Sobre netscape y copy paste

1998-07-09 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Hola, tengo un par de dudas, una sobre netscape. En el message mail discussions para eliminar un mensaje pone la combinación de teclas ^d, en cambio si yo ejecuto dicha combinación me sale una ventana llamada mark messages read. A que se debe? Cómo se soluciona? Pués es muy incomodo tener que

Servidor de correo

1998-07-09 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Hola, como ya deben haber leido en varios de mis mails hace muy poco tiempo que utilizo Linux para conectarme a internet. En estos momentos para enviar mail utilizo Netscape por lo que no necesito ningún servidor de mail. El problema es al querer ejecutar otro cliente como mail o elm, por

Spell en Netscape

1998-07-09 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Hola, tengo el diccionario español instalado, sin embargo, en netscape al ejecutar spell solo veo dos diccionarios el británico y el americano. A que se debe? Cómo solucionarlo? Un saludo, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Shadow Password

1998-07-09 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Saludos, en mi sistema tengo istalada la shadow password. Cómo funciona la relación entre el /etc/passwd y el /etc/shadow? Es decir como se relacioan los campos de cada archivo. Hasta pronto, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Xiterm

1998-07-09 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Hola, en una Xiterm la tecla Intro del teclado numérico no me funciona, como se soluciona? Y como cambio el prompt de ella? Pués el .bashrc no le afecta. Hasta pronto, J. Parera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Más info sobre la ZIP i la impresora

1998-07-09 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep! El Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 07:46:30PM +0200, J. Parera escribió: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) Eso me pasaba cuando arrancaba con la ZIP apagada e intentaba montarla después. Curiosamente, con los nuevos drivers no tengo problema,

psutils

1998-07-09 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Muy buenas, He visto una utilidad para extraer de un fichero postscript las paginas pares e impares: psselect -e file.ps file_even.ps psselect -o file.ps file_odd.ps Muy comodo como se puede ver, y muy util. Le he preguntado a quien me lo enseño donde lo habia conseguido y no se acuerda. Pero

Re: psutils

1998-07-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:06:17PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: [...] Le he preguntado a quien me lo enseño donde lo habia conseguido y no se acuerda. Pero me dijo que forma parte de un kit de utilidades llamado psutils. Lo he buscado en GNU pero no lo encuentro. ¿Donde puede

Re: psutils

1998-07-09 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: He visto una utilidad para extraer de un fichero postscript las paginas pares e impares: psselect -e file.ps file_even.ps psselect -o file.ps file_odd.ps ...Le he preguntado a quien me lo enseño donde lo habia conseguido y no se acuerda... Ya te ha dicho

[info@cheapbytes.com: COMMERCIAL: $1.99 CD with Debian 2.0 BETA]

1998-07-09 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hola, disculpas a aquellos que reciban debian-announce. Pensé que como hace tiempo que mucha gente quiere actualizarse a Debian 2.0, quizá interesaba el anuncio. Saludos, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76

Debian 2.0 beta 1 no se instala con 4mb

1998-07-09 Thread Miguel Gil
Estoy intentando instalar debian 2.0 beta 1 en un 486dx a 33mhz con 4mb de ram y 200mb de disco duro. He liberado inicialmente unos 100mb para debian que anteriormente tenía msdos. Lo que hago es lo siguiente: 1.- Me bajo resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, lowmem.bin, lowmemrd.bin y todos los

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Mark Mealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (no_spam) writes: | Is SVGAlib going to be updated any time soon? I know it's a major hack with Well, I guess some ppl hack it still somewhat (for example, I know a certain fellow who recently added support for a new graphics card), but I don't think there will be

Help me get dselect through this firewall

1998-07-09 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, In order to update my system I want dselect to ftp into one of the debian mirrors. The problem is that the interface to our firewall is kind of unique. It goes like this: local_host% ftp firewall Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] local_userid Password: remote_password Account: local_password In

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: ATI does NOT support Linux or Xfree in ANY way. All users should boycott them in general. Besides, the cards are CHEAP not inexpensive. There is a difference. Spend the 20 extra bucks for a Matrox. Or someone else's card. The ATi all-in-one wonder

