RE: lyx y caracteres

1998-09-29 Thread Cesar Talon
On 28-Sep-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola: Tengo un pequeño problema. Estoy empezando a usar Lyx. Me reconoce todos los caracteres españoles, pero cuando veo el archivo con GV o con DIPS, la apertura de interrogación ¿ y la de admiración ¡, me las convierte en una L rota y en una a

RE: TCP/IP

1998-09-29 Thread Valentín Ruano Rubio
Hola, ¿cómo se si tengo en mi máquina instalado el protocolo TCP/IP?, y ¿qué tengo que hacer para activarlo?. Gracias Los kernels de las distribuciones por defecto lleban soporte TCP/IP lo cual no implica soporte para dispositivos de RED (son dos cosas muy diferentes). Hay un documento en

LaTex y latex2html

1998-09-29 Thread Fernando Sainz Munoz
Estaba probando latex2html con un archivo .tex como: \documentclass[a4paper,notitlepage]{article} \renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{T1} %% para el comando hyphenation \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \pagestyle{plain} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} \setcounter{tocdepth}{5}

pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread cmartinezch
Aupa gente, como puedo pasar los nombres de ficheros de un directorio (un puñao) a mayúsculas? Supongo que con un find . -patatín -patatán -exec algo me vale, pero no se que poner en algo para que a partir de un nombre me lo saque en mayúsculas... Alguna idea?

Re: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread David R. Leal Valmana
(CARLOS MARTINEZ.CHACARTEGUI) wrote: Aupa gente, como puedo pasar los nombres de ficheros de un directorio (un puñao) a mayúsculas? Mira yo no soy un experto, pero en su momento necesit'e algo similary me lo hice con un fichero bach(con la ayuda de uno que si controlaba). Yo lo que

Re: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 01:03:35PM +, CARLOS MARTINEZ.CHACARTEGUI wrote: Aupa gente, como puedo pasar los nombres de ficheros de un directorio (un puñao) a mayúsculas? Si tu shell es bash, prueba con: for i in * ; do j=`echo $i |tr [:lower:] [:upper:]` ; echo Moviendo $i a $j ;

mas pistas sobre mi problema con NFS

1998-09-29 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hola! Me acabo de dar cuenta de que ha aparecido el siguiente error con el nfsd (demonio de NFS): Sep 29 12:43:15 nostromo nfsd[4]: Could not bind name to socket 0.0.0.0:2049: Address already in use Sep 29 12:43:15 nostromo nfsd[4]: could not make a tcp socket Alguna pista? Por que me

Re: LaTex y latex2html

1998-09-29 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Hola Fernando. Pues yo logro transfomar tu CV en html sin problemas, usando latex2html. Te recomiendo que desinstales el giftrans que copiaste y instales el que viene con debian que está en la seccion non-free/graphics. tambien asegurate que tienes instalado netpbm y que la version de gs que

RE: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread Luís M. Arocha Hernández
Te incluyo un programita perl que quizas te ayude. Llamalo RENAME.pl Lo que tienes que hacer es find . -patatin -patatan fichero perl RENAME.PL fichero fichero_con_renames Despues lo que tienes que hacer es revisar fichero_con_renames, convertirlo en ejecutable y ejecutarlo.

re:Re: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread cmartinezch
muchas gracias a todos por la ayuda... sabía que tenía que haber algún comando que lo hiciera, pero no tenía ni idea de cuál. Cada día me sorprendo más de la flexibilidad de UNIX y sus shell scripts :) un saludo

Re: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Pues como tu pregunta ha tenido tanto éxito, te mando una tercera solución en perl, la cual puedes modificar facilmente para decidir si quieres modificar tambien los ficheros ocultos o no (en este caso te modifique los ficheros ocultos y cualquier nombre de subdirectorio). guarda el programa

Re: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 01:03:35PM +, CARLOS MARTINEZ.CHACARTEGUI wrote: como puedo pasar los nombres de ficheros de un directorio (un puñao) a mayúsculas? ls | awk '{ system(mv $0 toupper($0)) }' Es el peligro que tienen estas preguntas, que cada uno te da una respuesta

