re:Re: Xwindows con xdm

1998-06-19 Thread CARLOS=MARTINEZ.CHACARTEGUI%DIDES.SINFO%BI.LARRASKITU
Hola, no estoy seguro, pero en Debian al instalar el paquete xbase te pregunta si quieres arrancar el xdm automáticamente al iniciar el ordenador. Así que lo único que hace falta es ejecutar el script xbaseconfigure (o algo así) que estará en /usr/sbin --[Contestar -

dEBIAN 2.0 ?

1998-06-19 Thread Valero, Juan Carlos
Hola a todos: Estoy haciendo mi toma de contacto con Debian pero veo que anuncian una inminente salida de Debian 2.0. Puede comentarme alguien si es posible downloar la 2.0 aunque no sea 100 % definitiva ? Puede hacerse un download como el del OfficialCD ? ( esto es ya lista la imagen para grabar

RE: Problemas instalando Debian 1.3.1 en un ThinkPad

1998-06-19 Thread Jesus Zunzunegui Monterubio
Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: ?Qu? tipo de CD/floppy es? Se me ocurre que el manejador del floppy lo puedes compilar como m?dulo y cargarlo manualmente cuando quieras. Pero si el CD es ATAPI entoces no creo que vaya porque el disco duro necesita el mismo c?digo que el CD. Lo otro es si el

Juego acm

1998-06-19 Thread J. Parera
Hola, haciendo un vistazo con el dselect al disco de mi distribución (Debian 1.3.1) me he encontrado un juego llamado acm, un simulador de vuelo. Si alguien lo utiliza, o mejor dicho juega, le agradecería que me explicase como configurarlo. Saludos, J. Parera P.D. ya sé que la lista esta

Espacio Swap

1998-06-19 Thread J. Parera
Hola, como puedo saber si mi swap esa bien configurada? Es decir, en uso. Pués al hacer un free me sale que tengo toda la memoria ram prácticamente llena y la swap esta completamente en desuso. Saludos, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Teclas Supr, Inicio, Fin, Re Pág, Av Pág en las X's

1998-06-19 Thread J. Parera
Hola, me he leido el FAQ Algunas cuestioncillas sobre las X pero ni asi he conseguido hacer funcionar las teclas Supr, Inicio, Fin, Re Pág, Av Pág. En algunas aplicaciones si me funcionan esas teclas pero no en todas. Ya he instalado la libreria parcheada de Tomas Quinot, he puesto un Xmodmap

Cambio de terminal desde dentro de las X's

1998-06-19 Thread J. Parera
Hola, como puedo cambiar de terminal, osease lo que desde consola se hace con Alt+Fnº. Utilizo AfterStep. Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dEBIAN 2.0 ?

1998-06-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 09:44:45AM +0200, Valero, Juan Carlos wrote: Hola a todos: Estoy haciendo mi toma de contacto con Debian pero veo que anuncian una inminente salida de Debian 2.0. Puede comentarme alguien si es posible downloar la 2.0 aunque no sea 100 % definitiva ? Sí. La puedes

Re: Teclas Supr, Inicio, Fin, Re Pág, Av Pág en la s X's

1998-06-19 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
J. Parera wrote: Hola, me he leido el FAQ Algunas cuestioncillas sobre las X pero ni asi he conseguido hacer funcionar las teclas Supr, Inicio, Fin, Re Pág, Av Pág. En algunas aplicaciones si me funcionan esas teclas pero no en todas. ¿En cuáles sí y en cuáles no? Por lo que he leído el

Re: Juego acm

1998-06-19 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:56:48PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: Hola, haciendo un vistazo con el dselect al disco de mi distribución (Debian 1.3.1) me he encontrado un juego llamado acm, un simulador de vuelo. Si alguien lo utiliza, o mejor dicho juega, le agradecería que me explicase como