A whole load of questions

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Schreiber
I just got started with Debian last night. Installation went relatively painless [a little partition issue that was quickly solved with the wonders of tar]. Anyway. My current situation is that I have a Micros**t Win95 system with a cable modem. My intent for my new Linux

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread King Lee
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote: Well on Alan Cox's web page for TV in Linux he has a pretty GIF that has the red circle w/ the slash on an ATi logo and specifically states that until ATi gives out specs their all-in-wonder card will not do anything Sorry to bother you, but could you give

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:59:05 -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? It is not just you. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They

Idea behind HAMM?

1998-07-09 Thread Young, Ed
Forgive me if this has been discussed or run into the ground. I only recently subscribed. I don't fully understand this release. This is a beta of 2.0 and is called frozen, but isn't it always being added to and tweaked? Frozen implies that it will not be further changed, but if I get a CD of

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread jworrell
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:59:05PM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... Whew! I thought I was losing my mind. I'm glad

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-09 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 04:19:36AM +0200, Christopher Barry wrote: I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the best

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be dir /s *.whatever | but this doesn't work with ls like ls -R *.deb, for instance. I can do | ls -R | more and then use more's search ability but this is getting | tiring. Man page isn't too helpful

how to change the timezone

1998-07-09 Thread Daryl Williams
can anyone tell me how/where to change the timezone? tia, //daryl -- Daryl Williams Network Administrator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ShareWave, Inc. Phone: 916-939-9400 x3212 5175 Hillsdale Circle Fax: 916-939-9434 El Dorado Hills, CA. 95762Web: http://www.sharewave.com

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Syed Huq
Yep, you are right, I am getting all these old messages all over again. Syed. Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

I should remember this but...

1998-07-09 Thread Allen Ahoffman
rather than stable non-free and contrib as directory names, what should I use for the updates? e.g. I want to be able to pick up kernel 2.0.34 package. thanks. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP /home/pppusers/dynamic.IP it does nothing but create a 0 byte file. tail -f will run forever; output to the file won't be flushed until you've written a certain amount to the file -- one line obviously isn't enough. The screen on the other

ctrl-z weirdness

1998-07-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining bo box and it works. I'm using telnet and/or ssh to get to the boxes from an NT box (gotta have Notes and all that crap on the desktop at work :/ ) We

Re: Diald connect script for chap

1998-07-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
In my /etc/diald/diald.options I have the line: connect /usr/sbin/chat -t 120 ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATE0V1 OK ATD5551212 CONNECT If your ISP uses CHAP this dial script should be sufficient. Randy Edwards wrote: I recently switched ISPs to one that uses NT and its chap. Using the

Re: Repeated messages

1998-07-09 Thread Marcus Johnson
Its not just you .. deja vu!! Marcus Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:59:05 -0400 From: Evan Van Dyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Repeated messages? Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s

Re: netscape 4.05

1998-07-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
netscape 4.05 won't run as root. Where you root when you tried to run it? K.Y.Lo wrote: Hi I had installed Netscape 4.05 and setting up things but I cant running netscape to excute itself. it looks nothing How do user run the netscape to execute? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems with xqf

1998-07-09 Thread Eric
I'm having problems getting xqf (the GTK quake server browser) to work. Whenever I attempt to run it, I get the following error: xqf: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: gtk_tooltips_set_tips Can anyone help? -- _ _ | |(_) | _| | | | |___ | | |__/ |

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... Me also. Very annoying. Ionutz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Henrique Almeida
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? No, it's not just you. :^\ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: bo--hamm: 'iso9660 not supported'

1998-07-09 Thread Chea Prince
john, thanks for your patience and your help. purged ppp-2.3.5 and downgraded to ppp-2.2.0f...so i'm once again happily SLiRPing along. i had tried just downgrading without purging the newer version but got the same behavior from 2.2 as 2.3 as long as 2.3 was on the system. --c [EMAIL

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Chea Prince
its not just you. something's hosed somewhere. On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... --

Re: Check Required Relative Packages for New Packages

1998-07-09 Thread Will Lowe
I'm going to suggest that in the future you post your messages in plain text -- most of us here don't read mail in netscape, and so the html can be a bit confusing If I add a new packages to my Hamm system, How can I checked whcih packages are the relative packages (If Required) that I

PHP3 and PGSQL

1998-07-09 Thread Adam Heczko
Hi everybody ! I've got problem running my *.php3 files, in which I use PostgreSQL as a database server. Generally pg_connect(localhost, , , , dbname); function generates following error message : Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function pg_connect() in /var/www/my_file.php3 on line

Internet access in Dublin Ireland [ off topic ]

1998-07-09 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Have to go to Dublin Ireland for a couple of weeks. Need internet access while I'm there. Does anyone (developer or user) who uses Debian know of any ISPs in Dublin? Preferable one who uses Debian. Thanks in advance. Peter BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Iannarelli;Peter

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Thomas Apel
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? It's not just you. I just deleted about 120 old messages. What's going on here? -- Thomas Apel [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key IDs: 90B40401 (RSA) and 5B980B91 (DH/DSS) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

No automatic recognisation of ISDN card after update to hamm

1998-07-09 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Hi all, some days ago I made the update from bo to hamm. Most things work fine, but I have a problem with my ISA PNP ISDN card (Teles 16.3c). During bootup the kernel doesn´t recognise the card and the initialisation fails. Nevertheless, when I call modprobe hisax all needed modules will be

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Mark Panzer
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... Yes I believe your right I keep seeing some of the same messages, also the new ones which I

AGP Graphics Support?

1998-07-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all, Does anyone know if there is support for AGP-based graphics cards in debian? Specifically, I am looking into buying a Diamond Stealth II g460 2x AGP Card with 8mb of VRAM. Any response would be appreciated. L8r, Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde (and K memory leak question)

1998-07-09 Thread Roy C. Bixler
I also have another question about K. I seem to be experiencing fairly signifigant memory leaks from it. I started and quit X a few times today andended up losing about 5 megs of memory somewhere. I've run other windowmanagers and this doesn't happen. Does anyone else experience this? I

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:46:58AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 07:03:57PM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: Just the C++ part, mind you, C is still compiled by gcc. Ever compile a C++ program that was authored under gcc with egcs' strictly ANSI C++ compiler?

Another dselect FTP problem

1998-07-09 Thread Len Cumbow
Hi All, I'm trying to install packages via dselect and FTP. First, let me say I can ftp to ftp.debain.org maunally just fine. When I use dselect, however, it falls over with: In both cases I run through a proxy ftp server on my lan called proxysys. Here are the responses I provide the perl

Re: Just a test! This has been quite peaceful ...

1998-07-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
I'm sorry for this message ! But this happened cause I started to don't receive mails from this list! Unfortunally my name was removed from this mailing list. I still don't know why ! I had to make another subscribe ! Sorry. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Problems with my mutt

1998-07-09 Thread Eric
My e-mail account is with my ISP, meaning I dial-up using PPP and use an smtp host provided by my ISP to send mail. I use smail as my MTA. I used to use pine as my MUA and everything worked fine. However, I recently switched to mutt (I like it much better). It seemed to be working fine for a

Another dselect FTP problem

1998-07-09 Thread Len Cumbow
Hi All, The last message got away from me before I finished it... sorry I'm trying to install packages via dselect and FTP. First, let me say I can ftp to ftp.debain.org maunally just fine. When I use dselect, however, it falls over with: Net::FTP: Unexpected EOF on command channel at

RE: Aarrgg! where in the latest imlib?

1998-07-09 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
I never emailed jimpick on this, but I was never able to get this to work either. I ended up getting the gnome v0.20 source TARBALLS and compiling gnome myself. Jim definately did something quircky in the debian installs. On 08-Jul-98 Ian Stuart wrote: I'm trying to get a Gnome desktop

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:59:05PM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... Naw, not just you... I just checked email (last

Re: Bootdisk problem

1998-07-09 Thread alexander e dukat
I used Taper. I am also using an Iomega 2GB tape drive and so I need to have the newest modules for ftape and zftape. Alex On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Why can't you just use the regular stock rescue disk? What did you use to back up your system, dump? tar? cpio?

Fujitsu 520T boot: prompt parameters ...

1998-07-09 Thread How we gonna settle this, guns or litigation? The Trail Rider
I boot the BOOT/RESCUE floppy, it brings up its initial menu with the boot: prompt and the defaults boot loads root.bin linux, then the laptop reboots returning to the initial menu with the boot: prompt (i.e., I cannot get to the initial choice menu of the install script). Any suggestions

xforms replacement

1998-07-09 Thread The Gecko
What is a Free graphics/windowing/x library out there? I have a program that's written for xforms that I'd like to port to something that can go in main, not non-free. fltk won't work. I need the beable to plot graphs and fltk doesn't implement the xyplot function group of xforms. Come to

A question for a programmer

1998-07-09 Thread Keith Alen Vance
I am going through a book on Linux programming. One of the examples does not work. I was wondering if someone could take a look at the script and see why it doesn't work. The program is exactly like the example from the book, in fact I downloaded it from www.wrox.com the publisher of the book

Incorreclty configured new software

1998-07-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Somehow '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' has been injecting duplicated articles into the mail server. I have installed a ban for this site until I recieve an explanation from the admins. Sorry for any problems this exessive mail to debian-user may cause! Jason Debain-admin -- Forwarded message

Xconsole vs security

1998-07-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and KDE Beta4. When I call the xconsole program I could almost activity on my machine but I think there's something wrong ... Sometimes on xconsole I could see my login and password as when I write them ! It's rigth !?!? I don't think so ! As I work as root

Redirecting X output

1998-07-09 Thread Colin Telmer
I have a bizzare X program that needs to have it's gui on the console for it to run non-interactively and will crash even when the console is locked. Is there any way of redirecting the X stream to something like /dev/null? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xircom modem card - digital laptop

1998-07-09 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I'm trying to install hamm on a Digital HiNote Ultra 2000 laptop. It comes with an Integrated 10/100BaseT Ethernet and 56K Modem Xircom Combo card (built in internally). It doesn't give me much info on it, but I have reason to believe (from the linux web page for this laptop) that it is a

Mail Loop???

1998-07-09 Thread Mike Merten
Help! I seem to be getting many duplicate messages from debian-user... some are actually triplicates. In case it helps, here's one including all the headers. Mike (Please make it stop, daddy!) = From ironfoot Wed Jul

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 01:09:27PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: tail -f /var/log/messages | grep local IP /home/pppusers/dynamic.IP it does nothing but create a 0 byte file. tail -f will run forever; output to the file won't be flushed until you've written a certain amount to the

Diary + telephone list ?

1998-07-09 Thread Shaul
Is there a package that contains a diary and a telephone list ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 12:58:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:59:05PM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway

high end SCSI card recommendation

1998-07-09 Thread Allen Ahoffman
Hi: I am working out problems using an onboard Adaptec aic7888 SCSI controller. The machine takes 12,000,000 web hits per month and growing, and has lots of disk space as well as 4 11.5GB IDE drives in it. Its locking up now after I turned on verbose error reporting with timeout messages for SCSI

Re: how to change the timezone

1998-07-09 Thread Randy Stocking
Daryl Williams writes: can anyone tell me how/where to change the timezone? tzconfig, I believe. HTH, Randy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-09 Thread the lone gunman
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:47:31PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? Also is there some kind of uninstall manager? Main Debian package manager (dpkg) is very similar to rpm, they both can install and uninstall packages,

RE: How to fix the XF86Setup bug

1998-07-09 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Sorry, I should have mentioned how to fix it along with what was wrong. 1. Log on as root, or in a console window, do a 'su'. 2. enter 'rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled' 3. enter 'ln -s /var/lib/xkb/compiled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled' that should do it ! On 08-Jul-98 Mark Panzer wrote:

