Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Adam Heath
On 4 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: I would like to have email that I send when offline be queued for later deliver when I connect. How can I do this? When mail is sent when you're offline, the mail daemon queues it, because it can't connect to the remote host. It retries every so

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because smail is trying to resolve with dns, can't, and gives up. What version of smail do you use? If you use X, make

help with SB AWE 64 !

1998-02-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. I failed to configure my AWE64 sound card. By following all the instructions in the min-HOWTO I come up with very predictable result - system hangs solid on my attempt to insert sound module. I installed the latest OSS-Free driver, patched with AWE extentions, compiled the kernel (2.0.33),

dselect seg fault after dpkg upgrades

1998-02-05 Thread Britton
I have been working lately on upgrading to hamm. In an effort to fix a problem with dpkg-ftp, I upgraded to the following packages: dpkg_1.3.0.20.deb dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.deb But now when I try to run dselect I get a segmentation fault. This is perhaps not too surprising, considering that I havn't

RE: dselect seg fault after dpkg upgrades

1998-02-05 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
I have been working lately on upgrading to hamm. In an effort to fix a problem with dpkg-ftp, I upgraded to the following packages: dpkg_1.3.0.20.deb dpkg-ftp_1.4.9.deb I think you need to upgrade to dpkg-dev to get a working dselect. -Brent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

question.

1998-02-05 Thread Mark Goble
I was wondering if Debian supported ethernet connections (cable modem) to the internet or if special software or configuration is needed. Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

why is the digest list all chopped up

1998-02-05 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello, I am trying to subscribe to the Debian users list in diogest form but it's coming to me all chopped up in a bunch of attachments. Can I get it as one long email like other digests... Please reply to me directly as well as the list as I don't get all the messages/attachments especially

re: cable modem (was question)

1998-02-05 Thread Stephen Gregory
I installed the dhcpcd package, pluged rj45 into the modem and the card, and it worked (note: dhcpCd not dhcpd). It helped that I had compiled a kernel with the ehternet drivers. Be sure to check with you cable co that they use 'dhcp' and not some proprietary gunk. the tech's comment: Wow that

Hard Install

1998-02-05 Thread George R
Man, after hearing all the horror stories of Linux installs I had to try ;) Well, not being a patient one I ftp'd the disk images for Debian. Blew off the HOWTO's Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, George R wrote: Man, after hearing all the horror stories of Linux installs I had to try ;) Well, not being a patient one I ftp'd the disk images for Debian. Blew off the HOWTO's Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and

Re: Hard Install

1998-02-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
George == George R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George Now I have 2 users. How do I kill one user? Yes, I know George RTM and the HOWTO's. 'apropos user' or 'man -k user' | grep -i delete shows me the 'userdel' program. :) George That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS;

Re: question.

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
You will have to make sure your NIC is supported under linux. You can compile in support or add the module for it. Network configurations are set in /etc/init.d/network. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services |

Dump restore

1998-02-05 Thread rir
Where can I find source for dump+restore? I have dump_0.3-14.deb and have hit a problem where the master/slave protocol is is botched. I'd like to try a newer version before giving up. It it may be simpler to build dump from source than to work with the version packed for hamm. rob [EMAIL

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Adam Heath
On 5 Feb 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because smail is trying to resolve with dns, can't, and gives up.

Re: web forms killing ppp!

1998-02-05 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Occasionally when I fill out a form on a web page it will kill my ppp connection.(The ppp connection is over a modem.) Usually short forms, only a few fields, work fine but the problem seems to happen on forms with a large number of fields. When I submit a form the

.forward and .procmailrc

1998-02-05 Thread Catalin Popescu
Hi, It's me again. I looked what's in the logfile of smail in an attempt to see what is wrong with my .forward and .procmailrc files. I cannot figure out what to do next, but it seems to me that it is something wrong _before_ procmail, so procmail does not get any mail to process. I wonder why

Re: procmail and folders

1998-02-05 Thread Catalin Popescu
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Don't know if you're interested in this input, but if you use sendmail instead of smail, it can just automatically use procmail to deliver mail. Thus, you don't need a .forward file at all. You just have to make sure that procmail is installed

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread David E. Scott
Tom, I take it, then, that you found that loadlin is not restricted by the 1024cyl boundary, but that LILO definitly still is limited by that boundary? Dave Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Well, I hesitate to say it's not there, but I installed it and it runs fine. Note that I DON'T use

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread David E. Scott
Stephen Carpenter wrote: Stephen Carpenter wrote: Will it boot anything? Yes, it would boot linux, but gave the you don't have a disk in your boot device error message, press enter to continue Grrr :) Damnit damnit :) don'cha hate that...btw does this machine have a DDO on the

