Debian Weekly News en español

1999-07-16 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
En Barrapunto (http://barrapunto.com) vamos a tratar de traducir siempre que podamos las Debian Weekly News al castellano. Acabo de poner las primeras... Entre otras cosas, parece que se empiezan a discutir fechas para Debian 2.2... Jesus.

Re: /etc/shutdown.allow

1999-07-16 Thread Hue-Bond
El miércoles 14 de julio de 1999 a la(s) 00:09:50 +0200, Juanmi Mora contaba: Bueno, yo le veo sentido. Una pantalla/teclado con varios usuarios, si de ellos uno está autorizado, estás autorizado. Parece lógico, donde ves el problema? Sustituyamos por un momento shutdown por fsck.

Re: Instalación gnome

1999-07-16 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On jue, jul 15, 1999 at 07:50:08 +0200, Ricardo Villalba wrote: Nota: como verás yo no he instalado el gmc. La razón es que para ello hay que desinstalar el mc. Copiate el ejecutable 'mc' a '/usr/local/bin/mc' y listo, es una solución cutre pero por lo menos los usuarios GNOME con adicción al

Re: Please permitidme este big Offtopic sobre un concepto

1999-07-16 Thread Hue-Bond
El jueves 15 de julio de 1999 a la(s) 11:44:42 +0200, Manuel Trujillo contaba: Hace poco HueBod (qué por cierto debe saber un montón) Anda, pues muchas gracuas :^) explicar qué es un servidor NAT? ¿Sabes lo que hace el ip-masquerade? Pues lo mismo. NAT = Network

gmc/mc mutuamente excluyentes?

1999-07-16 Thread Dragonbreath
Hola todos. Nota: como verás yo no he instalado el gmc. La razón es que para ello hay que desinstalar el mc. Pues yo instale mi gmc y en ningún momento me mando a quitar el mc. De hecho los dos conviven perfectamente. Ya que estamos, esta exclusión entre gmc y mc no la acabo de comprender

sALudos(Voodoo 2 Banshee)

1999-07-16 Thread Alberto Ladron
Hola: Me compre una tarjeta voodoo 2 Banshee de Creative, e modelo es 3D BLASTER BANSHEE . TEngo instalado Debian 2.1(Slink). Baje el rpm del servidor para superVga que la soporta de www.linux3d.org y extraje el archivo que corresponde al servidor, y lo copie a

sALudos(SMP en 2.1)

1999-07-16 Thread Alberto Ladron
Hola: Tengo una maquina dual con dos PII a 350MHZ, 512MB de RAM y y con controladora SCSI Adaptec 7895. Esta maquina tenia instalado Debian 2.0 y el kernel que incluye(no recuerdo si era 2.0.36) y esta compilado el kernel para SMP y no daba problemas. Actualice a slink

Re: /etc/shutdown.allow

1999-07-16 Thread Felipe Antonio Sanchez Varas
Hue-Bond escribio: [...] Sustituyamos por un momento shutdown por fsck. Ahora va a resultar que si el señor root está loggeado, el más bajo de los usuarios tendrá permiso para cargarse el disco! ¿Le ves sentido a esto? Yo no, por ningún lado. Holas, Pero el

Re: /etc/shutdown.allow

1999-07-16 Thread Javier López
Hue-Bond wrote: El miércoles 14 de julio de 1999 a la(s) 00:09:50 +0200, Juanmi Mora contaba: Bueno, yo le veo sentido. Una pantalla/teclado con varios usuarios, si de ellos uno está autorizado, estás autorizado. Parece lógico, donde ves el problema? Sustituyamos por un

RE: gmc/mc mutuamente excluyentes?

1999-07-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Pues yo instale mi gmc y en ningún momento me mando a quitar el mc. De hecho los dos conviven perfectamente. Ya que estamos, esta exclusión entre gmc y mc no la acabo de comprender compañeros, lo que puede usarse en X no se puede usar en consola y es ahí donde la potencia de un mc se

RE: sALudos(SMP en 2.1)

1999-07-16 Thread Manuel Trujillo
La actualizacion de 2.0 a 2.1 corre sin problemas, incluso puedo compilar el kernel 2.2.10 sin problemas para SMP, pero marca errores cuando trato de instalar MOSIX(NOTA.-en mi PC con K6II a 350MHZ y 32MB de RAM hice lo msmo y es muy estable el sistema). Perdonad mi supina ignorancia, pero...

