Debian 2.0 con 4mb ¿Es mas rápido?

1998-07-10 Thread Miguel Gil
Ayer envíe un mensaje pidiendo ayuda para poder instalar debian 2.0 en un 486 con 4mb. Bien, ya esta instalado (fase dselect omitida). Mis primeras impresiones es que al menos la carga del sistema y la salida del mismo son más rápidas que antes. ¿Hay alguna razón para ello? Antes la salida la

Re: Sistema inestable.

1998-07-10 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:15:00PM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: Hola, estoy intentando compilar KEirc que venia con PC Actual y obtengo este error en 'configure': sadacia:/root/pruebas/keirc-bin-0.2# configure cortes checking for DCC... no configure: error: no acceptable C++-compiler found

RE: Velocidad refresco pantalla y también area virtual

1998-07-10 Thread J. Parera
Saludos, Creo que se trata de pantalla virtual o algo así. Tampoco se cambiar esto. deves mirar el /etc/X11/XF86Config hacia el final del archivo encontrarás unas lineas que ponen virtual 000x111 (más o menos, no me acuerdo) simplemente comenta esa/s linea/s (#). Luego debes modificar la linea

Re: Yinfo@cheapbytes.com: COMMERCIAL: $1.99 CD with Debian 2

1998-07-10 Thread Jesus Zunzunegui Monterubio
Luis Francisco González wrote: 3. TERMS AND CONDITIONS - - This CD includes just the binary files. We can only fit so much on one CD. Corregidme si me equivoco, pero ¿la licencia de sw GNU no obliga a incluir los fuentes? Saludos, Zunzu IBM Global Services España,

Re: caracteres iso

1998-07-10 Thread arco
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 09:06:08AM +0200, Fernando Sainz Munoz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola: He intentado espanyolizar mi deban 1.3.1 segun instrucciones recogidas de la news que modificaban en iso...como He anyadido al profile las lineas: _CTYPE=iso_8859_1

Re: Velocidad refresco pantalla y también area virtual

1998-07-10 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Nobas exportaciones decía: Saludos a todos: Tengo una pantalla cuyo sincronismo vertical es 40 - 90 Hz. El horizontal 31.5, 35-40, 46-51 KHz La placa gráfica es una trident TGUI9400CXI, de 1024 K de memoria y 32 bits Ocurre que cuando trabajo en x a la resolución de 1024 x 768 tiene un

Programa de CAD - diseño en 2D y xfig

1998-07-10 Thread J. Parera
Hola, he hecho un repaso a la lista del dselect y no he encontrado ningún programa de CAD, existe alguno? Al no haver encontrado ninguno he hecho unas pruebas con el xfig. Me parece que para las cosas que he de hacer tengo suficiente (creo). Pero me encuentro con el tipico problema de siempre,

Re: Velocidad refresco pantalla y también area virtual

1998-07-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 06:39:25PM +0200, Nobas exportaciones wrote: Trabajo a esa resolución no por otra cosa sino porque es la única manera que tengo de verlo todo sin que se me mueva el escritorio. Creo que se trata de pantalla virtual o algo así. Tampoco se cambiar esto. Soy enemigo

Re: caracteres iso

1998-07-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 09:20:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: export LANG=es_Es ^ Es ES pon también LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1, esto arregla el mutt. y he creado un ./.imputrc tal que: ^ es inputrc, pero supongo es fue un dedazo Ahora tengo acentos y

Re: Programa de CAD - diseño en 2D y xfig

1998-07-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 11:39:52PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: Y si no hay más remedio que el ingés (hay pobre de mi!) alguien sabe de algún documento más o menos clarito? man xfig. Es bastante claro. No tengo ningún ~/.xfig... instalaste el paquete de debian?