Re: Win95 and Linux: Was: Verified Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
What I need is a MSDOS grep so I can dig automatically thru all the files on the system and look for any references to guest.exe. Dave hmm... i believe i have grep.com from borland c++. i'm not using it now so it's probably fine to use it on another computer. regards OK -- TO

Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-05 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi, I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks in. Also, what tool syncs the hardware clock to the system time? I set my

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dave Mallery wrote: when Xman comes up, it does not see my MANPATH variable (so it seems) and can only display the pages located in /usr/man. Set and export MANPATH in .xsession or .xinitrc (.xsession is used when you log in through xdm, .xinitrc when you used startx). If you want the change

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Johann Spies
It was with interest that I read Richard E. Hawkins Esq.'s comments about Lynx and StarOffice. I have tried Lyx a few times since I began using Linux about 2 years ago and every time gave up on it because I could not find documentation gave answers to a lot of questions on how to use it. I do

Re: Sending email(smail) **FIXED**

1998-02-05 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Adam Heath wrote: Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because smail is trying to resolve with dns, can't, and gives up. What version of smail do you use?

I want to install Linux?

1998-02-05 Thread Nagmier G. Quinton
I want to install Linux and I really like the Debian distro. but my prolem is this, I need to download the disks (not really a problem) but once I get the ase system installed I would really appreciate any help that can get me hooked up to my isp and setting up XFree86 because the closest I've

Newbie question..

1998-02-05 Thread A. M. Varon
How do I cut or removed the lines of a file starting from the EOF (end of the file) up to the 500th lines? Will tr, cut or sed be used? can someone point me to some web pages where there are tutorials or books about tr,cut, sed or awk? TIA, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Oliver Elphick wrote: Check out xauth. You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the X server, so that it can share it. For example: $ su # xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority Only don't do this in your own home directory: I just found that this command

Re: More on boot/mount

1998-02-05 Thread Antonio Doldo
At 09.55 04/02/98 -0500, T-SNAKE wrote: I asked: How do you mount all the drives/partitions at boot time without having to actually type in the mount -t msdos / command? And the responce (thanks) was to add entries to the fstab file. Well, I did this and when I rebooted, i wasn't able to

install problem

1998-02-05 Thread Owen Piette
When intsalling Debian Linux I've run into the following error: kernel panic: ex2-fs panic (device 03:42): ext2_read_inode:group = groups count Is this a corrupted disk error or is it something else? I've reinstalled Linux a number of times and it's the same every time. Thanks.

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using only the ssh version: 1. Su and $XAUTHORITY environment variable == % echo $DISPLAY :0 % su - root type root password # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~hessu/.Xauthority #

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
This is what I was told and it works fine. Subject: Re: Offline Email Does anybody have an idea of how to best set-up an offline email system? Put 'queue_only' in your /etc/smail/config and put '/usr/bin/runq' in /etc/ppp/ip-up. Don't run a mailer daemon. -- Daniel J. Mashao

Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux

1998-02-05 Thread Abdelrazak YOUNES
Richard Kilgore wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 11:36:00AM -0500, Richardson,Anthony wrote: I suspect that the NT boot sector was somehow corrupted. This code reads the NT boot.ini file and allows you to dual boot between DOS/NT. You can restore the NT boot sector. You'll need to

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Johann Spies wrote: I have tried Lyx a few times since I began using Linux about 2 years ago and every time gave up on it because I could not find documentation gave answers to a lot of questions on how to use it. The documentation in later versions is a lot better, though still incomplete.

modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread Frere Roy
I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message whiptail is not installed I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed whiptail. Have I missed something? Thanks, Roy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Please

1998-02-05 Thread Fabio Daniel Guerra
No quiero recibir mas correos, por favor. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xemacs20 wd buffer too small??

1998-02-05 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around Mon, 02 Feb 1998 13:05:23 +0100 Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: I've upgraded XEmacs from 19 to 20. When I try to start it, it returns XEmacs: `getwd' failed: errno 0 The point is that it can only be started from root directory. I've read in

Re: modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Frere Roy wrote: I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message whiptail is not installed I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed whiptail. With a newer newt release, whiptail is now in a package of its

Re: modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Frere Roy wrote: I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message whiptail is not installed I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed whiptail. Have I missed something? Yes, newt0.21_0.21-4.deb which no longer contains

Re: procmail and smail

1998-02-05 Thread Soenke Lange
Hallo Catalin Popescu Does anybody have any idea what should I put in my .forward file to get procmail working. I've already put |IFS=' 'p=/usr/bin/procmailtest -f $pexec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME in .forward and took a procmailrc from the examples, but it does not work. I have

Re: modconf and whiptail

1998-02-05 Thread Richard Kilgore
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Frere Roy wrote: I am trying to install modconf_0.2.15.deb but I get the message whiptail is not installed I have, however, installed newt0.21_0.21-3.deb which has installed whiptail. Have I missed something? Thanks, Roy There's a new

[Q] Multi-instalation procedure?