Re: Espacio Swap

1998-06-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
vmstat te da info de cómo estás usando la memoria. top te da también algunas estadísticas al respecto. Jesus. J. Parera writes: Hola, como puedo saber si mi swap esa bien configurada? Es decir, en uso. Pués al hacer un free me sale que tengo toda la

/usr/bin/X11/xfs no hace Kill al apagar la máquina

1998-06-19 Thread J. Parera
Hola, el servidor de fuentes en X, /usr/bin/X11/xfs (en Debian 1.3.1), creo que no me arranca pués al apagar la máquina no me lo killlea. Supongo que tiene que arrancarse por defecto no? Que es lo que debo hacer para solucionar dicho problema. Saludos, J. Parera P.D. en el el mail Cargar una

Cargar una fuente al arrancar (osease por defecto)

1998-06-19 Thread J. Parera
Hola, en el fuente_ISO_COMO dice que para cargar el unicode hay que hacer: en /etc/rc.d/rc.local: \#el BloqNúm y los 8 bits for tty in /dev/tty[1-6]; do setleds -D +num {$$} \$tty echo -n -e '\033(B' {$$} \$tty done en /etc/rc.d/rc.font: setfont lat1u-16.psf Tengo la Debian 1.3.1 por lo que

Re: Cambio de terminal desde dentro de las X's

1998-06-19 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, J. Parera wrote: Hola, como puedo cambiar de terminal, osease lo que desde consola se hace con Alt+Fnº. Utilizo AfterStep. Con CTRL+ALT+Fnº Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

RE: Cambio de terminal desde dentro de las X's

1998-06-19 Thread Jesus Zunzunegui Monterubio
Hola, como puedo cambiar de terminal, osease lo que desde consola se hace con Alt+Fn?. Utilizo AfterStep. No se si te refieres a lo mismo, pero para cambiar del terminal de las X a la consola se hace con Ctr+Alt+Fn. Las X's suelen ser la primera tecla de función no utilizada por las consolas (F7

Re: Xwindows con xdm

1998-06-19 Thread Doctor Panic
Bueno, gracias a todos, aqui va la solución: Es cierto que hay que cambiar el fichero /etc/X11/config (que en mi caso ya venia bien configurado), y quitar el no de no-xdm-start-server. Pero tambien hay que configurar un fichero que creo que esta en /usr/X11/lib/Xserver y configurarlo con el/los

RE: Can't get X to Run, Please help!

1998-06-19 Thread David Miner
That seems to do the trick. Thanks to all. Dave -Original Message- From: Jens Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 3:04 PM To: David Miner Subject: RE: Can't get X to Run, Please help! On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David Miner wrote: I do not see where I can choose

Boot Messages

1998-06-19 Thread Shiraz Sayani
I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I seem to have lost my start-up messages since upgrading to hamm. Everything used to go into /var/log/*, and my /etc/syslog.conf hasn't changed, but I don't seem to have much in /var/log any more. Anyone know where it goes now, or what's changed, or how to scroll the

Re: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BR == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BR After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing BR at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the BR attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected thing. Now, the menus BR I custom-made

Re: a few more questions

1998-06-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Mark Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP Could you help me with the following: MP 1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it MP to me via my ISP (uses POP) fetchmail can poll the mails from your provider. Check man fetchmail for more info. The section

Re: a few more questions

1998-06-19 Thread Matt Kopishke
Could you help me with the following: 1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it to me via my ISP (uses POP) Try Pine, works for me. 2. What is a good soundcard which is $40-$50 that works well in Linux and Win95? No Idea. 3. Does Netscape 4 install correctly

keyboard configuration under X - hebrew keyboard

1998-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm having trouble configuring the keyboard under x. It used to work ok once, i don't know what i changed but the delete and backspace keys don't work. The backspace sends ~ signs (or at list thats how they apear) and delete sends . they both beep when i press them. when i use ^d and ^h it works

installing modem

1998-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
Whats the process to install a modem for a tcp/ip ppp conection to use the internet? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

scilab not working?

