Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd have to kill the clock somehow to logout. Depends

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. | I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window

Re: MTA hostname masquerading, and local mail delivery

1997-12-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are a lot of things about mail delivery that I'm unsure of right now. Having put more time into thinking about exactly what I want, I've become less certain about my configuration needs. Well, you've certainly confused me. :) What I mean is that

Re: PPP: /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} query.

1997-12-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Denney) writes: Why does /etc/ppp/ip-up unnecessarily ifconfig the ppp device? I don't believe this is necessary, as ppp appears to set up the device properly on its own. As I understand it this file is meant for setting up routes, or doing various random hacks at

Re: MTA hostname masquerading, and local mail delivery (correction)

1997-12-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes: snip fetchmail (on my machine) check regularly. This is all completely transparent to the MTA; as far as it's concerned, I might as well have my own domain name. (that is, I don't have to set any variables in my mail reader to tell

Re: changing pine config

1997-12-17 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
In Pine's configuration, look for custom-hdrs or something like that and add the value: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything. Paul -- TO

Re: dpkg and deb files, Thanks

1997-12-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All i need now is some guidence on what files to get next!, i am leaving x-win until the cd arrives, but if anybody has any farorite packages that will be good for a newbie, just some general thinks to help get to grips with linux, fun stuff etc! less and mc,

Re: running chkexploit

1997-12-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: has anyone successfully run chkexploit on Debian 1.3.1? Does it have to be in a certain directory? I put it in my home directory and it says: chkexploit: can't find 'strings' Any ideas? As I have no idea what this (chkexploit) is, I can only guess

Re: Another Darn Upgrade problem/question.

1997-12-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: I have fairly easily upgraded to hamm However I have had some uh ... Kinks. Heres the latest ... I upgrades the ncurses packages to : ncurses3.0 ncurses3.4 which seem to live together nicely from a debian perspective however when I got

Re: HELP: Permission problem in /home with new install

1997-12-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home did not have a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in passwd file. I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got cannot make directory ahurd: readonly

Re: windows

1997-12-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The FILETIME structure is a 64-bit value representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601. It's important, to be able to keep time in nanoseconds on a computer... and as we all know, 1601 is an important date ;-) Now

Re: Unidentified subject!

1997-12-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jan Francsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have a little problem with the installation of Debian Linux. When I start dselect and go to the Access section, I can chose cdrom. My drive spinns up and the dialog beginns. But now I could not chose the right Directory. Evrytime I do so,

Re: How do I use the source package disributions?

1997-12-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 08:30:05PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: Sounds liek a stupid question I know. First the reason. I am trying to get amanda to work on my debian box. I am still on bo and there is no .deb binary, so I think simple i'll

Re: getting started in Xwin (Help)

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: On Fri, 26 Dec 1997 23:35:55 GMT, Rick wrote: Matrox Mystique II, 4mb Getting vga mode to work should be pretty simple. The only reason svga might not be as easy is that I dunno if your vid card is supported and it'd be advisable to find out your

Re: none

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any

Re: dselect ftp

1997-12-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. A brief question, which I suspect may require a verbose answer... Is there a way to install debain using ftp on a dial-up connection? I suspect one may have to install ppp support from an alternate console before dselect will work, but is there a

Re: Printing problem solved

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? ..

Re: Debian on CD.

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? I ordered from linux system

Re: smail vs procmail

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a .forward file with the following line: |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #mario This used to work under sendmail. Now, I just replaced sendmail with smail and I can't get my email

Re: ppp log security (was: couldn't match host name or address)

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, the bo base install disks make /var/log/ppp.log world readable (why?) so that anyone using the system can then see the password. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. Hamish Moffatt wrote: On

Re: problem logging on

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my /var/log/ppp.log Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy

Re: Changing space reserved

1997-12-30 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now. I use my system to recieve mail using