1998-02-05 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have the following problem. I whant to install debian linux in six (6) PCs (all have the same hardware). It is possible to copy an instalation? Something like i) install Debian Linux in PC1 ii) coppy the instalation to PC2, ..., PC6 Thank you. -- At\'e breve

Re: why is the digest list all chopped up

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to subscribe to the Debian users list in diogest form but it's coming to me all chopped up in a bunch of attachments. Can I get it as one long email like other digests... This format is called MIME (RFC 1341) digest format. Actually it

Re: .forward and .procmailrc

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's me again. I looked what's in the logfile of smail in an attempt to see what is wrong with my .forward and .procmailrc files. I cannot figure out what to do next, but it seems to me that it is something wrong _before_ procmail, so procmail does

Re: Sending email(smail) **FIXED**

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Smail: 3.2.0.100-4 Pine: 3.96L-2 This is the error message I get: [Mail not sent. Sending error: 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender] Let me state this again. Sending mail on the cmd line will queue mail for later delivery when not online.

struct utmp

1998-02-05 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi, I'm programming under Linux 2.0 (debian 1.3.1) and when I get the utmp entry of the current session I get the utmp-ut_host correctly but I get 0 as utmp.ut_addr... doesn't mather where the conection comes from: the code looks like struct utmp *my_utmp; printf(\n%ld\n, my_utmp-ut_addr);

Using Debian for a bastion host.

1998-02-05 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello, I am setting up a bastion host and packet filtering router and taking a crack at using Debian for this task. I figured the first job would be to pick the neccasary packages for such a system. I have appended my list of packages to the end of this message. _?_ means I don't know if I

Gimp

1998-02-05 Thread Zach Wilkes
I installed The Gimp from the debian ftp site via dselect, and it installed properly.. no errors all was good.. but when I attempt to run the program I get the error cannot find libXpm.so.2 I have xpm installed but do not seem to have this file anywhere on my system.. where would I go about

libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent version of this and instructions/tips for using it? Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Failing to print using lpr and nprint

1998-02-05 Thread Kevin Scott
I'm trying to set up lpr to print to a remote netware printer. Following the instructions in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.gz I added the following entry to /etc/printcap: jeremy:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/jeremy:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/nprint-jeremy:\

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, dpk wrote: I'm feeling kind of sassy today, and thought I might try upgrading to hamm. I have seen a script posted that help do this. I still have it somewhere, however I was wondering where I could find the most recent version of this and instructions/tips for using it?

Re: mac linux

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
As far as I know, the only Mac processor being supported by MkLinux (the Mac Linux effort) is a PowerPC CPU. I had this running in the early beta distributions of MkLinux in the fall of '96 when I had a PowerPC at work. I had a Mac IIsi at home but MkLinux wasn't being

xterm: no available ptys

1998-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My problem is back. I get this every few months. After 13 days of uptime, I can't open new `xterm's or `rxvt's (even as root): bash-2.01# xterm Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged xterm: no available ptys bash-2.01# rxvt rxvt: can't open pseudo-tty rxvt:

Re: xterm: no available ptys

1998-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
After 13 days of uptime, I can't open new `xterm's or `rxvt's (even as root). [...] I have this from `ps aux' : USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT ST START TIME COMMAND rhogee 1500 0.0 0.5 812 320 p1 S Jan 30 0:00 /usr/local/bin/gnuserv I don't know if `gnuserv' was doing

Re: mac linux

1998-02-05 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 10:44:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Search on MkLinux to get current info on it, but I'm almost positive that the only CPUs being supported are PowerPCs. Yes, but this applies to MkLinux only. Old macs are m68k-based, and there is a Debian port to m68k in progress

Re: help with SB AWE 64 !

1998-02-05 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Hi. Hi! I failed to configure my AWE64 sound card. Ok, lets have a look at the problems... By following all the instructions in the min-HOWTO I come up with very predictable result - system hangs solid on my attempt to insert sound module. This

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Adam Heath wrote: On 5 Feb 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because smail is

Re: ImageMagick Guru

1998-02-05 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is as follows: the input file is a tiff image who has 1 bit/sample and after an=20 mogrify -geometry x%=20 i get an image with 8 bit/sample. I've search the man page without success. Please Help. It's very critical. Tryman convert The

http://www.de.debian.org/contact.html

1998-02-05 Thread Thomas Winterstetter
gentlemen, i am in desperate search of a QUALIFIED individual to build and configure a DEBIAN-based single work-station. i'm in frankfurt, germany and will be glad to offer good money for good assistance. pls. contact tom winterstetter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] thank you -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Newbie question..

