[gnu.misc.discuss,comp.software.year-2000] Re: GNU software Year 2000 Ready?

Something about Debian GNU/Linux being year-2000-ready, for those interested. -- Emilio C. Lopes --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Duane Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.software.year-2000 Subject: Re: GNU software Year 2000

Re: What depth is my Xserver running at?

> "SW" == Stephen Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SW> Subject pretty much says it all. I've got a Dell PPro w/ Number 9 SW> Reality 332 (S3 virge). My XF86Config has entries for multiple SW> displays (I think) at different depths. Reading the XFree86 docs SW> last night indicated if there

Re: Newbie Question

But, if you want to access the floppy as a user (not root!) with mtools, you must be in the group "floppy". Edit the file /etc/group to put yourself in. I have something like: floppy:x:25:ecl (My username is "ecl") Hth. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: GNUS and Mail

> "EAP" == Eloy A Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EAP> rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail EAP> package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not... Your guess is right. Rmail is a mail reader for Emacs. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: talk to debian and sun

> "JG" == John Garas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JG> I can talk or ytalk to debian machines but I can't talk to any sun JG> machines. If a sun user tries to talk to me I don't even get a JG> notification. Sun uses an old protocol for talk. There is a talk-like program somewhere in sunsite tha

Re: upgrading with Debian

> "PM" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PM> how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? PM> I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when PM> doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all PM> screwed everything up)... Debian upgrad

Re: dpkg on non-debian systems?

Well, I never tried it. But it should work. There are some instructions out there to make a smooth "upgrade" from some other Linux distribution to Debian. The first step is, of course, install dpkg. If it works with other distributions, it should work with another (nice) flavor of unix. -- Emili

Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority

> "LA" == Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LA> The original idea (of using nice) seems to have been forgotten. LA> Is this not a Good Idea? It's just the right thing, IMHO. And also this anacron thing is worth a look. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: X and xcalc

>>>>> "JM" == John Maheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: >> It's apparently a message from your window-manager. Which one do you >> use? JM> fvwm. Thanks, maybe I have something strange in .fvwmrc?

Re: bash won't see existing binaries

> "JT" == Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JT> After installing the 'unstable' package wn_1.17.11-1.deb the JT> installation failed with a (for me) mysterious error: bash says JT> "/usr/sbin/wn: No such file or directory", and the same thing with JT> all other executables which be

Re: Kernel Question

>>>>> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: >> >>>>> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recen

Re: Kernel Panic

> "SA" == Syd Alsobrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SA> I just recently compiled a new kernel on my linux box, this isn't SA> the first time that I have done this, but this the first one that SA> had a problem. After recompiling the kernel servel times with SA> different options and decided to

Re: Kernel Question

> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this JHV> in an rxvt. But when I tried again from the console, everything JHV> was fine. Don't ask me w

Re: X and xcalc

> "JM" == John Maheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> I was able to solve my rxvt colour problem, by rewiting .Xdefaults. JM> However, now I notice that xcalc gives: JM> Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap JM> Warning: Cannot convert string "%s" to type %s JM> xcalc

Re: Mailers

> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Emacs? Are the mail handling tools of emacs worth looking into? HM> Obscure keystrokes. Not at all if you have the reference card around. :-) I read my mail and my news with Gnus (comes with Emacs), both with the same interface. With

Re: How to compile kernel with debian?

> "MS" == Max Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I used to have a slackware system and thus got used to the old MS> rigamorole involved in compiling a new kernel. However, with MS> debian, there seems to be more steps involved (at least, there are MS> debian readmes distributed with the

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

> "b" == bigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: b> cd /usr/src/Linux With this you go to the directory where the kernel sources are. :-) b> make config Here you will be asked a lot of things. Responding these questions you are saying what you want and what you don't want in your kernel, acording

Re: rxvt colours

> "JM" == John Maheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> After upgrading to 1.3, rxvt can find certain colours: JM> rxvt: can't load color "snow" JM> rxvt: can't load color "blue" JM> I also have this problem using gnuplot. JM> I've tried some of the tricks posted the last few weeks. I have a

Re: Security hole in Debian's /bin/false?

> "EAP" == Eloy A Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EAP> I do not know much about security but Debian's /bin/false is also EAP> a shell script. Are we at risk? Shouldn't /bin/false be changed EAP> to a compiled version? That's no risk. If you do a "C-c" at login, the shell process will be end

Re: Digests

> "T" == Tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: T> Are the various debian lists available in digest formant? If so T> what is the procedure for setting delivery for digest. Thanks Just subscribe to debian-user-digest, etc. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: how to use the X chooser?

> "JRB" == J R Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JRB> On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:41:22 -0400 , Joey Hess wrote: >> I'm trying to set up a machine as an xterm, so I want it to run the chooser >> on bootup and then xdm... the Xaccess file seems to indicate that if you >> make it contain just thi

Re: Is there anything more unstable than Netscape??

> "j" == jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a day, j> when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that Netscape for j> linux is the most unstable but working application I've ever seen. Fix the bugs and submit patches to Netscape.

Re: reload .bash_profile in xterm?