Re: Changing space reserved

1998-01-02 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doing this reminded me of a problem I had trying to defrag the drive. I unmounted it and booted off a floppy, typed edefrag and : stalin# edefrag -d -r /dev/hda1 edefrag 0.61 DEBUG: read_tables() edefrag: bad magic number in super-block What's going

Re: Changing Netscape Bookmarks file

1998-01-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! This isn't strictly debian related but... Does anybody know how to change the default bookmarks.html file w/ Communicator 4.04? In my installation (Netscape 4.03 done with the Debian installer), the file is located in

Re: Equinox Megaport 24cs and Debian

1998-01-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Hogland, Thomas E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently discovered why the company had no problems when I asked for a PC to use to install Debian and learn about it - they are planning (or hoping) to use it as a dial-in server. They have a Megaport 24cs dial-in board from Equinox; I checked

Re: ps to gif

1998-01-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, Is there a way to convert ps (or any possible output from gnuplot) to a gif (or even a jpeg). This needs to be done in a script, so command line programs only. TIA, Brandon I saw a script to do this a while back - the main thing

Re: Internet Access With Debian

1998-01-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~mertind/mybox.html Dear God, I've become standard advice. Heaven preserve me! In any case, the URL as written above won't work - it's really: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Modem problem

1998-01-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently installed Debian Linux and I am now trying to get the modem working. The modem is installed and works under Win95 using Com 2, irq 3, 2F8, it is a pnp capable modem but I have configured it using the jumpers provided. I followed the ppp instructions

Re: Miscellaneous and security

1998-01-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mario Fabiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found some log files in /var/log that are readable by anybody. Maybe they are not particularly critical. I want anyway to change their permissions, for instance to 640, for the owners root.adm. Will be the permissions kept by the logrotate

Re: Netscape 4.04 bug / problem?

1998-01-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer. When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like: netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor' The messages are all something about

Re: !!!!I am not linux smart.!!!!Please Help

1998-01-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Cox wrote: Ok, now it says System Lacks PPP Kernel Support. Either you: 1) Compiled your kernel without selecting ppp in the configuration process; or 2) Compiled with ppp but have not yet run /sbin/lilo to select that

Re: setup help....

1998-01-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am new to debian, Congratulations. and have a few questions. 1) boot reports SCSI: no device found (WD7000 SCSI Card). -- It is right(!), I have no scsi, and no scsi module in my /etc/modules. -- Why does it try to find one? is this OK??

Re: none

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
dave mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields in /etc/ppp.options_out? Look at what the command pon does: cush:~$ which pon /usr/bin/pon cush:~$ cat /usr/bin/pon #!/bin/sh if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ];

Re: Smail config for a ppp box

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Well, much as I prefer the smail configuration I have (on http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html) on my machine, (although really your setup seems to be fine) here's how to do what you want: Put the following at the _end_ of your /etc/smail/directors file (it must be at the end; otherwise

Re: fetchmail fails with smtp error

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: On my hamm system, fetchmail fails with the following message: bob:vc-2:bobfetchmail fetchmail: 29 messages at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (4310 bytes) ..fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error

Re: Debian, xfree86 and netscape...

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
smorrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry all, if this is too far off topic... I've got debian 1.3 up and running on my amd 586, can get thru to my isp via minicom and on the 'net with lynx. I just got netscape ver 3.04 installed, but I've missed something.. I startx, connect to my isp

Re: Smail config for a ppp box

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Kenneth Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also have problems understanding smail. My guess is that the debian package dont contain all documentation. Or that documentation for what you need doesn't exist. I have the almost the same problem as didier belot wrote about. I call my

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:03:39AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Does ppp run the ip-up and ip-down scripts for incoming connections as well as outgoing? I added some commands to my ip-up on the server to set up extra routes when I dial in, but

Re: exmh questions

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: Hi, I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be welcome. However I'm currently

Re: Lynx: proxy server

1998-01-06 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing obvious in either the man page or the online help. Open up /etc/lynx.cfg (the system-wide configuration file) and search for proxy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: PPP problem

