ultra simple mail aliases

2001-01-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
argh. This is a RTFM problem, but I can't figure out which FM T R . . . I need to set up trivially simple mailing aliases. Particularly, I want a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go to a list of specified addresses (just 4, typically) at other sites. (This is for communication between teams in

Re: linux disk editor/fat tarbal recover [time running out :( ] (fwd)

2000-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
While I'm at it: I expect it would make more sense to search for magic numbers for the tarballs. But how in the world would I do this. Does anyoen actually understand lde (it's man page doesn't have directions for what it claims to do through ncurses . . .) -- Prof. Richard

linux disk editor/fat tarbal recover [time running out :( ]

2000-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
ld just beg the question. So what do I do once I find which one has my tarball (or at least the beginning?) I've compiled lde, the only disk editor I could find on freshmeat. But I have no idea what to do with the information. I assume that somehow I create a new file starting at the correct loca

lp0/lp1 defaults [was:Printer Trouble]

2000-08-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [This will probably not thread properly. I'm forced to use netscape for outgoing mail, and it won't let me paste the referenbces. Keith klamoured, > Debian User wrote: > > Where can I find some docs on how to install a printer on Debian (wood

lynx gone mad!

2000-08-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
y mode from expert to novice, and a couple of other defaults restored.] I haven't upgraded; it's the same version that was running fine on Tuesday. Is anyone else seeing this? [And what's it going to lose tomorrow??? :(] hawk  -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178

printing FAQ? (simple parallel)

2000-08-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
the daemon, but nothing happens. I've tried playing around with lines like gs -sDEVICE=ljet2p -sOutputfile= | cat > /dev/lp0 syllabus.f00.micro.ps also to no avail I think I'm stuck help! :) Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These o

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Jeff Green wrote: > > Is said disk IDE or SCSI, if IDE IDE. I can't afford scsi :) > and your motherboard is over 18 months > or so old you will need to flash the motherboard bios. Uh, oh :) It's from the first set of 603's that worked (once they dropped the third sdram slot), so it's near

bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
let me initialize the disk and be on my way. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.

Re: sendmail not delivering at all [was: fetchmail is eating my mail]

2000-08-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
brian moore wrote: > Delete the 'smtphost' line. Unless you really want to snarf mail from > email.psu.edu and send it to smtp.psu.edu hmm, it still eats everything. I'm starting to think that sendmail is the problem. Here's the new .fetchmailrc, done from scratch: # Configuration create

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
At least two people replied rapidly, even by this list's standars. More replies may have been eaten gathering the info below . . . :( John Hasler wrote: > Richard E. Hawkins writes: > > Fetchmail is now eating my mail. > You may need to add 'antispam -1' to your

a hack that solves my dropped network (sort-of)

2000-08-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
ard (an old isa etherpro). I'm not going to miss this machine when I get a new one . . . -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.

fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
ek . . . [I've set one of teh reply-to addresses to a safe m achine] -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.

Re: losing network regularly

2000-08-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
jon jesticulated, >are you using dhcp at all Nope; it's a local network, and I'm the only non-windows machine (which the tech people don't like, but my boss interfered on my behalf). -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State Un

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

2000-08-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: need to constantly force-reload networking In-Reply-To: Message from Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of "Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:54:58 +0200." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-T

losing network regularly

2000-08-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
running apt-get update. I'm sure this is a simple rtfm matter, but which fm? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pa

need to constantly force-reload network

2000-08-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
n webpages (the debian search page where I might find who's asked this before :) and services (running apt-get update [yesterday]) kill the daemon. I'm sure it's a simple rtfm problem (and I think I solved this years ago with pre-1.1), but which fm? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Es

using outgoing smtp server with mh (where's the fm? :)

2000-08-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
sent to my outgoing smtp server with the appropriate name and password. Could someone point me to the fm I should rt? :) thanks hawk, still desparately negotiating with the powers that be to have unix on the desktop. -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylva

need to constantly force-reload networking

2000-08-14 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
ms to kill me. Help! hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University (814) 375-4700 http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of Penn State until it pays my retainer.