Re: Problem installing a package with dpkg

1998-07-10 Thread George Bonser
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Katharine Osborne wrote: I've been through all the man/--help pages and I have no idea how to fix/avoid this. If you have any suggestions, please email me. thanks in advance. Download the package and install it manually with a --force overwrite option like this:

IRQs and memory addresses

1998-07-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
Scenario: I install a Linux system, and then later decide to add (for instance) a sound card. But when I do that, I have to move something else (like an ethernet card) to a different IRQ/Memory address. Question: How do I tell the system I've made this change (other than manually entering

Re: Advice on a new system

1998-07-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:33:18PM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:47:29AM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello everyone, 2. Recommendations on FW SCSI adapters? I have had very good luck with my Adaptec ..um forget the model... its the cheapest one I

-post_data

1998-07-10 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
This isn't debian specific, but what the hey. How does one find out the format needed to use the -post_data switch in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script? (I have a list of addresses I want to process for ZIP+4 zip codes through the form located at

Goddamn Spam - Re: For Your Eyes Only

1998-07-10 Thread Somnolent
Lisa wrote: [sex spam snipped] I am a newcomer to this list, I have been aware of Debian's policy of billing spammers $1000. May I ask, how effective has it been? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread servis
Yikes, Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for now to divert this stuff. # temp fix :0: * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/debian-junk Brian -- Mechanical Engineering

Re: help: ethernet doesn't work

1998-07-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
For starters, the 10.X.X.X is a *private* network, reserved for hosts not connected directly to the internet (or behind some firewall). Perhaps there's a firewall or gateway of some sort your ISP provides for you to access the net? Wimme wrote: Yo all- I already posted in the list about

Re: Parallel drives

1998-07-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 04:00:10PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: : Will Debian 2.0 solve the problem of not being about to have a parallel : removable drive and lp drivers loaded at the same time? I was under the impression that this was a

Re: getting pgp

1998-07-10 Thread Will Lowe
http://ftp/funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian frozen main contrib binary _and_ you'll need non-us to get pgp. :) Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: help: ethernet doesn't work

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Wimme wrote: Yo all- I already posted in the list about this, still didn't find the solution, but now I've got more specs, so I hope someone can help. Herez the prob: I have a 3Com Etherlink III (3c509) ISA card, static IP and a cable modem. I can't seem to connect

Re: Linux/WinNT dual booting

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: How can I boot WinNT4 using LILO or boot Linux using WinNT? I have a MS-DOS partiton that currently boots MS-DOS or WinNT (using WinNT's boot menu), but I can't figure out how to specify a Linux partition in the boot.ini file. As an ugly work

Re: PCI PNP was 56k Modems

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Phil wrote: The PCI modems are fairly new, be on the look out for sound cards too(ISA will eventually disappear from new motherboards thus the PCI versions). I decided to go with this to free up a ISA slot... I only have two, and one is ISA/PCI slot(shares the same case

Squirrel PCMCIA

1998-07-10 Thread Robert Henry Rati
This question might be hard to answer. I have an Amiga with a Squirel PCMCIA card attacted to it. I want to install Linux on this machine and access my SCSI drives off the Squirrel controller. Last I hear, there were no drivers for the PCMCIA Squirrel card. Does Debian 2.0 for m86k have this

Re: PCI PNP was 56k Modems

1998-07-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You're missing the point. PCI already supports IO/IRQ/DMA/MEM configuration and discovery. In fact, I think if the device talks like a UART the only thing you'll need to do is use setserial to tell it what IO and IRQ are used. Why don't you run scanpci and see what it prints out. It'll tell you

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I just did an upgrade bo -- hamm using autoup.sh. Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping a coin for the right action. 1) during the autoup it had several conflicts, adn it was not clear to me if I needed to

Re: name resolution

1998-07-10 Thread Gregory Green
Ying Sun: I do not know why you need to remove the /etc/resolv.con file, but I think HP has a file called nsswitch.conf that you may need to modify a line in. In the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, make sure the line that says hosts looks like this: hosts:filesdns This will make it look to

Problems with digest of this list

1998-07-10 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Is anyone else who's subscribed to debian-user-digest having problems? I'm getting digests from days ago, that I've already received, and just now got a digest from the 28th of June! This has been happening since Monday or so. I sent email to debian-user-digest-owner but haven't heard anything

Argh!