Re: sALudos(Voodoo 2 Banshee)

1999-07-16 Thread daniel
Perdona si no respondo a tu pregunta pero con tantos numeritos y nombres uno ya acaba liándose y mi pregunta o aclaración es... ¿No es la Banshee una tarjeta distinta a una voodoo2?, juraría que la gama de nombres era.. voodoo rush banshee voodoo2 voodoo3, ... y lo que haya entre medias.. pero

Re: Instalación gnome

1999-07-16 Thread Paco Brufal
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Copiate el ejecutable 'mc' a '/usr/local/bin/mc' y listo, es una solución cutre pero por lo menos los usuarios GNOME con adicción al mc en modo texto no nos quedamos sin el :) No sé si lo sabrás, pero el gmc SI que trae el mc para

Re: Internet muy lento!!!

1999-07-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 01:09:36AM +0200, Miquel wrote: El mié, jul 15, 1998 at 12:13:45 +0200 Lucky va dir: Ya he conseguido conectarme a Inet con el Kppp pero me encuentro que va muy lento en navegar. Sabeis que puede passar? se le suele llamar congestión, saturación o exceso de

Re: Aplicaciones candidatas para su incorporacion a Debian.

1999-07-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Si quieres ver programas interesantes para Linux prueba http://www.linuxberg.com o el mirror español: http://grn.linuxberg.com, encontrarás que hay aún cosas que no está en Debian (quizás te animes a ayudar a que se incluyan :) Saludos Javi On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at

Re: Paquetes obsoletos

1999-07-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:45:50PM +0200, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Hola Después de la actualización a Slink me han quedado un mogollón de paquetes en la categoría de paquetes obsoletos (os pongo la lista mas a bajo) ¿Que se supone que debo hacer con estos paquetes? ¿los borro sin mas?

Re: Debian Weekly News en español

1999-07-16 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Por qué no me las envías y así también las pongo en el servidor oficial de Debian (quizás con una nota hacia barrapunto)... Un saludo Javi On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:59:01AM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: En Barrapunto (http://barrapunto.com) vamos a

Re: Paquetes y dependencias en potato

1999-07-16 Thread Jose C. Garcia
Han Solo wrote: Tengo instalada una Debian potato, que voy acualizando casi a diario, y que funciona bastante bien, o por lo menos funcionaba bien hasta ayer tarde. Resulta que se han actualizado los paquetes de perl, y en algunos ha cambiado la organización lo que me ha creado un caos

¿Cómo acceder a kernels y proyectos alpha?

1999-07-16 Thread Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
Saludos. Gracias por la respuesta anterior sobre buscar ficheros dentro de los paquetes. Esta vez, por razones de programación y contribución al proyecto framebuffer para linux, necesitaría tener acceso a las últimas versiones alpha o en desarrollo tanto del núcleo como el proyecto framebuffer y

Binarios y ASCII en Samba

1999-07-16 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. Pues eso; tengo un server samba montado, pero resulta que los ficheros se pasean entre él y los windozes en formato binario. ¿Puedo ponerlo en ASCII? ¿Cómo lo hago? Ahora mismo estoy mirándome la docu del Samba pero, de momento, no encuentro nada. Gracias por todo. Have a nice day ;-)

Re: =??Q?Instalaci=F3n_gnome?=

1999-07-16 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, On vie, 16 jul 1999 01:09:32 Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: On jue, jul 15, 1999 at 07:50:08 +0200, Ricardo Villalba wrote: Nota: como verás yo no he instalado el gmc. La razón es que para ello hay que desinstalar el mc. Ya que estamos, esta exclusión entre gmc y mc no la acabo de

Re: sALudos(Voodoo 2 Banshee)

