald when it is initiating a connection via looking at /var/log/ppp.log: It starts /usr/bin/pon just fine. This succeeds in

RE: linux laptop resources?

1998-08-20 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
A very good website for linux stuff in general is: http://www.linux.org If you then choose Hardware, you will see an entry for laptops. This points you to just about everthing that is out there for laptops. On 19-Aug-98 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: does anyone know of a mailing list or

Re: debian 1.2 or 1.3

1998-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:13:43AM -0500, Alan Maciel Salcedo. wrote: Anyone have the debian 1.3 base disk set or the 1.2 or anyone knows where to get it? If anyone is feeling really nostalgic I have 1.2 and 1.1.11 on CD-ROM and can burn copies :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL

really-real-root (avoiding alias loop)

1998-08-20 Thread David Stern
Hi, I've got sendmail (8.9.1) running pretty well now (woohoo!) and there are a couple finishing touches I'd like to ask for suggestions with. The first item is email aliases. I want email to root to go to a user, however when I send mail to real-root, I want it to go to the _really_

some email won't go...

1998-08-20 Thread the lone gunman
I asked earlier about having an incorrect hostname, and it affecting emails (i.e. some email doesn't go through). Here's a copy of a returned email (the references to sewage are my hostname; I have my hostname setup as sewage): From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Aug 19 19:43:05 1998 Return-Path:

simple server?

1998-08-20 Thread Alan Su
i'm pretty confused about some weird behavior i'm seeing with the socket routines on a couple hamm machines. i've written a simple dumb server to demonstrate the behavior, and i'll attach it below. basically, it opens a socket and tries to bind it to a specific port. the wierd thing is that bind

Re: Slab [Re: Audio Stuffffff]

1998-08-20 Thread phillip Neumann
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:02:14PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Michele Bini hat gesagt: // Michele Bini wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said: Unfortunatley SLab refuses to work with my old and dusty Mozart soundcard, so I can't say anything regarding its

Re: simple server?

1998-08-20 Thread Alexander Yukhimets
serverSockName.sin_port = port; And you telling me that you actually write networking software? :) Every book would tell you that you should do serverSockName.sin_port = htons(port); (Yes, on Solaris it would work even without htons() since hton?() functions do nothing, host order coinside

[3] Libforms?

1998-08-20 Thread phillip Neumann
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory. What is happening? Why cant `DAP' find

binding bind

1998-08-20 Thread David Stern
Hi, I'm really happy my MTA is working well, now I just want to tweak these last couple details. I'm fairly new to bind, and I notice considreable delays while sending local mail (30s) and remote mail (60s) when I'm not connected to the 'net (my isp's nameservers aren't reachable) which I'd

IP less virtual hosting FTP daemon

1998-08-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Is there such a thing? I have a lot domains that I host, but only one IP. Nether proftpd or wu-ftpd-academ can handle this... And I know of only one web server that do (which I have runned happily for over a year), and that's Roxen... But I need a FTPd that can handle this to... PS. Please Cc to

Re: IP less virtual hosting FTP daemon

1998-08-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 19 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Is there such a thing? I have a lot domains that I host, but only one IP. No. Proftpd can do IP based virtual hosting Nether proftpd or wu-ftpd-academ can handle this... And I know of only one web server that do (which I have runned happily for over

Re: IP less virtual hosting FTP daemon

1998-08-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Is there such a thing? I have a lot domains that I host, but only one IP. No. Proftpd can do IP based virtual hosting I know, ProFTPd is what I'm currently using, but that won't do... --

Printer stops halfway through last page??

1998-08-20 Thread kaynjay
Can anyone tell me why this happens, with both a2ps and magicfilter on my HP DJ500? Never occurred before the 2.0 install (used apsfilter back then ...). Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Difference between a virus windows? Viruses

Re: new user needs help

1998-08-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Darren Benham wrote: On 19-Aug-98 Brian D Kellogg wrote: 1. I can't mount the cdrom. i get this error--can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. It's a standard Atapi cdrom. try mount /dev/hdc /cdrom 2. command make menuconfig doesn't work. i get

Re: [3] Libforms?