1998-07-10 Thread Somnolent
Some Fidonet system in Italy is sending out masses of dupes. I haven't gotten a response back from the Fidonet gateway, and the mailserver for the ISP seems to be down. If this keeps up I'm going to complain to the ISP's upstream. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

another broken news gateway

1998-07-10 Thread Igor Grobman
Well, looks like yet another broken news gateway injected loads of old mail into debian-user. I blocked it for now till I get a confirmation that it has been stopped. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor

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

1998-07-10 Thread Shaul
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 ??? No one mentioned offix-files. Why ? (I don't use it myself. I am just cuorious.) offix-files - Drag Drop based filemanager

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Shaul
Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with that. (I did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail out

Re: A question for a programmer

1998-07-10 Thread Shaul
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

Resetting a user's account

1998-07-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello all: Does anyone know if there is a way to reset a users usage (login time) in the wtmp file to zero ? Thanks in advance Peter BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Iannarelli;Peter FN:Peter Iannarelli ORG:GenX Internet Laboratories Inc.;Engineering TITLE:Senior Engineer

RE: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-07-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Phil: Someone correct me if I'w wrong. I believe you have to run dselect to install the rest of the packages that autoup.sh removed Peter -Original Message- From: Phil Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 29, 1998 7:48 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hamm

Duplicate Messages II

1998-07-10 Thread Somnolent
Well still no response from the people at the Fidonet gateway, nor from their ISP. So figuring I'd get faster service from their upstream provider I e-mailed them ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Both came back 550 - user unknown. sigh So it looks like no one in Italy is going to stop

RE: How to enable pop3?

1998-07-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Stef: In debian it not in.pop3 but in.qpopper. Peter -Original Message- From: Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 28, 1998 9:59 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: How to enable pop3? How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1? I added a line

Re: SMP, again

1998-07-10 Thread Taren
. . . and top still shows no signs of a second processor :( Am I still missing something? It's dual P-II's (gateway ns7000) rick TOP, as it is normally shipped, does not show a second CPU. It is designed for single-CPU systems only. If you want to get a multiple-CPU top, look on

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Bob, thanks for the information.. I wish this was in the autoup.sh documentation! In addition to autoup.sh, there is the libc5-libc6 mini-HOWTO, which should be required reading, even for those using the script. Watching the recent traffic on

List Server Problems

1998-07-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Somnolent wrote: Some Fidonet system in Italy is sending out masses of dupes. I haven't gotten a response back from the Fidonet gateway, and the mailserver for the ISP seems to be down. If this keeps up I'm going to complain to the ISP's upstream. Just to let you know

Re: SOLUTION? how to hold mail in another machine temporarily

1998-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 29 Jun 98 21:53:07 +0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Sure this is necessary, but I don't think it's enough. First, the temp machine must recognize all users, otherwise it'll bounce the message. Second, I'd like it to not only queue the mail but *dump it on the main one when it comes up*. If I

Re: unsubscribe helper line

1998-07-10 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jeff Schreiber wrote: I'm with you. I think a larger subset of folks will screw this up. I'm sure it's an attempt to save a bit of bandwidth, but . . . Personally I think it's cool. i agree. just cut and paste the line into an xterm window or console. what could be

Re: FVWM2 (New X user)

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have X (finally) working on my machine (bo), I am running FVWM2 and was wondering what I do to add a pattern or color (prefer pattern) to the desktop. I now you edit the fvwm.rc file, but what do I edit, what format file do I use for the pattern,

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-10 Thread Damon Buckwalter
Ionut Borcoman at debian wrote: What to do if my password is in pap-secrets ? I can always see it in my xconsole window ! If I simply add an \q in pap-secrets at MyISPpasswd, the pppd will try to use qMyISPpasswd instead to hide it. (I also use KDE and like xconsole as it monitors my the

_lynx_ post-data

1998-07-10 Thread Gerald V. Livingston lI
This isn't debian specific, but what the hey. How does one find out the format needed to use the '-post_data' switch in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script? (I have a list of addresses I want to process for ZIP+4 zip codes through the form located at

RE: REPOST where is /usr/bin/rpc.bootparamd?

