Re: Applixware - off topic

1997-08-06 Thread Sam Ockman
Message from Mario Olimpio de Menezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 8-5-97: Hi, I'm considering the possibility of getting Applixware. Could someone who has used it give me some comments, basically because the reader's letter I found in Linux Journal (pg 8 - issue 39 - July 97), regarding

Re: Why Debian?

1997-08-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I know I am biased about this, but I'll venture forth anyway. You mention you want a machine that is a) functional This is a functional, working machine I am writing from. I am a consultant, and this machine *has* to be live almost on a 7x24 basis, my

Re: forms.h -- what package?

1997-08-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
forms.h is in xforms-dev, section contrib in stable and contrib/x11 in unstable. You can search for a package owning a file by: o grep filename Contents.{stable,unstable}, where Contents is a file listing all the files and packages in the distribution. You can get the Contents file

Removing modules and base

1997-08-06 Thread Johann Spies
Please excuse me if this has been answered before. I received my Debian 1.3.1 CD, borrowed a cdrom-drive and installed 1.3.1. Dselect refuses to remove modules and base and as a result shows modutils 2.1.35-5 as broken and base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete. How can I solve this problem? Johann.

How to put packages on floppies for remote install?????

1997-08-06 Thread User Rdkeys
How does one put packages on floppies for a remote install (no cdrom, no ftp, no uucp, no nothing)? Can dos floppies be usd, or do they need to be rawritten splits of some kind in unix binary format to floppies? Any pointers to floppy installs appreciated! Thanks Bob Keys [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect suggestion

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- dselect should *ONLY* try to install the files which are marked 'install,' not every file in the directory... It is actually significantly faster if I do FTP installations, especially when using a CD. - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a

Re: fingering/pgp keys

1997-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
I believe that LOCAL users are allowed to use finger, the old way. But when the fingering user is remote (which cfingerd seems to believe if you finger @localhotst), then it kicks in with the banners and such ... afaik that's the default behavior -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips

forms.h -- what package?

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- What package is forms.h in? and is there a easy way to search through packages for a file? - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM+eYAPMRUhbnJu3lAQEs0gL/TtgFmoez5HyZbFEYmHjjDrvqyS/YmzQD

Re: Removing modules and base

1997-08-06 Thread Shaya Potter
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Please excuse me if this has been answered before. I received my Debian 1.3.1 CD, borrowed a cdrom-drive and installed 1.3.1. Dselect refuses to remove modules and base and as a result shows modutils

Re: libm.so.4 -- what package?

1997-08-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- what package is libm.so.4 in? libc4_4.6.27-15.deb Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL

Re: Removing modules and base

1997-08-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Please excuse me if this has been answered before. I received my Debian 1.3.1 CD, borrowed a cdrom-drive and installed 1.3.1. Dselect refuses to remove modules and base and as a result shows modutils 2.1.35-5 as broken and base 1.1.0-13 as

Re: forms.h -- what package?

1997-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Miller writes: What package is forms.h in? and is there a easy way to search through packages for a file? Sounds like xforms. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Mensch soll es nicht glauben:/ /

Re: On the BOCA 2016 and ttySx

1997-08-06 Thread Tony Ho
Hi Kevin: Thank you very much for your very detailed instruction. To my surprise, the boca was using the same irq as my 3com nic! Silly me! That's what you get for not sleeping enough :-) implement EQL and additional PPP links between the boxes to increase the bandwidth... We'll see how it

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread Anthony Fok
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: Paul Miller writes: UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? cat unixfile |recode latin1:ibmpc

Re: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-06 Thread Behan Webster
Alec Clews wrote: If Deity supports profiles then the effort will be reduced to 1) Creating profiles 2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. What exactly do you mean by #2 above? Anyone have an inside track on the Deity delivery schedule? We were

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread stick
UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? -Paul There's always todos and fromdos. Also the mount command has the capabilities of doing the

Re: fingering/pgp keys

1997-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Manoj Srivastava writes: I had the same problem, until I tried @localhost. So now, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gives all the information, but fingering srivasta does not. What am I missing? Err finger joey calls /usr/bin/finger wwhich is a user program, comes from netbase or netstd

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ahh.. I found the option for mount (conv=??) but I didn't find those tools - -- todos / fromdos or unix2dos / dos2unix.. I have mtools 3.6 installed... anyone know what package either of these utils are part of? - -Paul On Tue, 5 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

stealling rh tools.

