Re: loading the Debian kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:18:08PM -0400, Ron Nichols wrote: I have a PB Legend 316SX PC (386SX processor, 6M RAM + 3M extended RAM, 41M hd) upon which I am trying to install linux. Everything has been wiped from the hard drive, including the operating system. I am having trouble booting from

Re: recompiling kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 10:28:10PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, I tried recompiling the kernel to include sound support for a newly acquired card. I got an error that I don't understand. I'm using Deb 1.3.1, kernel 2.0.30. The card is of unknown manufacturer, 16 bit, chipset ESS

Re: What does I/O error report from disk mean?

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:49:50AM -0500, wrote: `dmesg' shows multiple occurrences of this error message: - hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } - hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=48409, sector=48346 - end_request: I/O

Re: dosemu - can't see other drives

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 11:31:16AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: Jack Kern wrote: but when I try to look at the D: drive, expecting my Linux root directory, I get this: I don't believe the dos commands are pertinent to the linux filesystem. On my dosemu setup if I type unix ls / at

Re: dosemu - can't see other drives

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 10:13:12AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: I just installed dosemu (bo). I've made no changes yet. The config.sys looks like this: C:\ type config.sys rem this sets up the redirector to look at the Linux root directory. rem this is probably not a good idea once you have

Re: gzip question

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-20 Thread Chris
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote: I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Possible answer: You are

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-20 Thread shaul
I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Read /usr/doc/X11/VideoModes.doc. It is quite long, but it will get you do and

Re: making a kernel .deb file with make-kpkg

1998-04-20 Thread shaul
This is at a time when the BIOS is still running so the CPU is still in real mode and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] 640k barrier strikes again. Does anybody know what the maximum size of a bzImage is? Real mode - Perhaps the maximum size is 1M ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-04-20 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Scott D. Killen wrote: What exactly is the hamm release? hamm is the nickname for the next version of Debian, 2.0. It has been frozen for testing since April 1st and most of the problems seem to have dissapeared now. It is slated

Help! Liunx messes with date for DOS

1998-04-20 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I am getting my system up, new kernel compiled mouse etc. all coming together, but I now notice a quite annoying problem. Last week I go all sorts of errors from some of my (DOS) programs talking about things being changed before last use etc. I just happen to glance at my clock and it

monitor rates for X

1998-04-20 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I Do not have a manual for my monitor, but I want to push my resolution in X higher. I have searched the net, but I can't find the horizontal and vertical rates for it. my monitor is: PIXIE PBC-1450 If any one knows the horizontal and vertical rates for this monitor I could really

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: Using super, I'd like to enable certain users to execute the following: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward I've given super privilege for this exact string in super.tab, and running super with the -d flag confirms it, but when the user tries

first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello all i did my first kernel compile (make menuconfig,make clean, make-kpkg clean, make-kpkg --bzimage kernel_image) and installed the resulting .deb package of the kernel,runned lilo (twice) and rebooted,the kernel loaded fine but i think i lacked something ( i guess i did not make the module

Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
hi, now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must be doing something weird. Exim is configured as an 'Internet site' (option 1) and I'm using this: |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 daniel as my .forward I'm using fetchmail to pull my mail off the

Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? TIA 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL

Re: first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
I suspect that you were already running 2.0.29 before you built your custom one. It is possible that there were some modules in the old kernel that were not included in your custom kernel. Try this and see if it corrects the problem: mv /lib/modules/2.0.29 /lib/modules/2.0.29-old

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? i don't think there will be a Debian for the Mac version of the

Re: first kernel compile first failed kernel !!!!!

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
I am assuming that you either compiled support for these directly into the kernel or you have no need for them. If this is the case, edit /etc/modules and remove the references to linear, cdrom, and serial. i compiled them in the kernel (and yes i trully need them as i only have 1 machine and

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote: where are they? I see a directory for disks-i386 and several other platforms (alpha, sparc and m68k) but no disks-powerpc. So how does one get started installing Debian on a PowerPC MAC, and where are the instructions? i don't think

does samba support user list REQUESTS

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
Does Samba support user list requests -- sending a list of users to remote machines upon request.. Novell 3.11 and Win NT do this.. does Samba? Thanks -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or the equivalent (lightweight) functionality. The

Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-20 Thread Norbert Veber
Is there a simple way to make xterms display the current command beeing executed in the window? By simple I mean without patching and recompiling bash and/or xterm. I know that you can change the title using the -T command line option, but I want it to change dynamically depending on what I'm

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
Use fetchmail. On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary

XFree 3.3.2 and TGUI9680

1998-04-20 Thread seth
After a recent harddrive failure I moved from bo to hamm. I quickly discovered that XF86 in hamm doesn't seem to like my tgui9680 vid card. The svga server loads, but all I get is a black screen, and after hitting ctrl-alt-bkspc I get: waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE

Re: Install disks for PowerPC

1998-04-20 Thread Alain Toussaint
Thanx for the reply. So how does one get started with the IBM PowerPC then if there are no disks-powerpc? you check elsewhere for now,it's a very real possibility that Debian developper are crafting a very good distribution but that need time and they seem to be very busy (with the release of

I have a pppd connection problem.

1998-04-20 Thread Szomor Attila
Dear Madam/Sir, My internet provider changed his router parameter because his win95 users must to use bring up terminal window after connection. Since this option (Cisco/Group-Async/no ppp authentication pap)changed I do not make a correct connection and get two error messages: --ppp not

RE: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-20 Thread Mike Brownlow
On 20-Apr-98 Norbert Veber wrote: Is there a simple way to make xterms display the current command beeing executed in the window? By simple I mean without patching and recompiling bash and/or xterm. I know that you can change the title using the -T command line option, but I want it to change

Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread King Lee
Hello, I installed Netscape 4.04 (in a private directory) last year and after fiddling with preferences (Edit - preferences -Navigator-Applications) I was able to bring up XDVI when I clicked on a .dvi file and a ghostview when I click on a .ps file. I was running RedHat 4.02 (I think).

errors while uninstalling pppupd

1998-04-20 Thread Britton
I got the following: Removing pppupd ... /etc/init.d/pppupd: line 28: syntax error near unexpected token `force-reload)' /etc/init.d/pppupd: line 28: ` force-reload)' dpkg: error processing pppupd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Britton Kerin __ GNU

Tape Orientated Backup Bug

1998-04-20 Thread Tim Metz
Downloaded the unstable Debian Tape-Orientated Backup package (tob_0.14-4.deb) tonight and had something interesting (frustrating) happen, posting here so that others may avoid similar problems... 1. Installed package - dpkg -i tob_0.14-4.deb 2. Intended to execute tob -check as documented in

w04-2

1998-04-20 Thread 21355890
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Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one. The

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
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

Re: Is X breaking my monitor?

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
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,

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Well for what it is worth my own opinion is that 95 just like its forbears is an app. loaded on dos and for this reason I think we should be talking about whether or not dos is a true multi-tasking OS ... It certainly is capable of becoming one.

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread King Lee
Michael Tempsch writes: I installed Netscape 4.04 (in a private directory) last year and after fiddling with preferences (Edit - preferences -Navigator-Applications) I was able to bring up XDVI when I clicked on a .dvi file and a ghostview when I click on a .ps file. I was

ATI expert@work AGP 8mb

1998-04-20 Thread Marlon
I have this vid. card and was attempting to install a win. manager. The nearest sounding option for my card was the ATI Mach64. but no dice, it looked all screwy. I've heard that the problem was lack of support for AGP. It's not vital that I run X but it would be nice. Where can I get the proper

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread C.L.Daugaard
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Have you tried escaping the shell characters: echo \1\ \ /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Thanks, I hadn't. Unfortunately bash still complains about permissions. I additionally tried setting real uid to root, but when I

What libs to use ???

1998-04-20 Thread Mario Filipe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help me. I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this with printf's but that

Re: Question.

1998-04-20 Thread Carey Evans
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what's known as a 'port scan'. Someone wants to see what network services are available on your box. This would likely be a first step for a would-be intruder. You should probably alert someone at fuller.edu. I don't think it is: % host

Netscape + Java + X 24 bpp

1998-04-20 Thread Fredrik Ax
System configuration: * Base: Debian 1.3.1 r6 (bo, libc5) * Kernel: version 2.0.30 * X: XFree86 3.3.1 (debian packages 3.3-4) with the S.u.S.E. XF86_SVGA server. * Gfx hw: Matrox Millenium II * Netscape: Communicator 4.04 pro (installed with the netscape4_4.0-5.deb package from

Re: gzip question

1998-04-20 Thread John
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from

Re: I have a pppd connection problem.