Re: combining unused space into files

2000-07-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that > > was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into > > files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces > > (so I can manipulate them in the 40M partition normally ass

combining unused space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I thought I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have arrived . . . IN my last-ditch attempt to recover a long text (actually lyx) file that was deleted, I want to combine all of the unused space on my drive into files. There's about 80M altogether, and I want to break it into 10M pieces (

Re: my mail daemon "doesn't like recipient" ?

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
>It's apparent that the MTA on 146.186.61.98 (a.k.a fac13.ds.psu.edu) >is rejecting mail address to user 'hawk'. But it's not rejecting all of it; just some. The debian list always comes through, for example (at least I think it's always). aack. Now bells ring. The actual address of this ma

my mail daemon "doesn't like recipient" ?

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I seem to receive most of my mail, but some isn't coming through. For example, sending to me from yahoo, my sister received the bounce message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [her address] Subject: failure delivery Content-Length: 1069 Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the f

putting existing disk space into files

2000-07-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I need to turn the ~80mb of free space on my laptop into files so that I can search them. I"m figuring to make them ~10mb each so that I can grep them silly, filter them, etc., in a last-ditch attempt to find my paper (I have a 40mb swap partition that can be used for this until I succeed).

scanning physical disk to retrieve file

2000-07-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Agh. this was low priority, and just went really high . . . I almost managed an "rm -r *~" to get rid of the backup files from emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself. As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-

Re: display export??

2000-07-17 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> Simply execute 'xhost +localhost' before doing a su. the use of xhost to do this is grequentlyh considered a security risk by folks who understand such things (But I'm not one of them, so don't ask me to explain why :) There's (at least) two secure ways to do things. One is to, as the logge

ownership & permissions of /var/spool/news/control/

2000-07-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I got a message of problems back from the news daemon as it tried to work with this directory. It cant do anything with it, as it is root:root and 755. I assume this is wrong. Did something weird happen to me, or should I file a bug report? hawk

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > So I've used > > mem=160 > > Am I missing something obvious? > Yes. The units i.e. mem=160M ahh. That did it. gee, if it won't run in 160 bytes of ram, the port to the 8051 is doomed :) thanks

standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it in the archives. I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) So I've used mem=160 at lilo, but the kernel panics trying to cre

Re: molassus after bios reset & massive ipx collisions

1999-12-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Richard Replied, > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 05:13:52PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > On alot of MB there is a jumper which if shorted resets the bios, probably > thats what they did. When you do this you lose _all_ your settings. > Make sure internal and external cache are

molassus after bios reset & massive ipx collisions

1999-12-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
ly doesn't talk to the controller (and in fact stops the boot during the bios--can't even get into the bios configuration due to trying to talk to the cdrive. rick, rustrated p.s. The machine is a gateway p5-120; the drive a caviar 1G. -- Prof

Re: liloing hdc as hda

1999-11-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
hat I made the same typo twice . . . The bios functions, but I can't change it to allow floppy boots, as I don't know what it actually has as the password . . . rick | -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.

liloing hdc as hda

1999-11-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
disk errors? I understand it's trying to write, but is this a bug? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.

Re: How do I get rid of a package that won't purge

1999-10-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I am trying to get of a package using dpkg --purge but it won't saying > package is in a very inconsistent state and must be reinstalled. Dpkg > can't install the package. Now I am in a catch 22. Please help when all else fails, you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/status so that the program shows as

Re: scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)

1999-10-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> There's a gradebook program floating about that I saw mentioned > somewhere. Perhaps a search on freshmeat? Don't know what your > particular needs are, but a text output piped to a2ps might do you > okay. You could probably work up something pretty good with postgresql > if you want to

scaling on print for starcalc 5.1 (and nuking desktop)

1999-10-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've given up on starcalc 3.0 for my gradesheets for a couple of reasons (scaling, hanging on start), can't use wingz reliably (it crashes, has lost data, and has scrambled the file irretrievably when crashing, as well as losing sort ranges at random, and gnumeric isn't even close to ready (b

Re: Flow chart drawing program

1999-10-18 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I am looking for a program to make flow chart, mainly for drawing > dependencies for program design. > Any good programs available for the job? Xcircuit is intended for schematic design, but I find that it works well for many types of graphs. rick --

Re: how to remove a broken package (long)

1999-10-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
When *all* else fails, you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, and tell it that the package isn't there. Then install it again, and purge. At this point, all of its files should be removed, and you should be able to install normally. Again, this is the *last* resort, when playing with fire is all

Re: Can't print to remote printer

1999-10-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I had a couple working along the lines of printername:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/spoolname:\ :rm=:rp=raw where I had to create the directory /var/spool/lpd/spoolname. If you try to have multiple printers share that spool, things get flaky. Then again, lpd's

Re: In case anyone was wondering where kde.tdyc.com went.

