Re: AccelX

1998-03-06 Thread aqy6633
How well does Accelerated X (a commercial X server from www.xig.com) work with Debian GNU/Linux? Is there a Debian installer for it? Can I skip installation of XFree if I buy AccelX (if so, won't Debian dependencies of XFree give me problems)? I am using AccelX 4.1 with no problems. My

Re: AccelX

1998-03-06 Thread Carroll Kong
Accel X 4.1 with patches works fine. (accel x specific patches). I just told Debian not to install it's Xserver binary. Even then, it should not make a difference. Depending if they changed it or not, Accel X 4.1 uses a termcap based install via binary, I would advise installing

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 08:37:52PM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: I have have tried echo/cat/more and redirecting to /dev/lp0 - /dev/lp4 and I have gotten the error message: bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address I am pretty much out of ideas. Any help would be appreciated. Try

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
I guess I was unclear. I tried /dev/lp0 , /dev/lp1, /dev/lp2, and /dev/lp3. Anyway, I tried reconfiguring magicfuilter, as suggested by Bob Nielsen and that didn't help. I still get the same error message whether redirecting directly to lp1 or using lpr. What do you get at the

Re: printer....

1998-03-06 Thread Britton
1. Take a look at the Printing HOWTOs. Yes there are two of them. I can't remember their names at the moment, but I remember them being strong on different points. 2. Get a print filter, I reccomend magicfilter. I believe one of the HOWTO's says that there are two programs called

olvwm

1998-03-06 Thread A. Savio
I am new with Linux. I just installed Debian Linux and X Free 86 from the official distribution CD's. I have twm and fvwm running but I had no luck with olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is intalled but .xinitrc said that it is not. Can anybody give me a clue? Thanks, Al. -- E-mail

Re: olvwm

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
I am new with Linux. I just installed Debian Linux and X Free 86 from the official distribution CD's. I have twm and fvwm running but I had no luck with olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is intalled but .xinitrc said that it is not. Can anybody give me a clue? You probably want to take

Re: olvwm

1998-03-06 Thread A. Savio
Ben Pfaff wrote: I am new with Linux. I just installed Debian Linux and X Free 86 from the official distribution CD's. I have twm and fvwm running but I had no luck with olvwm. Dselect tells me that it is intalled but .xinitrc said that it is not. Can anybody give me a clue?

Re: dotfile locking, NFS and lockd

1998-03-06 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
First of all, thanks a lot for the clarification (and for all the work on linux/debian!). On 4 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson Posse Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using

Re: APM HD Powerdown

1998-03-06 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:26:29AM +0100, Jonas Bofjall wrote: I would like my IDE disks (I'd very much appciate a general solution too which can be used on SCSI systems) to spin down when unmounted. Mounting them would cause them to spin up again. Is this possible and how? Well, I don't think

Re: Question about Debian configuration

1998-03-06 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote: Question: How do I set the X mouse to see the third button (now I am using the emulation, but I don't like that) ? When running xf86config, it asks you: Do you want to enable ClearDTR and ClearRTS? I guess that's the trick, though I never needed it,

Mounting a Mac CD

1998-03-06 Thread Devin Wong
How do I mount and read a CD for the mac platform? Or is it impossible? Thanks! Devin -- Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.engr.csulb.edu/~dbwong -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

what is crontab?

1998-03-06 Thread Mike White
I was trying to setup mgetty from dselect and got an error message that said it could not find crontab. Does anyone know what this file is and where I can get it? I also got an error while trying to setup x-windows. It said package cpp was not installed. I haven't been able to find this

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: I have one [a valid hostname]. It just makes things worse, since it isn't in my isp's domain. Michael Beattie writes: I gather you mean a valid domain as in being in the DNS? Yes. Okay... True, but I meant in the situation that

libc6-dev and kernel headers

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have had kernel-source-2.0.32 installed, and have just installed kernel-source-2.0.33. libc6-dev can not be configured because it wants kernel-headers-2.0.32. I want to keep kernel-source-2.0.32 installed; is it really necessary to install the headers as well? In /usr/src, linux and

where can i find 'crond' for win95/nt ?

