Re: Problemas instalación KDE

1998-05-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 07:52:57PM +0200, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Me pasa exactamente lo mismo, por eso me he bajado las fuentes (qt-1.33.tar.gz) (creo que seria capaz de instalarlas siguiendo las instrucciones) y para que fueran reconocidas por el sistema dpkg he intentado hacer un

Es estrictamente necesario sendmail?

1998-05-24 Thread Felipe Sanchez
Hola. En el trabajo el sistema operativo oficial es HPUX. Cuando estoy alla uso dos formas de ver mi email, pine para el email de la cuenta que tengo en mi trabajo y Netscape Messanger para la cuenta privada en mi ISP. El Messanger no parece comunicarse para nada con el pop o el smtp de mi

Hacer un 'pipe' en Mutt

1998-05-24 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, estoy utilizando Mutt (0.88) para el correo y recibo algunos mensajes bastante largos, de los cuales solo parte me gustaría conservar. Por eso había pensado utilizar el 'pipe' (haciendo |) para enviarle el mensaje al editor y modificarlo (recortarlo), y que al salir

Re: problemas con tar

1998-05-24 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep Roman! El Sat, May 23, 1998 at 03:42:03PM -0400, Roman Ferreiras escribió: he bajado algunos programas .tar.gz pero tengo el problema de que no se como descomprimirlo e instalarlo, he intentado descomprimirlo con Prueba con 'gzip -dc archivo.tar.gz | tar -xvf -' -- Hasta lueguillo!

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:12 -0700 1998-05-23, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 23 May 1998 20:01:53 +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: Not really. Other than that it's the default and is more or less considered standard so I left it that way. *chuckle* There are quite a few people in quite a few newsgroups that would

Re: Upgrade script

1998-05-24 Thread Bob Hilliard
Scott D. Killen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I find the script that prepares my 1.3.1 system for upgrade to hamm? Any help is greatly appreciated... http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup or ftp://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup AFIK the latest version of autoup.sh is v0.25. A recent

boot time options

1998-05-24 Thread Chris
Hi, I just found out that I can boot a linux system to root by typing the following at the lilo prompt: linux init=/bin/sh Due the environment in which the machines running linux are used, I would like to disable the ability to modify boot methods. Does anyone know how I can do this?

System.map

1998-05-24 Thread Chris
Hi, I was wondering if somebody could give me an idea of what the System.map file is for? I've allways compiled my own kernels, and never had to worry about this file (never had any problems). However I tried to use the command lsof, and it complains that it can't find a System.map file to

Re: boot time options

1998-05-24 Thread joost
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Chris wrote: I just found out that I can boot a linux system to root by typing the following at the lilo prompt: linux init=/bin/sh Due the environment in which the machines running linux are used, I would like to disable the ability to modify boot methods. Does

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-24 Thread Mark Phillips
Of course newsgroups are fine provided you have access to a good news feed. The one I have access to is rather unreliable. It seems that many messages simply don't get through, and there are often periods when news groups have no messages at all in them for a day or two. (Not that I have tried

Re: Upgrade From RH 5.0 to Debian 2.0

1998-05-24 Thread joost
On Sat, 23 May 1998, David Lauder wrote: I've downloaded the base disk sets from /hamm/disks-i386/1998-04-26 rather than the /hamm/disks-i386/current. Is this okay? You can find the latest versions (2.0.6) in ftp1.us.debian.org/pub/debian/Incoming Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Raul Miller
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then why discredit the idea, then point out all the niceties in your current prefered system when they aren't comparable at all? For what it's worth, the debian control information has always been present in tgz format, never in binary format. The old

Re: Upgrade From RH 5.0 to Debian 2.0

1998-05-24 Thread storm
On Sat, 23 May 1998, David Lauder wrote: Thanks to everyone that responded! I'm now preparing for a clean install. Good riddance to Redhat. I've downloaded the base disk sets from /hamm/disks-i386/1998-04-26 rather than the /hamm/disks-i386/current. Is this okay? I would recomend finding

Re: Upgrade From RH 5.0 to Debian 2.0

1998-05-24 Thread Bob Hilliard
David Lauder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've downloaded the base disk sets from /hamm/disks-i386/1998-04-26 rather than the /hamm/disks-i386/current. Is this okay? This is definitely better than current, which mistakenly points to 1988-04-11. I believe the 1998-04-26 disks are version

pon, ppp, pppd

1998-05-24 Thread VB Student
Anyone able to help? When I use minicom I get a login prompt from my ISP then a password prompt. All goes well but then I get some info such as current ip address etc. I get this info when I log in using win 95 and just hit F7. But what key would be used in minicom. F7 doesn't work. Thanks --

Re: pon, ppp, pppd

1998-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
VS == VB Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VS When I use minicom I get a login prompt from my ISP then a password VS prompt. All goes well but then I get some info such as current ip VS address etc. VS I get this info when I log in using win 95 and just hit F7. But what key VS would be used in

NT: boot to Linux?

