Kernel Question

1997-07-07 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi. questions, questions How will I know if my kernel is to big for a zImage? Reason for asking I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Start Screen Dump

Re: CD Installation

1997-07-07 Thread Kevin Traas
> > I am planning to obtain your official LINUX two CD Set. I have looked at > > the installation page at your site and there was no instruction for a CD > > installation. Could you please provide me a set of instruction of the CD > > installation, the more detailed the better. The CD set on t

Re: CD Installation

1997-07-07 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: > Hi. > > I am planning to obtain your official LINUX two CD Set. I have looked at > the installation page at your site and there was no instruction for a CD > installation. Could you please provide me a set of instruction of the CD > installation, t

Re: Minimal hardware for web server

1997-07-07 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > I would think that 16mb ram would be a minimum regardless of CPU. 8 Mb should be enough too. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Dependency problem got me stumped....

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
> > I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able > to use "make menuconfig". The problem is: > > kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig) > kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc > ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev > gcc conflicts with libc5-dev

Dependency problem got me stumped....

1997-07-07 Thread Joe Emenaker
I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able to use "make menuconfig". The problem is: kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig) kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev gcc conflicts with libc5-dev Now, I suppose

Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-07 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Ed Down wrote: > > Interesting point. I seem to remember xv is shareware, I wonder if they've > paid their fee. And I wonder what NASA is classed as - commercial or > educational? does it matter? our university has a site-license for xv and it's definitively not commercial.

Re: Question about bind configuration.

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On 07 Jul 1997 13:23:32 PDT Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was trying to set up bind for a small (half class C) subnet, and > bind seemed to refuse to do the reverse lookups for the subnet unless > I set it up to handle the entire C subnet. Is there some kind of > masking trick I'm

Re: diald problems...

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 13:19:36 PDT Stephen Witt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to set diald up at home. I'm using Debian 1.3. My > network connection is a modem using PPP to my ISP. My ISP > dynamically assigns both local and remote IP addresses for this > link. I've been usi

Segmentation fault with mh

1997-07-07 Thread Stephen Witt
I've been using Netscape as my mail user agent at home (on my Debian 1.3 box), but would like to using mh-e, as that is what I use at work, love emacs, etc, etc. Before trying mh-e, I just tried to run mh in "raw" mode, so to speak, by doing "inc". This gives me a segmentation fault. I'm using

Question about bind configuration.

1997-07-07 Thread Rob Browning
I was trying to set up bind for a small (half class C) subnet, and bind seemed to refuse to do the reverse lookups for the subnet unless I set it up to handle the entire C subnet. Is there some kind of masking trick I'm not aware of, or is there somewhere I should RTFM? I didn't see anything in t

Mirror Site Size

1997-07-07 Thread Darren Renaud
I have been mirroring the FTP site for some time, to provide for quick local installs, and re configures. I've recently ran into a capacity problem. the drive that mirrors the FTP site is 690751 blocks, with used blocks at 667032, and 0 available. Is the 'stable, contrib, non-free' now that big? I

diald problems...

1997-07-07 Thread Stephen Witt
Hi, I'm trying to set diald up at home. I'm using Debian 1.3. My network connection is a modem using PPP to my ISP. My ISP dynamically assigns both local and remote IP addresses for this link. I've been using PPP manually for some time now, so have a working connection script. The symptom

Re: Mail Reader Question

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
> >There are plenty of linux apps who would let you read your mail without > >moving it > >from your mailbox. Mutt, pine, elm can do the job. Tkmail is one that I can > >think of for X. > > Ok, I'll keep my keyboard open until someone makes a clear > recomendation. Everyone has their favorite

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-07 Thread Britton
I am getting exactly these same errors, and have been since installation. I heard somewhere (I think in an advocacy group) that one version of Debian had some sim link problems that I suspect might be causing this. Mayby the package you were installing is the culprit. > # xman& > [2] 1429 > # xm

Re: Please but more bugs in Debian Linux ;-)

1997-07-07 Thread stick
> > > Hi! Howdy Martin! > > Hi, could you please put more bugs into Debian Linux? > You obviously need to install the xroach package! Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network DesignVoice: (419) 529-3841 9 Chambers Road

Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hi, don't know if this will help at all, but if you're running an award bios and can upgrade to the latest version (4.51, i believe) it will initialize the pnp cards for you. i just built a computer with an asus motherboard, and it initializes my sb32pnp and usr pnp cards so all i have is the drive

Re: turning shadow on

1997-07-07 Thread mike
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3 w/o too much trouble. At that time I > did not turn shadow on. Now I would like to do it. Should I do a > shadowconfig on and cross my fingers or is there something further? > > I've installe

Mail Reader Question

1997-07-07 Thread Curt Howland
Is there a Debian or just Linux version of the Sun Mailtool? I've tried to get exmh working, and while it has lots of features, I have taken a very serious shining to Mailtool's leaving the mail in the users mail spool. I also can't get exmh PGP to work right, nor to have my base [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Afterstep problem solved

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 7, Jason Westervelt wrote > nah.. that only gets a few other icons to pop up... don't ask why, but > the TOP button (the one that has the lock buttons, shutdown, etc) will > ** NOT ** have an icon until you install procps and xproc.. very > weird.. Even if you don't "swallow" an xload in

Re: boa and security

1997-07-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
Right now the only way I can see is to use the build in linux firewall to restrict access. File a bug report against boa. The author might be willing to work on that. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Hi : A quick boa question. I would like to run boa as our web server on our : termi

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
Rob enscribed thusly: > I may be wrong, but why compile support for 3c59x when your card is > 3c905?? get the numbers mixed up there? :) You are wrong. The 3c59x (vortex) and 3c90x (boomerang) cards are all supported by the same driver (assuming that the driver is recent enough).

Re: Xauthority

1997-07-07 Thread Dima
>>BG Lim wrote: >Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My >question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the >same server? > >I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in >the man page but still I can't get it to wor

Re: Minimal hardware for web server

1997-07-07 Thread Paul Wade
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have offered to set up a web server for computer science students > here at Western Kentucky University to practice their cgi and perhaps > java skills on. The machine would never have to support more than > about 5 simultaneous users, and usually w

Re: gcc, libraries, & executables

1997-07-07 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having > > problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). > > > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler > > cannot > create executables. > > bash-2.00# > You'll need the g++, libg++ and libg++-dev pa

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Clark
>>>Warning, Off-topic<<< Sorry for this arguably off-topic thread, even the original post was technically off-topic but, it _is_ a Debian bug (#10598). The bug was fixed upstream in the June 5 release of bash-2.01. I've received private email that pointed out that the new Debian package is now i

Re: gcc, libraries, & executables

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jul 7, Rick Hawkins wrote > > I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having > problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot > create executables. > bash-2.00# You'll need the g++, libg++ and

Re: bug in bash?

1997-07-07 Thread Eloy A. Paris
I think this is a feature of Bash 2.0, not a bug. I don't know how to fix it since I'm still in Bash 1.x. E.- BG Lim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I'm using bash 2.0 from the base installation. I notices that if the line : that I type exceeds the wide of the screen, instead of going down to the :

gcc, libraries, & executables

1997-07-07 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm trying to compile development versions of lyx, and am having problems with gcc or it's libraries (i think). I have 1.3 & unstable installed. When I run lyx' configure, I get: bash-2.00# ./configure loading cache ./config.cache configuring LyX version 0.11.29.2 WARNING: This is a developmen

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Igor Grobman wrote: > I was hit by this problem once. What happens is the system reads the floppy > drive (you see the light come on) and at the same time displays this message. > If you hit enter before the light comes off, the drive would be unreadable, > hence the error message. Try waiting b

Re: rxvt colours

1997-07-07 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, John Maheu wrote: > On 7 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: > > > > "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 al

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: >I fail to understand why diald is needed at all. These are cable >modems, right? The cable modems we're using are Zeniths ... 4Mbps I wasn't sure. I have never used them before so this is new to me. >Am I missing something here, or are you? :) Mos

Re: Minimal hardware for web server

1997-07-07 Thread Jim Pick
I used a 386/33 with 8MB RAM as my web server for almost a year. It was also running a busy mail server too. Something like that can handle quite a bit of load, surprisingly. I wouldn't want to run it with 4MB of RAM though. Actually, if you are teaching CGI, it's probably a really good idea to