1998-04-20 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 09:13:16AM +0200, Szomor Attila wrote: --ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] --Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP I do not have idea what is a solution if you know it please send me an e-mail. I don't think the settings on your ISP

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Marcus Brinkmann writes: I think this is only linker confusion and has its cause by removing libraries and symlinks and running ldconfig in the wrong order. Policy about calling ldconfig in package scripts is changing at the moment,

question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Maarten Bezemer
Hi! A lot of the people here are running RH linux, and this morning all of 'em crashed. RH seems to have a patch available, Debian doesn't. Question: is Debian vulnerable for this? -Maarten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Super.tab syntax

1998-04-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.L.Daugaard wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 09:29:33PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I still get bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied I don't use super, but it's interesting that bash is the one complaining and not super. You could make this a

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have seen this problem before. Thanks Michael for quick response. Hmm... will another shell give me still different error messages? I load ash from cdrom, and /bin/sh - /bin/ash - and IT WORKS. A problem with shells seems more serious than one with application; should I report this

Re: Running XDVI from netscape

1998-04-20 Thread Egon Schmid
The problem is definitly bash 2.0. Try a real shell. This was an answer from a netscape person (name forgotten but can be found in the emacs manual) -Egon On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I have seen this problem before. Thanks Michael for quick response. Hmm... will

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Carroll Kong
Windows 98 and NT require more ram to be faster than 95. Otherwise, it's overbloated kernel and other system sucking resources will force you to hit your harddrive (memory paging via swap file / disk) and that wil cause such a slow down. Personally, I find windows 95 and nt have faster

Re: question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Carroll Kong
Yes. There is the new 'nestea' attack ... linux is linux, regardless of distribution. In other words, debian is definately vulnerable, there are patches available. I forgot exactly where I got mine, (sorry), but it is something like ip_fragment.c and you throw it into your kernel source

Re: question about kernel

1998-04-20 Thread Maarten Bezemer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: Yes. There is the new 'nestea' attack ... linux is linux, regardless of distribution. In other words, debian is definately vulnerable, there are patches available. I forgot exactly where I got mine, (sorry), but it is something like

Re: why?

1998-04-20 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: header? Your question could be asking one of two different things: 1) Why would the list accept mail with an obviously bogus To: header? 2) Why would the list

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread C.J.LAWSON
commercial on the radio about Win98 being the OS of future businesses... Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. I don't know where M$ came up with Win98 running programs faster than Win95.. Win98 is a disaster; _never_ install it, it is a complete waste

Re: Big hard disks

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Larry Panzer wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped me on my last question. Now that I have decided on getting a bigger hard disk (I looking at about a 1GB) I have heard of or know of the following problems: Can I plug a 1GB EIDE disk into a normal IDE controller with a CD-ROM, and will it

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty news groups filled with it. Let's keep this a _useful_ list. Sorry, but this is valuable information ... so you knew it, some

PPP and Ethernet

1998-04-20 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I work for an ISP here in the Philippines. I have a permanent ethernet connection to the Internet and would like to use my modem to dial-up to our router which assigns dynamic IP addresses. Anyway, the purpose of dialing to our router is to monitor the dial-up lines and to check the connection

Re: finding leftovers

1998-04-20 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
W Paul Mills writes: nr# ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libext2fs.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libe2p.so (No such file

OUT OF TOPIC: squid and ftp

1998-04-20 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Hi everybody, excuse me for being out of topic but I have a little problem with the squid web cache and if somebody know how to solve it I will thank him for a LOT of time... ftpget doesn't work.I am pretty sure the conf file has all the right options in it, squid launch ftpget

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Paul Miller
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: Windows 98 and NT require more ram to be faster than 95. Otherwise, This is an issue that is dear to my heart ... I want my memory to be used /principally/ for my applications not gobbled up by my OS! I have 64 megs of ram in my Dell 200... and

Re: Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 daniel as my .forward I don't think it knows what exit 75 daniel means. There should be a # to comment out your username: #daniel Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science

supressing return mail with at

1998-04-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have a screwball link in my apartment, a 9600 isn line. ANd, unfortunately, the m-soft right- is ^S with bit 8 high. There is no way to reset the adaptor from my end using this; it needs a complete reset, losing the line, or a ^Q from the host. I tossed together a 2 line script to run

Zen and the art of working with NT

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space my idea was to mount my Windows NT home directory here at work and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way) o far I have mounted my home drive \\home5\sjc8$ on /mnt/partners with smbmount because o fmy specific

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam Shand wrote: PERSONAL_BIAS Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts). /PERSONAL_BIAS is is there really any advantage to using bash over tcsh? I much prefer tcsh for interactive use. Having smart completion is the best thing since sliced bread! e.g.