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I've just installed scilab_2.2-4.deb from the non-free section of hamm. But it doesn't seem to be working. I type scilab at the prompt and it exits without giving any error messages, without poping up any windows or anything. It just does nothing! Am I doing something wrong, or is this

Re: installing modem

1998-06-19 Thread Troy Hanson
Install the package pppconfig or dunc. They both create a connection by asking simple questions. pppconfig is my preference for a quick and easy setup. hope this helps, troy Endless Loop -- See Loop, Endless mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dakota.net/~troy On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Micha

setting up modem conection

1998-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I wondered whats the procedure to set up a modem conection i need to use tcp/ip with ppp through a phone lin eto connect to the internet. Thanx _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To

Re: print permissions

1998-06-19 Thread Paul Miller
Thanks. That helped a lot -- much easier than the lprng's permissions file.. -Paul On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: Paul Miller wrote: How can I control who can print and who can't? If you specify a group using the `rg' option in /etc/printcap, only members of that group

what goes into .xinitrc and what into .xsession

1998-06-19 Thread Micha Feigin
i tried to figure out while setting up the system whats supposed to go under the .xinitrc file and what into .xsession. Because I tried to use .xinitrc first to initialise stuff (like chosing window manager) but it won't work, so i put the things in .xsession and the most did, exept that every

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread Derek Tam
Microsoft is seeking testers registered in our Beta Test program who are experienced in, and have access to, the Linux operating system (Redhat or Debian I dunno if this is related, but http://linus.microsoft.com/ was spotted the other day up and running Redhat 5.1. nslookup showed

Hamm Release?

1998-06-19 Thread Earl Goodson
Craig Sanders wrote Can you give me or point me to 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3, or 1.1 to 1.3, upgrade instructions? Thanks. imo, you'd be better off waiting for hamm (2.0) to be released - or order a pre-release hamm CD (there are several people who sell them...i think netgod - [EMAIL

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: The autoup.sh is ment to be used in bo-hamm upgrade, AFAIK. Normal updates are easy, just point dselect/apt to a mirror, get updates and let it install. Just fire up and tap enter a few times. It is usually a good idea to upgrade dpkg

tecra rescue does not work with thinkpad ?

1998-06-19 Thread G John Lapeyre
Hi, (latest Hamm) I tried the regular rescue floppy and the tecra floppy on a thinkpad 380D and both hang on booting. Does this make sense ? John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: what goes into .xinitrc and what into .xsession

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i tried to figure out while setting up the system whats supposed to go under the .xinitrc file and what into .xsession. Because I tried to use .xinitrc first to initialise stuff (like chosing window manager) but it won't work, so i put the things in

`portmap' won't start. Why?

1998-06-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Jun 18 21:03:06 bittersweet portmap[7548]: svc_run: - select failed: Bad file descriptor Jun 18 21:03:06 bittersweet portmap[7548]: run_svc returned unexpectedly What does this mean? Why won't portmap start? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 11:32:24AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:33:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitly. And lucky for us...it will be impossible for Uncle Bill to force Linux users to install IE. Oh and another great Feature that comes with IE ActiveX. The

Ncurses bug?

1998-06-19 Thread Pavel Andreew
Hello! My program use the Form library from Ncurses. It worked OK with ncurses 1.1.9g-8, but not with 1.1.9g-8.5. The form_driver() function return E_UNKNOWN_COMMAND result at any character symbols as argument. What's may be wrong? This is source of the test program:

Re: Mesa

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:35:43PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them

Re: 1021 cylinders(?), 8.4GB, and FreeBSD

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:03:34PM +0300, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: I have an 8.4gb maxtor. I have an initial partition of something like 100Mb for /boot, so that it could be boot from. After this partition, I am attempting to put a freebsd. Which is where it gets odd. I don't