1999-10-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
[While I am a lawyer, the following is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.] > It is not that Qt is incomaptible it is the fact that KDE is linked to > software under a non GPL license and KDE is under the GPL. This > violates the GPL.

wingz ate my file!

1999-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Fortunately, I'd already printed it out (midterm grades). Wingz whirled, clicked, and rattled the hard drive half to death (but so does anything on this machine), then segfaulted. It now has an error reading the file. Does anyone know how to recover these? I'd hate to have to type it all i

mail not deleted from spool on inc with exmh

1999-09-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've seen this problem a couple of times before, and it's happening again. My mail is not being deleted from the spool when exmh incorporates it. As a result, the same messages are incorporated again and again. Using inc from the command line seems to solve the problem. Sometimes (not alwa

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
john jousted, > "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > john jabbed, > > > http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html > > but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. > See this. > http://www.wingz-us.com/wingz/news/linux.html > My copy is FREEWARE as v

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> GNUmeric is arguably one of the best if not the best spreadsheet. ??? Unless I'm missing something big, it's missing most of the features one expects in a spreadsheet. It has the dispaly, a handful of buttons, and apparently some functions. It doesn't even pretend to be closeto finished.

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
john jabbed, > Rob Mahurin wrote: > > Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? > http://www.wingz.com/wingz/index.html but it's not free; it asks for $50 as shareware. rick --

scp trying to launch netscape???

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
What in the world have I done that causes this? (the file doesn't copy, either) smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3>scp INSTALLATION hawkins.cba.uni.edu: Enter passphrase for RSA key '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': [1] 4569 smithttyp1:lynx2-8-3>netscape: Command not found. Write failed flushing stdout buffer. write stdo

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
rob rote, > "Richard E. Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing > > enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, > > is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoid

Re: Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
noah noted, > As you can imagine, I quickly ran out of space on the Win98 partition, so, > using Linux's fdisk, I created a new FAT partition. Then I booted to > Win98 and formatted this new partition. Windows was fine with this. > However... > When I rebooted to Linux, all the logical partition

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Kris Kried, > I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to > know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? If you change "prefer" to "dislike less," then me :) I still use emacs for some things that I haven't figured out how to get vim to do. Xemacs has extra b

Re: Printer stair stepping

1999-09-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Guilherme guided, > Well... The solution I found wasn't really 'The Debian Way' of doing it, but > worked perfectly... > I just installed the lpr & magicfilter DEB's via DPKG & RedHat's printtool (& > control-panel, needed by printtool) via alien, and now my printing is just > fine (probably

Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

1999-09-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
thanks, I'll give this a try. I'd sure like to avoid buying the disk if possible. Rick --

Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive

1999-09-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Guilherme grunted, > > But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary > > any more since the 80's. > More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something > to do > with geometry parameters, if I'm not mistaken)... I have an old one I'd like to

Re: lpd: daemon not started.

1999-09-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
justin jabbered, > I also get "no daemon present" with this command but printing > nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you > start printing. There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink since day one. I've observed it on three machines now, two of whic

Re: Linux checks only 8 chars of the password...