1998-05-24 Thread Gregory Guthrie
NT provides a boot manager, with a startup option to boot to various OS's, clearly intended mainly for MSoft versions! Can this be used to provide a boot to a Linux partition? Thanks. Greg Guthrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: NT: boot to Linux?

1998-05-24 Thread aqy6633
NT provides a boot manager, with a startup option to boot to various OS's, clearly intended mainly for MSoft versions! Can this be used to provide a boot to a Linux partition? Yes. Check out Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 23 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: the same thing (while internally it does use .tgz and ar etc... I never said it was. I was pointing out that SLP could be. i doubt it. tar doesn't need crap tacked onto the end of it. The fact is that .tgz is great for archives (and backups...

Re: How can I make this done? Orig:Re: where's the 'man'?

1998-05-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 23 May 1998, Jonah Kuo wrote: I have a win95 and two FreeBSD boxes ( called Fa and Fb) in my office, Fa has a modem connecting to Internet, Fb and win95 access Internet through Fa. Since only pppd comes with debian base system, all I can

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-24 Thread Norbert Veber
The best solution is a unified mail/news reader application ofcourse that can let you read mailing lists as newsgroups. Only emacs (with GNUs) can do that now AFAIK and I do not want to learn emacs.. have you ever looked at mutt? pgpnlxg0Jihrj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: System.map

1998-05-24 Thread Chris
Just a thought - when I compile and installed my own kernel, I used the zImage kernel. I played with make-kpkg, and this wants to put the files vmlinuz vmlinux in /boot. Would using zImage instead of vmlinux cause problems? How do I produce vmlinux from the kernel source? BTW, I can't see

Re: ppp speed

1998-05-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:45:40AM -0400, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: Well I finally got ppp to work again. Ok, I confess I had to reinstall the os. Anyway I have a question. How do I determine what speed my modem is making the ppp connection at and how do I maximize it? Thank you use the

Re: wishx

1998-05-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 06:32:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which debian package provides 'wishx'? (Trying to run tk3play, wm-tk3play). According to the Contents-i386.gz file, there are several wishx's namely: usr/bin/wishx7.4

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Michael Shields
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proprietary -- what in the heck could possibly be proprietary about Debian? We need to clear this confusing mess up NOW!!! As I meant it, is not really meant to be used outside of Debian or at least dpkg enabled

Re: NT: boot to Linux?

1998-05-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:59:47PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: NT provides a boot manager, with a startup option to boot to various OS's, clearly intended mainly for MSoft versions! Can this be used to provide a boot to a Linux partition? Absolutely; find (and use) BOOTPART, BOOTPA20.ZIP.

Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Jim Rogers
I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using instead of |), and dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it is already installed. I can't uninstall it because it is a required package. How did I get back MORE? Thanks, Jim

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
First, fix your mailer so it wraps lines at about 75. On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jim Rogers wrote: I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using instead of |), and dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it is already installed. I can't uninstall it because

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Adam Heath wrote: First, fix your mailer so it wraps lines at about 75. On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jim Rogers wrote: I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using instead of |), and dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it

Re: wishx

1998-05-24 Thread timothy
Cool. Thanx. Any particular reason wishx8.0 isn't debianized? According to the Contents-i386.gz file, there are several wishx's namely: usr/bin/wishx7.4 libs/tclx74 usr/bin/wishx7.5 libs/tclx75

Re: SB16 install configure

1998-05-24 Thread Jaakko Niemi
How do I enable my SB16 card? I did not see a option during the base install. I have seen AWE32 stuff, but I don't think that is the same thing. Where how do I setup my card? Umm, it's pretty similar to AWE, but you just leave out the AWE spesific stuff. To put it short: you'll have

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Sat, 23 May 1998 16:25:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address. Proprietary to Debian... ^ That's a pretty flamboyant choice of word