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LIKE Word...but please NOT word! Let's not get hysterical. I mean really...its a word processor...nice to have but...come on... they can't even keep it compatible with older versions of itself! What? Word 97 can read back to

Re: what goes into .xinitrc and what into .xsession

1998-06-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | It is a bit confusing, isn't it. | Here's the situation under Debian: | If you start X with startx, then: |first it tries to do the stuff in your .xinitrc; if you don't have |one, it goes and invokes the system xinitrc, which on Debian goes |

Re: Boot Messages

1998-06-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Shiraz Sayani [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Anyone know where it goes now, or what's changed, or how to scroll | the console back? Use 'dmesg' to see the messages. Have you checked /var/log/kern.log ? | installed kernel rather than my existing 3.0.33 kernel. That would probably be 2.0.33... --

Re: Hamm Release?

1998-06-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
* Earl Goodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Did I get the wrong one, should I have ordered 1.3.1 | instead, and will I | be unable to get | help for 2.0 here? Don't worry about that! You'll get help for 2.0 here. -- Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-19 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hello, I just tried to look at this site (http://debian.vicnet.net.au), but in vain. Anybody knows other places with autoup.sh? Does it works good with 1.3.0? my preferred method for upgrading to hamm is: 1. download autoup.sh and the tarball from

Re: Please clarify...

1998-06-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Craig wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: The autoup.sh is ment to be used in bo-hamm upgrade, AFAIK. Normal updates are easy, just point dselect/apt to a mirror, get updates and let it install. Just fire up and tap enter a few times. It is usually a good

Re: scilab not working?

1998-06-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: : I've just installed scilab_2.2-4.deb from the non-free section of hamm. : But it doesn't seem to be working. I type scilab at the prompt and it : exits without giving any error messages, without poping up any windows or : anything. It just does

xman

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
Hi folks! I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it comes with my CD because I had it installed at one time. What .deb package is xman included in? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Hamm Release?

1998-06-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Earl Goodson wrote: Please answer a neewbie's questions...why is this LSL sales slip reporting that 2.0 is an Official Release? i have no idea why LSL are saying that. it probably means one of the following things: 1. they're lying 2. they are confused

gcc not finding header / library files

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
Hi. I asked this question once before. Unfortunately I did not phrase the question properly so the answer I got was helpful but not useful. Here goes again. I am running bo and I am have troubling compiling with gcc/g++. The compiler does not find the prepocessor directive header files

$ENV

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
Hay there! Is there any command that anybody know of that will print to standard output all of the current environment variables? When using korn shell I think it is `echo $ENV`? I want to see what environment variables are currently intialized and there values. I would be cool to see

Re: scilab not working?

1998-06-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I'm using scilab 2.3 under Debian bo, however it is not an .deb package. I just downloaded the sources from ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Meta2/Scilab/scilab-2.3-src.tar.gz (Well, now only wersion 2.3.1 is available: ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/Meta2/Scilab/scilab-2.3.1-src.tar.gz I

Re: Desperate for Optical Character Recognition

1998-06-19 Thread Carl Johnson
Don Berkich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know of any OCR software available for Linux? Preferably something that will plug into gimp with SANE and xscanimage - but anything will do, console mode or X - I'm dying never to have to reboot to Windoze again! :). Me too! There

lpr versus lprng

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
What is the difference? Please be verbose! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $ENV

1998-06-19 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Maybe you are searching for env? Fri, 19 Jun delte Mark Yobb følgende med meg: Hay there! Is there any command that anybody know of that will print to standard output all of the current environment variables? When using korn shell I think it is `echo $ENV`? I want to see what

Re: $ENV

1998-06-19 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Mark Yobb wrote: Hay there! Is there any command that anybody know of that will print to standard output all of the current environment variables? When using korn shell I think it is `echo $ENV`? I want to see what environment variables are currently intialized and there values.

/etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Mark Yobb
I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look at this after booting? Thanks Ah! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

palmpilot III and ibm thinkpad 760xl

1998-06-19 Thread John Kloss
so my parents gave me a palmpilot III for my birthday (which was nice). However, I can't get it to work with my thinkpad. here's what I have debian 1.3.1 pilot-link 8.9 a palmpilot III here's what I did compiled pilot-link 8.9, no real problems

Re: lpr versus lprng

1998-06-19 Thread Ulisses Alonso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: What is the difference? Please be verbose! lprng is 100% compatible with lpr (the same features, commandline, programs and basic configuration) It's design and implementation is much much better It's more

Re: xman

1998-06-19 Thread Ulisses Alonso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Mark! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: Hi folks! I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it comes with my CD because I had it installed at one time. What .deb package is xman included in? I suggest you

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Yann Dirson
Branden Robinson writes: Package: fvwm2 Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3 Severity: normal After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected thing.

email to a group of people

1998-06-19 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, Is there a way to configure the To: field of email sent out to a group of people to hide the whole list of receivers from the people receiving the message? e.g. If I send out a message it would look like this to the receiver: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 19 09:52:13 1998 Date:

Re: email to a group of people

1998-06-19 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, Is there a way to configure the To: field of email sent out to a group of people to hide the whole list of receivers from the people receiving the message? snip Add another header - Bcc, and put all their addresses in it: Bcc: Some

Re: Tutor on bit and bitmasks

1998-06-19 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:08:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to set bits 0,1,4,5,6,7,11 for port 0x201. I have NO IDEA how to calculate the bitmask! Obviously I need to learn this stuff so were can I read up on this. Read any book on analysis for undergraduates. The base

in.qpopper problems

1998-06-19 Thread dwhite
Hi, I am experiencing problems on our linux gateway in that it is constantly dialling out on our ISDN line and I get the following message constantly in /usr/adm/messages gate in.qpopper[355]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 110 If you have suggestions to what

Re: gcc not finding header / library files

1998-06-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi. I asked this question once before. Unfortunately I did not phrase the question properly so the answer I got was helpful but not useful. Here goes again. I am running bo and I am have troubling compiling with gcc/g++. The compiler does not find the prepocessor directive

internal gcc error

1998-06-19 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi! I've tried to compile the kernel-source (-2.0.33 -2.0.34) with make-kpkg. I've got some messages i cant explain to me. First make xconfig returned: WARNING - broken Config.in! CONFIG_ALPHA_BOOK1 was not declared! What is it and where can i select it?? make-kpkg clean returned ...

Re: Partitioning questions.

1998-06-19 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit prelude.] : How should I do the partition ? i've read the Partition : mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have: : : '/' - a root partition, : '/swap' - a swap partition (32Mo). : : -1- To achieve what I want to

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look at

wu-ftpd-academ question ?

1998-06-19 Thread Peter Shtinkov
I have hamm and wu-ftpd-academ ver 2.4.2.16-9 installed, but when I log as anonymous i can't see directory listings. Can anybody help me with this ? Thanks. begin: vcard fn: Peter Shtinkov n: Shtinkov;Peter org:Spectrum NET email;internet: [EMAIL

Re: ZIP ZIP+ drives -Infos found

1998-06-19 Thread Max Lawson
Hello Adrian, Thanx a lot for your answer. Below are other interesting informations I've received from Phillipe Anderson. Regards, Max - Begin Included Message - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 16 17:33 MET 1998 Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:33:57 +0200 From:

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

1998-06-19 Thread Guido Bozzetto
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: It looks as though your system runs out of pid's (unlikely), or you hit your maximum number of processes (not impossible). What does ulimit -a say about your max user processes? How many processes are running? (try top, or `ps ax'). ps ax | wc -l Eric

.maildelivery, to: line, exmh, spam

1998-06-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a to: or cc: in the header, and that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner. But looking through the exmh documentation about .maildelivery, this doesn't seem to be

Re: Partitioning questions.

1998-06-19 Thread Max Lawson
Hi ! I thank you all for the informations you gave me about disk partitioning. I now have a running box :) with Debian Gnu/Linux 1.3.1, not Red Hat 5.0 :). The bad news are that I can't run the Xserver :( I'll put this question in an another thread. Regards, Max From [EMAIL

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look at this after booting?

Re: Mesa

1998-06-19 Thread Jaakko Niemi
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:35:43PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be debianized? (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ). When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them

Re: 1021 cylinders(?), 8.4GB, and FreeBSD

1998-06-19 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
hamish wrote, Can I change my disk geometry now? Or will this kill everything? Or is there another way to boot FreeBSD? as near as I can tell, even with the floppy, it wants it's root partition in the first 1023, even when using the boot diskette; and in spite of my alleged

Re: The juggernaught expands?

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 03:33:00PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:33:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LIKE Word...but please NOT word! Let's not get hysterical. I mean really...its a word processor...nice to have but...come on... they can't even keep it

Re: libc.so.5.44 ?

1998-06-19 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 05:07:02PM -0700, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Hi, at blackdown site (http://www.blackdown.org), the site that holds most of the information on java and linux, they say that their libc5 jdk depends on libc.so.5.44 or above. I looked for it in the debian

mail notifiers

1998-06-19 Thread Brian Morgan
Are there any good mail notification programs available for Debian? I'm especially interested in big flashy packages with lots of bells, whistles, etc. One that could run as a screensaver would be cool. Thanks, Brian Morgan PS: I'm having trouble sending / receiving messages to this listserv

AFIO usage...

1998-06-19 Thread Jay Barbee
I was wondering how I would use AFIO to replace they way I use tar. Here is a sample: tar c -X /root/backup/exclude -f /mnt/scratch/linux/backup.tar / What I do not know how to do is exclude several file which are listed in the file exclude which looks like: --- /cdrom

Re: xman

1998-06-19 Thread sjc
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:02:15AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Mark! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: Hi folks! I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it comes with my CD because I had it

[URGENT] Setting up the Xserver w/ an ATI XPERT@WORK card . Thanx

1998-06-19 Thread Max Lawson
Hi, I've a box freshly installed and running Debian Gnu/Linux 1.3.1. I can't run the Xserver. Here are the concerned specifications: - Card ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] (4Mo) - Screen: + Scanning frequency: H30KHz-86KHz/ V50Hz-120Hz + Resolution: 1280x1024,

Re: internal gcc error

1998-06-19 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jens Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi! | | I've tried to compile the kernel-source (-2.0.33 -2.0.34) with | make-kpkg. I've got some messages i cant explain to me. [hopefully someone else can help you with the make-kpkg stuff] | And final | make-kpkg -revision=custom.1.0 kernel-image

old scsi controller

1998-06-19 Thread Jens Lisner
Hi all! is it possible to make linux work with an old ADAPTEC AH 1505 SCSI controller? (it has no bios) i found that 152x controllers are supported, but they dont seem to work. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

smail errors

1998-06-19 Thread Zachary DeAquila
Hi, I've got Linux zachs 2.0.32 #1 Tue Nov 25 17:21:48 CST 1997 i686 unknown running ii smail 3.2.0.92-3 Electronic mail transport system. and smail has started exiting apparently randomly; I'm wondering if 1) anyone has suggestions on how/why it might do so 2) whether debian 2.0

Download speed

1998-06-19 Thread Sture Palminger
Hi all Have installed a BOCA 56K Internet Modem. When downloading from Win95 i normally get a speed of 4.5-5.2 Kb/s but with Linux (hamm) only 2.5-3.0 Kb/s. When running Win95 the RD led is glowing almost all the time. With Linux the led is often blinking and is black for longer periods 10 sec.

Re: AFIO usage...