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Has anyone installed the alien packages for RedHat's control panel? Some of the utils need a few adustments (such as the kernelcfg and netcfg).. anyone made these changes? Also, I'm missing a few rh python files.. what rpms should I install? - -Paul

mailbox errors

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In pine I keep getting errors about unexpected mailbox changes, access errors, etc.. I haven't a clue what is wrong. I looked through all the logs in /var/log/* and didn't see any errors. I'm using smail 3.2-3... - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: mailbox errors

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
I have fetchmail 4.0 running ... but that has never caused any problems before. -Paul On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: Do you have something like fetchpop accessing your mailbox at regular intervals? On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread Randy Edwards
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? I don't think there's a way to convert automatically -- thank

Leafnode oddities ?

1997-08-06 Thread Dean Carpenter
Does anyone know of any problems with Leafnode ? It doesn't appear to get a full chunk of news when fetch runs ... Here's a sample session from a logged in session as news : $ /usr/sbin/fetch -v verbosity level is 1 LIST ACTIVE done only 253668 seconds ago, skipping alt.games.descent:

Which X server?

1997-08-06 Thread Shaleh
I have a stealth 32 1Mb w/ a Tseng ET4000 chipset. Which X servers is the one for me?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

more ncurses

1997-08-06 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I'll modify my previous question which had to do with make menuconfig not working. I've downgraded all my ncurses to 1.9.9e1-1. All libc5 is version 33-3. This is the same setup as on other machines where menuconfig works. The compile crashes as follows: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-06 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Christian Lynbech wrote: I like the topics idea very much, if we can get people to use it (at least some of the time :-). It would make it very much easier to filter the group, whether it is visually or automatically. And it is

database with ODBC support?

1997-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Can anyone give some recommendations for a free (or possibly shareware (mSQL)) database server for Debian? I want to access the database ideally from Lotus Approach 97 running on WinNT, via TCP/IP, or with Delphi 3; or, last option, via web pages (which I do not have much time to write, especially

Re: Netscape beta install package gone... Re: Comunicator 4.02b7

1997-08-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The wrapper script that the .deb installs sets up the correct variables so that you don't have a problem and don't have to edit your .bashrc or similar file. It also prevents netscape from being run as root, which depending on your opinion (but should

Re: Removing modules and base

1997-08-06 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: ... I received my Debian 1.3.1 CD, borrowed a cdrom-drive and installed 1.3.1. Dselect refuses to remove modules and base and as a result shows modutils 2.1.35-5 as broken and base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete.

Re: KTI ET32/Px Series PCI Ethernet Adapter support?

1997-08-06 Thread Joost Kooij
Paul Miller wrote: The company said it wasn't ne2000 compatible. I'll try that patch anyway. I just remember these symptoms (recognised as ne1k) from my pci ne2k card. The verndor also said it wasn't compatible with linux, but the did sell it as a ne2k. I could be very wrong here about your

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread Antonio M. Roldan
Martin Schulze wrote: Paul Miller writes: UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? cat unixfile |recode latin1:ibmpc dosfile cat dosfile

RE: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-06 Thread Alec Clews
2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. What exactly do you mean by #2 above? Well, I want to implment a system where by it is possible to extract a subset of the Official Debian distribution for a specific profile. The idea is to make it possible to create

RE: oracle debian questions

1997-08-06 Thread Alec Clews
Are there any utilities available under the gnu license that will enable to me generate SQL commands/queries from my Debian box over to my big old HP 9000/oracle machine ??? Try Perl with DBD and DBI modules. I am not sure how well that would work under SQL*NET. SCO Oracle will work under

Re: Debian mail filtering in Netscape 4.02

1997-08-06 Thread Antonio M. Roldan
Rick Macdonald wrote: In order to deal with the high volume of traffic on this list, I just tried turning on the mail filtering in Netscape 4.02 (Solaris24) but it doesn't seem to do anything. Has anybody tried this? Well, to answer my own question, I'm having some success now setting

pgp 5.0 for Linux beta 11!