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
OSWALD jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have set the ppp debian package My modem is responding when I use minicom I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly. And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel Or when I type dmesh | grep PPP I

Re: Netscape helpers, or replacing /bin/sh

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mark Montague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've established that Communicator always fires off helper apps using similar syntax by invoking /bin/sh. My question is, if I were to replace /bin/sh (which is a symlink to /bin/bash) with something else (ash, or

Re: works under Red Hat, not Debian

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have made myself an executable octave script called octave_test.mex and made it executable with chmodand the #!/interpreterpath mechanism. On both Red Hat and Debian, typing ./octave_test.mex runs the script as expected. I made also a c code wrapper for

Re: Netscape helper aplications

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there. I've installed Netscape 4.04 by hand and i'm getting trouble running helper applications. The command that Netscape issue is something like sh ((foo /tmp/bar); rm /tmp/bar) and if i run that command directly from the BASH command prompt it fails but if i

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy, quick question: my supplier offers me the following boards: S3 TRIO PCI S3 VIRGE PCI Mystique Millenium 2MB Millenium 4MB no further information is given. If I don't care about graphic

Re: PPP not finsihing connection for Earthlink

1998-01-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bill Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian Linux 1.3, and I have set up ppp to the best of my abilities, however when I logon Earthlink Networks accepts my username and password and the debug says that the connection is beginning: ppp0 --- ttyS1 However, I get the LCP problem

Re: PPP not getting LCP

1998-01-08 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bill Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little bit of my log file in hopes someone can help. I asked about this earlier and I figured this might make it easier to diagnose... I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still can't

Re: Segmentation fault

1998-01-08 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear folks, I am quite a begginer of Linux but I enjoy it very much and I really appreciate this list. I have a small problem: after trying to install gopherd*deb,the installation of which I unfortunately stoped presing Ctrl-C, I found that I

Re: telnet and ftp

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Robert Eckard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box. When attempted, it says something like connection refused from server. Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem? Well, this also explains your mail problem. I assume that you have

Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the line /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0 in /etc/fstab I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is there a change so that it can automount

Re: What about a Linux key?

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello PC users! What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those Window 95 keys on all new keyboards ? They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch virtual consoles, leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative for

Re: vt100 On a wyse terminal

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am trying to get an old Wyse terminal going on my linux box, all is well, but I have not been able to get keys like PageUp, PageDown, Home and End to work. The Function Keys were another story, they were comparitively easy. strings like {ESC}OP,

Re: mounting win95 partition was Re: multiple fs types for user floppy access?

1998-01-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: /dev/fd0/floppy/msdos msdos user,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy/ext2 ext2 user,rw 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy/vfat vfat user,rw 0

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Thomas E. Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine. I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the last round of questions posts on the topic, I've found that I can stably export xauthority by xauth list $DISPLAY and pasting from MIT on to xauth add $DISPLAY pastehere is there a way to pass this information

Re: Xresources, Xdefaults, and xmailbox

1998-01-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set up xmailbox to play a .wav when I get new mail, and I've got this in .Xresources xmailbox*mailSndFile: ~/music/samples/1308.wav xmailbox*mailSndComm: /usr/bin/bplay %s xmailbox may not understand about ~ - try specifying the file

Re: Those things you swore you would never do

1998-01-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: heres the story... I need sambathe samba package I got said it needed libc6...so I tried to install libc6 it said libc5 was the problem and it couldn't oinstall... so rather than thinking...I found the dpkg options to tell it to remove

Re: configuring sound card

1998-01-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Keathley Keathley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read the how to's on how to install my sound card but when I type make config it is giving me a msg that says something about missing target, I can't remember exactly what it said. What am I doing wrong if any thing. Is there a different

Re: Partitioning problems

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
If you still have the partion magic software, can you try to move the fat32 partition to a primary partition and then make all your extended partitions linux partitions. I find that separating linux and fat32 as much as possible is generally a good thing. ic382 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: 'make config'

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Keathley Keathley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my kernal? I even installed one from

Re: What to do after rm -r /usr?