1998-02-05 Thread Adam Shand
How do I cut or removed the lines of a file starting from the EOF (end of the file) up to the 500th lines? If I am understanding you want to remove all lines after the 500th line? I would tend to use vi or pico and just highlight the unwanted text and delete it. Will tr, cut or sed be used?

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Douglas Bates
Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using only the ssh version: ... 2. Using ssh not su === % ssh -l root localhost type root password # xterm That latter version can be shortened to % ssh -f -l

sendmail HOWTO?

1998-02-05 Thread Charles Read
I cannot find a sendmail-HOWTO on the web? What's the next best resource for sendmail? Regards, Charles __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread David G. Deschenes
I'm running a Hewlett Packard PC (166Mhz) looking for which set of directories to download. Could you help direct me to the correct section of your ftp site. thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Doug Smith
During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... and root is mounted read-only. Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an unattached inode. My question: what is the password? It

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to set my hardware clock to GMT. I answered no in the question when setting up my system, so my HW clock would be local time. I now want to set it to GMT so I don't have to change it when daylight savings kicks in. Set

Re: .forward and .procmailrc

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

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-05 Thread dpk
Have you read the install FAQ? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David G. Deschenes wrote:

Re: Changing HW clock to GMT?

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

Re: libc6 upgrade script?

1998-02-05 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, I sent a message to the testing list and to Craig noting that I had found two bugs that cause v0.17 of autoup to fail. I included diffs from v0.17 to my v0.18. As of yesterday, both Craig's ftp site and yours still had v0.17. If you wish, I can send these diffs to

libc6 - libc5

1998-02-05 Thread Selim Issever
Dear all, I upgraded to libc6,.. but now I need to compile libc5 o-files and link them together with other libc5 o-files,.. there is no possibility to recompile the old o-files, as I dont have the sources,.. Anybody knows what to do now? ThanX in advance! Selim S E L I

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
It was with interest that I read Richard E. Hawkins Esq.'s comments about Lynx and StarOffice. I have tried Lyx a few times since I began using Linux about 2 years ago and every time gave up on it because I could not find documentation gave answers to a lot of questions on how to use it. I

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Type the LaTeX sequence in TeX mode (toggle the TeX button on the toolbar). You can also select a sequence and click on TeX to put it into TeX mode. TeX sequences show in red on the screen. oops, i should have mentioned this. You can insert *any* latex into lyx. I don't think that there are

Re: help with SB AWE 64 !

1998-02-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Sorry for sending that to the list, message directly to Marcus bounced. - Forwarded message from Alex Yukhimets - From alexy Thu Feb 5 12:31:37 1998 Subject: Re: help with SB AWE 64 ! In-Reply-To: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Feb 5, 98 03:56:07 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Feb

Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Lal Dissanayake Jnr
Hi all, Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking for the best, not something for newbies. Also, which X windows server would go best with a Millenium 2 card? my system is as follows, Pentium

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Tim Sailer
Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: Hi all, Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking for the best, not something for newbies. Since you are asking on a Debian list, no one is going to point you

Re: libc6 - libc5

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Selim Issever wrote: Dear all, I upgraded to libc6,.. but now I need to compile libc5 o-files and link them together with other libc5 o-files,.. there is no possibility to recompile the old o-files, as I dont have the sources,.. Look at altgcc and the various -altdev

RE: Matrox Mystique or Diamond 3d 3000?

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Rightley
I cannot startx X more than once (per reboot) with my Diamond 3D 3000 card. If I do, the machine locks up hard. Another person mentioned this same problem when I last commented upon it. I am running the latest hamm. Maybe go with the Matrox (but I am ignorant if it is supported at all). Paul

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tim Sailer wrote: Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking for the best, not something for newbies. Since you are asking on a Debian list, no one is

C++ Profiler

1998-02-05 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, is there such a thing in Debian (Linux awaiting packaging)? Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: mac linux

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hello everyone, I have installed debian on 486, 586. was wondering if you can install debian or any linux for that matter on a mac ii si? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Isn't the IIsi one of the ones with no coprocessor? I used macbsd (www.macbsd.com) on a IIci for a few months

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... and root is mounted read-only. Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an unattached inode. My question: what is the password?

