pon only works for root after upgrade to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Britton
I recently finished installing the hamm upgrade packages, and now ppp only works from root. Is there something new that I can change in a config somewhere or something to fix this? On the other hand, poff can now turn off pon when the connection has not yet been established yet, which is good.

Mouse Failure in X

1998-04-16 Thread Christopher J. McNicholas
Hi! I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse. When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse, it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left corner of the screen (the entire virtual desktop panned as though I moved the mouse down there) However, the cursor

Re: Mouse Failure in X

1998-04-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Christopher J. McNicholas wrote: Hi! I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse. When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse, it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left corner of the screen (the entire virtual desktop panned as

Does .deb package for StarOffice 4.0 exist?

1998-04-16 Thread Milan Zimmermann
Is there .deb package for StarOffice 4.0? I did find v. 3.1, but I would like to try 4.0. Thanks Milan Zimmermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PGCC package?

1998-04-16 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:59:16PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Rob, On a related note, is there a program that can keep a record of the most heavily used libraries and programs, so that a list could be made of the most useful ones to recompile? I am not aware of any program that

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up with: # lilo Added linux * Added dos ide: probable bad

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Julien wrote: Hi im making my first package using deb-make (im using a doc witch explain how to do with the game empire), I am the author of that document and I have discovered to my chagrin that the version of the document on the web site is out of date. There is a later and more accurate

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-16 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: unfortunately I just got married That's not what I meant -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 11:33:25AM +, Ian Stuart wrote: RedHat is easier to install initially (it's only 2 floppies as opposed to Debians 6+), however the updating system in debian (dselect) is _far_ superior.. Fortunately both distributions have much better ways of installing these days.

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-16 Thread Anthony Fok
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:43:55PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: unfortunately I just got married That's not what I meant Your wife didn't read that, did she? ;-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-LingCivil and Environmental

Re: why debian?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 02:49:31PM -0700, King Lee wrote: While Debian does have more packages, it also seems to stricter, in terms of including packages into their core distribution, than Red Hat. There were several important (IMHO) packages available on Red Hat cdroms that were not

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:28:34PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: Yes. If you put one disk on each ide channel/adapter/whatever and if you put swap partitions on each drive, you will get a speedup as the kernel is able to use both partitions concurrently (up to a point). On the other hand, Linux

Using correct libc makes things easier

1998-04-16 Thread Chip Grandits
I had been having trouble upgrading my SVGA X server to support my Matrox Millenium II. Based on some help from Ben Pfaff and Ossama Othman I went to the Xfree86 web page and downloaded the 3.3.2 versions of various files like the SVGA server, setup, VGA server, config, etc. After replacing

Newbie question (long)

1998-04-16 Thread Cam Vetter
I just recompiled my kernel using kernel 2.0.32, and everything seems to work well, except when I boot I get the following error messages which I take it means I screwed something up. (Is this because I configured serial support as a module?) Any help would be appreciated. Apr 15 21:03:05

Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Will Lowe
I've been using my monitor (17 Hitachi SuperScan Pro) and video card (Diamond Stealth 3d with the S3V Xserver) with X for almost a year now. Just today, it started acting funny. Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of jelly and someone's shaking in just the

PLEASE HELP !

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Madlik - System Admin
I think, tha this is simple, but I can't move with it for 6 hours. I'v dowloaded php3 script and apache 1.2.5, and I want to recompile php3 as an module ./configure --with-apache=/usr/local/apache_1.2.5 It creastes Makefile and so on. make It works fine make installgood but now if I

Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. Permission to use, copy, and

Apache Question

1998-04-16 Thread tmetz
Using Apache/1.1.3 Debian/GNU, I am trying to ScriptAlias a directory under a users home directory so that it can execute cgi programs. The tilde in the ScriptAlias directive from the srm.conf file seems to be causing problems in the line below (cgi programs are not being executed, but instead

Re: Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Jeff Shilt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. Permission to use, copy,

Re: Apache Question

1998-04-16 Thread Shaleh
Why are you trying to set this via apache confs?? Just make the directory in the users home directory. Take away read access so no one can go in. Give everyone rights to execute cgi's and off you go. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

printer quota

1998-04-16 Thread Jason Killen
Does anyone know of a printer quota package. I know there is printer accounting but I'm not sure thats what I want. I have a hack worked out if there is not a printer package but I was hoping there was something a little more standard. Thanks -- Jason Killen

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 04:05:57PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: I've been using my monitor (17 Hitachi SuperScan Pro) and video card (Diamond Stealth 3d with the S3V Xserver) with X for almost a year now. Just today, it started acting funny. Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a monitor problem, or is my video card going, or have aliens changed the properties of the local space-time continuum?

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:29:39AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: There are some rather severe problems with memory corruption. Generally, you will only see them on busy systems. Other problems include memory leaks, filesystem problems and system hangs. There are also networking issues.

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Remco Blaakmeer writes: The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new ultra-DMA IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to multiple SCSI

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it was bootable. So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as now it is /dev/hdc (that

Re: Apache Question

1998-04-16 Thread Tim Metz
Why are you trying to set this via apache confs?? Isn't all cgi info set in config files in one way or another (i.e. ScriptAlias, AddHandler, or mod_rewrite) ? Just make the directory in the users home directory. Take away read access so no one can go in. Give everyone rights to execute

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, The Thought Assassin wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: Every few minutes, the screen wavers a little -- like it was made of jelly and someone's shaking in just the slightest bit. Is this a monitor problem,

StartX error message xkbcomp...

1998-04-16 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, I just installed hamm from scratch. There is one problem in startx, there is an error message at the end: System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Phillips writes: [snip] I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it was bootable. So what's wrong? On my father's computer the

PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread Erik van der Meulen
My initial problem: I am doing my best to get a ppp connection with my ISP working. I would have expected this to be fairly easy, because my provider supports Linux and has some scripts available for this purpose. Unfortunately, this did not turn out as easy as I hoped. My modem dials my

Re: RAID installation

1998-04-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Martin! On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 12:53:55PM +0200, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: [...] Hmm, you're correct, the bootdisks lack real RAID support. I've brought this up on the appropriate auditorium now.

Apache tilde question - Solved

1998-04-16 Thread Tim Metz
Thanks to those who replied regarding the apache question on tildes/ScriptAlias. I upgraded to Apache 1.3b5 and that seemed to fix the problem. - Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using Apache/1.1.3 Debian/GNU, I am trying to ScriptAlias a directory under a users home directory so that it can

swap and multiples devices

1998-04-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I know that IDE devices has a blocking design, so is better to put swap devices in diferent cables, but: SCSI is not blocking, but does there is a big difference in performance if the swap devices are placed in different cables? Thanks in advance,

Re: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread The Thought Assassin
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have made some progress towards solving the problem. It turns out that my machine insisted on having the IP address for the session with my ISP, which is used as address for the serial device on incoming connections. I have defined this in my

Re: mgetty log files

1998-04-16 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, Paul Miller wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, shaul wrote: It seems that mgetty stops logging information after the logs have been cycled. Well, it doesn't stop logging, it continues logging to the old file - if you have cped the file away and then rmed the old file, it's still open (!)

mirror and speed

1998-04-16 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again, I have setup a config file to mirror hamm, but mirror works in very slow mode ??? The connection is fully stablished as reported by netstat: tcp0 0 rdsi38.vlc.servic:26873 slug.ctv.es:ftp ESTABLISHED tcp0 0

RE: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Erik van der Meulen wrote: I have made some progress towards solving the problem. It turns out that my machine insisted on having the IP address for the session with my ISP, which is used as address for the serial device on incoming connections. I have defined this in

Re: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have made some progress towards solving the problem. It turns out that my machine insisted on having the IP address for the session with my ISP, which is used as address for the serial device on incoming connections. I have defined this in my

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not mistaken). It implements just

Setting system time?

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AccelX on Debian

1998-04-16 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote: 3) Buy the complete package 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package I'm sorry, but I can't get this to work either. XiGraphics does not answer my emails. I've tried experimenting with this over and over again. Now all

Re: PPP dies early / some progress

1998-04-16 Thread The Thought Assassin
On 16 Apr 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, after this not all is well. After pppd exchanges IP addresses, it reports something like: ppp not replacing default route to eth0[192.168.1.255] In remove the default gateway line in

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? hwclock --systohc or hwclock --utc --systohc if your clock is set to GMT aka UTC Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-04-16 Thread Damon Muller
G'day Rick, If you could choose one book to help you learn Linux, what would it be? I'm looking for something that covers installation, use, and administration. Oh yeah, and also how to format a floppy disk : ) I haven't read a lot of Linux books, but I found Running Linux (2nd ed.) by Welsh

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 11:01:34AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up

Re: AccelX on Debian

1998-04-16 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote: 3) Buy the complete package 4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package Is there anyone out there running Accelerated X on Debian? HOW do I do it? I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems. I did a

Using tix AND Blt with hamm system! HELP

1998-04-16 Thread Cormac McGuinness
Hi, I had written a nice visual application using the BLT (v2.3) library and also using tix extensions on a bo system: To be specific I used tclx76 tix41 tk42 on the bo system and my own compiled version of BLT v2.3. Now, after upgrading to hamm on one machine, it appears that tix41 requires

XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, how can I start xdm automatically after booting? I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change this... Does anyone know which files to alter? Thanx, Gernot P.S.: Im at runlevel 5 and its debian

Re: pon only works for root after upgrade to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Frank Barknecht
Britton hat gesagt: // Britton wrote: I recently finished installing the hamm upgrade packages, and now ppp only works from root. Is there something new that I can change in a config somewhere or something to fix this? On the other hand, poff can now turn off pon when the connection has

Re: HELP!!!

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Joost Kooij wrote: My advice: run for the shop and get another board. Another brand and model. I don't know how you value your time, but I would certainly shell out some money if it would save me a week of hassle. I value my time highlyit its one thing strugling getting something to work

Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Tristan Day
I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't like my sound card. Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE

Re: procmail question

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Hi all there! I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I have big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can anybody tell me how? Try the procmail and procmailex (examples) man or info (better

Re: How can I add the 3rd ethernet card ?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stellar R'espree wrote: Hi, I use a PC linux machine with 2 ethernet cards. (one for eth0, the other for eth1). And now, I want to add third ethernet card. It is recognized as eht2 at my machine, but when I tried to following command, /sbin/ifconfig eth2

Re: New drive---lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] Why have two DOS bootable drives? In my experience, DOS only likes to see one main bootable drive. [snip] One other item which I did not mention: The bootable DOS drive _must_ be the first one detectable by DOS. This is the setup of my three drives

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Stephen Carpenter
What type of soundcard do you have? For many Soundblaster compatible types if you get all of its info and recompile your kernel and turn on the built-in kernel sound card drivers (and configure them) then you are all set I have never had luck going that route but...I had a couple of really

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE ones and nas. Have you recompiled your kernel with

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:16:57PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: I have 2.0.33 running on an ABIT IT5H 2.0, K6-233 w/ 64 megs of RAM. I think that motherboard is based on the TX chipset, which does not cache any memory over 64mb. So adding more than that is most propably worse. It's based

Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Tristan Day
I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. I mount it with mount /dev/hdc /cdrom and normally I am able to unmount it with umount /dev/hdc /cdrom but whatever I do: umount /dev/hdc or umount /cdrom or the first command, it tells me that the CDROM is in

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, how can I start xdm automatically after booting? I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change this... Does anyone know which files to alter?

Re: A few things about Debian Hamm

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't believe that is true I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP I can't seem to get mail working

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remco Blaakmeer writes: The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new ultra-DMA IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. If you want to

mutt (was Re: A few things about Debian Hamm)

1998-04-16 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:57:32PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: Is there some 'mutt for pine users' documentation available somewhere? Not that I'm aware of. There's a Pine.rc in /usr/doc/mutt*/examples that gives you Pine-like keybindings though. In particular, I very much like the 'search

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Bruce Jackson
You must compile sound into the kernel. See Sound How-to. Tristan Day wrote: I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't like my sound card. Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Gernot Bauer wrote: how can I start xdm automatically after booting? ... Does anyone know which files to alter? /etc/X11/config: # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the flags, see # /usr/doc/X11/debian.README

Re: PLEASE HELP !

1998-04-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Martin Madlik - System Admin wrote: I think, tha this is simple, but I can't move with it for 6 hours. I'v dowloaded php3 script and apache 1.2.5, and I want to recompile php3 as an module ./configure --with-apache=/usr/local/apache_1.2.5 It creastes Makefile and so on.

Re: Setting system time?

1998-04-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jonas Bofjall wrote: How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard, however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux? tzconfig - sets your timezone date - sets your system clock hwclock - sets your hardware clock xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference

Re: XDM-start when?

1998-04-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, how can I start xdm automatically after booting? I remember that dpkg asked if I want to start xdm after booting - I denied because X was not set up correctly but now Id like to change this... Does anyone know which files to alter? Look

Re: Strange umount permission denied

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tristan Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. it tells me that the CDROM is in use, and says 'permission denied' even when I'm root. Well, probably it _is_ in use. Try fuser -vm /cdrom to see which

Re: Software RAID configuration in hamm install?

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...but... you have make a mistake ;-) in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools Yes, silly me. I knew that, I just didn't think of it. I always though raidtools is for 2.1.XX and mdutils for 2.0.xx

Re: Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant

Re: Setting transparent xterms

1998-04-16 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote: Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is Take a look at the enlightenment wm

KDE and the .deb

1998-04-16 Thread Klasa
Get the sources and compile them yourself (support, libs, base (the rest in any order)). This requires a pretty fat developers installation of This could be done I suppose.. But it has a disadvantage too in that it defeats the purpose of packaging the thing. There is always a tradeoff

Re: debian packages : DESTDIR

1998-04-16 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: debmake is kind of out of fashion now and has been replaced by a different package called debhelper. Well, debmake may be out of fashion, but perhaps replaced would not be the right word here. They are just

Rookie trying to install 1.3

1998-04-16 Thread Kevin Lewis
Hi my name is Kevin I am in Kelowna B.C. Canada. Hobbies are Ham Radio and my Computer, I came across a disc with Linux debian 1.3 on it and I was intregued, I decided to get myself in hot water and try to run this O/S. I printed out a ream of stuff, copied many 3.5 floppies from the CD with the

finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: nr# dpkg -l xemacs* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge |

Re: Mirror

1998-04-16 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! John Boggon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I get mirror to leave the debian/contrib and debian/non-free directories but still retrieve the hamm | slink/contrib, hamm | slink/non-free directories ? exclude_patt+|^contrib/ exclude_patt+|^non-free/ and when you dont't want mirror to create

Re: How much HD is necessary to mirror Debian x86?

1998-04-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: I want to download the entire Debian hamm distribution _for Intel only_ (just binary-i386, isn't it?) How much HD is necessary? Just yesterday I put Debian 2.0 (main + contrib; binary-i386 + disks-i386) on a CD-ROM, flattening symlinks from

Re: Mouse Failure in X

1998-04-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Christopher J. McNicholas wrote: Hi! I'm using a Mouse Systems serial mouse. When I startx, twm starts up fine, but as soon as I touch the mouse, it disappears and I can see a little activity in the lower left corner of

MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-16 Thread Fulgham, Brent/SCO
Can anyone give me a short and sweet rundown of what I need configured to get a working fetchmail system running? I have SMail set up and working (I can send E-mail from my system, and I can send/receive email between different accounts on my system). Now I want fetchmail to grab mail from my

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-16 Thread José-Vicente Gilabert-Beneyto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: I've been using my monitor (17 Hitachi SuperScan Pro) and video card (Diamond Stealth 3d with the S3V Xserver) with X for almost a year now. Just today, it started acting funny. Every few minutes, the screen

Severe security hole in Bind

1998-04-16 Thread mike
I just noticed this link with a warning about all Linux distributions. http://www.LinuxMall.com/support/bind-4.9.6.html Currently I'm running Hamm/Frozen, am I vulnerable? I check the config file(s) and did not notice the 'fake-iquery yes;' line, so can I assume that I am safe?

fopen keeps producing seg faults under hamm - known bug ??

1998-04-16 Thread Robert Rozman
Hello ! I'm using HTK speech processing tools. I've built them and used under IRIX, Cygnus. Now I'm trying to get them to work under debian - (debian 1.3 upgraded to hamm). Some of fopen function calls keep producing seg faults. Is this known bug and is there easy

Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread Jim Lynch
I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No, unfortunatly he

Re: Severe security hole in Bind

1998-04-16 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed this link with a warning about all Linux distributions. http://www.LinuxMall.com/support/bind-4.9.6.html Currently I'm running Hamm/Frozen, am I vulnerable? I check the config file(s) and did not notice the 'fake-iquery

Possibly Off Topic: Fonts gone bananas in X.

1998-04-16 Thread Timothy Hospedales
Hi, I recently upgraded my X packages to 3.3.2-3. (xlib6g, xbase, xserver-vga16, xserver-svga, xfntbase, xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbig, xfntscl). I also upgraded my gimp stuff to gimp0.99.26-1, libgimp0.99.26-1, libgtk10.99.10-1. Now when I do text in gimp with any font, say, lucida bright or times,

Re: mutt (was Re: A few things about Debian Hamm)

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:58:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some 'mutt for pine users' documentation available somewhere? Not that I'm aware of. There's a Pine.rc in /usr/doc/mutt*/examples that gives you Pine-like keybindings though. That's not enough. What I did was take

Re: Sound problems

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: If youw ant the Easy way out check out www.4front-tech.com they have the OSS/Linux sound card drivers They work great and suport many cards. They have one advantage in being comercial software (there is also OSS/Free...but it

Re: fopen keeps producing seg faults under hamm - known bug ??

1998-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Rozman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! I'm using HTK speech processing tools. I've built them and used under IRIX, Cygnus. Now I'm trying to get them to work under debian - (debian 1.3 upgraded to hamm). Some of fopen function calls

debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
HI, I have been trying to get Debian to run on my computer. I have be able to get Slakware 3.4 to run, but I would prefer Debian. I have a modem that is com2 in DOS, a PS/2 mouse connected to the PS/2 connector on my motherboard, ( Slakware recognized the mouse as /dev/mouse (type PS/2) ) but I

PyNG package ?

1998-04-16 Thread Dean Carpenter
Has anyone messed with the PyNG package ? (http://www.cb.hva.nl/PyNG) It's very similar to MRTG in that it allows one to do snmp queries to routers, switches, whatever and build traffic graphs. Very slick. It's python based, and requires the GD module

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Ossama Othman
On Debian, the PS/2 mouse device is /dev/psaux, not /dev/mouse. You must also have PS/2 mouse support compiled into the kernel or as a module, which it seems you already have. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:13:08PM +, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote: -configuring gpm -actual config is: -m /dev/ttys0 -t bare (as I understand this is like com 1, and is a micorsoft 2 button mouse, which ins not mine so I changed it) -do you want to change anything (Y,n) =y -where is

Re: MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password. I also added a line saying that I want mda formail -s procmail. I have a .forward file in my home directory, and I have a .procmailrc file. If I run

Re: Laptop install

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jim Lynch wrote: I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do

Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
Debian will not work with my mouse or modem. I installed several times and the last time I left on the system, and wrote down what I did/ was asked to do ect. here is what I did on my final install: okay, let's see here... [..] #chagned root password , created a user ryder made a pass

Re: KDE and the .deb

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 06:24:08PM +0200, Klasa wrote: Get the sources and compile them yourself (support, libs, base (the rest in any order)). This requires a pretty fat developers installation of This could be done I suppose.. But it has a disadvantage too in that it defeats the

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: mmmh. This shouldn't happen... nr#

Re: MAIL -- Configuration Help Please (Fetchmail/Smail)

1998-04-16 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 10:18:29AM -0600, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file that has my ISP user name and password. I also added a line saying that I want mda formail -s procmail. I have a .forward file in

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-16 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Marcus Brinkmann writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:07:38AM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Many times, after upgrading/purging a package, the old/purged version leaves some files behind it was not supposed to. Just to have an example, after purging all the xemacs packages: mmmh.

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