1998-08-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
phillip Neumann wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Well i know that inside libforms88 is the lib libforms.so.0.88. I have already install this package. Thats why i found it curious. The file libforms.so.0.88 is in my /usr/X11R6/libdirectory. What is

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Pete == Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pete Isn't there a config file in /etc? I accept the defaults when Pete installing my custom-made kernel packages, but even there it would be Pete easier if I could specify it once in the conf file. This should make Pete the loadlin people

Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, If programming by example appeals to you, please look at my example debian rules files at http://master.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ These are live examples from my packages (though I have been tardy updating them since the freeze). I have tried to classify the packages by type

Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-20 Thread Joey Hess
Wayne Cuddy wrote: I have just installed Debian Hamm so I am new to this distribution. I have been a long time user of RedHat. I was quite pleased with the book 'Maximum RPM' describing the packing building and usage of the RPM system. Is there something similar for dpkg? I downloaded

Qt installation problem

1998-08-20 Thread gbh
I'm trying to install Qt 1.40 on Debian 2.0 and have a few questions. First, the Qt Install guide said to edit the .profile file. However my home directory has only a file named .bash_profile, should this be used instead or should it be copied to .profile? Second, I get the following error

Diamond Supra PCI

1998-08-20 Thread Angelo Keresztes
I recently purchased a Diamond Supra PCI 56k modem and would like to know if it would run under linux. I was told that it did not have an onboard controller. thank you Angelo

Which MTA?

1998-08-20 Thread Ken Chew
Hi, I am looking into setting up email accounts for some of our assosciate companies as well as clients. They will just be using pop3 to retrive their email, no access to the server via telnet, ftp or whatever? I understand that there are a number of MTA, snedmail, smail, qmail etc. Which of

RE: diald and ppp problems

1998-08-20 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I had the exact same problem and posted an email on this today. I'm having diald use the /usr/bin/pon command, which basically issues the same connect command as you have. Here's the reply: I assumed that I could use the '/usr/bin/pon' command with diald. You can't. You must let diald start

RE: diald and ppp problems

1998-08-20 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
So you should change the connect line to: connect chat -v -f /the_base_path_to_myisp/myisp On 19-Aug-98 Will Lowe wrote: I'm using the hamm pppd and diald packages. I've got ppp working fine I can do (as root) pppd call myisp and it connects. I'm trying to set up diald to do it and it's

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread fantomas
- This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites using - such identd will be K:-lined. - - hey that's not very nice. Besides, it appears that changing the ident is - not possible without other account names, etc. So if the users want - multiple bots, they'll need to

Re: IP less virtual hosting FTP daemon

1998-08-20 Thread fantomas
- Is there such a thing? I have a lot domains that I host, but only one IP. - - No. Proftpd can do IP based virtual hosting - - I know, ProFTPd is what I'm currently using, but that won't do... maybe you should set iit up or upgrade. Anyway, FTP protocol does not allow ip-less virtual

Re: fixing my host name!

1998-08-20 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Lane wrote: Although the scenerio you paint shouldn't be causing a problem, you could get a permanent hostname through dynip.com (see www.dynip.com). It is a for $ service but pretty cheap last I checked. No I do not use it (yet) but a friend of mine does and he is very

Re: Samba and win98

1998-08-20 Thread Michael Beattie
On 19 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stumbled across an annoying little problem. A friend and I have a network between our PC's, and when I mount his smbfs shares, I get really screwy file listings. when there is 700 files or

Re: big file problem

1998-08-20 Thread Eugene Sevinian
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Robert Wilderspin wrote: On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply 'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was

Re: Qt installation problem

1998-08-20 Thread Marlon Urias
use the deb package. I did it yesterday and it set's all that annoying stuff for you. It did it all in one command: dpkg -i qtstuff.deb recommending a shortcut,marlon On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Qt 1.40 on Debian 2.0 and

[ace@mullum.com.au: Help with debian]

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Could you guys take care of him? Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. - Linus Torvalds ---BeginMessage--- I'm new to debian and need to know more about it to start with : Can anyone tell me how to get intoXWindows??? Can anyone

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi, E == E L Meijer \(Eric\) E.L. writes: E Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy) E loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created E kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the E place loadlin expects it in your

Re: Which MTA?