Re: ctrl-z weirdness

1998-07-09 Thread servis
*-Nathan E Norman ( 8 Jul) | I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no | longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining | bo box and it works. | | I'm using telnet and/or ssh to get to the boxes from an NT box (gotta | have Notes and all

dselect FTP thru proxy problem

1998-07-09 Thread Len Cumbow
Hi All, I'm trying to install packages via dselect and FTP. First, let me say I can ftp to ftp.debain.org maunally just fine. When I use dselect, however, it falls over with: Net::FTP: Unexpected EOF on command channel at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 150 Line 150 is:

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: eg mutt, gnus. You can delete whole threads with one keystroke after you discover you don't want to read it in mutt (Control-D). I have no trouble keeping up with debian-user, debian-devel, policy, mentors, etc with this. Just wanted to point out

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 09:54:04AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 08:19:36PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: 2) The file extension is only as usefull as you trust it ;) unlike most DOS applications, it is rather uncommon for an application in a Unix-like

Re: xemacs-20 HTML mode

1998-07-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 03:11:43PM -0400, Paul Reavis wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: for some things ie P you can omit the close tagfor LI, TABLE etc you really NEED the close tag Well, I appreciate your advice but please don't teach your grandpa to chew cheese :-)

Re: What's a good video card?

1998-07-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:53:55AM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote: Is SVGAlib dead? Is there ever going to be a replacement for it? Maybe GGI will do it. Still in early development. GGI is short for General Graphics Interface and aims at kernel space ;) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.

Re: Idea behind HAMM?

1998-07-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Young, Ed wrote: Forgive me if this has been discussed or run into the ground. I only recently subscribed. I don't fully understand this release. This is a beta of 2.0 and is called frozen, but isn't it always being added to and tweaked? Frozen implies that it will

Re: ctrl-z weirdness

1998-07-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *-Nathan E Norman ( 8 Jul) : | I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no : | longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining : | bo box and it works. : | : | I'm using telnet and/or ssh to get

problem with libpam0 and libpam-util in stable

1998-07-09 Thread Chris R. Martin
I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each other. Do I need to use dpkg --force ?? Thanks, Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

1998-07-09 Thread Joey Hess
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: libgtkmm_0.9.4-1_i386.deb: current ar archive It works great. See how it recognizes the *.deb format correctly as an ar-archive That's actually a bug, it should recognise it as a deb file. (Yes, this has been reported and will probably be fixed in slink..) -- see

Re: PHP3 and PGSQL

1998-07-09 Thread Jeff Noxon
You need to edit /etc/php3.ini. RTFM in the /usr/doc/php3-pgsql directory. (Look at README.Debian.) It works great. On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:43:18PM +0200, Adam Heczko wrote: Hi everybody ! I've got problem running my *.php3 files, in which I use PostgreSQL as a database server.

Re: Idea behind HAMM?

1998-07-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 01:57:51PM -0600, Young, Ed wrote: I don't fully understand this release. This is a beta of 2.0 and is called frozen, but isn't it always being added to and tweaked? Yes, but only bug fixes for critical bugs are allowed. Frozen implies that it will not be further

RE: A whole load of questions

1998-07-09 Thread Darren Benham
On 08-Jul-98 Jeff Schreiber wrote: cable modem and getting lost]. What I'd like to do is to use NFS to mount some of the Linux directories on the Win95 system, so that I can download packages from the net and deposit them on the linux system. Comments on a better idea

Re: Hard lock-up crashes, need some clues!

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
I don't know if this will help you any, but it's worth a shot: When mine was overheating recently, it was the RAM chips that were getting too hot. The way I figured that out is the side of the case right where the RAM chips are was quite warm to the touch. The chips themselves were too hot to

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Patrick Olson
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I think you need to somehow ensure that tail isn't used until that line isn't written in the log; -f will get it to wait, but will never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file. That makes good sense. I never thought about doing it that way (and

Re: PHP3 and PGSQL

1998-07-09 Thread Mark Mealman
On Wed, 08 Jul 1998, Adam Heczko wrote: Hi everybody ! I've got problem running my *.php3 files, in which I use PostgreSQL as a database server. Generally pg_connect(localhost, , , , dbname); function generates following error message : Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function

Re: tail and grep

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:02:40PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I think you need to somehow ensure that tail isn't used until that line isn't written in the log; -f will get it to wait, but will never get you any output in the dynamic.IP file.