Re: Video Modes in X

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 12:57:36AM +1000, Chris wrote: I am trying to get my X running 1152x862 at 16 bpp - Vertical scan = 60Hz, Horizontal Scan = 56Hz. The only hastle is that there is no modeline for this in my XF86Config, and I don't know how to write one. Can anyone help :)

Re: Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Daniel Quinlan wrote: hi, now I know I can't be the only one using Exim and procmail, so I must be doing something weird. Uhm, you probably ARE the only one using Exim and Procmail! Exim has its own filtering and delivery scripting built-in

Re: Q: Suport for IR?

1998-04-20 Thread Mike Miller
There is the Linux/IR project [1]. I've never looked into it though. I've got an IrDA port on my laptop, but don't have anything to talk to with it. Mike [1] URL:http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/irda.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Adam Shand
I much prefer tcsh for interactive use. Having smart completion is the best thing since sliced bread! hmm, i'm didn't know that you could do all these things. i use simple file name completion all the time, but the below stuff is sorta neat. $ cd [tab] - shows and completes to

Re: supressing return mail with at

1998-04-20 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Richard E. Hawkins Esq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tossed together a 2 line script to run with at, to give me a ^Q every minute: echo -n bbb /dev/ttyp8 at -f testfile now + 1 minutes avoid output to stdout/err! at only sends mail if there is anything to send. see at(1) at -f testfile now

Re: Can emacs and xemacs coexist?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
Christian Weisgerber wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, how can I tell the aliases in my .bashrc to work only when I am using X (I don't need xemacs -geometry 87x28 when I am not using X) ? Use a function such as xemacs() { if [ -n

UUCP question (important)

1998-04-20 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Hello, I want to create a connection between 2 unix machine (1 linux and 1 aix) using uucp (the goal is to exchange mail) and in tcp mode. I installed the taylor version of uucp on the 2 unix stations : the install was successfull I configured the 2. My linux is named : pclin2 My aix is named :

FvwmWinList in hamm-fvwm

1998-04-20 Thread Marc Meier
After installing a hamm.system my fvwm configuration no longer works as expected FvwmWinListFocusFore/Back has no effect and the icon text is left justified instead of centered as default. Not a huge problem but it works with fvwm 2.0.45-BETA-4 in bo. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like the segment's from 12:30-1:00 pm PDT. More info

EXIM help

1998-04-20 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I am looking at the EXIM mail transport to handle the UUCP and pop mail that I have along with filtering mail and local mail. I remember a person on this list that offered someone a copy of the mail files that they use. Can I get a copy of them from anyone that is using

Re: [sara@ora.com: NPR show on open source]

1998-04-20 Thread Douglas Bates
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Sara Winge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:16:43 -0700 Subject: NPR show on open source Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman are guests on NPR's Science Friday today--looks like

MP3 encoding

1998-04-20 Thread Corey Miller
Does anyone know of any good mp3 encoding programs for linux? Thanks, Corey Miller --- Corey Miller This looks like a job for . legal tender! MSTie #71940 -The Tick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.egr.msu.edu/~mille542/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
Adam Shand wrote: PERSONAL_BIAS Use bash (instead of tcsh) and ssh (for connecting to remote hosts). /PERSONAL_BIAS running a couple of days behind here but ... are there reasons for your personal bias? i definately agree with using ssh for connecting to hosts (auto setting of

Re: Changing xterm titles to something more usefull than 'xterm'

1998-04-20 Thread Norbert Veber
Changing the title bar dynamically can be done with the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable (in bash). In my bashrc I have: function settitle { # title=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`pwd` title=[EMAIL PROTECTED]:(`date +%k:%M:%S`):`history 1` echo -n ^[]2;$title^G /dev/tty }