1999-09-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
william wailed, > Anyway, 8 meaningful characters is plenty for adequate security provided > that your password is a good one. Unless, of course, it starts with "MyPassword" before getting to the good stuff :) --

Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-13 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
mirek mentioned, > > But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of > > > > Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899 > > Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2 > > > > messages. Is this me, or is there something wrong o

Re: IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
mario mentioned, > > But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of > > This is exactly what happened here. My 2.2. generated a lot of collision > on the network and I was cut off (my fiber was removed) till I > downgraded to 2.0.38. > > I think 2.2 is the problem. Seems th

IPX, 2.2, and collisons [was: 2.2.* on slink]

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
mario mentioned, > IPX also has a bug that prevents me to use 2.2. with my slink. I'm using > 2.0.38 on the machine that needs IPX support and 2.2 in the rest. In that case, i'm not going to worry about the problem that's stopping me from booting with 2.2 :) But can someone tell me what causes

Re: can't send mail back and forth between debian & local domain

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Mark mentioned, > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:20:12PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > I can send mail from my debian box to anywhere except my local domain. > You don't provide any details of your configuration - which MTA are you > using (smail?), and how did you se

Re: Magicfilter question?

1999-09-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Look for your the config file for your printer in /etc/magcfilter/ , and check for the binaries it uses (or just grep it for "bin"). It turned out that the deskjet uses djscript. I found the package by grepping a Contents-i386 file from the base directory the distribution, but grepping /var/l

Re: Magicfilter question?

1999-09-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I have been trying to get my printer to operate correctly using > magicfilter and it does not have the correct filter forit to work > correctly. However the printer works great with Wordperfect for Linux. > Is there a way to replace gv and its filter with WP and its filter, or a > way to use the

can't send mail back and forth between debian & local domain

1999-09-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I can send mail from my debian box to anywhere except my local domain. The debian box is hawkins.cba.uni.edu, and any mail to any account at uni.edu yields the result, hawkins at uni.edu: loses; [USER] 550 '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' not matched: (ERR_100) unknown user. post: 1 addressee undeliv

more on setting up print queue with gs for novel printer

1999-09-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Hmm, I also just found that gs can print to it without resetting gs to gslj, if that makes a difference. rick --

setting up print queue with gs for novel printer

1999-09-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
The documentation for ncp suggests that it is possible to create a normal print que for sending to novell networked printers. However, I can find no hints for this either there or in anything to do with printcap. To complicate matters, it is not a postscript printer. However, I have found t

Re: printer setup

1999-09-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> i would try to run magicfilterconfig. I finally got this to work, to my surprise (makes me about 1 for 6 with that package). Ultimately it took purging it and lpr, reinstalling & configuring lpr, and only then letting it try to install magicfilter. Oh, and for a deskjet 500, it is absolut

Re: Printer configuration

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I don't know how to do network printing. Sorry. I'm sure there is a way > to do it though. entries like this: kh-lj5:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/kh-lj5:\ :rm=kh-lj5.somedomain.something:rp=raw will send to network printers. rick --

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
ron rattled, > Richard said: > > > That puts you a cd behind :) The single-floppy is a downloaded floppy, > which then sucks the rest off the net without even having a cd drive. And > the floppy costs a lot less :) > True, but incredibly slow, unless you have your own T1. A standard > worksta

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> How does zero floppy install stack up? > I installed my latest Debian slink from a single CD with no floppy > at all. In fact the floppy did not work at all, a fact I didn't > discover until much later. Once the system was up, I pulled all the > updates off the net. That puts you a cd behin

Re: Apple LaserWriter IINT

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> Anyone had any success getting a Apple LaserWriter IINT working with > linux? Was that one of the non-postscript printers? If so, ignore this :) If not, just use it as a garden variety printer. Now If only i could figure out the pins to swap on the cable to use my original DeskWriter as a

Re: CVS problem: cannot open /root/.cvsignore

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I'm shooting in the dark here, but when I had this type of problem, it was from doing the initial checkout as root, and later as a user who had rwx access to the source directory, but lacked read access to the root directory where the cvs key was stored (/root/.cvsignore). rick --

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-03 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Damon dabbled, > Seeing Debian is such an internet-centric (ie., apt) distribution, it > would be nice if you could install the whole thing with one the one or > two boot disks (I'm sure you can with redhat). Even if the boot disk had > a little FTP client (like wget or curl), so you could switch