Re: Matrox Mystique or Diamond 3d 3000?

1998-02-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Maybe go with the Matrox (but I am ignorant if it is supported at all). The Millenium II works fine here. I am using the XSuse server for it available at http://www.suse.de. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Two Monitors

1998-02-05 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
(Sorry for the delayed reply; I haven't been reading the Debian lists for a while.) There's a package in hamm called x2x which will take two separate X displays (e.g. :0 and :1) and allow you to move the mouse and keyboard focus between the two. You can either have a button to click which warps

Hamm LaTeX: regmar.sty?

1998-02-05 Thread Will Lowe
I'm using the tetex distribution in hamm. I need to set my margins to normal US default ones; I used to do this with regmar.sty in previous/other versions of latex. How do I do this in tetex -- I can't find regmar.sty anywhere ... Will

following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread David Stern
Hi, I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was through I rebooted and life was good. Good work, Debian Team. :-) Then I restarted dselect and decided to upgrade /hamm/non-free and /hamm/contrib,

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread John Spence
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 04:34:52AM +1100, Lal Dissanayake Jnr wrote: Could you guys suggest which Linux distribution I should install on my system. Ive been using UNIX with X11 for quite a while now, so Im looking for the best, not something for newbies. If you aren't a newbie then you'd

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... and root is mounted read-only. Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it

Re: Which Linux distribution???

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
Debian Linux, of course, is the best distribution :). But I really do believe that or I wouldn't be using it. To determine whether your hardware is supported or not you should consult the HOWTOs. A HOWTO index is located at

Re: even further off topic [was Re: Way off topic: humor

1998-02-05 Thread sawitt
CONGRATULATIONS !! My son, now 5, was 5 weeks early too, and in the first year he was a little sickly, but after that he just took off and is as healthy as a horse. __ Reply Separator

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Scott Ellis
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: Hi, I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect | ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was through I rebooted and life was

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If shadow passwords have been fouled up, the correct password may be none at all. Would a better approach be to boot off the Rescue disk to run fsck?k If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice. Ofcourse

Redirecting to a tcp port

1998-02-05 Thread Dale Smith
Hi All, This isn't really a Debian question, so please forgive me if I am offending anyone. Is there a way to redirect standard out to a tcp port? Piping to telnet doesn't seem to work. This is probably a job for expect or something. Anyway, anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Dale -- Dale P.

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know why that didn't work, but all is well if you use /dists/unstable instead of /hamm: Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... Getting Packages file from dists/unstable/main/binary-i386... Getting Packages file from

books and debian distribs

1998-02-05 Thread T-SNAKE
Yup, I chose debian, but mainly because I got that distrib CD from boot magazine, which I think grabbed hold of tons of people. Anyway, I like it so far, though I don't have a lot or other linux experience. Anyway, my point... I want to buy another book to be sort of a guide, when I don't have

Re: wget and refused connections

1998-02-05 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If wget gets a refused connection, it seems to quit, even with the -c option. Does anyone know a way around this? Please read the manual page: -t num --tries=num Set number of retries to num. Specify 0 for infiĀ­

Re: Redirecting to a tcp port

1998-02-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Yeah, install netcat and pipe to it. It's the perfect tool for this. Dale Smith wrote: Hi All, This isn't really a Debian question, so please forgive me if I am offending anyone. Is there a way to redirect standard out to a tcp port? Piping to telnet doesn't seem to work. This is

Re: Gimp

1998-02-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Zach == Zach Wilkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zach I installed The Gimp from the debian ftp site via dselect, Zach and it installed properly.. no errors all was good.. but Zach when I attempt to run the program I get the error cannot Zach find libXpm.so.2 I have xpm installed but

Re: Maildir support

1998-02-05 Thread Paul Miller
I got the copy from the unstable tree to compile, but the binary file is well over 2 megs... which is 4 times the size of the distributed copy! Do I need to disable debugging or change the optimization? If so, how? Thanks Paul On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: following hamm upgrade dselect can't find Packages file

1998-02-05 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:18:18 EST, Scott Ellis wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5 Well, you helped me to figure it out. The problem was my preceeding forward slash before the directory name. It doesn't seem to matter if I use hamm or dists/unstable, just

Re: Maildir support

1998-02-05 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote: I got the copy from the unstable tree to compile, but the binary file is well over 2 megs... which is 4 times the size of the distributed copy! Do I need to disable debugging or change the optimization? If so, how?

Re: books and debian distribs

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to buy another book to be sort of a guide, when I don't have time to wait on a list answer or for good nighttime reading. ALL the book I saw, though, all come with RH or Slackware distribs. Are these CDs usefull to a debian

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