1998-07-10 Thread alexander e dukat
I have not found that when I shut down one of the scripts is for it, but then it says that there is no such file and continues to shutdown. I don't know if it was taken out in the 1.3.1 version and I just have an exit script for it. I wonder what it is for also. Alex On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Lewis,

Where can I read up about setting up groups

1998-07-10 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, I guess the subject header says it all. I would like to learn how to set up groups (typically to give permission to print on different printers, restricted internet access etc) Please could anyone direct me to the best information resource on this Thanks a M.

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Bob, thanks for the information.. I wish this was in the autoup.sh documentation! Watching the recent traffic on upgrade problems, and issues makes me wonder.. One concluded that it isin't automatic, and you really have to know all the dependencies, that dselect will only have shallow knowledge

Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation

1998-07-10 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
Johann == Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Johann Hallo, Johann Several documentation files on the 1.3.1 distribution Johann contains text like this from the Afterstep FAQ: Johann --- 11.. [snip] Johann

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-10 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Shaleh wrote: pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a OK. I agree with that. I didn't give much importance to this, as I'm the only one here. However, who knows what my girl-friend will want to do some day, so better to protect myself. :) Where should I look ? In

Re: Problem with modules_install

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
You could use make-kpkg, I've found that it works great. What is everyone's aversion to using the kernel-package anyway? There are so many problems with people trying to install custom kernels without it. Old habits, I guess. How does it work with 2.1 series, anybody ? --j --

Re: high end SCSI card recommendation

1998-07-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
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

File managers 2............

1998-07-10 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi people. I was the one, who ask about a file managers. I read about the XVFilemanager. What about it. Is it a good one. (It looks nice). My problem is that i cant compile it, but thats another story. Thanks, Phillip , [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-10 Thread john
Shaleh writes: If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that -- a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a chatscript. pppd logs the username and password in the clear

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Joey Hess wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Also, it is not suitable for installing an entire system (you are advised to install just the base system, then a few more packages, then a few more . . .). If you use apt with dselect, this is no longer a problem, apt fixes it. Joey, don't you mean If

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that -- a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a chatscript. Do you perhaps have the debug

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-10 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 29 Jun 98 16:25:37 +0200, Jieyao wrote: I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the login prompt appears. the clear command in your .logout might do the trick. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with

Re: which C compiler?

1998-07-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I remember a few months ago, a certain compiler and C++ libraries were recommended. Since then there have been some changes. Confusingly, there sre at least two compilers and more than one C++ library in the hamm

RE: How to clear screen before login prompt

1998-07-10 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: If you are using the bash shell you can use the ~/.bash_logout file to execute some commands. In that file you could put a tput clear to clear your screen. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 29, 1998 10:42 AM To:

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-10 Thread George R
On 07/06/98 at 09:47 PM, Mark Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike Merten wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked a question on this list (note the new mung). As a matter of fact, I too have

Re: List Server Problems

1998-07-10 Thread Somnolent
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Somnolent wrote: If this keeps up I'm going to complain to the ISP's upstream. Just to let you know this entire ISP has been banned from all our servers, I've purged all the dup messages from the server and it is now sending out mail again,

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 02:42:51AM +0300, Shaul wrote: Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with that.

Making my modem usefull (1)..................

1998-07-10 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi, again people. I just made mi modem work well, but it is still useless. It still cant connect to the internet. I have tried to use dip, but when i enter the ppp mode, the modem hangs up. I have also tried with wvdial and it said me this: -- Modem initialized. -- Sending: ATDT 6003011011

Re: Duplicate Messages II

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 08:01:59PM -0400, Somnolent wrote: Well still no response from the people at the Fidonet gateway, nor from their ISP. So figuring I'd get faster service from their upstream provider I e-mailed them ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Both came back 550 - user

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for I noticed that the last bunch came from (or at least passed through)

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes, Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for now to divert this stuff. # temp fix :0: * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes, Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for now to divert this stuff. # temp fix :0: * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL

Re: Looking for a counting (x)biff

1998-07-10 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 04:40:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would like to Not X

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Eric
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:48:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Both your From: and Reply-To: were [EMAIL PROTECTED] here. I don't know what a Return-Path is, nor why an MUA would be using it. It's my understanding that a Return-Path is the header which determines where smtp errors go. For

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:23:14AM -0500, Eric wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:48:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Both your From: and Reply-To: were [EMAIL PROTECTED] here. I don't know what a Return-Path is, nor why an MUA would be using it. It's my understanding that a Return-Path

Re: Where can I read up about setting up groups

1998-07-10 Thread Shaleh
C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, I guess the subject header says it all. I would like to learn how to set up groups (typically to give permission to print on different printers, restricted internet access etc) Please could anyone direct me to the best information resource on this Seems any

Downloading Hamm bits at a time

1998-07-10 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I'm currently running a Bo system, but dying to get my hands on Hamm. Only problem is that my ISP has recently started volume-charging, which means downloading the whole lot will cost me about the same amount as buying a small country. I remembered, however, that I still have a Uni

Re: Downloading Hamm bits at a time

1998-07-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Damon Muller wrote: Can anyone offer any advice as to what is the most efficient way to download it, considering it will probably be interupted a few times. I don't plan on doing an FTP-install, I'll download it all to a local HD and install it from there. Hm, if you

ftp problem on Red Hat

1998-07-10 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all! One my friend with REDHAT 5.0 have a problem with ftp. He run ftpshut to shutdown FTP Server don't know how to run it again. :) FTP Server is wu-ftpd 2.4.27 Clinet part is working properly. Have any idea? I not... :( TIA, Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray

Re: Irritating ^H and double characters in documentation

1998-07-10 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you all for explaining that which I should have known. I did not know about the col filter before. Have a nice day. Johann. -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL

Re: ftp problem on Red Hat

1998-07-10 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Solved. It was neccesary to Comment /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file line: shutdown file Hi all! One my friend with REDHAT 5.0 have a problem with ftp. He run ftpshut to shutdown FTP Server don't know how to run it again. :) FTP Server is wu-ftpd 2.4.27 Clinet part is working

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Macdonald wrote: Joey, don't you mean If you use apt with _dpkg_, or If you use apt _instead_ of dselect? I thought apt is a dselect replacement. Apt will eventually be a dselect replacement, once the GUI frontend is working. Currently, it was easy to take the already working part of

Downloading Hamm bits at a time

1998-07-10 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Damon Muller writes: Hi Folks, Hello: I remembered, however, that I still have a Uni dial-in account (which has a high-speed link to another Uni which is an official mirror), but that is restricted to 2-hour's at a time. Can anyone offer any advice as to what is the most efficient

Re: Looking for a counting (x)biff

1998-07-10 Thread Damon Muller
Greets, I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would like to use this to keep track of all the mailing lists that I subscribe to and are

Re: ftp problem on Red Hat

1998-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:36:09PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: Solved. It was neccesary to Comment /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file line: shutdown file That isn't the fix -- you have disabled ftpshut completely. The solution is to delete the file referred to on that line. Hamish -- Hamish

Re: Wget like with cookies

1998-07-10 Thread Mario Filipe
On 09-Jul-98 Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Ooops, sorry. The syntax for a *Request* header is simply 'Cookie: NAME=VALUE'. Shoulda looked over my response and thought for a second before I sent it! Mario Filipe wrote: hi Does anyone know if there is a wget like package that allows us to

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #637

1998-07-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
How is it that digest v98 #637, dated 9 July is a digest of messages from 27 June? I don't know to whom attention should be called. Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED]

latest beta ISO image?