Re: PHP3 and PGSQL

1998-07-09 Thread Adam Heczko
Hi ! Thanks , Jeff and Mark. I've followed Mark suggestion, RTFM and now my PHP scripts runs without any problems. I had to add one line to my /etc/php3.ini file. Adam Heczko. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

xfstt startup issue

1998-07-09 Thread Bill Bell
Hello, Sorry I do not have the original message to respond to. I have just moved from debian-user-digest to debian-user. I may have missed the last day of this thread. I also am using xfstt to serve my TrueType fonts. It is not all that bad a package. Problem is there is no startup with

Re: libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb but

File managers ??............

1998-07-09 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi Im wonder the power of my linux system. But Im still browsing my computer only with the ls command. Can you people recomend me a good file manager ??? Thanks, Phillip Neumann -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and KDE Beta4. When I call the xconsole program I could almost activity on my machine but I think there's something wrong ... Sometimes on xconsole I could see my login and password as when I write them ! It's

Re: File managers ??............

1998-07-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 22:41:23 PDT, phillip Neumann wrote: Im wonder the power of my linux system. But Im still browsing my computer only with the ls command. Can you people recomend me a good file manager ??? Well, if you're used to Norton Commander from DOS there is Midnight Commander

Re: problem with libpam0 and libpam-util in stable

1998-07-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each other. Do I need to use dpkg --force ?? Thanks, Chris Try specifying both on the same dpkg command

Re: Aarrgg! where in the latest imlib?

1998-07-09 Thread Shaleh
Ian Stuart wrote: I'm trying to get a Gnome desktop installed, and I'm trying to find gdk_imlib1.1_1 I've spent two hours trawling several ftp archives, to no avail. please could some kind soul tell me where to get then d**n thing. many thanks. Imlib and Gdk_imlib are packaged by me,

Re: A question for a programmer

1998-07-09 Thread Shaleh
Keith Alen Vance wrote: I am going through a book on Linux programming. One of the examples does not work. I was wondering if someone could take a look at the script and see why it doesn't work. The program is exactly like the example from the book, in fact I downloaded it from www.wrox.com

ACK! xdm kdm hate me!

1998-07-09 Thread Ian Eure
Ok, this problem is driving me crazy. The short story is that the drive that my /usr partition lived on died. This left me without many important binaries, and a package database which did not accurately reflect the state of the filesystem. So, after many days of manually downloading and

Where is unstable?

1998-07-09 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I realize hamm hasn't been officially released, but it is in beta, so surely there would be a new unstable by now? What is it called and where can I find it? I've looked on several debian mirror sites and can't seem to find anything. Cheers, Mark.

Re: xforms replacement

1998-07-09 Thread Shaleh
The Gecko wrote: What is a Free graphics/windowing/x library out there? I have a program that's written for xforms that I'd like to port to something that can go in main, not non-free. fltk won't work. I need the beable to plot graphs and fltk doesn't implement the xyplot function group

Re: problem with libpam0 and libpam-util in stable

1998-07-09 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:15:33PM -0500, Chris R. Martin wrote: I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each other. Do I need to use dpkg --force ?? No, just install them on the same line

Re: unsubscribe helper line

1998-07-09 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the former mail a message with the subject unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] message? I'll

Re: libc6 upgrade crash my machine!!!!!

1998-07-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
I have been getting the same thing but from every mailing list I'm on. And it's going around for the second time now. John Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:59:05 -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? It is not

Re: ctrl-z weirdness

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:58:58PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : *-Nathan E Norman ( 8 Jul) : | I've gotten used to suspending processes with the ^Z keystroke. This no : | longer works all the time on my hamm boxes. I tried on my one remaining :

Re: unsubscribe helper line

1998-07-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:22:47PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 01:50:13AM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Does this message strike anyone as significantly less helpful than the former mail a

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