1999-07-16 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:56:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Perdona si no respondo a tu pregunta pero con tantos numeritos y nombres uno ya acaba liándose y mi pregunta o aclaración es... ¿No es la Banshee una tarjeta distinta a una voodoo2?, juraría que la gama de nombres era.. voodoo

Apache y CGI's

1999-07-16 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Buenas. ¿Sería alguien tan amable de refrescarme la memoria con el tema de los permisos y el usuario www-data para poder ejecutar cgi's de perl en Apache 1.3 (de la 2.1) Muchas gracias por todo. Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets

Descodificador TV

1999-07-16 Thread Sergio Blanco Cuaresma
Hola a todos, ¿Alguien conoce algun programa que descodifique el canal plus? Yo todavía no he encontrado ninguno. Si alguien me indicase de donde me lo puedo bajar, o si me lo pasara por email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) estaría muy agradecido.

Aplicar un parche

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
Hola, ¿cómo se aplica un parche? Todos los intentos hasta ahora me han dado errores, y no me entero con la página del manual. En realidad, ni siquiera estoy seguro de a qué archivo se lo debo aplicar (¿no es al binario?). patch p0 /usr/bin/mutt patch-0.95.6.rr.compressed.1 Gracias, --

Mutt peta al intentar leer un mensaje de esta lista

1999-07-16 Thread Juan Leseduarte
Hola: Pues eso. Cuando paso de un mensaje a otro de la lista llega un momento en que peta. En concreto, es con el mensaje número 7661 de la lista enviado por Jon Noble sobre el gmc: X-Mailing-List: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org archive/latest/7661 He venido observando últmimamente que a

Re: suid question, kind of

1999-07-16 Thread Carl Mummert
I tried this after reading the man page and it did not work, so I read the man page again and it seems that --user is intended for use in closing a process, not in starting one. damn. You're right. Rename the script below, edit the vars at the top, and you are i business. Sorry to have led you

Re[2]: 'Inverse' chmod?

1999-07-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
Thanks to all for the rapid-fire primer in perl. Come to think it, I now know _more_ about Perl than Hillary knows about New York! g -- Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA --==++*++==-- RMS's curmudgeon-like

Re: Sendmail questions (almost there!) Followup

1999-07-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Mike Patterson wrote: Ok, black is actually the 0.69, a machine dialing in with ppp. 0.1, the relay, is white. cool, we're on the same page then (I'm suddenly reminded of a Three Dog Night song ;-} ) So I made the change above on white in the file

RE: PPPuzzles

1999-07-16 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Max, What is it you want to do over your ppp link? If it is just email and web, I would suggest running Netscape as an initial setup while you configure everything else.. try apt-get communicator (I think that is the package name) if your sources.list file is set up. Otherwise you need to

Re: DHCP and DNS

1999-07-16 Thread Olaf Conradi
+---[ On Jul 16, Craig Sanders scribbled ]--- | On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:24:24PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: | | The ISC DHCP v3 BETA server supports DNS updates, I have not looked at it | yet, but I assume that it uses dynamic dns with bind 8. | | if you don't want to use the beta DHCP

Kernel 2.2 with Debian potat0

1999-07-16 Thread Evan S
Heyo, I'm just wondering, if I want to upgrade to 2.2.10 in potato, how do I do that? I want to apt-get the source code so I can enable sound and such, do you know what command I do? And what steps are involved? When I used RH, it was a easier kernel process, but, since I tried Debian, it's much

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc. I can't see how blindly using apt-get

Re: Sound, sblive.