Debian 2.0 FAQ

1998-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
Hi, Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? Thanx, Gernot -- - Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Delivery errors

1998-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Report on your message to: /R=AM/U=sslillg/@mr.geccs.gecm.com Reason: Failed to transfer; communications failure (0) Diagnostic: Maximum time expired (5) Extension-id: 1 Arrival-date: Sun, 24 May 1998 11:08:44 GMT Anyone else getting these? -

Re: Delivery errors

1998-05-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
Steve, Yes, I got one - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 24 11:38:30 1998 Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 09:37:39 + (GMT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed Report on your message to: /R=AM/U=sslillg/@mr.geccs.gecm.com Reason:

Re: IPX support

1998-05-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear Leonardo, I'm sending this again. Hopefully it will get to you this time :) Matthew From: M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Leonardo Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IPX support SOS - EMERGENCY :( I'm trying to use

Re: NT: boot to Linux?

1998-05-24 Thread C.L.Daugaard
Try http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~sedmison/directboot.html On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:59:47PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: NT provides a boot manager, with a startup option to boot to various OS's, clearly intended mainly for MSoft versions! Can this be used to provide a boot to a Linux

Re: NT: boot to Linux?--correction

1998-05-24 Thread C.L.Daugaard
Sorry for the stale link. Use this instead: http://www.bcpl.net/~dbryan/directboot.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ

1998-05-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? if you are referring to the HOWTO, then you can get it from my autoup site. http://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/ or http://taz.net.au/autoup/ i don't know

Re: Delivery errors

1998-05-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, 24 May 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I got about four... Steve, Yes, I got one - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 24 11:38:30 1998 Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 09:37:39 + (GMT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed

Re: !!! URGENT !!! Can't boot back to Win95

1998-05-24 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Brian Weiss wrote: On Sat, 23 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On Fri, 22 May 1998, Ionut Borcoman at musa wrote: Hi, Unfortunately, I've panicked and reinstalled all Win95. Fortunately, all my personal data and files are on a different partition

Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ

1998-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
Hi Craig, thanx for the prompt reply. Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, 24 May 1998, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? if you are referring to the HOWTO, then you can get it from my autoup site.

Re: Is this a compiler error?

1998-05-24 Thread jdassen
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:54:35PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: +++ linda:~/cprogs/priory$ ldd prdb prdb: error in loading shared libraries prdb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory +++ (why did that not work, while the next

Re: HTML ToC generators?

1998-05-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
John Goerzen hat gesagt: // John Goerzen wrote: I have a large collection of webpages and I am looking for something to generate a Table of Contents (eg, site index). I don't need a search tool -- something that just spits out HTML will be fine. Any ideas where to find such a thing? Maybe

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-24 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, 23 May 1998 16:25:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The other data in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact address. Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proprietary to Debian... Note to self: The debian

angband save problems

1998-05-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear debian people, I (mcv21) when sat at my computer can play angband, exit, and later restart with the same character. Other users when they exit cannot access the high-score table, and when they restart, they have to regenerate their characters. They have save files in

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 24 May 1998 16:22:56 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: I (mcv21) when sat at my computer can play angband, exit, and later restart with the same character. Other users when they exit cannot access the high-score table, and when they restart, they have to regenerate their characters.

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 24 May 1998 16:22:56 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: I (mcv21) when sat at my computer can play angband, exit, and later restart with the same character. Other users when they exit cannot access the high-score table, and when they restart,

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 24 May 1998 16:48:33 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: -rwxr-sr-x 1root games 494780 Mar 9 19:28 angband -rwxr-xr-x 1 gamesusers 427012 Mar 29 07:09 angband -rw-r--r-- 1 apc27 games34406 May24 14:18 1002.Apc27 -rw-r--r-- 1 gamesusers 38353 May 23

the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-24 Thread Wakko Warner
I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? P.S. Sorry if I sent this again, my mailer daemon has been dead for a week =( Please re-reply to this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
Yes, that is how you do it. However, as to whether or not that would help, or is advisable, I'm not sure. Your executable is set GUID. Hrm. But the files are not set to group writable. Maybe that is the problem. Permissions are the same as my save file (name 1000.mcv21 and mcv21

[Fwd: Returned mail: Insufficient permission: Error 0]

1998-05-24 Thread David A. Bandel
I believe the original post came from debian-user. Not sure wha' 'appened at Chris' end. David A. Bandel -- MS free and proud to be!---BeginMessage--- The original message was received at Mon, 25 May 1998 01:58:54 +1000 from gateway.ormond.unimelb.edu.au [203.17.189.194] - The following

Re: Debian 2.0 FAQ

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 01:02:43PM +0200, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Im looking for the Debian2.0 upgrade-FAQ. Does anyone know where it is? Attached to email. Btw. Is upgrading better than reinstalling? Unless you have a reason to reinstall, ie I plan to reinstall at some point so I can

RE: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Darren Benham
Unless you don't like less for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less ontop of /bin/more and use less, instead. On 24-May-98 Jim Rogers wrote: I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using instead of |), and dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it (util-linux) because it is

RE: the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-24 Thread Darren Benham
On 24-May-98 Wakko Warner wrote: I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? The 2.0.34 kernel will have FAT32 support (all the prePatches do) officially. Debian's

Debian and w95 after adding memory

1998-05-24 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, I just upgrated my PC to 32M which has only 8M before. Now I can run w95 only in safe mode. At the same time everything is OK with Debian! During the normal w95 mode I got nothing but blue screen with: Fatal exeption OE occured at 0028:C0026240 in VXD VFAT(01) + 73B9. Though I feel

off-topic - netscape

1998-05-24 Thread Chris Zander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi, I know this might seem a little off-topic, but I consider this mailing list a good place to ask questions since most of them get answered quickly. I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now and have always wondered if there

Re: wishx

1998-05-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 03:43:48AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. Thanx. Any particular reason wishx8.0 isn't debianized? I dont know, try asking the maintainer.. pgp4sul3SYSn4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-24 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 12:08:02PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? P.S. Sorry if I sent this again, my mailer daemon has been

jdk

1998-05-24 Thread tony mollica
Hi. There are two directories in the debian ftp site for java, one 'sbb-port' and the other 'sn-port'. Can someone enlighten me on what the difference is between these two directories and the files contained in them. Which one should I use for 2.0.33 debian 1.3.1r6? thanks, -- tony mollica

Re: Reinstalling required packages with dselect

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 10:22:15AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: Unless you don't like less for some reason, I'd just copy /usr/bin/less ontop of /bin/more and use less, instead. Nononononono... more works on ANY terminal. less does not. pgpK1l8xdoAvT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: off-topic - netscape

1998-05-24 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 24, 1998 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: I've been using the Netscape Communicator for Linux for quite some time now and have always wondered if there is some way to make it use dynamic fonts - or at least make its fonts look better. I always figured there was no official

Re: the boot disk's kernel

1998-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 24 May 1998 12:08:02 -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: I have noticed that the boot disk for debian contains support for fat32 drives, yet 2.0.33 does not have this support. What has been done in the kernel to support fat32? The kernel has had the fat32 patch applied to it. --

Re: angband save problems

1998-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 24 May 1998 17:19:37 +0100 (BST), M.C. Vernon wrote: They're all in angband/lib/save, right? Nope /var/lib/games/angband/save/ Hrm, ok. Lemme install the Debianized version to look at it more. - -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Debian and w95 after adding memory

1998-05-24 Thread George R
On 05/24/98 at 10:49 PM, Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, I just upgrated my PC to 32M which has only 8M before. Now I can run w95 only in safe mode. At the same time everything is OK with Debian! During the normal w95 mode I got nothing but blue screen with: Fatal exeption OE

Re: [Offtopic] Linux Logo Q

1998-05-24 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 23 May 1998, George Bonser wrote: I once saw an animated .gif of Tux that looked exactly like the official Tux except his eyes would blink at about 10-15 second intervals. http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1/img/penguineyes.gif Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all

Re: Cannot link ossmixer (KDE application) on hamm

1998-05-24 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Hi, I've managed to cimpile ossmixer. The thing that was missing from my Makefile was the -lXext (I've seen this in the Makefile for qtez, a nice RAD tool for qt). So, my Makefile has these lines now: ### Makefile for ossmixer 1.0 KDE Version ### INCDIR = /usr/include/qt

Re: Is this a compiler error?

1998-05-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:54:35PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: +++ linda:~/cprogs/priory$ ldd prdb prdb: error in loading shared libraries prdb: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory +++ (why

Re: newsgroup, instead of mail list?

1998-05-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Rev == Rev Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rev [1 text/plain; us-ascii (8bit)] Rev On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 03:37:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: George It is a lot easier to follow a high-traffic list with a George newsreader than it is a mail reader. Yes. I agree. What