> "SB" == Sylvain Briole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I need to type alias ls='ls --color' in the login window to obtain SB> ls in color. But I have written this command in my .bash_profile. I put all this things in my ~/.bashrc. My ~/.bash_profile just sources it. In this way I have the s

Debian GNU/Linux in the German press!

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Hi all, the following is a rough translation of a short note that appeared in the July edition (pag. 40) of the "iX Magazin", a German computer magazine. =

Re: Apple Personal LaserWriter (serial non-PS) printer...

> "DH" == Dan Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DH> Greetings, I have such a printer, which does not have any sort of DH> PostScript support, so I am wondering if there is any way that I DH> could use it as some other sort of printer (that is, does it DH> emulate anything, or are there any driv

Re: WARNING: g77_0.5.20-1 buggy

Maybe we should wait for 0.5.21. It's in alpha right now. Don't how long it'll take till it gets beta though... -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: enable 16bit and 24bit

> "BM" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, David Puryear wrote: [...] >> This way I can do Ctrl-Alt + or - to change depth. I have 1 meg on >> video card. [...] BM> Maybe the X people could work on better interaction between BM> programs and the X serve

Re: [Q] Best Strategy to install Debian 1.3 using a PCMCIA CDROM?

> "SC" == Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SC> PS: Does my digital signature attachment bother folks reading this SC> list. It's just that sometimes there is more signature than message. Pretty annoying, IMO. -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSC

Re: Unidentified subject!

> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BG> Check /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. BG> It should have a line: BG> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X BG> I've seen this bug a zillion times. BG> I thought that /usr/X11/bin/X was always a wrapper program BG> pointing to the correct server, so why

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

> "TB" == Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The problem is that you have a version of cpp that's incompatible >> with gcc. They have to have the *same* version number. TB> I don't think that's the problem. (I've been trying gcc/cpp TB> 2.7.2.1-8 and gcc/cpp 2.7.2.2-5.) Exactly: cpp 2.7

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

> "JT" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think he should at least watch this list. JT> I think it's unfair for you to demand (by implication) that every JT> developer read debian.user, it's not low-volume and people only JT> have a limited amount of time. Normally yes. But if y

Re: fiddled with gcc/libc, now can't find stddef.h

> "TB" == Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> I installed the latest gcc/libc5 (and other compiling tools) from TB> unstable, had problems, so I've reinstalled the stable TB> versions. But now I get: TB> /usr/include/string.h:33: stddef.h: No such file or directory TB> etc, despite

Re: XTerm-color

> "MS" == Marc Saric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I would like to know what is going wrong with my setup for the MS> Xterm: I put the following lines in my Xresources-file (in MS> /etc/X11) MS> #ifdef COLOR MS> *customization: -color MS> #endif MS> but nothing happened, when I start an xt

Re: Watchdog Trouble

> "SB" == Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> I'm running Debian 1.3.0, kernel 2.0.30, and my software watchdog SB> timer is having trouble starting getting started at boot time. The SB> .deb installed all right, my kernel is configured SB> CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y SB> CONFIG_WATCHD

Re: color_xterm and xfm, where are they?

> "AR" == Alberto Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AR> I installed fvwm95 and the default settings have a color_xterm and AR> xfm icons. I looked in all the debian packages but I could not AR> find them. Can some tell where I can find color_xterm and xfm? Or AR> Is there a better substitute

Re: remote xdm

> "RvdM" == Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RvdM> I once say someone do 'xdm -something', and he got a xdm, with a RvdM> 'remote_host login:' instead of 'localhost login:'. X -query remote_host -- Emilio C. Lopes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

> "PW" == Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PW> A list server that requires a password somewhere in the message PW> and removes it before remailing would be nice. Maybe a just header. Each reader of this list had to setup it just once in their mailreaders and forget it. -- Emilio C. Lo

Re: Are spammers subscibing to the lists?

> "PW" == Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PW> Seems like the incoming spam has picked up, although I haven't PW> been on usenet for weeks. Makes me wonder if we have a spammer PW> subscribed to the lists just to collect email addresses. Anybody PW> else with the same problem? Here in Mu

Re: Xemacs wont install

> "CF" == Carl Flippin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> When I did my initial debian installation, I chose to install CF> emacs ratger that Xemacs because I wasn't sure if I would be CF> running Xwindows. Now that I am using Xwindows, I attempted to CF> install the The "plain" Emacs (GNU Emacs

Re: permissions of CD-ROM device

> "RS" == Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> I've got a working sound card and CD-ROM drive again for the first RS> time in a while, and I'd like to set the permissions up so I can RS> play CDs on it without being root. The drive is an IDE device, RS> /dev/hdc, it's currently

Re: TeTex-Problems

> "G" == Gernot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Thanx to those who replied. I tried all your hints but it still G> does not work. When I do the thing mentioned above I get the G> following: G> mother# initex latex.initex G> ! I can't read tex.pool. G> mother# G> Hmmm. ??? Have you tr

gcc can't find stddef.h

Hi, I'm having problems trying to compile some programs. gcc doesn't seems to find stddef.h. As an example: gcc -O2 -g -Wall -c asmail.c -o asmail.o In file included from asmail.c:16: /usr/include/stdlib.h:34: stddef.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/st