1999-07-16 Thread wim
Yep, the new drivers are _much_ better. I downloaded them too yestereday shortly after they became available. That is one of the reason why closed propietary drivers suck -- it takes forever to get updates. The beta before this version was for 2.2.5. On 15-Jul-99 Brian Greenfield wrote: On

Re: Sendmail questions (almost there!) Followup

1999-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Relaying is now turned off by default in sendmail 8.9.3 (the version in slink). I added the following to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: FEATURE(access_db, hash -o /etc/mail/access)dnl I then ran sendmailconfig to create sendmail.cf In /etc/mail/access, I have: host.domain RELAY where

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:08:47PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = = Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears to be safer than = upgrading with dselect. The offending packages are

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 08:54:45PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: The real question is: What is causing the dotted-quad to turn into a hostname? I suspect I think this is because you have specified a ServerName in your Apache configuration. If you remove (comment-out) that entry, it shouldn't do

Re: Travan TR-3 tape drive woes

1999-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Taper has been alternately stable and broken for some time now. I've been using tob on both slink and potato with good results for a few years. Bob On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:22:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK the taper in slink has been segfaulting on quite a few people. I THINK

Netgear FA310TX and good?

1999-07-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I ordered a couple of the FA310TX cards the other day for a simple home network application. I ordered them because they were based on the Tulip chipset and I've heard good things, in general, about that chipset and Linux; and their price was hard to beat. Today I was browsing around Deja and

RE: PPPuzzles

1999-07-16 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Of course that should be apt-get install communicator. -Original Message- From: Carley, Jason (Australia) Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 9:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: PPPuzzles Max, What is it you want to do over your ppp link? If it is just email and web, I would

Sparc vs. slink (minimal configuration)

1999-07-16 Thread Steve McConnel
I recently acquired some hardware being retired from work, including a genuine Sun SPARCstation 1+ and a 486 system, so I ordered copies of the slink distro from Linux Central. Installation went smoothly on the 486, but it's been a different story on the Sun. :-( First, the installation took

Re: Mail retrieval problems

1999-07-16 Thread Obi
If you are using fetchmail and exim I solved the problme adding 127.0.0.1 to the local_domains. graziano On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:04:05AM -0400, Jack Wilkinson wrote: all of the sudden, my mail can't be deleted off the server... my system was stalled this morning after doing a dist-upgrade

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:08:47PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = = Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears to be

RE: Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-16 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Roderick Person wrote: The Red Hat box was on there first promo poster was at the Linux Expo in North Carolina. That made Red Hat call the big bad lawyers. So in kind of a parody of a parody and to give RH the finger they made the poster over with Debian as the CD cover.

Re: ppp/serial Help!

1999-07-16 Thread Kristopher Johnson
Subject: ppp/serial Help! Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00:08 +0100 (GMT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I`m fairly new to Linux and this is driving me mad. I have ppp as a loadable module, isapnp and setserial both set to /dev/ttyS2 0x03e8/0x3e8 irq 5. this works

multiple boot? win98, winNT, linux?

1999-07-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm trying to get a machine to boot win98, winNT and linux. 98 and NT both live on sda1, while linux on sda3. Right now the best I can do is get lilo to give me a windows option then that loads the NT boot manager. I want only one boot manager, and I really don't care which one it is. How can

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-16 Thread Damon Muller
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:52:20 -0500 Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NT server I'm trying to connect to is definitely using the M$CRAP^H^H^HHAP mentioned in one of the doc files included with ppp (it's different from the standard CHAP). To date I still haven't managed to get this

Dhcpcd startup order

1999-07-16 Thread Andrew Leiserson
Yesterday I installed slink on a computer which needed to get its IP address with DHCP and was also a NIS and NFS client. What I found out was that the DHCP client in slink immediately returned, and the NIS startup script wouldn't work because there was no IP address yet. NFS was even worse,

Re: squid question

1999-07-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Yes, you are right. squid will automatically build the swap file. Someone one the squid mailing list told me that it will take 2 hours to build a 8GB drive. Thanks for the reply. Shao. On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:13:40PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In

Re: Fetch mail problems

1999-07-16 Thread Shao Zhang
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 08:04:11PM +0200, Gary van Blerk wrote: Hi there, I've been using Debian now for about 2 years and still I am learning new things about it every day. I need some help with using fetchmail. I have a Debian server running sendmail. I have a domain registered for

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-16 Thread Shao Zhang
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:02:45AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, Anyone know why I can find something more informative than the simple comment Segmentation fault that comes up when I run apt-get install xxx? An example follows: Selecting previously deselected package imap.