Ghosting and monitor settings for Xwindows

1998-04-20 Thread Matthew Lee
Hi, I noticed on some windows that overlap each other I can see a faint line continuing down the edge of the top window corresponding to the buried edge of the bottom window. Is this because my monitor clock rates or other settings are incorrect? I have a Neomagic chip so I am using the vga16

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Adam Shand
1) I find myself working on several different OSs these days: WinNT, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. Being able to have the same shell everywhere is nice and I have found bash to be the easiest to install on all these types of machines. (autoconf is a beautiful thing!) this is

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, might as well forget csh and learn sh. (This is similar to why I think Java/C can now replace C++, but I digress. :)) Ugh...I shudder the thought. I like C++ :)(although, I can understand why) ksh = Kron Shell (an extension of sh) LocalWords: Kron The correct name is Korn,

Re: Residual X11R5 and a.out errors?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Britton wrote: While trying to install or remove X programs with dselect, I often get whole slews of errors like these: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package off of sunsite and unpack the tarball just to get the

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:43:41PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Win98 runs one hell of a lot slower than Win95 and multitasks even worse.. Cut it off please, if you want this type of discussion there are plenty news groups filled with it. Let's keep this a _useful_

IPX Routing Problem

1998-04-20 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, I want to connect my IPX-Network via dialup to another IPX-network. The dialing PC should be the Gateway. I know, how to get this working for TCP/IP: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 (With these two lines i connect my localnet to the Internet) How can i

Re: no popclient?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote: I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the binary (popclient) or

Re: Routing with Debian?

1998-04-20 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote: Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's): on laptop: route add workstation-ip plip0

Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial

1998-04-20 Thread Andy Rabagliati
Folks, I downloaded the boot disks and base2_0.tgz to install the new glibc debian release on my Compaq laptop. I am an experienced linux installer. All went very smoothly. Except .. that after the base install I wished to continue as an ftp install. This required the usual

ISDN modem problems

1998-04-20 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I have just got myself an ISDN line and a Zyxel Omni.net plus modem, but I have problems in getting it to work smoothly. The problem is that I keep getting error messages saying something to the effect of: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 4de9 The more trafic (for instance with ping) I

Re: why?

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To: header? Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for

HELP: Telneting Inbound via a PPP Connection

1998-04-20 Thread Rob Goodwin
Hi there, I'm having a serious problem here. I have been able to set up my machine to accept PPP connection. I can dial from a win95 machine and use PAP to authenticate and connect. The IP address is assigned to the win95 machine alright and I can then ping my linux box but that's about it.

Re: What libs to use ???

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote: Hello This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help me. I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this with

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout? revisited.

1998-04-20 Thread dobrin
Sorry about this, but I was out and missed the beginning, How do you disable Autologout in tcsh (which I MUST use to be script compliant with the rest of the facility). I tried login.defs and a few other things. NADA. Thanks (now back to our regularly schedualed discourse on shells) --

ckermit and hp48

1998-04-20 Thread Jens Ritter
Hallo all, I have some strange problems with ckermit and my HP48 pocket calculator: 1. The connection works: If I do cat /dev/ttyS0 (where the calculator is connected) and start a kermit transmission from it, I get some strange characters on the console: unsolved [/home/jens] $ cat /dev/ttyS0

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to someones attention... the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation! I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the package

Re: Comments on Debian 'frozen' release, wvdial

1998-04-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 01:39:17PM -0600, Andy Rabagliati wrote: Folks, Except .. that after the base install I wished to continue as an ftp install. This required the usual guru-level PPP setup, not acceptable, in my opinion, for a fresh install. It is not any more. See below.

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-20 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:43:41PM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I happen to have some very valuable information on how to play the classical guitar. Would you like me to post that to debian-user? YES! Seriously, I play guitar and double

Re: smail Hostnames--Simplified

1998-04-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). If my machine has the fullname newname.bf.org can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using smail? How? Thanks. You mean you

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Beattie
Adam Shand wrote: While there are still a few things I prefer about tcsh, I figure bash can you expound? i'm curious. Oh, minor stuff really. The completion stuff mentioned earlier in this thread, prompt settings (~ when in your home dir, a shorter HH:MM time format), other little

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