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:08:01PM +0800, Ken Chew wrote: Hi, I am looking into setting up email accounts for some of our assosciate companies as well as clients. They will just be using pop3 to retrive their email, no access to the server via telnet, ftp or whatever? I understand that

CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread Dan Hugo
I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. Does anyone have any experience with these drives? Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be getting one of those models (the 3610, I believe, but I don't work in

Re: Runaway X

1998-08-20 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 10:40:18AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Once I can stop the looping, I can start figuring out why the server only comes up in 340x200 mode and why /dev/psaux doesn't work as a Microsoft mouse port. Thanks, Harry Hersh I don't know if this might be your

Memory problem with a Compaq

1998-08-20 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory. Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and how I can fix this ? Peter BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Iannarelli;Peter FN:Peter Iannarelli ORG:GenX Internet Laboratories TITLE:Engineer

Re: Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Please stop asking the listmasters but ask on the user mailing list. That is Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org I've set a Cc so they can answer your mail Regards, Joey Adrian Collings wrote: Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? where do i get it from??? I

Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Adrian Collings
Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? where do i get it from??? I have the 3 debian CD's THANX

meta key in emacs

1998-08-20 Thread Michael Symalla
Dear Debian users, can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT key. Thanks a lot. -- Bye Mitch

Re: Memory problem with a Compaq

1998-08-20 Thread Andrius Sabanas
Peter Iannarelli wrote: Hello: I have a 90 MHz Compaq with 32 megs of memory. Its running 1.3.1. For some reason Linux only sees 16 megs of memory. Does anyone know why and how I can fix this ? Peter Check your BIOS settings. I once had the same problem with HP Vectra 486/66XM - there

Installing (and using) LiLo on 2nd HD?

1998-08-20 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, the BIOS of my PC is able to boot from the second HD which is called D by the BIOS and /dev/hdc by Linux. I'd like to use /dev/hdc2 as my root partition and I want to install LiLo on this second HD, booting from it. I don't want to install LiLo on the first HD. Reading LiLo's

Keyboard dies when using xdm

1998-08-20 Thread Peter Makholm
I have a problem booting directly into X with xdm. I told the instalation script to boot into xdm. By hand I removed runlevel 2 from xdms entry in runlevel.conf. The problem is that when I boot into runlevel 3, the keyboard dies. It works when I first boot into runlevel 2 and then as root writes

Re: Linux and Security

1998-08-20 Thread Lane
Who was it that said, if you turn the sausage grinder backwards - you dont get a pig out.? I always thought this was a very descriptive way to explain the unix encryption routine. -Original Message- From: Kyle Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:

Re: some email won't go...

1998-08-20 Thread Lane
Does it fail using the fully qualified domain name? I am not very familier with other sendmail programs and could not tell if your config is using sendmail... If so, check your sendmail.cf file and make sure you have an alias for the receiving machine as 'sewage' without any domain. -Lane

Off subject :-)

1998-08-20 Thread Hersh, Harry
Why we love Linux: A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position and course to

Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Debianizers, I have a friend who has shown some interst in Linux, so I think I might possibly have another convert from the windoze world. Actually, I think the thing that might have sold her on it is the possibility of burning CDs and still being able to use the computer - unlike the windoze

APT keeps deb in /var/cache/apt/archives

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! Yesterday i swiched to apt method of dselect and am quite impressed with that. Today i noticed that apt didn't delete installed debs dpkg-ftp after installation asked if it should delet installed packages can apt do that also? Is it safe to delete this debs (will it not make apt go

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread tko
Kennedy Mutio writes: I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc and changed them. I might have done this wrong but does

Apache user execution of Perl/CGI scripts

1998-08-20 Thread Paul Miller
I'm having lots of trouble getting the CGI to work for users. The current Debian-Apache release (1.3.1-3) is never happy with my suexec binary.. From the Debian sources, apache appears to be compiled with suexec support.. I even tried compiling it myself w/ Debian's sources, and it still didn't