R: Configuring two networks with the same interface card

1999-07-16 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:37:21PM +0400, Vadim Solonovich wrote: Hi ! I want to set up my Debian to work with two ip addresses on different networks with one ethernet card. Asuming two different physical networks 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0 : # insmod ip_alias.o # ifconfig eth0

Re: mozilla don't run

1999-07-16 Thread Stuart Ballard
Christian Lavoie wrote: potato+last packages+kernel2.2.10 Mozilla M7 won't run on neither RH6.0 nor Debian 2.2 (I presume this to be related to glibc :), though you *SHOULD* see a Segmentation Fault message appearing. Actually, following the advice of another poster, running it one time

Re: Emacs Font problems

1999-07-16 Thread Larry Huffman
Patrick Beeson writes: At 11:37 PM 7/14/99 -0400, you wrote: Larry Huffman writes: Patrick Beeson writes: I figured out that when I run emacs with a font larger than height 15 then I have a text cursor, otherwise I don't. Some other fonts like adobe-courier will give a

Re: Hot-Mail clone

1999-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Roy Pluschke wrote: I need to set up a hot-mail clone -- is there anything out there deb or otherwise or do I have to roll my own solution. I know of the following two packages: WebMail at http://webmail.wastl.net/ and @Mail at

Re: BIOS(?) problem

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:57:32PM +0300, virtanen wrote: I've got a problem. Installed slink base on the same IDE disk as win95. Otherwise it works, but. When I tried to install or copy some deb-files from the FAT partition (mounted) into debian partitions, the whole thing crashes at once.

fsck output logged?

1999-07-16 Thread Chris R. Martin
I had a power outage and had a server power cycle unattended. I was wondering, is there any place that the output from fsck is logged when the machine is coming up? I'm using Debian 2.0 thanks, Chris

Re: Hot-Mail clone

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Yoon
I know of the following two packages: WebMail at http://webmail.wastl.net/ and @Mail at http://webbasedemail.com/ There are more, I'm sure, but I don't know where to find any. I don't believe either of these packages is available in .deb format. Actually, I just surfed over

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:14:24PM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: Whenever I try and access the net on Xwindows or a text-based program, I can't connect to the network. But when I'm on dselect, I can download packages without problems. Can anyone help me out? How are you trying to connect? How far

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-16 Thread John Hasler
I wonder if the default debian pppd has MSCHAP80 support compiled in already? 2.3.7 does. From the changelog, it appears to have been there since 2.3.2. If you get it working let me know how so I can add support for it to pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-16 Thread John Hasler
That's the good news. The bad news is it just sits there, without so much as a prompt. Why would you want it to give you a prompt? What would you do with it if you got it? Once the ppp connection is up, it is just there for any application to use, just like an ethernet connection. The

Re: multiple boot? win98, winNT, linux?

1999-07-16 Thread Daniel Yang
There is a free utility called partition manager which contains a compact boot manager. This boot manager allows your to boot multiple OS in any partition. I installed win98 on hd1 and linux on hd3. I partitioned hd2 as NFS file system and was going to install NT. You may search the web for

Re: modem configuration

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 02:22:35AM -0700, Stephen Monroe wrote: Stephen Monroe writes: Using setserial I found IRQ: 3 Port: 0x02f8 That's /dev/ttyS1. You've got a serial port there, but why are you sure your modem is on it? When I boot to Win98 it says it's there. I assume

Re: multiple boot? win98, winNT, linux?

1999-07-16 Thread Andrew Dixie
I believe the only way you can choose between Win98 and NT on the same partition is to use the NT partition manager. Fortunately, you can get the WinNT partition manager to boot linux as as option. copy the first 512 bytes of your linux partiton into a file ie: # dd if=/dev/sda3 of=somefile bs=1

return value of a child process

1999-07-16 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, How do I catch the return value from the child process?? Thanks. shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __

Re: multiple boot? win98, winNT, linux?

1999-07-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Try this: http://www.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:32:36PM -0500, Daniel Yang wrote: There is a free utility called partition manager which contains a compact boot manager. This boot manager allows your to boot multiple OS in any partition. I installed win98 on hd1

Re: return value of a child process

1999-07-16 Thread Carl Mummert
How do I catch the return value from the child process?? man waitpid

poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?

1999-07-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
Besides all the other problems I've been having with this unreliable piece of crap called Netscape (Communicator), I'm having problem with fonts that are scaled to a size where they are extremely blocky. What is strange is that if I change the font size preferences, the blocky fonts don't

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:00:40PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: First Problem: I have a Debian 2.1 installation I intend to use purely as a gateway / router (Intel Pentium 100 / 16Mb / 170Mb HDD) to the point where it will dialup OK, tells me Starting pppd at blah blah blah . then

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
Well, I'm not on a ppp-based connection. I'm on DHCP. And I'm on a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. Netscape is being annoying. I'm

Re: Fax

1999-07-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: = use fax script. It's doing all the conversion for you You see, here we go again, what is fax script? I assume you mean the command 'fax'. How does this differ from what I proposed? It is a front-end script for efax/efix which is part of the

Procmail and Pine

1999-07-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm trying to get procmail to sort my messages into several folders under ~/mail. Right now they're all in my inbox and it's hell reading through them. I've read through the man pages for procmail and procmailrc, and I've checked out a few links from the procmail FAQ (I think). I ran

Re: poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?

1999-07-16 Thread Gareth
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: Is there anything else I need (besides an H-bomb to remove a number of these computer-related frustrations from my environment)? I had a similar problem on some web pages but this fixed it in Netscape preferences fonts I check the box use my fonts,

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:11:32PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:52:20 -0500 Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NT server I'm trying to connect to is definitely using the M$CRAP^H^H^HHAP mentioned in one of the doc files included with ppp (it's different

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1999-07-16 Thread Heiko Haase
unsubscribe Cu Heiko Alles spricht für OS/2, nur IBM nicht. Heiko Haase (Team OS/2 #331) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OS/2 und ISDN im WWW: http://www.wan2.de

Re: poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?

1999-07-16 Thread John Foster
Daniel Barclay wrote: Changing either (or both) of the variable-width and fixed-width fonts sizes affects _nothing_ on that page. __ This is likely a couple of problems. One is that you should have an xfont server installed xfs and the other may

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Sean
Actually, apt-get upgrade will NOT remove packages, nor will it install new packages because an upgraded package requires a new package from the man page: ...under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed and installed. New versions of currently installed package that

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread John Foster
Sera Hill wrote: Well, I'm not on a ppp-based connection. I'm on DHCP. And I'm on a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. Netscape

Re: poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?

1999-07-16 Thread Matthew Dalton
Go to: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Daniel Barclay wrote: Besides all the other problems I've been having with this unreliable piece of crap called Netscape (Communicator), I'm having problem with fonts that are scaled to a size where they are extremely blocky.

plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread David Karlin
Hello, My ppp connection quit working this afternoon, and before finding out that there was a problem on my ISP's end, I reran pppconfig, and edited a config file or two, but I can't remember exaxtly what I did. Well now my ISP is back up again, but my PPP connection is broken. Here's the plog

tftp problem with potato

1999-07-16 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, after doing a new installation of debian potato on our server, i have a strange tftp problem: If i issue a tftp get command on a client, tftp hangs. If i do 'strace tftp', it works. Same if i strace in.tftpd on the server. Is this a weird timing problem? I use kernel 2.2.10, potato as of

Help! Mr. Potato killed my networking!

1999-07-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Help! I upgraded to potato a few days ago using dselect and I have been having problems. Here is the latest one (and worse one to date!) After the upgrade, I had two problems that dselect couldn't fix itself. #1 the gcc deb file would not load because of a conflicht with an old libg++. #2

Re: Procmail and Pine

1999-07-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Now I can't send email to myself. I tried to send a message from yahoo and I got this error: --- This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: mod_auth_mysql and dso?

1999-07-16 Thread Toens Bueker
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:21:56PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Syntax error on line 101 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_mysql.so into \ server: /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth_mysql.so: undefined \ symbol: mysql_store_result Looks like you need to link

how to get cvs working in potato?

1999-07-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, since i upgraded to the latest potato cvs doesn't work anymore, every request is solded by a Permission denied, but the permissions are ok: 13:22:23 yoda:~$ erm1 10:09:33 erm1:~$ cd /usr/local 10:09:43 erm1:/usr/local$ ll -d cvsroot drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Jan 8 1999

Aic-777x problems

1999-07-16 Thread Jure
Hi All I have a problem with Intel XPress Server. It is using Adaptec dual chanell SCSI controller aic-7770 EISA, BIOS revision 2.11 S3. The kernel recognies it but after the initial detection the following error occures: BUG! Driver accessed chip without first pausing controller

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Ditto! It only happens when I telnet in from work. Thanks - I assume I don't need to worry about it. Patrick - Original Message - From: Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 7:09 PM Subject: Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

stop gnome-session to record xterms?

1999-07-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have the folowing problem: i can't log graphically on my computer unless i log into it on the console and edit the .gnome/session file by hand, because it is full of calls to xterms in a way that lets the windowmanager crash before the setup of the windowmanager is complete, blocking the

wine.conf

1999-07-16 Thread Mike Carter
This is my wine.conf which is also my .winerc and it won't go. The message afterwards is: Warning: could not find DOS drive for cwd /etc; starting in windows directory. Invalid path 'F:\tmp' for temp directory Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is

Re: Segmentation fault - apt-get again

1999-07-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Shao asked... what does ldd /usr/bin/apt-get return?? enterprise:/home/patrick# ldd /usr/bin/apt-get libpkg.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpkg.so.0 (0x4000d000) libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 = /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2 (0x400b700 0) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400fd000)

Re: Hot-Mail clone

1999-07-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
http://www.horde.org/imp/ is available as debs. Patrick - Original Message - From: Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:39 PM Subject: Hot-Mail clone I need to set up a hot-mail clone -- is there anything out there deb or

Kernel Compilation Problem

1999-07-16 Thread Thierry Pellé
Hi everybody, I tried to re-compile my kernel (package Kernel-Source 2.0.36-3) but a problem occur at the end of the process (Audio device step) : here is the log file make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/lib' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext

Instaling slink on Compaq Deskpro

1999-07-16 Thread Tamas . GAIDOSCH
Hi everybody, I am trying to install slink on a Compaq Deskpro EN Series SSF. I am newcomer to Linux, so these questions might be trivial... 1. I have a 10GB hard disk, but cfdisk shows only slightly less then 8 GB total capacity. What's wrong? 2. What networking module should I select

Re: [possibly off-topic] pppdup package not working properly

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:47:10PM +, S. Massy wrote: yeah it appears to be indeed a bug after having a close look at the logs (and a bit of sleep) I noticed That the modem was alway receiving a sighup right after having established the serial connection (before starting pppd) SNIP I

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:41:49AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: Hello, My ppp connection quit working this afternoon, and before finding out that there was a problem on my ISP's end, I reran pppconfig, and edited a config file or two, but I can't remember exaxtly what I did. Well now my ISP

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew: I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should be able to access it. Well, yes, that's probbaly what it doesn, but

dpkg-database damaged.

1999-07-16 Thread Johann Spies
After trying to use dosemu, my computer stalled and I had to press the reset button en the end. After rebooting, I wanted to remove dosemu and reinstall it and to my amazement dpkg reported that it was not installed. When I ran dselect, it showed about a quarter of the installed packages. Is

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:02:02AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. I'd stick with official debian stuff until you get things

Re: Aic-777x problems

1999-07-16 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Have you tried the unofficial installation diskset from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/? I'm not sure about this specific problem, but it handles a lot of other issues with the various Adaptec SCSI controllers. On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:16:24AM +0200, Jure wrote: Hi All I have a

[slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried plain slrn, but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read, reply, compose, etc. off line. So, I set up the slrnpull.conf like follows: - /etc/news/slrnpull.conf - default 0 0 group.news.one * *

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