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a rm -r /usr by mistake. He did stop it after a while, though, so that he can at least still do a little bit on his system. Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back to a stable

Re: [Q] ~/.xinitrc is not being read

1998-01-14 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is .xinitrc valid when using xdm -- or do I have to use something else now? .xsession is generally used for xdm - you can change this if you want by editing /etc/X11/Xsession. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Why /floppy -- why not /mnt/fd or something?

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Peter Prohaska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all! Please dont flamme me for that unimportant question. But I was wondering, why `/dev/fd*'s are mounted at /floppy. When reading fsstnd, you would expect them to be mounted in /mnt/someting. Since /floppy is neither one of those un*x

Re: printing

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question for the C crowd: I have a program which I wish to print an ordered text file. In the Linux Programmers Guide, the printer chapter shows how to directly talk to the printer port. I'd like to be able to send the text to the appropriate printer filter (and

Re: odd login prompt

1998-01-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my hamm system if I misspell my password and get a new prompt, it appears that issue is not parsed, simply printed. My prompt is something like0 Debian \s 2.0 hamm \n. On initial login it is fine. I have discovered that this happens even if I just hit

Re: xauth problem

1998-01-16 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remco Blaakmeer wrote: snip Don't do that. The minute root writes to that file (when root logs in to X or uses the xauth command), it becomes owned by root and the user can't log in to X anymore. What you could do is using ssh. This command

Re: statically linked ls ???

1998-01-16 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Xavier Bergade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd need a statically linked ls (ie no need of lib/ld-linux.so.1 and lib/libc.so.5) Is there any binary already available? If not how can I do it myself? (I have the fileutils source tar) thanx. Here's instructions based on what I did to build

Re: Moving from ethernet to a modem

1998-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-) He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will ghave to move from

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Þann 18-Jan-98 skrifar Timothy M. Hospedales: My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I

Re: [HELP] Need name/copy of script which loads modules at startup

1998-01-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Myron Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A while back, when I was playing with my kernel, I wanted to stop loading the modules at startup so I moved/deleted the script or part thereof from the rc.? directory. The plan was that I would put it back in but then I forgot. Now I would like to

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) Daniel Martin wrote: What is the result of the following commands: xmodmap xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]'

Re: Gzip + Dselect after libc6 upgrade

1998-01-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: Error update: This problem only occurs when I launch Dselect from KDE like this; sudo -u root Dselect If I log into a console and use dselect as root it installs fine. Defo a permissions thing. I've seen similar permissions problems with sudo

Re: Secure Shell

1998-01-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
D. Hageman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I get a version of Secure Shell for Debian? I tried to compile the source I retrieved off the internet, but it didn't work for me. ~ D. Hageman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IF ssh were available on US debian mirrors for download from outside the US,

Re: how can i create linux partition?

1998-01-23 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The install process formats the partition for Linux. You just need to create the partition or empty space for one beforehand - it can be a Win95 partition or whatever. The install program will ask which partition(s) you want to format for

Re: question

1998-01-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jonathan Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:13:22 -0800 JJS wrote: From: JJS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 00:13:22 -0800 Subject: question To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have installed Linux. I am using the BASH shell.

Re: xdm startup?

1998-01-24 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in

Re: Out of ideas with ppp

1998-01-25 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jeff Gutliph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've been trying to get PPP to work by following the PPP How-To. I called my ISP and got the required info. When I asked about PAP they didn't seem to know what I was talking about. So, I assume they don't use PAP. snip Connect NAS45ATL-N line

Re: Dselect

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Steve Koop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi There Does anyone know how to reinstall a program without purging the program then reinstalling it Other words trying to force reinstall using dpkg.. . I don't think it's possible through dselect; you have to work directly with dpkg, which means

Re: Somewhat off topic...