1998-07-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am now trying to download unsuccessfully the latest ISO-image of the hamm distribution could anyone with a good link or may be already here in Europe make it available to me? ciao bboett == acount at earthling net

Re: [off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2

1998-07-10 Thread Nicolai P Guba
BM == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM Why not date the betas? I think everyone knows what is happening when BM you do this, and they aren't left wondering when the heck beta2 came out BM when the name is 2.0-beta-1998-7-9. Good idea. Subversions might be useful too. IE

Re: [off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2

1998-07-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 11:11:27AM +0100, Nicolai P Guba wrote: : BM == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : BM Why not date the betas? I think everyone knows what is happening when : BM you do this, and they aren't left wondering when the heck beta2 came out : BM when the name

- MARK --

1998-07-10 Thread Jieyao
Hi, I have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain the following. Can any one tell me what is the cause? Thanks Jul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 10:48:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 11:08:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 11:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 11:48:19

Re: - MARK --

1998-07-10 Thread dpk
I have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain the following. Can any one tell me what is the cause? Thanks Jul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK -- Jul 5 10:48:19 superman -- MARK -- From the manpage: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark

RE: SOLUTION? how to hold mail in another machine temporarily

1998-07-10 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I asked some days ago here how to make another machine hold the mail while the main mail server is down. People told me to put another MX record in the dns to point to the temporary machine. Sure this is necessary, but I don't think it's enough. First,

RE: [off-topic] SCSI cables

1998-07-10 Thread Steve Rothanburg
I believe I've seen these at the computer shows around here (Baltimore). Here a couple of sites that may be of use to you. http://www.scsi-cables.com/line/inscsi.htm http://www.halted.com/specials/scsicase.htm At $10 for an external case from HSC it might be cheaper to by one and rip out the

Re: -post_data

1998-07-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) writes: This isn't debian specific, but what the hey. How does one find out the format needed to use the -post_data switch in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script? The data format is exactly what's sent to the server, so any reference

stop that

1998-07-10 Thread Paul Reavis
Please stop sending unsubscribe requests to debian-user. And _PLEASE_ stop using the reply feature so that I get a huge, single entry digest every time you do that. I found something like 8 of them in my mailbox this morning. As it says at the bottom of every single digest and mailing from

Re: Urgent, please ! (was: HELP: Setting up TeTeX)

1998-07-10 Thread Max Lawson
Solved ! Just downloaded the binairies from the TeTeX homepage. Regards, Max. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 9 13:23 MET 1998 Resent-Date: 9 Jul 1998 11:23:09 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown:;@nenuphar.saclay.cea.fr X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 9 Jul

[off-topic] IN THE ECONOMIST THIS WEEK

1998-07-10 Thread Colin Telmer
The Economist didn't seem to like Bill Gates, perhaps they will like Linux. In next week's edition. IN THE ECONOMIST THIS WEEK Once again, Russia is on the brink of disaster. On

Re: Xconsole vs security

1998-07-10 Thread Ionut Borcoman at debian
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Do you perhaps have the debug option uncommented in /etc/ppp/options? Or is there a debug in /etc/ppp/peers/provider? It was a 'debug' in the /etc/ppp/peers/provider. I've commented it and password (with all the other debug messages) disappeared from the

wordperfect for bo?

1998-07-10 Thread fantomas
Hello, I am interested in installing wordperfect on my debian-1.3 box; can anyone tell me how to do it ? -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: -post_data

1998-07-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I've got a perl script which will do it. Gerald V. Livingston lI wrote: This isn't debian specific, but what the hey. How does one find out the format needed to use the -post_data switch in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script? (I have a list of addresses I want to process for

Hiw to merge 2+ ps files

1998-07-10 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Is there any utility to merge 2 or more postscrip files together ? I tried psmerge but it didn't work! Thanks Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ -| http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf | - Nova Pagina (New)

printer problems

1998-07-10 Thread John Kloss
I've been trying off and on for the last three days to get my printer working. I tried magicfilter but that didn't work, output was always screwed up and truncated. So I purged magicfilter and installed apsfilter to see if it was any better and now my printer daemon is refusing all requests.

Re: - MARK --

1998-07-10 Thread Mark H. Mabry
dpk == dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:29:55 -0400 (EDT) dpkI have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain dpk the following. Can any one tell me what is the cause? Thanks dpk dpkJul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK --

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