Re: Another try - help to fix arrow keys in X

1999-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
kent kalled, >Anyone know how to fix my non-functioning arrow keys, page-up/down keys, > etc in X? They work fine in the console mode. Not having these keys is > pretty crippling. The first step is to use xev, which will tell you what events are happening. If you post what it tells you keys are

latex not finding the .tfm file after making it

1999-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
*arghg* this new installation is driving me nuts. This all used to work with a 600dpi laser printer, tehn successfully converted to freebsd, and now it won't work again. I have the environmental variables set as follows in .cshrc: setenv TEXINPUTS "~/isuthesis/:" setenv PKFONTS ":/home/hawk/f

a2ps using too big of paper on dj500, and magicfilter eats text

1999-09-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I briefly had magicfilter working, but now it simply spins the desket, draws no paper, and prints nothing. a2ps is being just as uncooperative, making pages that are a bit too long. I found a default setting to change in gv (now it's letter), and /etc/paper reads "letter". How in the world

light spreadsheet for stable?

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I need to find as light as possible a spreadsheet that still works reasonably will for stable. I'll recall Thumper's daddy's advice, and not say anything at all about oleo and siag. Staroffice 5 in 16mb is out of the question, an gnumeric seems to want gnome, which suggest that it too will s

Re: Text processing under Linux - newbie question

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> (Lyx is based on Tex Actually, it isn't :) It used to describe itself as a front end for latex, but it went beyond that a couple of years ago. Therehad been plans for 1.2 to use latex as its file format, but that was dropped. It imports almost all latex with reLyX, and still outputs by

Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?

1999-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
nathan nattered, > True package management, including installation scripts. And a process > in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a > standard for file locations, and other stuff. But the biggest single reason: this list. Most problems get resolved in a matte

Re: No cut/paste on lynx

1999-08-31 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > > I can cut and paste with left and middle mouse button without problem > > > from one xterm to another. Not so if lynx is running in an xterm: I > > > can neither cut nor paste. > > > > Hold down the SHIFT key when you select text in lynx. Works for me > > either in a text console (gpm) or X

Re: fonts and tetex

1999-08-31 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> When I have added new fonts and run texhash I will still on occasion > get failures and messages like those you report. > > The only way I have found to fix it is to run metafont by hand on the > relevant source files (i.e. those with the .mf extension in the > `source' directory) and move the

Re: mail loop with exmh?

1999-08-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
let me revise that--it is not a loop for the open mailbox. Closer inspection shows that exmh is not deleting mail from the spool after incorporation, causing it to be reincorporated every few minutes. I've been using exmh for about three years, with the same configuration (save for different p

Re: Problem with cfdisk - need help!

1999-08-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> when i run linux cfdisk, i go to partition the hard drive to create linux > partitions, and i get the following message: > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition > Press any key to exit fdisk > > i can 'view partitions' with cfdisk. it shows me that there are 2 FAT32 > partitions

mail loop with exmh?

1999-08-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
My unread messages are breeding! My configuration for exmh has largely been unchanged for years, save for those needed to accomodate for the differences between FreeBSD and debian in .maildelivery. Suddenly, the messages oin the open mailbox are duplicating themselves every few minutes. And

Re: install

1999-08-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> I should like to install the X-Windows system under my Debian-Linux > 1.3.1. distribution, but I have some problem with using the mouse. > It seems so easy to install the mouse, but this is the case. I have a > two-button Microsoft mouse connected to the PS/2 port and it doesn't > response. Wha

Re: Page length using a2ps

1999-08-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > I have a text document that is formatted with page length = 68 > rather than the 65 which is the default for a2ps. However, whenever I try > to format the text using a2ps into a 68 lines per page document (using the > --lines-per-page option), it doesnt seem to make a difference : I stil

Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> The order should be > > apply patch > make config > make-kpkg clean <= > make-kpkg --revision .. Ah-hah! thanks. After reading the manpage, I had thought that the distclean launched by clean would wipe out the config. Looking again, it seems that it saves .config somewher

make-kpkg and 2.2.12

1999-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I actually managed to successfully build 2.2.11 with make-kpkg on the first try. Hours later, the .12 patch came out, and I applied it in / usr/src/linux, and tried again. But it bombs with: if test -f debian/official -a -f debian/README.Debian ; then \ install -p-o root -g ro

ipx printing, the parallel port, and ipx collisions

1999-08-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I had the deskjet attached to this thing working, at least for postscript printing. I then installed ncp to use the novell laser printers, successfully printed to one, and now I can't print to the deskjet by my side. Even printing something trivial, I get hawkinsttyp0:hawk>lpq waiting for lp

I don't seem to have gotten fonts with my tetex

1999-08-25 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
This is one I've never seen before. I don't seem to have gotten fonts with my tetex. Here's the really simple file: %% This LaTeX-file was created by Wed Aug 25 16:58:29 1999 %% LyX 1.0 (C) 1995-1999 by Matthias Ettrich and the LyX Team %% Do not edit this file unless you know what you are d

Re: slink --> potatoe (hi dan quayle! :)

1999-08-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
seth supplied, > > btw -- the reason why I decided to try debian was its users -- many of the > users evangelize debian, absolutely lauding it. The support. Oh, and the support :) Every year or two something gets me irked, and I go play with FreeBSD. Just try to get a question answered there

Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card

1999-08-24 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jens wrote, > > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > Ok, here's the problem. Your network by the looks of it should be a class B > network, which means that your netmask should be 255.255.0.0. That should fix > it. james wrote, > : NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > Try "NETMASK=255.255.0.0" > : NETWORK=134.161.248

Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card

1999-08-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
jens wrote, > Ok. SIOCADDRT is the ioctl call which adds a route. My guess is that the > error comes when the script is trying to add the default route, i.e. the > default gateway that's specified isn't reachable on the network your > ethernet card is connected to (at least according to the route

Re: escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card

1999-08-23 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> What exactly do you mean when you say you can't get the network to > 'start'? /etc/init.d/network/start returns the message SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable with no other information. I switched to the tulip driver as James Lewis suggested, and it loads with no messages (de4x5 gave me

escaping novell network and 21041 ethernet card

1999-08-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
The new^h^h^h machine waiting on my desk when I arrived here was, as I expected, on the dark side. I've performed the preliminary exorcisms, but can't get the network going. This thing is on a novell network, and has an SMC ethernet card with a dec 21041 chip. The de4x5 module installs just

Re: Installation on an i386 with *only* 40 Mb HDD

1999-04-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Tom's Unix on a Floopy (do an alta vista search) could be a good place tos start. Boot from the floppy, then use it to set up & install on the hard disk . . . rick --

Re: lost sound after changing video card

1999-04-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> Having just gotten an SB16 to work yep. > Irq 7 > io 220 > dma 1 > dma 5 > There are also io's for 320? and 388. (I think, I had to change mine around > alot, so I might be wrong with these two). > I had to recomple the module using the values I needed before the card would > work. And activat

Re: lost sound after changing video card

1999-04-28 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Allen added, > On 1999-04-27 16:23, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > The only obviuos thing that I think think of is IRQ, DMA or IO > conflict which would prevent the (sound) driver to prosper. The > device busy is normal though - at least, I've seen that with wor

lost sound after changing video card

1999-04-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I don't think that these should be related, but I've lost my sound after changing video cards. eyry:/home/hawk# lsmod Module Size Used by ne 5372 1 83905944 0 [ne] eyry:/home/hawk# modprobe sb /lib/modules/2.2.6/misc/sb.o: init_mod

Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

1999-04-27 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
raymond rote, > On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > i can remember approximate partition sizes and order. > > Is there any way to recover partition table and the system > > as well ? > Well, *maybe*. If it's only approximate, you could be in trouble. I'd > advise looking for a disk

Re: How unstable is unstable?

1999-04-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
steve stipulated, > >So my question is: Does unstable mean you will have all kinds of crashes and > >>unexpected behavior, or does it mean that some programs might have more > >bugs >than running in the stable distribution? > Unstable means that at any time a package could be a show stopper

Re: building pcmcia modules for 2.2.6

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Shaleh shaid, > On 21-Apr-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: ... > > It's time to update the kernel for my laptop,and I'm trying to use > > make-kpkg to do this. I've managed to get the kernel image .deb built, > > but not the pcmcia stuff. > >

KDE license (was: redhat need not apply)

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Ray rote, > > that is essentially the GPL with an additional clause that it can be > > linked with Qt. ... > > The KDE people need to track down the authors of the GPL code that much of > > their project is based on, though, to get permission to use it under the > > new license. > I suspect au

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #721

1999-04-22 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> unsubscribe clue :) --

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