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
DAVID B. TEAGUE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes 20 - 30 attempts with pppd will get a connection. Using kermit, I can program a loop to retry until it conects. I can't start ppp that way. Is there a way to program the ppp chat script or otherwise programm a dial loop that will allow me

Re: Commands

1998-01-26 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, y'all, Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :) A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find them. One is the command executed by root on a

Re: Network config -- slip + null modem

1998-01-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: The pppd man page mentions the tty_name option as requiring pppd to make a ppp connection using the specified device, but does not mention that pppd will then read the file /etc/ppp. README.linux and the comments in the file

Re: switching virtual terminals from C

1998-01-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Brick) writes: HEllo! Does anyone know of a way to change, in C, _which_ virtual terminal is currently on the screen? I just have no idea where to look for this. Thanks. Aaron Brick. Well, the chvt command from the kbd package does this. Therefore, I'd

Re: debian and MCI paging problem...

1998-01-28 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
david oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have created a script providing the pin # and the message (which is no problem) but HOW do I pass this information back to MCI to get it processed if I'm not using a web based browser to fill in the message fields. Is this something that I am over

Re: Netscape communicator helper applications and bash

1998-01-29 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Jan Weytjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is the (mis)matching of the parentheses. When run in an xterm window, I get the same error message. Apparently, the problem is with bash (/bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash) which complains about about the following syntax: ((echo A); echo B)

Re: debian re-install?

1998-01-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - Pardon my ignorance - but is it possible to use the debian install program (from the floppies) to recompile the kernel with additional modules (e.g. PLIP) without having to reinstall the whole OS and current file system? Thanks Jerry I

Re: man segmentation fault

1998-01-31 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? See if running the command 'mandb -c' while root fixes this problem. If it does, the problem is that the man index

Re: procmail and smail

1998-02-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody have any idea what should I put in my .forward file to get procmail working. I've already put |IFS=' 'p=/usr/bin/procmailtest -f $pexec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME in .forward and took a procmailrc from the examples, but it

Re: faxing using linux?

1998-02-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Keathley Keathley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am new to linux and learning a lot very fast. I am doing good learning on my own and reading many linux and unix books. But , my wife needs to fax something and I don't have any clue on how to go about it. I think I am supposed to use mgetty

Re: .forward and .procmailrc

1998-02-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- 02/04/1998 22:36:19: [m0y0BYR-000I3ZC] Received FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HO\ST:localhost PROTOCOL:smtp PROGRAM:sendmail ORIG-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE:462 02/04/1998

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks in. Look in /etc/init.d/boot.

Re: Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

1998-02-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and \q

1998-02-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Take out the trailing \q.. that turns the echo back on. I see. Yes, I think I need the second \q before the ata to resume logging real strings. However, using just a single \q suppresses the first occurrence but

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

1998-02-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs slow load post. Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. In particular, i have just run an strace on

Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?

1998-02-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have been sent files of this sort: jpmaster.dvi This is a application/mac-binhex40 Check out the program frommac in the macutils package (which contains all sorts of utilities for converting to/from binhex and macbinary formats). -- TO

Re: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop

1998-02-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow is nowhere to be found, even though ps shows it

Re: xauth for my wife over my xdm X-windows session?

1998-02-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
This doesn't address your specific question, but what about this: I assume that when your wife uses linux, she normally logs in from the console (on one of the text mode consoles), and occasionally then wishes to run a few X applications. If so, then she can just do: startx -- :1 This will give

Re: [General Q] Filtering mail from IMAP server with procmail

1998-02-11 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
You should check out fetchmail - it connects to an IMAP or POP server and retrieves your mail, then delivers it via SMTP to localhost; essentially it takes mail on the server and causes it to become mail on the local system, so that any filtering you then have on the local system will work.

A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!) --Bill. Well, this

Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 08:25:01AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: snip Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error - not a great idea. I really am surprised that there's no standard backup method for debian that: 1) backs

Re: Diff window managers for diff users

1998-02-16 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
David R Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Krzysztof Adamski wrote: Hi What do I have to do to let different users on the same machine use different window mamager? I have installed afterstep, and my wife was using it, but leter I added fvwm2, now she wants after step back, but I

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