1998-03-06 Thread Won-Ho Kye
Hi! friends I need 'crond' for win95/nt. Where can I get it? Thanks for any help, in advance whkye begin: vcard fn: Won-Ho Kye(°è ¿øÈ£) n: ;Won-Ho Kye(°è ¿øÈ£) org:SoftForum(¼ÒÇÁÆ®Æ÷·³) adr:;;Korea (´ëÇѹα¹) email;internet: [EMAIL

Re: what is crontab?

1998-03-06 Thread Ralph Winslow
Mike White wrote: I was trying to setup mgetty from dselect and got an error message that said it could not find crontab. Does anyone know what this file is and where I can get it? Install the cron package. This contains crond, the cron daemod, and crontab, the program used to manipulate the

Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp

1998-03-06 Thread Jim
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it

Mirror question

1998-03-06 Thread iquest
Hi, I'd like to know how can I setup my mirror program to retry after a certain period if the ppp temporarily disconnected and reconnected again! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

AVI viewer

1998-03-06 Thread iquest
Hi, Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Upgrading to glibc2

1998-03-06 Thread Carroll Kong
Ok... I see an autoup.sh lying around on the net that lets me upgrade my debian 1.3.1R6 to 2.0 in the sense that it gives me glibc2 and I can finally grab hamm packages. Anyone notice any particular bugs with glibc2 or the hamm packages? (unstable?) I know they say they are unstable, but

Re: Upgrading to glibc2

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: Ok... I see an autoup.sh lying around on the net that lets me upgrade my debian 1.3.1R6 to 2.0 in the sense that it gives me glibc2 and I can finally grab hamm packages. Anyone notice any particular bugs with glibc2 or the hamm packages?

Any thoughts on clients-server systems

1998-03-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I am looking for ideas and solutions on implementing some client-server system in my lab. What I mean is I want to add Debian boxes and not have to install all the packages. I want to have one or two machines with all the packages and have other machines load the binaries from those machines.

Re: where can i find 'crond' for win95/nt ?

1998-03-06 Thread Scott McDermott
Won-Ho Kye [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:18:40PM +0900: Hi! friends I need 'crond' for win95/nt. Where can I get it? You can't be serious. Try upgrading your OS to an environment in which crond runs natively without hideous alteration. -- Scott -- E-mail the word

Re: Debian vs. FreeBSD

1998-03-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Y.A.Uvarov wrote: Could somebody compare Debian with FreeBSD. I currently work on FreeBSD and I want to know if there are any reasons to try Debian. Not starting religious wars - it really depends. FreeBSD is solid and most people who use it in my experience needs it for

Re: HAMM Mirror

1998-03-06 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Pfaff wrote: If you have nfs, you can try mounting my ftp/pub directory via nfs. The server name is brahe.midco.net .. the ftp/pub dir, or any subdirectory thereof, may be mounted. It's exported readonly, so you might as well mount it read-only. FWIW, I also have a Debian

massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Britton
Fetchmail has me completely baffled. I think is all the convenient noise language that has been introduced into the config file. Here is my situation: I have an account on my homemachine with usernam bkerin. My account name on my ISP is fsblk. I would like to be able to have all mail

Thanks

1998-03-06 Thread Charles
I would like to express my many thanks to all who have helped me with the problems that I have posted. I have finally got a non-pnp modem in my computer, and within 24 hours I have successfully connected to my ISP via minicom. It appears that all of my frustrations were caused by my pnp modem :(

Re: Running just an X-server

1998-03-06 Thread M K Pai
There are two X-clients for Win. You will find them at 1) www.microimages.com This is a free Win95/NT server. I like it very much. 2) www.orl.com/vnc This server is supposed to be good for NT and OK for 95. I have not tried it yet. Hope this helps M. K. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu,

Re: replacing MTA

1998-03-06 Thread tibor simko
nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nathan In other words, simply using 'dpkg -i' or 'dpkg -r' is nathan problematic, since the MTA is essential. here is a simple (and *dirty*) method, but it sort of works for light-duty machines: example on how i approximately did a few

Re: libc6-dev and kernel headers

1998-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Bob == Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob I have had kernel-source-2.0.32 installed, and have just Bob installed kernel-source-2.0.33. libc6-dev can not be configured Bob because it wants kernel-headers-2.0.32. I want to keep Bob kernel-source-2.0.32 installed; is it really

Re: Running just an X-server

1998-03-06 Thread A. M. Varon
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, M K Pai wrote: There are two X-clients for Win. You will find them at 1) www.microimages.com This is a free Win95/NT server. I like it very much. 2) www.orl.com/vnc This server is supposed to be good for NT and OK for 95. I have not tried it yet. Hi, I

RE: Barcodes

1998-03-06 Thread Jeroen Gommans
On 05-Mar-98 Tim Sailer wrote: Does anyone know (not that this is real Debian specific) of a program that given a number, would generate a gif/jpg/tiff/whatever of a 3-of-9 barcode? Yes, it's called xbar211.english.tgz or XBarcode and it can do the following conversions: barcode

Dictionary

1998-03-06 Thread MGarvin
Hi Kirk, Ran across an old post regarding online CDROM (or other) dictionaries. Did you ever find one? I don't need Linux. I was curious about the proj. Gutenberg version, or even a Win95 Webster- like version. Thanks for any info! Mark Garvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Barcodes

1998-03-06 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: Does anyone know (not that this is real Debian specific) of a program that given a number, would generate a gif/jpg/tiff/whatever of a 3-of-9 barcode? There´s a (La)TeX package (no .deb though) out for some of the codes. Have a look at CTAN (I only now

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Jens Ritter
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ fetchmail . . reading message 69 (2365 bytes) .. not flushed reading message 70 (855 bytes) not flushed The problem is that these messages don't show up on my home machine. For example: $ mail No mail for bkerin where this mail

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Britton wrote: Fetchmail has me completely baffled. I think is all the convenient noise language that has been introduced into the config file. Here is my situation: I have an account on my homemachine with usernam bkerin. My account name on my ISP is fsblk. I

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Britton wrote: ... Lastly, does anyone have a clean way set up to invoke fetchmail as root and get mail for all users? I would like to see that also. This is my setup: I use fetchmail as a cron job to download mail and I pass it to procmail to distribute to users. I use sendmail. There is

Re: AVI viewer

1998-03-06 Thread Kevin Cave
iquest wrote: Hi, Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? Yup! Package called xanim, which is under the Graphics section. rgds. -- Kevin Cave. A Scotsman living in London, but may move to Japan. Registered Linux User #64441 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) [EMAIL PROTECTED](home) -- --

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-06 Thread john
Michael Beattie writes: If you use a smarthost, then the mail that they send for you is not rejected, as their HELO [domain] is valid, it can be found on the DNS. whereas mine is not. is this right? In my limited experience, mail servers always accept HELO from non-existent domains. I find

Re: AVI viewer

1998-03-06 Thread tko
iquest writes: Hi, Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? xanim works very well! You will find it in the non-free section on a debian ftp site like ftp.debian.org -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct

TeX help!

1998-03-06 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All ! I am having a small problem with TeX. I just added a new TeX package to it, and - as usual - there are some spread files. All files are located at /usr/local/lib/texmf/inputs and I would like to add them to my database so that my users does not have

vmlinuz and zImage

1998-03-06 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, Can anyone please tell me the difference between the files vmliniz and zImage ? I recompiled the kernel-2.0.32 and the new vmlinux file in the linux directory was 1087525 bytes while the original kernel-2.0.32 vmlinux file was 675524 bytes... quite a difference. the new zImage file was

Re: where can i find 'crond' for win95/nt ?

1998-03-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Why don't you just use the MS System Agent that comes with MS Plus? I don't know about NT. -Ossama -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
I guess I was unclear. I tried /dev/lp0 , /dev/lp1, /dev/lp2, and /dev/lp3. Anyway, I tried reconfiguring magicfuilter, as suggested by Bob Nielsen and that didn't help. I still get the same error message whether redirecting directly to lp1 or using lpr. What do you

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
What do you get at the end of /var/log/syslog (`tail /var/log/syslog') when you do `rmmod lp; insmod lp'? I get : Mar 6 06:42:43 isaac syslogd 1.3-3#17: restart. Mar 6 06:43:00 isaac /USR/SBIN/CRON[522]: (mail) CMD (runq) Mar 6 06:44:06 isaac kernel: lp: Driver

TimeZone Date String conversion?

1998-03-06 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a utility which will take a time-zone dependent date string such as Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:33:00 -0500 Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:12:00 EST and convert either to GMT/UST? I need to be able to extract Date: data from a mailbox on a uniform time basis. With thanks, Ted.

autoup.sh

1998-03-06 Thread Carroll Kong
Whoa... tried upgrading and I think I got confused. Shouldn't I erase my old packages via dselect? Then change my access to ftp and get all the hamm packages, then run autoup.sh? Carroll Kong -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST.

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread tko
Britton writes: [snip] Sorry, can't help you with fetchmail, Yet 8-) Some related questions: Is there an elegant userland way to bring up a ppp link and retrieve mail every day at a specified time (like 4 AM)? Options that occur to me are: I use UUCP and wanted to do the same sort of

Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-06 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail, What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to deliver any local mail or network mail to the appropriate user/server,

kernel Headers

1998-03-06 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Can someone explain to me please this whole debian kernel headers thing? I use OSS/Linux (unfortunatly my sound card is of a type where I can't use anything else) and I plan to upgrade to the new version of it later today... they say that before installation on Debian systems... you have to rename

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
What do you get at the end of /var/log/syslog (`tail /var/log/syslog') when you do `rmmod lp; insmod lp'? I get : Mar 6 06:42:43 isaac syslogd 1.3-3#17: restart. Mar 6 06:43:00 isaac /USR/SBIN/CRON[522]: (mail) CMD (runq) Mar 6 06:44:06 isaac kernel: lp:

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
That means that the driver doesn't think you have any parallel ports. Are the parallel ports enabled in the BIOS? Do you have any other OSes that the parallel ports work in? Yes, the printer works fine in Windows 95. I have an old Epson LQ 510, also. I'll try hooking that

Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: : Whoa... tried upgrading and I think I got confused. Shouldn't I erase : my old packages via dselect? Then change my access to ftp and get all the hamm : packages, then run autoup.sh? : : : Carroll Kong Pretty much the opposite. Run autoup.sh,

Re: kernel Headers

1998-03-06 Thread Steve Hsieh
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: Can someone explain to me please this whole debian kernel headers thing? I use OSS/Linux (unfortunatly my sound card is of a type where I can't use anything else) and I plan to upgrade to the new version of it later today... they say that before

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Jim Crumley
Yes, the printer works fine in Windows 95. I have an old Epson LQ 510, also. I'll try hooking that up later and see if that helps. Though I guess if Linux isn't even seeing the parallel port it shouldn't matter. If it isn't seeing the parallel port now, why did it say it

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Are you using the default kernel or a kernel that you compiled yourself? I am using the default bo kernel. At this point I'm beginning to suspect that other kernel drivers may be causing a problem. What other modules are loaded? (use lsmod or cat /proc/modules) What interrupts and

Re: Upgrading to glibc2

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
Carroll Kong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok... I see an autoup.sh lying around on the net that lets me upgrade my debian 1.3.1R6 to 2.0 in the sense that it gives me glibc2 and I can finally grab hamm packages. Anyone notice any particular bugs with glibc2 or the hamm packages?

Re: Dictionary

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Hilliard
Check out www.dict.org -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: kernel Headers

1998-03-06 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Steve Hsieh wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: Can someone explain to me please this whole debian kernel headers thing? snip then I got curious here at work (I am installing at home) and noticed that /usr/include/linux is a sym link to /usr/src/kerenel-headers-xxx

Sparc Debian

1998-03-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Does anyone know when Debian 2 for Sparcs is supposed to be released? I know that there is a glibc2 stability issue involved, but it sure seems that things are going very slow. Has cfdisk for Debian been ported to the Sparc platform yet? I know that RedHat seems to have it working. It

Adding users [useradd]

1998-03-06 Thread Jay Barbee
For some reason, my debian box is not adding users properly. I created a user, and it did not prompt me with any questions (Like Name and password). It added a entry in the passwd file (more or less bare bones entry (no shell, password)) and it did not create the home directory that is

Re: AVI viewer

1998-03-06 Thread Kevin Cave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Cave writes: iquest wrote: Hi, Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? Yup! Package called xanim, which is under the Graphics section. I beg your pardon, but xanim is non-free and your answer to the gentleman infers that xanim is distributed

Re: Linux Bad Blocks

1998-03-06 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2 Mar 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: I have a hard disk that had gained a couple of bad blocks recently. Linux (Debian 1.3.1) is having problems dealing with them kernel panic ... what can I do to mark the bad block in Linux? Try e2fsck -c

Re: kernel Headers

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: By the way, the most recent OSS should take care of all of this stuff automatically, I believe. I install OSS without having to touch any of the links (which point to 2.0.32 headers). I am using kernel 2.0.33 and OSS for 2.0.33 without any

StarOffice seems good but it is only in German?

1998-03-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi I wanted to try StarOffice but it is in German I presume. Can I get it to work in English? /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town

Re: Adding users [useradd]

1998-03-06 Thread dpk
I would try using the command 'adduser', instead of 'useradd'. You can find some default options for adding users in the file '/etc/adduser.conf'. (like default shell, group, homedir etc) From my experience, adduser has been plagued with bugs in the past. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL

Re: Adding users [useradd]

1998-03-06 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: For some reason, my debian box is not adding users properly. I created a user, and it did not prompt me with any questions (Like Name and password). It added a entry in the passwd file (more or less bare bones entry (no shell, password)) and it did

Re: StarOffice seems good but it is only in German?

1998-03-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: Hi I wanted to try StarOffice but it is in German I presume. Can I get it to work in English? You probably downloaded the wrong version. It is available in English, as well. Go to the English S.O. website, www.stardivision.com and follow the links

dosemu and graphics

1998-03-06 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
David Morris writes: I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based program and have tried to get it to run in graphics mode so the games are more accessible. However, as a normal user I can't get it. If I try to run vgaon it kicks out an error: CAN'T DO VIDEO INIT, BIOS NOT

Re: bo-unstable bash

1998-03-06 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:20 -0600 1998-03-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install the bo-unstable bash and it has a dependency on both libc5 and libc6. Is this correct? No, it's not, there's a corrected version in bo-unstable now. -- Joel Espy KleckerDebian GNU/Linux Developermailto:[EMAIL

Re: lp devices

1998-03-06 Thread Robert W. Van Horn
Hi, I'm sorry to jump in on a discussion like this but my problem relates - I think. My system is from the 1.3.1 cd and is basically unmodified as far as the kernel is concerned. During boot the system hangs on loading the lp module. I do a control c and go on from there. Later - looking

[Q] KDE for libc6. motif for libc6

1998-03-06 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, does any one know where from I can dowload (if it exists) the latest version of KDE (I think it is Beta 3) that is compiled for libc6? Also where can I buy (inexpensively) a version of Motif 2.1 (devel and binaries) that is compiled for libc6. And will it work when the latest version of

Re: StarOffice seems good but it is only in German?

1998-03-06 Thread surak
Hi I wanted to try StarOffice but it is in German I presume. Can I get it to work in English? No, there are two versions of StarOffice (I'm guessing you're talking about 4.0) - one in English and the other in German. The english one can be grabbed at ftp.stardiv.de/pub/so4/linux/final/01.

Re: StarOffice seems good but it is only in German?

1998-03-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: You probably downloaded the wrong version. It is available in English, as well. Go to the English S.O. website, www.stardivision.com and follow the links (4.0). 3.1 is available (both English and German) from ftp.gdwd.de. Yep your are right. I followed

[Q] Xemacs -- getcw failes

1998-03-06 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Sorry if the question has been asked again But I cannot get XEmacs to start up (in X windows or without). I get something like 'getch failes return status 0'. I did look through the mailing list arch in January but did not find a clear answer on this question. The XEmacs is from hamm but

Linux kernel size

1998-03-06 Thread Albert Dorofeev
Howdy, I am wondering how big is the actual kernel of Linux? I cannot compile it with all options turned off for some reason, maybe someone can give me a ready answer? I would like to know what would be the size of the bare kernel stripped down to support only: * processes *

Re: [Q] KDE for libc6. motif for libc6

1998-03-06 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello! On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: Hello, [...] Also where can I buy (inexpensively) a version of Motif 2.1 (devel and binaries) that is compiled for libc6. And will it work when the latest version of the gnu compiler 2.8.0 (or

Re: [Q] KDE for libc6. motif for libc6

1998-03-06 Thread aqy6633
Also where can I buy (inexpensively) a version of Motif 2.1 (devel and binaries) that is compiled for libc6. And will it work when the latest version of the gnu compiler 2.8.0 (or egcc) will become standard? You'll be OK with any compiler. As for Motif, there is a definite leader,

sendmail queueing problem

1998-03-06 Thread Branden Robinson
I seem to have a problem with my sendmail configuration. In upgrading from bo (sendmail 8.8.5) to hamm (8.8.8), incoming AND outgoing mail seems to be getting queued for delivery. The behavior under 8.8.5 was to try to establish a TCP/SMTP connection as soon as mail was sent out, or came in, and

Re: Adding users [useradd]

1998-03-06 Thread Jay Barbee
useradd is working exactly as documented and intended (man useradd). Use adduser instead. That was it... but when I went to use that command this morning, adduser was not there? I guess I reinstalled it. At any rate all is fine. Thanks! --Jay -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Running just an X-server

1998-03-06 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Also try Reflection by WRQ. I have found it to be very good in the past. Go to http://www.wrq.com and ask for an evaluation copy. John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two X-clients for Win. You will find them at 1) www.microimages.com This is a free Win95/NT server. I like it very

Linux on an 8086

1998-03-06 Thread Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti
Hi everibody! I have got an Olivetti 8086, 1MB RAM, 100MB harddisk, 3.5 floppy. Do you know of a BASIC version of Linux, RedHat or another U*ix dialect that I can install on it? Of course, I do not pretend super graphics, 64 virtual consoles c... Please reply in English, French, German, Italian

Re: Linux on an 8086

1998-03-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti wrote: : Hi everibody! : : I have got an Olivetti 8086, 1MB RAM, 100MB harddisk, 3.5 floppy. Do you : know of a BASIC version of Linux, RedHat or another U*ix dialect that I can : install on it? : Of course, I do not pretend super graphics, 64 virtual

Re: 'watching' a file

1998-03-06 Thread Jim
How can you 'watch' a file as it is being written to? For example, I want to have a script watch a log files for certain information and do something when it sees the information. You can: - tail -f file - less +F file -Jim -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO

What does spam-mail mean?

1998-03-06 Thread Catalin Popescu
Sorry for what could be considered a very stupid question, but what does spam-mail mean? I've tried to find the word in the dictionnary, but no luck. Could you please define it? TIA, Catalin PS As you probably noticed, I'm not a native English speaker and I'm not very used with the network

[OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-06 Thread Lorens Kockum
I am looking for a way to get grep foo bar | less on my screen, when I am already looking at less bar Ideally, this would be some kind of internal less command meaning (only display lines matching 'regexp') With the example above, I suppose I could write some kind of

Re: Linux on an 8086

1998-03-06 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 06:56:56PM +0100, Tonetti.doc, R Tonetti wrote: I have got an Olivetti 8086, 1MB RAM, 100MB harddisk, 3.5 floppy. Do you know of a BASIC version of Linux, RedHat or another U*ix dialect that I can install on it? On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:01:34PM -0600, Nathan E Norman

Re: Apache modules and Debian

1998-03-06 Thread Robert Joyal
Thanks to any and all that replied, but I found the answer my own stupid self. it seems that I needed to get the apache-dev package (the Configuration file is located within the /usr/include/apache along with the other source files that I need to do a 'make' on. Still trying to work out the kinks,

Re: What does spam-mail mean?

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
Sorry for what could be considered a very stupid question, but what does spam-mail mean? I've tried to find the word in the dictionnary, but no luck. Could you please define it? Spam is unsolicited commercial e-mail; i.e., when you get ads for pornographic videos and website hosting

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
With the example above, I suppose I could write some kind of macro, opening shell output, but it gets much more interesting when I am looking at program | less and I do not want to execute program again, and I also want to be able to go back to un-grepped output without

Hamm bug: syslog() does not work together with libstdc++

1998-03-06 Thread Farzad FARID
I'm writing a C++ program that has to use the syslog facility. The development environment is Debian hamm with libc6 version 2.0.7pre1-2 and libg++272 version 2.7.2.8-0.1. If I link my C++ program without any g++ libraries syslog works. If I link my C++ program with '-lstdc++' syslog does not

Re: sendmail queueing problem

1998-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Firstly, your sendmail.mc file would help. Conversly, look for the following in sendmail.cf (this is what it should be) # default delivery mode O DeliveryMode=background This could also be ^Od. in sendmail.cf, for us oldtimers who like sendmail.cf syntax, where the . is

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Graham == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 Graham writes: Graham Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using Graham either Smail or Sendmail, Simple in sendmail. Graham What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver Graham my internet email, The problem I

Re: [Q] KDE for libc6. motif for libc6

1998-03-06 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Vladislav Papayan x285 wrote: Hello, does any one know where from I can dowload (if it exists) the latest version of KDE (I think it is Beta 3) that is compiled for libc6? I asked the same question a short time ago and got no answe. But here are a couple of ideas: a)

Re: sendmail queueing problem

1998-03-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:49:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Firstly, your sendmail.mc file would help. Conversly, look for the following in sendmail.cf (this is what it should be) # default delivery mode O DeliveryMode=background That's what it says. I don't understand what

Re: Unicode Support

1998-03-06 Thread Yann Dirson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is substantial wide character support in the GNU LIBC 2. That will be in Debian 2.0 . There is unicode support in the console driver in the yet-unreleased Linux 2.1 kernel, although it seems to be mapping a 256-glyph code-page to Unicode, it is not making

Re: sendmail queueing problem

1998-03-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Umm, if DeliveryMode is set correctly, then I have no idea, based on the information presented. I have dial on demand, and any mail send pulls up the PPP connection. Maybe filing a bug is the appropriate step? manoj -- /* we have tried to make this normal case as

ftape-module-2.0.32 compatible with 2.0.33

1998-03-06 Thread Stefan Ratschan
Hi, I am running hamm with 2.0.33 kernel. However I need a newer ftape version, as provided by ftape-module-2.0.32_3.04d-2. Can I use this package for 2.0.33 also by copying the corresponding .o files from lib/modules/2.0.32/misc to lib/modules/2.0.33/misc. Any different solution? Or do I

Re: sendmail queueing problem

1998-03-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have a problem with my sendmail configuration. In upgrading from bo (sendmail 8.8.5) to hamm (8.8.8), incoming AND outgoing mail seems to be getting queued for delivery. Yes, I noticed this too. Add the following

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