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Acklin
Jay, I just picked up a package called KBackup and it uses AFIO. I had never heard of AFIO until I installed KBackup. I is somewhat like Taper, but a lot more in depth. It will allow you to define INCLUDES and EXCLUDES in the configuration. Very simple to set up and real easy to

Re: lpr versus lprng

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 10:00:44AM +, Ulisses Alonso wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: What is the difference? Please be verbose! lprng is 100% compatible with lpr (the same features, commandline, programs and basic configuration) It's design and implementation is much much

cleaning up

1998-06-19 Thread Zachary DeAquila
I've been running debian on a certain system since about v0.93 or so; It's a great system and I've loved beinga ble to just keep upgrading it wihtout having to go in for long downtimes. However, I now have some packages listed int eh Obslete section that I think should be gotten rid of, but I'm

How to get started?

1998-06-19 Thread Marcus Johnson
Howdy all, I've got an old computer currently running Win95 that I want to delete Win95 completely and make just Linux box. I've never installed Debian before and want to make this fairly painless. How do I go about doing this? Which version of Debian would you recommend and how can I get a

Re: How to get started?

1998-06-19 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Marcus! On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote: Howdy all, I've got an old computer currently running Win95 that I want to delete Win95 completely and make just Linux box. Are you already a Unix user? if yes go on, if not I discourage you on

Re: smail errors

1998-06-19 Thread joost
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Zachary DeAquila wrote: Hi, I've got Linux zachs 2.0.32 #1 Tue Nov 25 17:21:48 CST 1997 i686 unknown running ii smail 3.2.0.92-3 Electronic mail transport system. and smail has started exiting apparently randomly; I'm wondering if 1) anyone has

Re: How to get started?

1998-06-19 Thread M.C. Vernon
I've got an old computer currently running Win95 that I want to delete Win95 completely and make just Linux box. Are you already a Unix user? if yes go on, if not I discourage you on delete Win95, quite probably you will miss some utilities/apps I disagree. I took up Debian from

Re: in.qpopper problems

1998-06-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The qpopper wants to log the fully qualified domain name of anyone who accesses it. If you can find out who's doing it you can add an entry for them in /etc/hosts and make sure that /etc/host.conf says 'order hosts,bind'. dwhite wrote: Hi, I am experiencing problems on our linux

RE: [URGENT] Setting up the Xserver w/ an ATI XPERT@WORK card . T hanx

1998-06-19 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I am using a Rage Pro card in my Compaq - you need the latest Mach64 server - it's 3.3.2 or 3.3.4 or something like that (I'm at work and can't check right now!). The 3.3 server doesn't work with the Rage Pro chip... I used dselect at ftp.debian.org to update - I was referred to xfree86.org, but

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
David Wright wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How can I look

re: palmpilot III and ibm thinkpad 760xl

1998-06-19 Thread SEGV
I just got a Palm Pilot Professional two days ago. Last night I got pilot-link running, no problems whatsoever, hardly read the README. Managed to install some drawing programs, and the getrom program, and downloaded my ROM, and got the xcopilot emulator running. Now I use it to test programs

Re: xman

1998-06-19 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mark Yobb wrote: Hi folks! I am running Debian 1.3.1 (bo) and I can't seem to find xman. I know it comes with my CD because I had it installed at one time. What .deb package is xman included in? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: real audio for slink?

1998-06-19 Thread Igor Grobman
Some time around Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:19:48 EDT, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under slink

Re: Bug#23695: fvwm2: seems to be reading some hook files twice?

1998-06-19 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:08:04PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Branden Robinson writes: Package: fvwm2 Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3 Severity: normal After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to

Re: Debian and Afterstep1.4.5.3-1

1998-06-19 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 08:27:10AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: Dock appears to do nothing but be a place to dock things to. Fiend does this too, but it's not glued to a side and I can't get the window manager to move it to an out of the way place. you can collapse the Fiend (renamed to

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