Re: pregunta pelín off-topic

1998-09-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:27:43PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 01:03:35PM +, CARLOS MARTINEZ.CHACARTEGUI wrote: como puedo pasar los nombres de ficheros de un directorio (un puñao) a mayúsculas? ls | awk '{ system(mv $0 toupper($0)) }' Si awk lo hace en

Error: ISSUE_FILE_ENAB

1998-09-29 Thread Carlos Costa Portela
¡Hola a todos! Desde que me he pasado de bo a hamm, tengo este error al arrancar en uno de mis ordenadores (en el que _uso_): aragorn[~]% telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 aragorn.comarca.tm configuration error - unknown

Re: Error: ISSUE_FILE_ENAB

1998-09-29 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Este es un error comun y que yo tambien me encontre. El problema viene de que al instalar la nueva version de los paquetes base, no has dicho que sobreescriba un archivo de configuracion, que corresponde al /etc/login.defs Este archivo es leido por el programa login para

Re: Debian 2.0 Kernel y Signal 11

1998-09-29 Thread TooManySecrets
Creo que el tema de los SIGNAL's 11 venía dado por alguna incompatibilidad, o error, de hardware. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets

Re: WindowMaker: gradient.c:66: RRenderMultiGradient: Assertion `0' failed.

1998-09-29 Thread Juanmi Mora
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 12:47:00AM +0200, Juanmi Mora wrote: Cómo puedo arrancar las famosas aplicaciones que corren dentro del dock (creo que así se llama). Haciendo doble click en ellas? Cuando tienen tres puntos en la parte inferior

Re: WindowMaker: gradient.c:66: RRenderMultiGradient: Assertion `0' failed.

1998-09-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 11:12:33PM +0200, Juanmi Mora wrote: Me refería a hacer correr la aplicación dentro del cuadradito del icono que le pertenece en la aplicación, creo que el wmload así lo hace con la opción -v, creo :-? -w creo. En general los docklets tienen diferentes formas para

cheapbytes debian 2.0 installation

1998-09-29 Thread Joe Smith
I am having some problems installing debian 2.0 with 3 archive CDS from Cheapbytes. I installed base packages off the debian binary cd. Basically, now what? i have to say : /dev/hdc as my cdrom then, i have to say that /debian is my top directory it finds .../binary-i386/Packages.gz

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread servis
*- Mrpeabody wrote about Moniter screen is wavy. | My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to | move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My | moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now it is wavy like | a day after I moved it. Has

gnome 0.30.

1998-09-29 Thread Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva
Hello, Yes, I do like gnome and so I was waiting 0.30. It was uploaded do slink today (thanks Jim Pick, man, you are preatty fast) and I already have it home. Only a little problem. Gnome and KDE conflict. They write information about their packges (to each panel menu) in the same directory. The

Another PPP newbie.

1998-09-29 Thread Monte Copeland
After having trouble using PPP to connect my new Linux O.S. so that I could ftp the Debian packages, I sent an email to my ISP provider asking what type of conncection they have, thinking that it might use chap or pap. But the ISP tech supporter replied that it was a standard text login that

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: This isn't specifically Debian-related, but if I can get this done it'll be a major score on campus for Linux in general and Debian specifically. Can I print from a Win95 box to a Debian queue and

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-09-29 Thread Britton
I have problems starting ppp as a normal user also that I have not been able to cure by mucking with permissiont in /etc and elsewhere. Mind firing off a quick ls -l /etc/ppp*? I'd really appreciate it. __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. Britton Kerin On 27 Aug 1998, Martin

XEmacs/VM with procmail

1998-09-29 Thread Paul Kunysch
Hi Procmail writes some of my mails into seperate files when they arrive. VM sometimes complains, that my Digest-Mailboxes were changed in background, and so I have to overwrite them with the old version or I'll lose my changes. What's the official solution to this problem? [ PS: Is the

Re: Login from a Terminal

1998-09-29 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I've a friend who just installed Debian 2.0 on a 486. He reads through a talking terminal. Under a Slackware (don't know what version) he used to type agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100. He says this doesn't work with the new installation. I don't know anything about getty. A look at the

unable to connect to ttyS1

1998-09-29 Thread Packy Anderson
Hi. I'm currently running a Debian 1.3 system, and I'm working on putting together a Hamm system to replace it. I'm trying to get a ppp connection running on an external modem plugged into COM2 of the Hamm system and I'm having no luck. First, I defined the connection and then 'pon' to start

Ctrl-E

1998-09-29 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! When I want to print *.eps files my printer (HP 4L) doesn't eject at the end of page. Is this normal or should I add something to printcap ? I use magicfilter and print with lpr command (on local printer). Bostjan

Re: Segmentation Faults

1998-09-29 Thread Mike Acklin
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:53:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: This can indeed be the case. If you have more than one dimm, or more than two simms, you can test this by removing half of your memory, see if you get the same errors, then

Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI under Debian?

1998-09-29 Thread James Brown \(Ender/Gcc\)
Hi All, I've been trying to install Debian on a P-II, with a ASUS P2B-LS Motherboard, and a Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI chipset. My problem is that Debian's installation program doesnt seem to detect my SCSI harddrive! Has anyone else used a similar setup? Could someone PLEASE tell me

X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), this is my first crack at Debian. This is what I get when I run startx: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't

Re: encrypted passwords with pop3/imap/...?

1998-09-29 Thread Dale E. Martin
Ulisses Alonso Camaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that one possibility is to use ssh to forward this connections... but I can't be sure that users will make use of it... You can be sure if your firewall disables connections to your mail server, and then provide directions on how to use

Test

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
I'm wondering if I've been dropped from the list. I haven't seen any messages in a while, even those I've posted. Could someone reply to to this message (to me) if this message makes it to the list? Thanks.

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-29 Thread Paul Kunysch
I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or whatever and load it with an ansi font (eg xterm -font vga or rxvt -fn vga, you'll need to download the font first) then you can properly display all those

Re: Segmentation Faults

1998-09-29 Thread FRANCK . LEGALL
Hi, My experience : Some time ago I bought 2*16 Mo of 60ns memory. I had them to my 2*8 Mo of 60ns Memory. After reboot, the system send me error messages, especially concerning the harddisk. I tried a lot of thing as inverting memories, asking for new ones at my vendor, installing the setx86

Routing a print job to a temp file

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
I asked this earlier, and got a few hints, but after trying everything I could think of (yes, including RTM), I'm not much closer than I was when I started. I need some way to capture a print job and reroute a copy of it to an email message. I would appreciate specific examples if you can provide

There is necesary libc5-altdev to compile ld.so?

1998-09-29 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Dear Debian users : I am having problems with the ld.so and/or with the libc6. I released my bo linux to hamm 2 week ago. I used the cd-autoup.sh program. The upgrading was fine and without big problems. However the myself compiled programs, after the upgrading, do not run

Re: LPC error: Can't open connection

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux/Unix; don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to set up a printer/beeper combo (see earlier messages), but I seem to have broken my printing capability. To eliminate complications, I've commented out everything except the following from my /etc/printcap

SLIP6 connects byt does nothihg

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
After some diddling, I'm trying SLIP in addition to PPP (hardware flow control is killing me). I seem to be successfully making a SLIP6 connection, but it doesn't Given the troubles with my hardware flow control PPP, I've tried SLIP. I've installed sliplogin slirp at both ends, and both

Re: Diamond 3D 2000 with S3V to display 24 bit color

1998-09-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: I have a Diamond 3D 2000 video card. The chip is S3 Virge. The memory of the videocard is 4 meg. I have an identical setup, and am running the XF86_SVGA server with 32 bit color. I had some difficulty

lost dir in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread Obi
Hi all, sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? thanks graziano

Linux in the _near_ future

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Mozilla Free, X-Designer port, Oracle port, Informix port, IBM's DB2 port, Sybase port, X11 free again, Netscape and Intel joins to Redhat... Seems that Linux in last monts is getting lot of respect from major vendors, and the next step seems to be more

Re: SAMBA: Help!!

1998-09-29 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, bmorgan wrote: This is a reposting of a previous message. I'm starting to get desperate. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've

can't get smartlist working under Debian

1998-09-29 Thread slist
I tried sending this to the smartlist list but have had no response. Anyone here got smartlist working and can help? TIA++ Chris - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 28 18:02:59 1998 Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:24:31 +0200 (MET DST) From:

instructions for setting up Wacom ArtPad

1998-09-29 Thread Ernest G Austin
Eric House wrote:- I've borrowed a Wacom Artpad for use with the Gimp (1.0) on bo. But all the searches I've tried for information on configuring my system to use the tablet have turned up nothing. I found the following url useful:- www.gtk.org/~otaylor/xinput/ HTH

Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following error: connection to 'localhost' failed -

Re: Another PPP newbie.

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
check out /var/log/messages, see what is the error. My guess is that you have to set the option noauth. try change the line from auth to noauth in your /etc/ppp/options. On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: After having trouble using PPP to connect my new Linux O.S. so that I could

Re: viewing ansi graphics

1998-09-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: Heh heh, I remember the days of DOS and BBSing and The Draw and DOOM II and MODs and demos Oh, I miss those days. I don't know how to display the higher-ascii characters in the text-mode console, but if under X you start an xterm or rxvt or

Re: Question about installing the non-free pakages

1998-09-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Chan Min Wai wrote: I want to install Kde from my contribe CD and the dselece said iit need the qtd1 so I look for it in the non-free site and then downloaded it. Now I have one question. How to install this pakages and all the other pakages with .deb

Vi problem!

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Does anyone aware of this situation: When you run vi, if you are in the command mode, and then resize your xterm, the text will not be redisplayed unless you hit some keys.. When you in the input mode, it will give you the message: Window resize interrupted the

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Shao! On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, I used magicfilter to generate a printcap. when I tried to print something out, it gives me the following error:

vacation

1998-09-29 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I upgraded from Slackware to Debian 2.0. Now vacation does not work correctly anymre, and I get an e-mail from the MAILER-DAEMON telling me: |- Failed addresses follow: -| |/usr/bin/vacation alpenr ... failed: transport pipe: child returned status EX_1

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-09-29 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks George, I nearly got exim to work. But after waisting another 6 hours I do not know how further. I can now receive messages from the ISP into the /var/spool/exim/input directory and read them there with emacs. Mail rarely gets through to /var/spool/mail/jhspies and when that happens, I

Q: FTP install behind Netscape-proxy firewall

1998-09-29 Thread WERNER Péter
Hi! I tried FTP install beind a firewall. dselect can't connect to ftp.debian.org but I can do it by hand. Does anyone have any experience? I have to use FTP-username@FW-username FTP-password@FW-password with our firewall. WP

PPP Connection Speed

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, Could anyone please help me with this? Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore.

OffTopic: PC BIOS Errors

1998-09-29 Thread timothy
Can anyone direct me to an online listing of what all of the PC BIOS error messages mean? Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Sep-98 Time: 07:02:22 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0.

Debian Troubleshooting Disk

1998-09-29 Thread timothy
Hi again, Can someone give me an overview of what I would have to do to make a debian bootdisk with Memtest and e2fsck etc. Just a general overview, so I can know which Manuals to RTFM. Thanx, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29-Sep-98 Time:

Re: lost dir in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: Hi all, sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? thanks graziano -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Check for /usr/info/dir.old This might save some time.

Re: modem problems

1998-09-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Tracheotomy Bob wrote: I am damned if I can get my modem to work under linux. Here's the general situation. From your symptoms, it seems *very* doubtful that it's a Winmodem, but *just* for the sake of paranoia, are you sure it's not? Does it work under DOS? Poking

Re: Novell and Linux (pam_ncp again)

1998-09-29 Thread Christoph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira) writes: Hi Debian users, In pratical terms, I have to do this until friday to my users login into Linux using Novell account. I downloaded http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_ncp/pam_ncp.0.5.tgz, compile,

Re: can't get smartlist working under Debian

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s == slist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s I assume that I've managed to get a permission wrong on a log file that s procmail wants to log its actions to or that I've failed to create s the file. Trouble is that I can't find any documentation mentioning s logging when procmail is being invoked

dpkg --root

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again, using a directory as a test dir for installing some applications... I coppied /var/lib/dpkg into it in order to avoid dpkg complains... and then I install applications using the --root option of dpkg But this silly trick is not really right, dpkg

Re: Login from a Terminal

1998-09-29 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I've a friend who just installed Debian 2.0 on a 486. He reads through a talking terminal. Under a Slackware (don't know what version) he used to type agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100. He says this doesn't work with the new installation. I don't

Recompile Kernel Sound

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
Hi all, I just recompiled my kernel. Probably, I missed out an option, or select the wrong option. My sound module can no longer be inserted properly when boots up. Before I had a line sound in my /etc/modules, and everything is fine. Now I will have to do insmod sound

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Shao Ying Zhang
OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: bash-2.01$ dpkg --list | grep lprng ii lprng 3.4.2-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system ii lprng-doc 3.4.1-3lpr/lpd printer spooli bash-2.01$ ps ax | grep LPD 419 p1 S0:00 grep LPD

Re: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Fredrik Ax
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), this is my first crack at Debian. This is what I get when I run startx: X: exec of

Re: X server problems

1998-09-29 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 29 Sep 98 07:12:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions), this is my first crack at Debian. This is what I get when I run startx: X: exec of

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again! On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: [...] bash-2.01$ lpc status cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' - Connection refused In the file

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Antal Ritter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 10:23:50PM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: OK! Here is an update on my system with regards to my printing problem: bash-2.01$ dpkg --list | grep lprng ii lprng 3.4.2-5lpr/lpd printer spooling system ii lprng-doc 3.4.1-3lpr/lpd

DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U

1998-09-29 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, I am trying to install Debian 2 on my computer. However when I select Next: Partition a Hard Disk from the installation menu I get a message that no hard disks where found. I have a DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U SCSI Controler with a CDROM and an IBM UW HD connected to it. The HD is connected via

Re: Installation Issues

1998-09-29 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Brian Armstrong wrote: I recently installed Debian Linux, the most recent version, and have had difficulty installing Netscape and Staroffice. It seems to need Motif or something similiar. Man pages and readme files have helped my setup of Debian Linux and xwindows.

Re: MSS/WSS Recording?

1998-09-29 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I have done it for my Aztech's WaveRider card. It required a change in driver's source: I have modified the dev_table.h file to define the second DMA channel for MSS compatible cards the patch follows: 19c19 --- #define MSS_DMA2 (0) 421c421 {SNDCARD_MSS, {MSS_BASE, MSS_IRQ,

Re: slink release date?

1998-09-29 Thread C. R. Oldham
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: If there is anything in particular you need from slink, you can just download it and install it on a hamm system most of the time. How can I do this with dselect/apt? I tried, and I think I've really messed up the list that tells dpkg what's installed on my

Re: wrong From: and/or Return-Path:

1998-09-29 Thread Russ Cook
I need help with smail. I tried following the advice given below to another Debian user. It got me close, but not quite there. My ISP account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Debian account (home pc) is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My full name is (Russell Cook). Here is the result of my attempt to send mail from

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr regards, Ulisses This question is from Kent, not Shao. So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version of lpr? When I tried the above command

Re: Vi problem!

1998-09-29 Thread Steve Tremblett
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, Does anyone aware of this situation: When you run vi, if you are in the command mode, and then resize your xterm, the text will not be redisplayed unless you hit some keys.. When you in the input mode, it will

junkbuster busting *everything* not in cache

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hmm, junkbuster worked for a while, happily blocked the ads, but after a few minutess, *everything* gets blocked. If I click on a page I haven't opened before, i get a message saying that netscape's connection was refused by the server, and that i should try back later . all i've found to

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr This is an error - it should be dpkg -l |grep lpr (that is a lower case L) and then some help information. I double-checked the command and I had the syntax the way you specified. Do I

Re: Printing Problem

1998-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
KW == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What printer daemon does I have? (lpr or lprng) -- I suggest lprng To check this: dpkg -i | grep lpr KW So, can I understand this to mean that lprng is a newer/better version KW of lpr? I think it is rather another printdaemon. But ng is New

HP Laserjet 6L for Linux?

1998-09-29 Thread Mrpeabody
I'm looking to get a printer for my linux box. I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 6L would work with my linux machine? Most of the hardware compatability lists seem kinda out to date and its hard to find out what newer stuff is supported. -jeff

Re: HP Laserjet 6L for Linux?

1998-09-29 Thread John Kloss
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I'm looking to get a printer for my linux box. I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 6L would work with my linux machine? Most of the hardware compatability lists seem kinda out to date and its hard to find out what newer stuff is supported. -jeff

Re: dpkg(install in /usr/local)

1998-09-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Hi all, Could anyone teach me how to use dpkg to install in a specific directory, such as /usr/local/. Thanks! That would defeat the purpose of dpkg. The maintainers of the deb packages decide (based on File System Standard and Debian

Re: simple password

1998-09-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Phillip Neumann wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as `password`.. Thanks, If you are really unconcerned with security, then why use a password at all? Just hit Enter for the password (it will

Re: [980928.0004] Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-29 Thread Tech Support Staff
The reason that we shipped the LDR with Debian 1.3 instead of waiting for 2.0 was that we were already a month past our estimated release date and the Debian guys told us that 2.0 wouldn't be released until the end of July. It had already been pushed back several times and we had no

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now it is wavy like a day after I moved it. Has perment damage

Re: PPP Connection Speed

1998-09-29 Thread dsb3
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: Somehow, I cannot get a fast ppp connection anymore. In redhat, my ppp connection is normally around 3K/sec. But in

Majordomo

1998-09-29 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I'm trying to set up Majordomo, but get the error below. How do I set up which uid, Majordomo runs as? /Tomas Petersson snip MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! While running with an effective uid of 65534 and an effective gid of 65534, Majordomo ran into the following problems: Unable to

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Matthew Tebbens
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: My moniter screen has become wavy. When you look at it it seems to move. I have a 21 inch dell moniter and a stb nvidia video card. My moniter used to be fine but I recently moved it and now it is

some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-09-29 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Every time I start X (with windowmaker) it opens a xterm session ! ;( How can I disable it !? I didn't found any file such as startup neitheir any line on configuration files refering to it ! Everytime I install a program, windowmaker menu is updated and I like it. My problem is that I

Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes. You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for example). If there is a

Re: lost dir in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread Obi
Well I got a dir from another machine (I didn't have the dir.old either) and I tried to manully add the node I have that wasn't already in there. And now I can't look into the libc nodes. I mean, it shows up in the dir (so if I do info it shows up) but the libc menu page is without any link! I

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-09-29 Thread john
Britton writes: I have problems starting ppp as a normal user also that I have not been able to cure by mucking with permissiont in /etc and elsewhere. Put your users in the 'dip' group and set the permissions and ownership of /etc/chatscripts thusly: drwx--x--- root dip

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

1998-09-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 06:33:55PM +, Kent West wrote: This sounds like a method I'd like to try, but I'm too new at Linux/Unix to have much of a clue. Could you possibly give me a snippet of example of what my /etc/printcap should look like for this, as well as a general idea of what the

umask / permission problems with FTP

1998-09-29 Thread Fraser Campbell
I'm having problems with setting the correct umask for files. All my users belong to the groups users. I am using hamm. I need their files to be 644 and directories 755. Their home directories are in /var/www and are serving virtual domains. Here's what I know: A. /var/www is umask 022 B.

DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U (2)

1998-09-29 Thread Felix E. Klee
Sorry, if this was posted twice! Hi, I am trying to install Debian 2 on my computer. However when I select Next: Partition a Hard Disk from the installation menu I get a message that no hard disks where found. I have a DAWICONTROL DC-2975 U SCSI Controler with a CDROM and an IBM UW HD

Re: Redirect printer output to email?

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl my $MAIL; open MAIL, '|mail -s Some subject [EMAIL PROTECTED]'; while () { print MAIL; print; } close MAIL; Of course, you might need something more fancy to accomodate your pager's needs. Also, the second filter could

Routing

1998-09-29 Thread Collin Rose
Is there a way to route external TCP/IP requests to my Win98 machine to my Linux machine?

Re: How do I get exim to work?

1998-09-29 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Isn't there a howto on how to set up a single pc with a dialup connection to an ISP using exim, fetchmail and procmail? I know I do not need procmail if I use exim, but then I have to understand how exim works and I cannot get it working for a basic system. I have fetchmail feeding

nfs mount: RPC: Program not registered

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
When I try to mount an nfs export, I get the message: mount: RPC: Program not registered for example, something like mount eyry.econ.iastate.edu:/mountabledirectory mountpoint -t nfs yields this result. I don't see anything in the manpages or /usr/doc that's useful here. rick --

Re: Moniter screen is wavy.

1998-09-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Stupid answer try moving the monitor and see if anything changes. You can get a video cable extension cord if necessary. Try plugging the monitor into a different outlet, could be a power problem (like having the monitor on the same line as a motorized appliance for example). If there

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