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
PGP 5.0 for Linux is available.. anyhow, I'm tring to edit the pinepgp files to work w/ 5.0.. if anyone has already done this, please let me know. Also, does anyone know how to attach a [signiture] file to an outgoing message? (I want the signiture to be attached instead of part of the message)

Re: pgp 5.0 for Linux beta 11!

1997-08-06 Thread Anthony Fok
Hello Paul! :) On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: PGP 5.0 for Linux is available.. anyhow, I'm tring to edit the pinepgp files to work w/ 5.0.. if anyone has already done this, please let me know. Awesome! :) Can't wait to see PGP 5.0 on Linux! :) I was really surprised they

Re: lynx/slang

1997-08-06 Thread jdassen
On Aug 5, Paul Miller wrote Is there a package of lynx compiled w/ slang 0.99.38 instead of .34? Or is there a way I can get both of them working together? Sure you can. In the unstable tree, you'll find slang0.99.34-0.99.38-2.6, slang0.99.34-dev-0.99.38-2.6, slang0.99.38-0.99.38-2.6,

Re: raw socket on my machine - where from??

1997-08-06 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes: raw0 0 *:1 *:* I see the same too, both in netstat -a and in /proc/net/raw. This on a Debian 1.3.1 that should not have crackers; it has never been directly connected to the Net (only through proxies). I just

HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem. Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like - /etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory - Same with sendmail, xdm etc. If I try the command

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread jdassen
On Aug 6, Frank Barknecht wrote After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem. Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like - /etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory - start-stop-daemon lives

Best mode for uucp over tcp.

1997-08-06 Thread Chris Brown
I have gotten uucp running properly over tcp. When using tcp which mode is the most effecient? From what I understand mode t was designed for such links but taylor suppores mode i which I haven't seen much documentation on. Which way should I go? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Very strange. Please provide the output of ls -l /sbin/start-stop-daemon /usr/sbin/start-stopdaemon Here we go: fliwatut# ls -l /sbin/start-stop-daemon /usr/sbin/start-stopdaemon ls:

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread Dale Martin
Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Conclusion: I don't have start-stop-daemon under /sbin but one in /usr/sbin/ that is not a.out or ELF. My start-stop-daemon is a perl-script, I can read its content. That's how it was under older versions of Debian, I believe. In Debian-1.2.?

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: ahh.. I found the option for mount (conv=??) but I didn't find those tools -- todos / fromdos or unix2dos / dos2unix.. I have mtools 3.6 installed... anyone know what package either of these utils are part of? sysutils (try dpkg --search dos2unix) --

Re: General min/max questions

1997-08-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Aug 05, Shaleh wrote: I will be using my Debian machine as a workstation. No outside access will be needed and my only networking will be through PPP. I intend to run X and basically tinker, surf, program, and enjoy not using Microsoft products. My questions is -- what can I do to

Re: Which X server?

1997-08-06 Thread Paul
SVGA On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: I have a stealth 32 1Mb w/ a Tseng ET4000 chipset. Which X servers is the one for me?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread jdassen
[Frank, please keep your lines shorter than 80 characters.] On Aug 6, Frank Barknecht wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Very strange. Please provide the output of ls -l /sbin/start-stop-daemon /usr/sbin/start-stopdaemon

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My start-stop-daemon is a perl-script, I can read its content. Now I have found another strange thing: I don't have an executable named perl on my system anymore. Although there is a perl5.00307 under

ISDN Dial-in not working

1997-08-06 Thread T.G.H. de Grunt
Hi there, I'm trying to get my ISDN working. I already have my card recognized in Linux, also the ISDN utilities are working. So no I want to dial in to my provider. I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui16lab/www/isdn/setup_e.htm

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Frank, please keep your lines shorter than 80 characters.] Oops, sorry about that. I am working in text mode now, where I have more columns than I am normally used to, so I messed it up OK. The first line of the script says #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: Debian mail filtering in Netscape 4.02

1997-08-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Antonio M. Roldan wrote: Rick Macdonald wrote: In order to deal with the high volume of traffic on this list, I just tried turning on the mail filtering in Netscape 4.02 (Solaris24) but it doesn't seem to do anything. Has anybody tried this? Well, to

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file (Solved!)