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: >by Debian. You might want to email them about that (i.e. the typo), but I >guess they probably have heard about it already... And I heard back from them. You are right. It is was a typo. Guess I now have an Official "Oficial" Debian 1.3 CD-ROM. >Fro

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , writes: >Just so I know and have my ducks in order. > >Is this the correct method for re-compiling my Kernel?? > >cd /usr/src/Linux or /usr/src/linux or whatever This is where the kernel source is stored, of course. >make config If you're running X-w

Re: ipfwadm after kernel recompiling

1997-07-07 Thread Jim Pick
> I have looked at my /proc/net directory. There are no ip_* files. What > should I do. That means that there isn't any ip forwarding or firewalling, for sure. > Note: After recompiling kernel I have noticed following: > > Setup is 4384 bytes > System is 638kB > System is too big > Man[1]: ***[

Re: StarOffice3.1

1997-07-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote: > Is there a deb package out there, or does any one have a diff for alien to > install this properly? I installed but had problems, i have to admit i > like micrsoft office 97 ten times better. It takes about 5 minutes to > load swriter and about 3 se

Minimal hardware for web server

1997-07-07 Thread sfuqua
I have offered to set up a web server for computer science students here at Western Kentucky University to practice their cgi and perhaps java skills on. The machine would never have to support more than about 5 simultaneous users, and usually would have only one user at a time. The idea is to h

Re: Python and Postgres-questions

1997-07-07 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > 1. How do I add an extended module, written in C, to Python using the > Debian-version of Python? (e.g. pg95 - Pygres95 for interfacing > Postgres95). > > 2. Are there any debian-users using python as an interface to a PostgreSQL > or Postgres95? > > 3.

Re: Where's the package for netscape communicator

1997-07-07 Thread Brian White
> There used to be a package, netscape-beta, that could be used to install > communicator, it's gone now. Is there a reason it disappeared. I removed it because it doesn't work for beta-5 and above. I have a fixed version I just need to test for a bit before uploading.

Re: Diety contacts? (was Re: Dselect replacement?)

1997-07-07 Thread Brian White
> Next question and then I'll hopefully shut up for a day or two about this > topic :-) > > Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the > product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and > didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with a

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "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

1997-07-07 Thread John Maheu
On 7 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: > > "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 s

Re: Printing problems ...

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Eddie Katz wrote: > > When the kernel boots I have a message: > > lp0 at 0x0378, (irq = 7) > > Then when I try printing (LPRNG) I get an error message > > Status: Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', sleeping 10 at > 17 > > Why is it trying /dev/lp1 since

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
I fail to understand why diald is needed at all. These are cable modems, right? The cable modems we're using are Zeniths ... 4Mbps upstream/downstream. Does your friends modem require use of the phone lines for any reason? If not, seems to me a 'shutdown -r now' command is gonna bring the link

Re: using cable modem with Debian?

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >Sounds a lot like dhcp, try using the dhcpcd (client daemon) package. The Thanks. We'll give it a try tomorrow. >attack). I haven't the slightest idea how diald would work with dhcpcd, I >just left mine connected all day. He probably be switching b

Re: nice job with Debian CD-ROM!

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Billson
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: >Thanks for the nice words. I'm sure the "oficial" is just a typo. If memory Could be a typo. However, the way the word "Oficial" (with the quotes) is printed on the CD, it appears to be intentional. >by Debian. You might want to email them about that (

RE:ipfwadm

1997-07-07 Thread Lalovic, Drazen
I have looked at my /proc/net directory. There are no ip_* files. What should I do. Note: After recompiling kernel I have noticed following: Setup is 4384 bytes System is 638kB System is too big Man[1]: ***[zImage] Error 1 Everything but ipforwarding and firewalling work just fine. Thanks, Draze

Re: ipfwadm after kernel recompiling

1997-07-07 Thread Lalovic, Drazen
I have looked at my /proc/net directory. There are no ip_* files. What should I do. Note: After recompiling kernel I have noticed following: Setup is 4384 bytes System is 638kB System is too big Man[1]: ***[zImage] Error 1 Everything but ipforwarding and firewalling work just fine. Thanks, Draze

Re: Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-07 Thread jdassen
On Jul 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT > key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but > isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't > accomplish anything useful. This is an i38

Printing problems ...