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On 19 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Yes, no, and not unless you want to. Even without enabling the generic command server and the @SH processing, the rules file for mailagent is a full fledged state machines, and one can apply the rules recursively, and the actio is

Re: old 1.3 directories

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Allen Hoffman wrote: Hi: Where are the old debian 1.3 installation directories now? [13]ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/bo/ [14]ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/bo/ [15]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/ [16]http://debian.midco.net/debian/Archive/

Re: Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:57:41PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi Debianizers, I have a friend who has shown some interst in Linux, so I think I might possibly have another convert from the windoze world. Actually, I think Good! =o) Also a spreadsheet-type thing would also be handy.

apt dists/stable-upgrades

1998-08-20 Thread Ruud Janssen
Short question: Is it possible to point apt to dists/stable-upgrades to update the system with the latest bugfix releases of all installed packages? Thanks, Ruud.

Off-topic:non-scsi tape backup?

1998-08-20 Thread Edward J Young
Sorry if this is off-topic, it's just that this list has proven to be so helpful in many areas. Please suggest any alternate news groups that may be better for this question. I've not been receiving the debian-users digest list lately and am reposting this in part to test if this bounces, and

Is www.debian.org down?

1998-08-20 Thread Edward J Young
I've not been getting the debian-users digest list lately, and I can't hit the www.debian.org site. Is there a problem on my end or debians's. If this is making it to the list, someone please respond and let me know. Thank you, Ed Young

Re: meta key in emacs

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Michael Symalla wrote: Dear Debian users, can anyone help me to let my Alt-key be the metakey in emacs? Now I am using the ESC key, which works fine but is not as comfortable as the ALT key. Install xkeycaps and edit the keyboard layout to your liking. If you have an

Re: Help with debian

1998-08-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Adrian Collings wrote: Can u please to tell me how i can install X??? where do i get it from??? I have the 3 debian CD's THANX You can install X by determining what kind of video card you have and installing the x*, etc. packages on the x11 directory of your CD's.

Re: Is www.debian.org down?

1998-08-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
i I've not been getting the debian-users digest list lately, and I can't hit the www.debian.org site. Is there a problem on my end or debians's. If this is making it to the list, someone please respond and let me know. Yep - it did, and www.debian.org is up, if a tad slow: $ ping

Re: Which MTA?

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:24:00AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Ken Chew wrote: Also would it be possible to create email account without actuall adding user account on the system. Currently what we do is 'adduser' for every user account. Is this necessary?

Re: apt dists/stable-upgrades

1998-08-20 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 03:19:03PM +0200, Ruud Janssen wrote: Short question: Is it possible to point apt to dists/stable-upgrades to update the system with the latest bugfix releases of all installed packages? sure put deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists stable-updates/ i use

Re: Need some software advice.

1998-08-20 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:57:41PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Does anyone know of a good IDE, something that will have a shallow learning curve from M$ Visual C++, Preferably X based (please don't say 'emacs', I don't want to scare her off too soon!)? Try to look at xwpe. It's IDE, you can

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 09:10:20AM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - This mail will be forwarded to all IRC operator lists and all sites using - such identd will be K:-lined. - - hey that's not very nice. Besides, it appears that changing the ident is - not possible without

Re: CD-RW experiences?

1998-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:04:41AM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote: I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set. Does anyone have any experience with these drives? Since I happen to work at Philips, I would most likely be getting

Re: identd

1998-08-20 Thread fantomas
- if anyone will find he's usiong fake identd ppl will k-line him... - IRC is not made for putting bots and bots abuse IRC. if someone wants to - abuse IRC he will be banned. - - Well I have to agree... - I personally almost never use IRC but...if a server admin doesn't want somone - logging

*.au files ?

1998-08-20 Thread fantomas
Hello, i didn't find (maybe I should look more carefully) which audio player supports SUN's au files. can anybody point me to right place ? -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz

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