Y despues de recompilar el Kernel...

1998-05-04 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, he recompilado el kernel que viene en /bo-updates de la Debian 1.3.1, la versión 2.0.32. A compilado sin problemas (aparentes) y cuando lo cargo desde LILO funciona. Pero, tal como se indica en el artículo de Linux Actual (aquí en españa) el siguiente paso es la instalación de los

Funciona el Setuid?

1998-05-04 Thread Toni
Hola a todos, tengo instalado debian 1.3.1 y estoy intentando acceder a internet mediante un script llamado jet que hace la llamada a ppp. Si entro como root, funciona perfectamente, pero como usuario normal no puedo. (permisos denegados). Lei en una lista que tenia que poner el permiso +s al

Re: Compilar el Kernel

1998-05-04 Thread Antonio Vieiro Varela
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Antonio Castro wrote: On Sun, 3 May 1998, Oscar Ferrero wrote: Hola a todos : Acabo de compilar el kernel con éxito y creo que ya funciona mi tarjeta de sonido GUS MAX (todo un logro, porque soy un novato de linux), pero el problema es que ahora ya no no tengo

Re: Sendmail con varios servidores, como ??

1998-05-04 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Hola, Hola Quisiera saber si hay forma de que sendmail utilice varios servidores SMTP en funcio´n del usuario que envi´a el mensaje. Es decir, si es usuario 'pepito' que utilice 'mail.depepito.es' y si se trata de 'robertito' que

XFM en Debian (era Re: puertos serie???)

1998-05-04 Thread Gerardo . Aburruzaga
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Raul Hernández Alvarez wrote: PD: ¿Hay en la distribucion al gun programa gestor de archivos grafico como el xfm que viene con la slak, o algo parecido. Si lo hay porfa me pasais el nombre del paquete. Tienes dos mucho más buenos: filerunner y el tkdesk

Re: Tres preguntitas...

1998-05-04 Thread Jesus Ruiz de Infante
On Sun, 3 May 1998, J. Parera wrote: Atención que empiezo: 1. Tengo que cambiar de tarjeta de sonido, cual me recomiendan? Si no eres muy exigente y quieres comptatibilidad totla e instalacion facil: sound blaster 16 pnp 2. El spell lo tengo predeterminado en Español, si en un momento

Re: Problemas al inicializar Linux

1998-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- J. Parera: Tal y como se puede ver en el archivo adjunto (resultados de dmesg) tengo varios errores, el primero esta en la linea 14, Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Ok no es un error :-). Traduciendo, eso podría ser

Compilar Kernel nuevo ... pero como original

1998-05-04 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Hola compañeros: Resulta que baje el kernel-source del 2.0.33, lo configuro, compila bien, creo los módulos, etc., sin embargo, me gustaría que quedara como el kernel original de Debian, es decir, que lo que a Debian le gusta en modulos quede en modulos, que lo que le gusta en memoria quede en

Re: Compilar Kernel nuevo ... pero como original

1998-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 4 May 1998, Roberto Ruiz wrote: Resulta que baje el kernel-source del 2.0.33, lo configuro, compila bien, creo los módulos, etc., sin embargo, me gustaría que quedara como el kernel original de Debian, es decir, que lo que a Debian le gusta en

Re: Y despues de recompilar el Kernel...

1998-05-04 Thread fsa
La cuestión es si se puede desinstalar (dpkg --purge) el kernel-source, que me ocupa 26 Mb, sin que tenga problemas para más adelante instalar los módulos, o si hay forma de 'moverlos' a otro sitio y desinstalar para liberar espacio. No se puede, si desinstalas los fuentes del kernel con

Re: Funciona el Setuid?