1997-07-07 Thread Eddie Katz
When the kernel boots I have a message: lp0 at 0x0378, (irq = 7) Then when I try printing (LPRNG) I get an error message Status: Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device or address', sleeping 10 at 17 Why is it trying /dev/lp1 since the kernel loaded /dev/lp0 ??? Also if someone has a "lpd.co

Re: rxvt colours

1997-07-07 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "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

Praise the Lord it worked......

1997-07-07 Thread bigt
Well after weeks and days of trying I finally got this thing to work.., [EMAIL PROTECTED] your method of fixing this worked and was straight to the point. I do appreciate everyones efforts in helping me out with this particular problem. I have seen several comments posted about what the doc

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

1997-07-07 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "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-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread bigt
Just so I know and have my ducks in order. Is this the correct method for re-compiling my Kernel?? cd /usr/src/Linux make config make dep make zImage make zdisk make zlilo Is this correct? Can someone explain briefly each step and why I have to do this??? I just want to understand it more. T

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I was playing with this stuff a while back and it looks to me like the 3c900/3c905 series is an update/replacement for the 3c590/595 series. On Donald Becker's home page at cesdis: http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/ there are a couple of different driver versions for the 3c900/905 series on

Re: PnP ( ie: Modem )

1997-07-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Keith Knipschild wrote: > I installed and setup Debian Linux, But I would like to setup my PnP > Modem.. I helped a friend of my with this a couple of weeks ago... I hope I can remember. Install isapnptools (it's in admin). Run pnpdump and redirect it's output to /etc/isapnp

Re: Where can I get libtermcap.so.2 ?

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
> > I did a > > dpkg --search libtermcap.so.2 > > and it couldn't find it. Does that mean that it doesn't exist anywhere > in the debian distribution? No, this means that it is not installed on your system. This library is included in termcap-compat package. > > Does anyone know where I c

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Rob
I may be wrong, but why compile support for 3c59x when your card is 3c905?? get the numbers mixed up there? :) -Rob On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Marty Leisner wrote: > > I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... > > I figured to t

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread Igor Grobman
> Hi -- > > I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which > contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( > and based on 2.0.30 kernel). > (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) > Installation goes smoothly through setting up a color

still moving my partitions

1997-07-07 Thread Will Lowe
Ok. I had debian installed on a 500mb partition, hda5. I've created four other partitions (for var, usr, home, and a _new_ /). I've successfully moved var, usr, and home to new partitions via "cp -a". Concerned over the fact that any partition after hda5 is unbootable (being past that funky 1

Off-topic: Making ALT be the META key

1997-07-07 Thread sjg
I recently installed XEmacs, and would like to have it recognize my ALT key as the META key (which I thought was supposed to be the default, but isn't on my machine). I played around with xmodmap some, but didn't accomplish anything useful. This is an i386 platform, so the HP fixes for it won't

bug in bash?

1997-07-07 Thread BG Lim
I'm using bash 2.0 from the base installation. I notices that if the line that I type exceeds the wide of the screen, instead of going down to the next line, it goes to the start of the same line, thus obliterating the prompt and whatever I had typed. This occurs in Xterm as well. Bash 1.4 and oth

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:11:37 -0400 > From: Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions > Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 09:06:49 + > Resent-From: debian-u

Xauthority

1997-07-07 Thread BG Lim
Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the same server? I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in the man page but still I can't get it to work. Please help BG -- TO

Re: Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Shaya Potter
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Jason Westervelt wrote: > I am running across a few apps that need > xmkmf > to compile.. where should I go to get all the stuff to deal with these > type of make file? > actually I am something of a newbie to linux, but I think xmkmf MAKES a > makefile from some other type o

Re: Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> I am running across a few apps that need > xmkmf > to compile.. where should I go to get all the stuff to deal with these > type of make file? > actually I am something of a newbie to linux, but I think xmkmf MAKES a > makefile from some other type of file, i dunno.. =) been looking for > genera

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Daniel Chalef
> I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... > > I figured to try it out in windows to see if it works...couldn't > get the enet card to work... > > Installed redhat 4.2...the boomerang worked with no problem... > > (but I built a clean 2.0.30 with 3c59x support and I had

Perl 5.004 stability?

1997-07-07 Thread Kaj Wiik
I'd like to upgrade to Perl 5.004 but I am discouraged to do that by our system admin because of potential stability/compatibility problems. I know of majordomo and chat problems, are there other known problems? Thanks, Kaj -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Carey Evans
Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Bash incorrectly considers (( to be an > arithmetic expression introducer when really, it's $((. That's strange, since both pdksh and zsh both consider (( to be an arithmetic expression, and $(( to be an arithmetic expression _substitution_. Have

Re: Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Ed Down
I have just started delving into Makefiles and I would recommend you get GNU make an use the documantation that is supplied - it got me going quite quickly, and it's well supported and free... For those packages that require xmkmf to compile, I would just install whatever package it comes in, use

Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-07 Thread Ed Down
Interesting point. I seem to remember xv is shareware, I wonder if they've paid their fee. And I wonder what NASA is classed as - commercial or educational? Ed On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars? > > The desktop they're using

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Glad you were able to figure out what to do. I figured if you were reasonably competent (and I'm not) my hint may have been of some help. Just bought a copy of AX3.1. I plan to upgrade to XFree 3.3 late this week. If AX3.1 breaks I'll let you know what Xi support's official position is. :)

RE: Recognizing old scsi controller/disk

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew
>-- >From: Michael B. Taylor[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 05 July 1997 21:14 >To:debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. >Subject: Recognizing old scsi controller/disk > >I boot the system using a Debian 1.3 rescue disk. At the boot prompt, I >

Re: /dev/cua1 not there! -- so can't use modem

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > I did some reading and the impression I get is that the cu* files are > now obsolete. If so, what are they replaced by? In particular, what > device should my friend use for his modem? Use /dev/ttyS* instead of /dev/cua* Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Mailers

1997-07-07 Thread David R. Kohel
This is not really Debian specific, but is relevant to handling the volume of mail from this mailing list. I've been using elm for years. But as far as I can tell, it does not handle multiple active folders. Before investing in converting all of my mail archives to a new system, I'd like to

Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which > contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( > and based on 2.0.30 kernel). > (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) > Installatio

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Balzer
Kevin wrote: >Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the >archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer. > >AccelX can't do compressed fonts (.gz I think). XFree has apparently ^^ That's true, .Z it handles

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Civ Kevin F. Havener
Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer. AccelX can't do compressed fonts (.gz I think). XFree has apparently decided to start compressing them. There is a workaround and it involves something

Re: Afterstep problem solved

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
> It did the same thing for me when my desktop was configured > with 256 > colors. Using, 65000 colors, the icon appeared. I don't know why but > maybe it > could help you. nah.. that only gets a few other icons to pop up... don't ask why, but the TOP button (the one that has the lock butt

Re: Netscape: How about some Unix instructions

1997-07-07 Thread Bob Clark
jim wrote: > > Netscape doesn't include any instructions for setting up helper > apps. w/ unix. For example, I want to run VRML directly from > netscape. Great! So, I go to preferences/Navigator/Applications > and create a new mime-type called x-world/x-vrml. I then tell it that > this is for

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH
-> This is a very minor problem, but I got a nice new computer. I've got -> afterstep 1.0-4 running. The Afterstep icon doesn't appear in the -> top icon. Here's the relevent section of my .steprc: -> -> *Wharf AfterStep AFstep.xpm Folder -> -> Any ideas? -> -> thanks, -> joe It did

Makefiles

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
I am running across a few apps that need xmkmf to compile.. where should I go to get all the stuff to deal with these type of make file? actually I am something of a newbie to linux, but I think xmkmf MAKES a makefile from some other type of file, i dunno.. =) been looking for general documentatio

Re: default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Christian Balzer
Matthew wrote: >hello, > >i just updated my system (dselect) and several x-related files were >updated, including xbase, vga & svga servers, fonts, etc. i am using >xinside's AcceleratedX with a Matrox Mystique video card. > Same here, AccelX 2.1 and Matrox Millenium for the record... >since i

Re: It still don't work......

1997-07-07 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Hi Tony, you have to make these links both in /usr/lib *and* in /lib. Do this and have a look at the output of ldconfig afterwards. Hopefully it won't complain any longer and dselect will start working properly, too. Regards, Andree PS: Besides, I ran over a similar problem when upgradi

AfterStep prob fixed

1997-07-07 Thread Joe Lillibridge
Well, I fixed the little problem with the icon. Once I installed procps and xproc, the afterstep icon appeared. joe pgpGYZwPBRIyP.pgp Description: PGP signature

boa and security

1997-07-07 Thread Adam Shand
Hi A quick boa question. I would like to run boa as our web server on our terminal server to run cgi scripts but would really like to be able to restrict who can run those scripts. Can I run boa from inetd or are there any ways to easily do this with an .htaccess file or similar? I'd rather not

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.47 1997/07/07 06:08:32 phil Exp $ 1. Note I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.

default fonts and the x server

1997-07-07 Thread Matthew C. Thompson
hello, i just updated my system (dselect) and several x-related files were updated, including xbase, vga & svga servers, fonts, etc. i am using xinside's AcceleratedX with a Matrox Mystique video card. since i updated, when i attempt startx, i get the following error messages: failed to set def

Where can I get libtermcap.so.2 ?

1997-07-07 Thread Mark Phillips
I did a dpkg --search libtermcap.so.2 and it couldn't find it. Does that mean that it doesn't exist anywhere in the debian distribution? Does anyone know where I can get it from? Thanks. - Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTE

Toshiba laptop resume mode

1997-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
HI I am trying to install debian on a Toshiba laptop 410 CS and am having trouble making resume mode work. When I try to resume the computer hangs. Any ideas? Bill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Thanks! (was Re: Total Newbie partition question)

1997-07-07 Thread Dan Hugo
Thanks, Bob! I guess I should have kept going with fdisk instead of wimping out. I probably would have gone down that path eventually. I asked two of my friends familiar with this (both Debian users, in fact) and both of them answered with "I don't remember exactly how that works, but it does."

Re: fs type vfat not supported by kernel?

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
David Densmore wrote: > I'm running debian 1.3 2.0.29 > When I mount my vfat Win95 partition manually with the command: > > # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /Win95 > > It works fine, and I can access the partition, long filenames and all. > > # mount > /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw) > proc on /proc type

Re: Afterstep

1997-07-07 Thread Jason Westervelt
Joe Lillibridge wrote: > This is a very minor problem, but I got a nice new computer. I've got > > afterstep 1.0-4 running. The Afterstep icon doesn't appear in the > top icon. Here's the relevent section of my .steprc: > > *Wharf AfterStep AFstep.xpm Folder Yeah, me too... I noticed that as w

Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk

1997-07-07 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi -- I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( and based on 2.0.30 kernel). (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) Installation goes smoothly through setting up a color display, keybo

get-news failed

1997-07-07 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, Can someone please tell me what did I do wrong that would have caused the 'testhost localhost' failed everytime? My 'get-news' never worked because I stoped and exited at 'testhost localhost'! Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

1997-07-07 Thread Marty Leisner
I just bought a Pentium pro with a bundled 3c905 boomerang card... I figured to try it out in windows to see if it works...couldn't get the enet card to work... Installed redhat 4.2...the boomerang worked with no problem... (but I built a clean 2.0.30 with 3c59x support and I had no luck...)

Re: fs type vfat not supported by kernel?

1997-07-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
You must have the vfat device driver compiled as a module in your kernel. and Normally modules are loaded on demand. (Making your kernel use much less memory as it doesn't have to load unneeded code.) There is a daemon called kerneld which watches for module requests like when you manually mou

RE: Well tested mode lines fail with 1.3.1

1997-07-07 Thread David Puryear
Hi Brandon, On 06-Jul-97 You wrote: Can anyone verify that well tested mode lines, used with older X servers, fail with the latest X servers in 1.3.1? Sorry for making this so long, but I didn't want to leave anything out. Yes, I noticed this as well. -- edited -- Modeline "640x480

Re: Python and Postgres-questions

1997-07-07 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 04:43:55 +0200 Alexander Kjeldaas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Would something like SWIG be what you're looking for? > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG/ > > Don't know if there's a debian-package for SWIG. There is one in hamm/contrib. And it should work in a bo syst

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