1997-08-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Yes, that's it. I linked perl500... with /usr/bin/perl right now and I am about to reboot to see if it works. IT WORKS. -- Yours, Frank Barknecht

Re: HELP! start-stop-daemon: no such file

1997-08-06 Thread jdassen
On Aug 6, Frank Barknecht wrote Yes, that's it. I linked perl500... with /usr/bin/perl right now and I am about to reboot to see if it works. Thank you all very much for the quick help. That's really great about Debian, wow. P.S.: Is this all worth a bug report or is this problem obsolete

1.3.1 Upgrading Probs

1997-08-06 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello there, maybe you can help -- I didn't expect these problems when upgrading to 1.3.1. the upgrade itself went smoothly but now I'm unable to use any of my networking interfaces: The network devices (eth0 and lo0) are set up correctly, I can do a ping but all other

Problem with Xfree3.3

1997-08-06 Thread Peter Weiss
hello debian experts, here is the next trouble with my upgrading to 1.3.1, with XFree86; though it's not debians fault: 1) When mounting the /usr/X11R6 tree read only which is what I used to do, the keyboard extension won't get loaded, cause the X server tries to write to the

Re: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-06 Thread Behan Webster
Alec Clews wrote: 2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. What exactly do you mean by #2 above? Well, I want to implment a system where by it is possible to extract a subset of the Official Debian distribution for a specific profile. It sounded like

Re: mailbox errors

1997-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
Do you have another machine that is accessing that mailbox through POP mail? I've seen similar error messages in that situation (and for good reason, POP grabs the mailbox contents and Pine can't figure out what happened.) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD

Re: 1.3.1 Upgrading Probs

1997-08-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
You should have your gateway in your network startup file (/etc/init.d/network ?). Now you have only GATEWAY= and it does not look right. After running the modified network startup script the route command should output something like this: # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination

Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-06 Thread Shaleh
During boot modprobe comes back and tells me that char-mode-10 could not be found. My other question: can kerneld load fs modules as needed. I loaded msdos and isofs as modules and I must load the appropriate one before I can mount floppies or cd's. I can do an insmod -k but I thought the idea

Re: copying text files (unix to dos)

1997-08-06 Thread Rmeyer
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem? I've lost your original e-mail but I've a little program for D*S

RE: 1.3.1 Upgrading Probs

1997-08-06 Thread dgolpira
Peter, I had a similar problem once. Check the file /etc/inetd.conf My had been overwritten once when upgrading a while back. Make sure the services you want to allow are enabled. Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Peter Weiss[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

man gives segmentation fault

1997-08-06 Thread Kevin Scott
I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not when run as root): % man man Segmentation fault xman and tkman work fine. I was fairly sure I hadn't played with any relevant settings - the executable has setuid bit set as

Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-06 Thread Linh Dang
I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a clean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. Any info, pointer ? Thanx -- = Linh Dang

Re: Debian-Desktop

1997-08-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Behan Webster wrote: Alec Clews wrote: 2) Creating tools to extract files required to install a specific profile. That sounds reasonable. I would hope that once deity is available that it will suit your needs. My major interest in the -Desktop and Diety

Emacs and Xemacs on same system

1997-08-06 Thread Johann Spies
I know I have read something about the possibility of running emacs and xemacs on the same system, but at that time I did not consider trying it out. Is it possible? If so, how do I get around dselect's refusal to install both? Johann. Johann

mirror question

1997-08-06 Thread m*
hello. i have a mirror that mirrors some web directories. the mirror gets everything in the specified remote directoy, but then it won't create the symlinks from the /var/web/webspace directory to user public_html directories, i.e. /var/web/webspace/userx - /home/userx/public_html why won't

AUTH-capable POP server for Debian?

1997-08-06 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Is anyone aware of a POP server (preferably allready packaged for Debian) which can understand the AUTH command? I have the Qualcomm popper (qpopper) installed on the mail server right now (qpopper), and sometimes want to use Netscape to read mail from the workplace, since Qpopper doesn't

Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-06 Thread David Wright
I seem to recall seeing .pine_debug{1,2,3,4} in my home directory on a Debian 1.1 or 1.2 machine, but I never see them now (1.3 stable). If I type pine -d 1 I get the sort of output I might expect from pine --help. Has pine been compiled without the debug option? If so, this is not correct,

[XINETD] manpage missing

1997-08-06 Thread mfrattola
Hi debian fellows, I installed today 1.2.17 from a Flexible Software CD (thanks Dale). I wanted to try xinetd and found substituting it to inetd painless. When I wanted to look at the configuration issue, I found that xinetd (5) is missing. Is this a (debian/linux) bug? Should I file a bugreport?