1998-05-04 Thread Emilio Marquez \(marqueze\)
tengo instalado debian 1.3.1 y estoy intentando acceder a internet mediante un script llamado jet que hace la llamada a ppp. Si entro como root, funciona perfectamente, pero como usuario normal no puedo. (permisos denegados). Si es durante la ejecución del script es que dicho programa

Re: Compilar Kernel nuevo ... pero como original

1998-05-04 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Solicionado: Gracias Santiago, si estaba. On Mon, 4 May 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: Lo que quiero, es si alguien sabe en donde puedo encontrar el .config que se usa para crear el kernel-image, Debería estar en el paquete kernel-image-2.0.33 de hamm. Tambien esta en el

Re: whoop

1998-05-04 Thread Plutonically Incorrect
Thanks for letting me know, at least some people on here are willing to help others and not be bias on what kind of hardware they have. On Sun, 3 May 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi there, Actually there is support for Intense 3D Voodoo. Where have you been? :) The latest XF86_SVGA server

Shells in /usr/bin?

1998-05-04 Thread Asher Haig
Why are the shells from .deb packages put in /usr/bin? Shells are generally kept in /bin to the extent of my knowledge... Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pager/Voice Mail 972/328-9247 --- It was like a visit

Re: Incoming telnet attempts during leafnode/fetch nntp connections

1998-05-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JK == Jack Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JK getpop3, fetch and disconnects. Sometimes fetch stays connected JK for as much as 1 hour and more. I also sometimes see leafnode freezing, when the upstream newsserver hangs or when the server rejects a posted article for some reason. Ciao,

Re: conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-04 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: midnight commander now requires e2fsligsg, but when I tried installing that, it won't install because of a conflict with e2fsprogs. The packages file says it

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the real story with debian 2.0? IE when ill it be released? I have a 1.2 system that I want to upgrade, but I need it to be dependable, so I am waiting for the final release. From what you

Re: Terminal Corruption

1998-05-04 Thread sjc
I have gotten this too... if you can tyope commands / login etc excpet it looks AFU then try this login on the AFU Terminal then use the command reset I have found this fixes it well BTW I put reset in my .bash_logout so that the tty gets reset when I logout (unfortunatly it does it in xterms

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread AJT60
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] a lot of users (note, users not only developers) have done this already and are very happy with the results. I am one of them, except for the fact GV doesn't work :[ I have had no problems. The upgrade was easy, everything worked as it always

the glibc2/libc6 tale Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread Shaleh
The difference between libc5 and libc6 is in the name glibc2. Libc5 was predominantly Linux only. libc6/glibc2 is gnu libc. It is installed (or will be) on systems besides Linux. This makes porting between unices easier and makes the differences between them less. glibc2 is more robust, more

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Mon, 4 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 May 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] a lot of users (note, users not only developers) have done this already and are very happy with the results. I am one of them, except for the fact GV doesn't work :[ I have had no Whats wrong

where do I download the Kernel Source

1998-05-04 Thread Keith
I am going to upgrade my kernel from 2.0.29 to 2.0.33. I downloaded the kernel, a file called linux-2.0.33.tar.gz. Does this file contain the kernel source, it seems to small 6.3meg. If this does not contain the kernel source where do I get it from? When I look at all the ftp servers that have

Clear screen on logout (Re: Terminal Corruption)

1998-05-04 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW I put reset in my .bash_logout so that the tty gets reset when I logout (unfortunatly it does it in xterms too with su etc... there should be a better way? relaly I only did it to clear the screen on logout) I finally broke down and did this

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-04 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 10:57:39AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: I use Joost's nfsroot package, which sets most of the stuff up. It's a good start - but You still need to do a fair amount of hacking to get it to work. I think the package got wiped out by the latest freeze, so you need to fetch

Re: Diskless Debian, Shared /usr, etc...

1998-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: This sounds nice, but would it support say /etc/init.d#HOST=foo#? Yes, that works too. Also, what about /tmp and /var -- those howtos seem to suggest that each machine should have its own. You can use /tmp#HOST=foo#, etc. I kept /var shared, except /var/tmp, /var/spool,

Re: Shells in /usr/bin?

1998-05-04 Thread Noel Yap
Asher Haig wrote: Why are the shells from .deb packages put in /usr/bin? Shells are generally kept in /bin to the extent of my knowledge... I believe you are not entirely correct: bash is kept in /bin. /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash. csh is also in /bin, although this is a symlink to

Re: where do I download the Kernel Source

1998-05-04 Thread Noel Yap
Keith wrote: I am going to upgrade my kernel from 2.0.29 to 2.0.33. I downloaded the kernel, a file called linux-2.0.33.tar.gz. Does this file contain the kernel source, it seems to small 6.3meg. If this does not contain the kernel source where do I get it from? When I look at all the ftp

Re: partition dumbness causing kernel panic

1998-05-04 Thread chizor
select mount previously initialized swap partition (forgot to mention that previously). After doing that, select mount previously initialized Linux partition or something of the like, which should allow you to choose which ext2 partition you want (this should mount the partition under

Re: partition dumbness causing kernel panic

1998-05-04 Thread chizor
so now it isn't booting still off the HD, but if i use the use the rescue disk and do rescue root=/dev/hda6 it will boot ok. the only clue i have as to what's up is if i run lilo with the settings all the same as they were before this went down (ie, legitimate lilo.conf) it tells me: Device

AfterStep 1.4 bug?

1998-05-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I upgraded to hamm when it froze and since then I was upgraded to Afterstep 1.4 when I used dselect. I have been having problems with AS doing certain things and I was wondering if anyone else had experienced any of them. None of the backgrounds from the menu work, in fact, when I try to

AfterStep bug??

1998-05-04 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I upgraded to hamm when it froze and since then I was upgraded to Afterstep 1.4 when I used dselect. I have been having problems with AS doing certain things and I was wondering if anyone else had experienced any of them. None of the backgrounds from the menu work, in fact, when I try to

Re: whoop

1998-05-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Thanks for letting me know, at least some people on here are willing to help others and not be bias on what kind of hardware they have. No problem. Normally most people are very helpful. Sometimes there is some controversy, however. :) -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Internal ISDN Support?

1998-05-04 Thread Scott Hanson
Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everyone, I'm looking for an internal ISDN TA that I can use under Linux, and I'm hoping someone can provide some info on which, if any, are supported. I've looked at the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO and the ISDN HOWTO, but they're both years old

fortunes

1998-05-04 Thread FuzyBuny
i am running debian linux kernel v2.0 frozen... and i cant seem to get my fortunes going... have read the man page already and still no luck any info?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fortunes

1998-05-04 Thread sjc
What exactly is the problem? does it give an error when you run /usr/games/fortune ? I think the actual fortunes need to be instalkled separately (and unfortunatly the good fortunes are in a separate package... that on eis really a must...I woul dlove to see the offensive package merged back in

Re: hamm and pon,pppd,chat

1998-05-04 Thread Richard L. Alhama
Thanks guys but I had an ace in my pocket after all. As soon as I had sent this mail using IE mail, I booted to linux and to continue my installation. After browsing all those .deb files I noticed that I had pppconfig. Cool utility! Once again my Linux box was online. Thanks for these mails.

Problem with my shell

1998-05-04 Thread Jeff Shilt
I wrote a postinst shell script for a package and when I went to test it I get bash: ././postinst: no such file or directory I changed my PATH environent variable around a bunch, even took out . and tried to run postinst with ./postinst and I get bash: ./postinst: no such file or directory

Re: hamm and pon,pppd,chat

1998-05-04 Thread Richard L. Alhama
Thanks guys but I had an ace in my pocket after all. As soon as I had sent this mail using IE mail, I booted to linux and to continue my installation. After browsing all those .deb files I noticed that I had pppconfig. Cool utility! Once again my Linux box was online. Thanks for these mails.

Re: perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-05-04 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Yann Dirson, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: I wrote a sample script whose behaviour seems strange to me. At least I can't find in the doc why it behaves so, nor what I should write to get the expected result. Two things: 1) If you want stuff on

Re: fast hard drives for which partitions

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: swap / /boot /etc /var /tmp I'm not sure, but I believe the above must be on the same drive... /boot and /etc do... /boot does not (I've had /boot be a symlink to a dos partition (don't ask ;-)). My

upgraded to hamm and now xlock broken ...

1998-05-04 Thread Adam Shand
i upgraded my entire system to hamm (it had been piece meal hamm for a couple months) and now when i xlock my box it doesn't recognise my password. can someone save me the hassle and tell me which part it is that's broken? i'm assuming a shadow problem but ... adam.

Help: Thinkpad won't accept boot prompts

1998-05-04 Thread Rob EWING
Can anyone help with this: I have had linux running on my IBM thinkpad 340, but then managed to delete files that were obviously important... So to cut the story short, i am attempting to reinstall. When I give the boot command 'floppy=thinkpad' to the boot prompt however, I get a 'floppy=t.hin

Re: Clear screen on logout (Re: Terminal Corruption)

1998-05-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brandon Mitchell wrote: ... I finally broke down and did this the right way. Before, I was doing a trap /usr/bin/clear EXIT in my /etc/profile. Now I have the characters that are echoed by clear at the top of my /etc/issue and I unlinked my /etc/issue.net from my /etc/issue so that

mutt, xlock, xautolock problems

1998-05-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have installed mutt (0.91.1-4) on i386 and have experienced some strange colors, which make most of the mails (citations) unreadable. I know how it looked before and have seen the same with the new version I built for m68k. Is mutt supposed to look like this now? Do I have to configure it

Re: Help: Thinkpad won't accept boot prompts

1998-05-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 10:07:00AM -0600, Rob EWING wrote: So to cut the story short, i am attempting to reinstall. When I give the boot command 'floppy=thinkpad' to the boot prompt however, I get a 'floppy=t.hin image not found ' (or something similar). Try responding with linux

Boot problem

1998-05-04 Thread Erik Eriksson
Hello Three questions: 1. I am trying to install Debian on an IBM ThinkPad 760EL but the machine dont want to boot. I use a floppy with resc1440.bin, at the boot prompt I type linux floppy=thinkpad with no results. I have read the instructions about boot parameters to use and ThinkPad is

NE2000

1998-05-04 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All. I have a NE2000 card on my 486DX4 100MHz server, running a hamm Debian (upgraded whenever possible - something like twice a week... ;) And, recently, I encountered a problem: the cable that links the NE card to the HUB (3comm) has been changed from coaxial to UTP and so,

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Mon, 4 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an ignorant question, how often do new libcs come out? What's the story with glibc (how is it different from libc6)? [ Just to avoid confusion, glibc means GNU libc. glibc version 2 is being called libc6 in Linux ]. Switching to libc6 from

Re: conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: The latter First force the removal of e2fsprogs (IIRC --force-remove-essential) and then install e2fslibsg. You need a package named comerr2g too. No. comerr2g and e2fslibsg are obsolete and should be removed from the

Re: Printing from windows

1998-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: H. If you don't specify a filter at all (remove the if=) then it won't use magicfilter, and will go straight through to the printer. Then you can have both the raw and cooked (magicfiltered) queues running in parallel; at least, I THINK this is

Re: Boot problem

1998-05-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
Erik Eriksson wrote: 3. Can you recommend any SQL based freeware for Linux, we would like to do s ome tests. There are Debian packages for PostgreSQL, mSQL, mysql and nosql. (mSQL and mysql are in non-free.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: small bug in Debian 2.0 installation

1998-05-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
I found a small bug in the Debian 2.0 installation... Perhaps you'd have more success posting a bug report... http://www.us.debian.org/Bugs/ or something like that. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra http://www.lge.com.br./[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/

apache on debian

1998-05-04 Thread Rudolf Buergin
I have linux ver. 2.0.31 and apache 1.2.5 the apache server is running but i can not browse the apache. ping is ok who can help me rudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Staroffice

1998-05-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Sorry for the stupid quiestion but where is the debian package for staroffice ? I can't seem to find it in my nirror. If you can't find it at http://www.us.debian.org/packages.html, it probably will be a waste of time looking at the mirrors. Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra

Re: NE2000

1998-05-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Do you know what type of card it is (vendor and model)? It must be rather old...I have a few Combo Cards (UTP + Coax) and have never seen on ethat NEEDED you to select for it what interface it used. Generally yes, you wil need to boot DOS with a config disk... I have about 3 or 4 diff config disks

Re: apache on debian

1998-05-04 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Rudolf! On Mon, 4 May 1998, Rudolf Buergin wrote: I have linux ver. 2.0.31 and apache 1.2.5 the apache server is running but i can not browse the apache. ping is ok try to give us more info, for instance stop and start the service and show us the

does KDE need Xserver-vga16 (or any X server for that mather)

1998-05-04 Thread Alain Toussaint
i was reinstalling all the app needed in my system and installed kde too,but i want to know if kde need any of those files: stable/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.3-4.deb stable/binary-i386/x11/xfnt75_3.3-4.deb stable/binary-i386/x11/xfntbase_3.3-4.deb stable/binary-i386/x11/xserver-vga16_3.3-4.deb it's

boot prompt argument problem

1998-05-04 Thread Rob EWING
I have a problem installing linux on a thinkpad 340. When I type floppy=thinkpad at the boot prompt, I get a response floppy=t.hin not known or something similar. The problem is , that 'floppy=thinkpad 'did work once, and so I know I am on the right track (its just stopped working). I have

Looking for good e-mail client

1998-05-04 Thread Florian Attenberger
I'm looking for an e-mail client (X or Texmode doesn't matter), that is able to sort the messages like the one within netscape (The original message is diplayed and i can see the Res when I click on the +. The problem with ns is that it takes hours, if u have 1000 mails in the folder or more. At

Re: LaTeX installation

1998-05-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 25 Apr 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Luka Pravica [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the installation error-file (from dpkg) obviosly some files are missing, like texmf.cnf, language.dat... I tried searching for those files but they are not on my hard drive. Perhaps all those files

Re: NE2000

1998-05-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 07:42:09AM -0300, Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote: I have a NE2000 card on my 486DX4 100MHz server, running a hamm Debian (upgraded whenever possible - something like twice a week... ;) And, recently, I encountered a problem: the cable that links the NE card to the HUB

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]' I am one of those 'not a developer, hamm users'. I have been using 1PC type and three 68k type Debian hamm boxes since sometime around the middle of last year. I am a bit frustrated with hamm right now. As of just before hamm went from 'unstable' to

Program do not fit in a window

1998-05-04 Thread Sergio Orsatti
After reading several manual pages, howtos and so on it looks like I am still missing something: I have XFree86 3.3.2 running with Fvwm2 and there are several programs (Acrobat Reader, Pcb,...) that does not fit in the screen. For example, when I set the options to compile a new kernel with

Re: securing debian

1998-05-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: Just a point of note: If your brother has physical access to the machine there is no way you can stop him from getting root access. You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD and then locking the bios - but if he's smart

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread Raul Miller
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a bit frustrated with hamm right now. As of just before hamm went from 'unstable' to 'frozen' almost every upgrade on my PC box 'breaks something'. I was literally 'spoiled' by the fact that during the last 6+ months of development under unstable

Telnet Timeouts

1998-05-04 Thread Mike Acklin
Hello everyone, I know I have seen this question posted before, but for the life of me I cannot find it in the List Archives. I have looked for Time, Timeout, Telnet, and have not found it. Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing

Re: xconsole question (tkman)

1998-05-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 2 May 1998, Adam Shand wrote: is this a bug or have i done something wrong? Have you compiled your own tk8.0 binaries? If not, you could have the wrong version of the tk8.0 package. Did you use any --force flags on dpkg when installing tkman? You need at least version

Telnet Timeouts

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello everyone, I know I have seen this question posted before, but for the life of me I cannot find it in the List Archives. I have looked for Time, Timeout, Telnet, and have not found it. Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing

ftape problem

1998-05-04 Thread co
Originally, I thought I had a SCSI tape drive because that was what I ordered (silly me), but I discovered that what I thought was a SCSI card is really a floppy controller card (FC-20). I removed it because I could not get any response from it, and connected the tape drive to the floppy cable. I

Help with IP forwarding [more info]

1998-05-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
This is a repost. I left out some important information. The question is how or if it is possible to set up a firewall when the local lan side is not a different network but just one or more hosts on the same subnet as the firewall and the firewall's gateway? The Win95 box below has it's gateway

Re: Telnet Timeouts

1998-05-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing from work to my home machine and if I am compiling or getting News, it may take longer than what the session is set to time out (Default) and I get logged off the session. And have to

how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver

1998-05-04 Thread Tristan Day
Okay, I've just downloaded the NTFS driver for linux. It was in .gz format so I unzipped it, and got the same file minus the .gz bit. I expected to find lots of other files, but didn't, which wasn't a problem because I looked in the resulting file and found what seems like a shell script. Now I

Re: small bug in Debian 2.0 installation

1998-05-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corcete_Dutra?= wrote: I found a small bug in the Debian 2.0 installation... Perhaps you'd have more success posting a bug report... http://www.us.debian.org/Bugs/ or something like that. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/,

Re: how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver

1998-05-04 Thread David Z. Maze
Tristan Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TD Okay, I've just downloaded the NTFS driver for linux. It was in TD .gz format so I unzipped it, and got the same file minus the .gz TD bit. Right, gzip only compresses a single file. Most commonly, people wanting to bundle things up use the tar utility

DOS emulator doesn't like pkzip

1998-05-04 Thread Tristan Day
Here's my situation: I have a Win95 machine connected to the internet at home My own machine has Debian and NT, but NT is completely down at the moment. I downloaded Netscape Communicator, a whopping 11MB, and had to span. So I used my faithful PKZIP, a wonderful .zip compression utility, to

Re: how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Acklin
At 03:19 PM 5/4/98 +0100, you wrote: chgmod +x filename so I typed in chgmod +x ntfs-long-version-number and it told me that chgmod didn't exist. I tried man chgmod and sure enough, there's no entry. What is the command if this isn't it? Is this the right thing to do to get the NTFS driver

Re: How do I check disk space?

1998-05-04 Thread Mike Miller
Keith == Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know how do I check how much disk space I have left on my drives. df reports free disk space. `du -s' can be used to find how much space a particular directory tree uses. Mike -- Michael A. Miller

Re: how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver

1998-05-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, man chmod (note: no g) manoj -- core error - bus dumped Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: need help setting up non-ps printer

1998-05-04 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On Sun, 03 May 1998 13:11:31 -0600, Jack Varga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 and would like to add it as an lp device. How do I do that? Well, this is all I had to do to get it working. Be warned that gs-aladdin is not free software in the true sense of the

=( NTFS woes

1998-05-04 Thread Tristan Day
Thanks for the shell info, I must have a messed up howto. converted into MsWord97, what do you expect?! Unfortuantely things didn't run sweetly: -After trying it, I found that it isn't a shell script -It's in .gz format, _not_ .tar.gz, changing it just confuses tar and gzip, and tar tells me

Re: Rmuser script?

1998-05-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Shaleh wrote: : DId anyone get a rmuser script created? It's called `userdel', which resides in the passwd Debian-package. bye, Remco USERDEL(8) USERDEL(8) NAME userdel - Delete a user account and related files

Lyx 0.12.0 crashes X under bo when loading EPS graphics!

1998-05-04 Thread Wojciech Marek Zabolotny
Hello all! I've just loaded Lyx0.12.0 sources from bo-unstable, compiled, and found it working very good except of one weird behaviour: Whenever I try to insert the EPS or PS graphics into my document, lyx crashes causing the X-server to restart (I use XF86_S3 server). Did anybody experience (and

Re: w command

1998-05-04 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: : Why when i call the w command get that message ? : : $ w :bad data in /var/run/utmp : : What would be the reason ? I already deleted that file and it still the : same ! Maybe you're half-way an upgrade from a libc5 system to a 'full'

Re: DOS emulator doesn't like pkzip

1998-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 4 May 1998, Tristan Day wrote: I have a Win95 machine connected to the internet at home My own machine has Debian and NT, but NT is completely down at the moment. I downloaded Netscape Communicator, a whopping 11MB, and had to span. You may use

Re: Looking for good e-mail client

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]' AFAIK, none of the mail user agents that I have used will allow switching the display order except 'tkmail' (and it has behaviour that I simply can't stand). I suspect that email within emacs (or xemacs) will probably do about anything that you could possibly

Re: ftape problem

1998-05-04 Thread Tim Metz
Chris, You might trying specifying a block size when you issue the tar command. On my system, the output of ftmt -f /dev/ftape status gives me the block-size the tape drive is expecting, which I then specify with tar. This fixed for me the tar problem you described below. Hope this helps, -

Re: DOS emulator doesn't like pkzip

1998-05-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
I've heard that there's a .zip utility for linux, where can I get it and will it work with disk spanning? Yes, it is the zip package. If you'd rather compile it, fetch the sources at http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/. Of course, perhaps you could have downloaded Netscape at the Debian

Re: Looking for good e-mail client

1998-05-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, wrl == wrl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wrl 'From Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED]' AFAIK, none of the mail wrl user agents that I have used will allow switching the display wrl order except 'tkmail' (and it has behaviour that I simply can't wrl stand). I suspect that email within emacs (or

Re: small bug in Debian 2.0 installation

1998-05-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:39:28PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: However do check that the bug has not already been reported; it is very annoying to receive duplicate bug reports, which have to be dealt with, simply because users failed to check the bugs system before they posted. Bear in

Re: perl: problem with s/// and variable interpolation

1998-05-04 Thread Yann Dirson
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... writes: Two things: 1) If you want stuff on the right hand side to eval-ed (double substitute variables), you need to do it yourself. Note that with: $TRANSLATION = '\$1;\$2'; $str = ab; both $str =~ s{(.)(.)}{$TRANSLATION}ee; and

re: Lyx 0.12.0 crashes X under bo when loading EPS graphics!

1998-05-04 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I've just loaded Lyx0.12.0 sources from bo-unstable, compiled, and found it working very good except of one weird behaviour: Whenever I try to insert the EPS or PS graphics into my document, lyx crashes causing the X-server to restart (I use XF86_S3 server). Did anybody experience (and hopefully

Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Matej Grasic
Hi! Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks that Intel is my only hope. If somebody knows something interesting then please share it with me. Bye.

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was = thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks = that Intel is my only hope. I recommend AMD chips. They're at least slightly cheaper than Intel and just as fast, or faster, except for floating

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hi! Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks that Intel is my only hope. If somebody knows something interesting then please share it with me. Bye.

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I HIGHLY recommend the AMD K6 and as much RAM as you can get :) The AMD K6 200 (what I use) is really nice It has served me very well...and it has an added bonus... there is a metal plate attached to the front of the chip (which the heat sink then touches that metal plate instead of the actual

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Acklin
At 07:58 PM 5/4/98 +0200, you wrote: Hi! Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks that Intel is my only hope. If somebody knows something interesting then please share it with me. Bye. Matej

[OFF TOPIC] magic library?

1998-05-04 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Is there such a thing as a library that would provide the functionality of the file command? I want to be able to determine the type of a file I would open. I don't want to spawn a file command (e.g.: via system or exec) from my own software since that would incur some slight overhead and

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Matej Grasic wrote: Hi! Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks that Intel is my only hope. I'm running linux on a Cyrix 686 166+ and it's fine.

cgi-scripts

1998-05-04 Thread Mike Bucciarelli
I can't find the documentation for the cgi-scripts package. Specifically how to use 'count' Where do I look? Thanks, Mike - Mike Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] hambox.theriver.com n7ck.ampr.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

short user names

1998-05-04 Thread Matthew D. Myers
Is there any way to get linux to accept usernames longer than 8 characters? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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