Xdm3d

1997-08-06 Thread Shaleh
Is there a package for xdm3d or does anyone know where i can get its source?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

the bash 2.01 fix for Netscape 4.02 plugins: a mistake for me

1997-08-06 Thread James D. Freels
I took the recommendations from several readers of this list to try the bash_2.01 upgrade from the unstable tree to fix the problems I was having with Netscape 4.0x not being able to use the plugins for various files (.pdf, .ram, etc.). I quickly realized I was not so brave as to simply install

Re: database with ODBC support?

1997-08-06 Thread Aldrin Leal
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Other options are, TTBOMK, Postgres (which has PostODBC, but is only a development version which is a year old; I have it here to try out later today), and mSQL, for which I can't exactly find the ODBC driver. The ODBC driver for mSQL is called

Re: database with ODBC support?

1997-08-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Does anyone have any experience specifically with Lotus Approach and any of these servers? if you can't get a free version : there is www.openlink.com with a commercial odbc server (map any odbc or udbc client to any database, has support for postgres95 (and a free 2 client version for

Re: Best mode for uucp over tcp.

1997-08-06 Thread Victor Torrico
George Bonser wrote: If both ends are Taylor, use i protocol. It is full duplex and can recover where it left off in case of interruption. This shortens the transaction and makes error recovery fster. On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Chris Brown wrote: I have gotten uucp running properly

Re: Use Joystick to reboot.

1997-08-06 Thread Dima
Linh Dang wrote: I remember having seen somewhere that you can use the joystick to make a cl= ean reboot. That's handy when X freezes and your keyboard and mouse get stuck. = Any info, pointer ? Did you try searching on sunsite or tsx-11? It's been a while since I last heard about that

Re: Problem with Xfree3.3

1997-08-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Peter Weiss wrote: hello debian experts, here is the next trouble with my upgrading to 1.3.1, with XFree86; though it's not debians fault: 1) When mounting the /usr/X11R6 tree read only which is what I used to do, the keyboard extension won't get loaded, cause the X

Re: 1.3.1 Upgrading Probs

1997-08-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Peter Weiss wrote: Hello there, maybe you can help -- I didn't expect these problems when upgrading to 1.3.1. the upgrade itself went smoothly but now I'm unable to use any of my networking interfaces: The network devices (eth0 and lo0) are set up correctly, I can do a

Re: AUTH-capable POP server for Debian?

1997-08-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Is anyone aware of a POP server (preferably allready packaged for Debian) which can understand the AUTH command? I have the Qualcomm popper (qpopper) installed on the mail server right now (qpopper), and sometimes want to use Netscape to read mail from the

copy/paste between VRs?

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to use the mouse to copy/paste between VRs? If so, how? - -Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM+jOJWUINiyMERtGEQKVdACfedblAvNo+IZ3QhwdgE3ZgJuMxPsAn0+N

[backup method] tar or dump for backups?

1997-08-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have a spare 1 GB disk at work which I could use to backup my /home partition (which consists of 1 GB amidst a 4.3 GB disk). (If I decide I can tolerate the 1GB-disk's whining; it's surprising how annoying the sound of the old disk is compared to my new Seagate Barracuda.) I'm accustomed to

using menu in debian 1.3.1?

1997-08-06 Thread Johann Spies
How do I use the menu-program? I have read the README-file and after that I do not understand at all how it can be useful. I am using fvwm2 and thought it could help to create menus, but after reading the README-file I think it will be easier to edit the .fvwm2rc-file by hand. Is this program

mail trouble for a user

1997-08-06 Thread Paul
hi Folks, I have mail working on my system. I have 5 users, my machine is connected to the internet via eathernet. My problem is that one of my users cannot receive mail outside the university. She can receive mail from me on the same machine or different machines in the university. I and the

Re: [XINETD] manpage missing

1997-08-06 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 6 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi debian fellows, I installed today 1.2.17 from a Flexible Software CD (thanks Dale). I wanted to try xinetd and found substituting it to inetd painless. When I wanted to look at the configuration issue, I found that xinetd (5) is missing. Is this a

Re: Modprobe error and kerneld question

1997-08-06 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 6 Aug, Shaleh wrote: During boot modprobe comes back and tells me that char-mode-10 could not be found. My other question: can kerneld load fs modules as needed. I loaded msdos and isofs as modules and I must load the appropriate one before I can mount floppies or cd's. I can do an

INN from bo

1997-08-06 Thread Tim Sailer
I've had some users complain a few times about not being able to post to our news server.. the error is Can't generate Message-ID, Unknown error. If I restart innd (reload doesn't work), someone can post *1* time, and then we're back to the error. Is this unique to me, or is this a bug? Tim --

Re: copy/paste between VRs?

1997-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Miller writes: Is it possible to use the mouse to copy/paste between VRs? If so, how? What is a VR? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Mensch soll es nicht glauben:/ /eMail ist zum

Re: Distributing a procmail filter (was: Re: splitting up the...)

1997-08-06 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote: The word 'newbie' just plain sucks, but why not use it anyway? We can even think of ways to 'haze' them until they are considered part of the elite! I use procmail to meet my needs, not because it is required. Some unfortunate user who is trying to

Re: Colored ls output

1997-08-06 Thread Francois Gouget
On 1 Aug 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: BN == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BN On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote: When I installed Slackware a year ago ls's output was colored. Is there a colored version of ls for Debian or is it a switch for ls?? BN You can add the

Re: mailbox errors

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have another computer with netscape running.. all it does is check if there is mail. maybe it is the problem. - -Paul On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: Do you have another machine that is accessing that mailbox through POP mail? I've

Re: using menu in debian 1.3.1?

1997-08-06 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: How do I use the menu-program? I have read the README-file and after that I do not understand at all how it can be useful. I am using fvwm2 and thought it could help to create menus, but after reading the README-file I think it will be easier to

sed/grep script help

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm modifying the pinepgp scripts to work with PGP 5.0... the output is somewhat different then the previous version. Anyhow I'm new to these programs and heres the output: Good signature made 1997-08-06 15:10 GMT by key: 1024 bits, Key ID

Re: copy/paste between VRs?

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
VC I mean -- virtual console On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: Paul Miller writes: Is it possible to use the mouse to copy/paste between VRs? If so, how? What is a VR? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Mensch

Re: copy/paste between VRs?

1997-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Miller writes: VC I mean -- virtual console Oh... then... you didn't try gpm, did you? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Mensch soll es nicht glauben:/ /eMail ist zum Kommunizieren geeignet. --

Re: copy/paste between VRs?

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Miller
cool.. I had that program installed, I just didn't know how to use it. Thanks -Paul On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: Paul Miller writes: VC I mean -- virtual console Oh... then... you didn't try gpm, did you? Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL

Re: mirror question

1997-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
m* writes: i have a mirror that mirrors some web directories. the mirror gets everything in the specified remote directoy, but then it won't create the symlinks from the /var/web/webspace directory to user public_html directories, i.e. /var/web/webspace/userx - /home/userx/public_html

Debian on HIP97?

1997-08-06 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, This weekend I'm going to HIP97 (Hacking In Progress) http://www.hip97.nl I was wondering: will there be any kind of {semi-,}official Debian presence? I'll be there, but I'm only a mortal user ;-) . I'll be glad to help anyone installing Debian Linux 1.3 on his pc. Besides my puter

procmail filter and splitting up debian-user

1997-08-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Wade wrote: The word 'newbie' just plain sucks, but why not use it anyway? We can even think of ways to 'haze' them until they are considered part of the elite! I use procmail to meet my needs, not because it is

Re: Removing modules and base

1997-08-06 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: What does dpkg print when it tries to upgrade modutils? The output of dpkg -i was: Preparing to replace modutils 2.1.34-5 (using .../base/modutils_2.1.34-5.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/modutils.prerm: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or

Re: procmail filter and splitting up debian-user

1997-08-06 Thread Paul Wade
Is this thread introducing even more noise or not? We also need 2 more new lists, debian-argue and debian-flame. Just kidding (I should have sent this to debian-clown). +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush