poff: no funciona y recurro a killall pppd

1998-07-17 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, pues hasta ahora utilizaba el pon, poff, plog para conectarme a internet (y continúo así), pero desde hace un par de días no me 'funciona' el poff, tengo que hacer killall pppd. Cuando hago poff me da el siguiente error: More than one pppd running. None stopped.

PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola, Entre las psutils, hay una utilidad llamada psselect que me permite seleccionar paginas pares e impares facilmente: psselect -e file.ps file_even.ps psselect -o file.ps file_odd.ps Pero lo que tengo ahora es un ficheo pdf y en el Adobe AcrobatReader no encuentro la forma de imprimir

Problema de disco duro o placa

1998-07-17 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
Hola a todos, Os comento un problema que me ha surgido. Cambie el procesador a un AMD K6-233 y tuve que cambiar tambien la placa base a una mas moderna. El disco duro que tenia antes era un seagate de 2.5 Gb que ya tenia un comportamiento extraño (por ejemplo, al arrancar LinuX daba un tamaño de

Disco de arranque para DOSEMU

1998-07-17 Thread Josep Parera Miró
Hola, he estado haciendo unas pruebas con el DOSEMU (v. 0.66)y me encuantro que no sé que archivos debo incluir en el disco de arranque para que funcione correctamente. Utilizando la imagen incluida en Debian 1.3.1 al ejecutar algún programa me dice que me falta memória ems, que debo hacer para

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: ... y en el Adobe AcrobatReader no encuentro la forma de imprimir primero las paginas pares y luego las impares. ¿Sabe alguien si existen las pdfutils o algo asi? Para hacer: pdfselect -e file.pdf file_even.pdf pdfselect -o file.pdf file_odd.pdf Pues

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:11:17PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Pero lo que tengo ahora es un ficheo pdf y en el Adobe AcrobatReader no encuentro la forma de imprimir primero las paginas pares y luego las impares. gs-aladdin incluye pdf2ps, quizas gs tambien.

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Hola de nuevo, ¿Que puedo decir? Muchisimas gracias. Es increible la profundidad y la rapidez con que me han contestado. Saludos, Octavio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
He convertido el fichero pdf en uno ps (con el AcrobatReader, no tengo el gs). fichero.pdf - 5 MB fichero.ps - 135 MB Al ejecutar: psselect -e fichero.ps fichero_par.ps psselect copia el fichero.ps en fichero_par.ps tal cual, no escribe solo las pares, y no creo que sea

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 03:39:20PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: fichero.pdf - 5 MB fichero.ps - 135 MB auch! psselect copia el fichero.ps en fichero_par.ps tal cual, no escribe solo las pares, y no creo que sea porque el fichero es muy grande porque tengo un

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 03:39:20PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: fichero.pdf - 5 MB fichero.ps - 135 MB auch! psselect copia el fichero.ps en fichero_par.ps tal cual, no escribe solo las pares, y no creo que sea porque el

Re: PDF: paginas pares e impares

1998-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 04:34:23PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: No, no existe esa opcion. Me permite volcar el fichero a un fichero ps de nivel 1 o nivel 2. ¿Que es esto de ps level 1 o 2? La diferencia de tamaño es considerable: PS2 es PostScript sin tanto con un poco más de

problemas con xiterm y los colores

1998-07-17 Thread J. Parera
Hola, he creado/modificado lo siguiente para tener color en las consolas desde las Xs: poner export COLORTERM=1 en /etc/profile en /etc/X11/Xressource (no me acuerdo del nombre exacto) lo que sigue: ! ! Xterm en Color ! #include /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color *VT100*colorMode: on

Mover Linux de partición

1998-07-17 Thread J. Parera
Hola, tengo dos HDs en el cual el segundo está distribuido de la siguiente forma: partición tipotamañouso =========== hdb1 vfat1,5gb programas W95 hdb2 vfat 1,0gb documentación y juegos hdb3 (hdb5) ext2 400mbLinux

Configuración de un servidor de news

1998-07-17 Thread J. Parera
Hola, quiero instalar un servidor de news para mi uso personal (osease unos 4-6 grupos), me he leido varios documentos y me he encontrado con que hay varias posibilidades (progrmas/demonios): INN + suck Cnews INN+ suck tiene más documentación en español. He leido qu eel uso de Cnews es más

Re: Configuración de un servidor de news

1998-07-17 Thread ender
Lo + sencillo, es utilizar Leafnode. -ender -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Podria hacerse un .deb con libc6 para bo?

1998-07-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:16:23AM +0200, Juan Carlos wrote: En tanto no tengas NADA que sea -dev, se puede instalar libc5 y libc6 de hamm, y listo. Luego quizás querrías cambiar todos los paquetes en base, pero eso es otro cuento. Marcelo Ok,

apt problems

1998-07-17 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, when I run dselect using apt as the method, I go to update and I get these errors. Get http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages Error http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 404 Not Found Get http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages Error

Re: Print to HPLaserjet 5/L on a windows box

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
There was a thread long ago about how to do this. I don't remember when. I'm going to assume you first searched the debian-user archives before posting to the list. (That *would* be the good-netizen thing to do.) Ahem. Anyway. The first thing you'll want is magicfilter. magicfilter will take

Re: More Linux in the press

1998-07-17 Thread joost
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: The problem with that is two fold. They paint a false picture of Linux and they also strengthen the hold of those applications have on the market by insisting they be everywhere. I've been bitten by that misconception. I've been asked three

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Manfred Bartz
Marcus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a rank beginner question for y'all: I'm thinking of installing Debian on a machine I've got that has Winduhs95 on the primary 4.3 gig drive. I don't want to disturb what I've got there (Windoze is so touchy as you know), and I'm thinking

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Shaleh
The easiest way is how I said to do it. (-: Move the windows hard drive to the secondary master. Put the new drive as the primary master. Install linux, then setup lilo to boot either linux or windows. No writes to the windows hard drive needed. I can send the needed lilo config if you

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread sjc
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this problem the wrong way though. Now let me make sure

Re: What is the change from /hamm/disk-i386/2.08 to /hamm/disk-i386/2.09

1998-07-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: Would someone know the changes from /hamm/disk-i386/2.08 to /hamm/disk-i386/2.09 what is the difference between these two version? If you are curious enough, look at the changes log in dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/boot-floppies_2.0.9.deb Mainly

Re: apt problems

1998-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't believe www.debian.org is a site containing Debian packages. The apt package includes a sources.list which contains both us and non-us sites which will work. I have attached a copy. There are others, such as llug.sep.bnl.gov (hopefully README.mirrors will list them some day). Bob On

Re: apt problems

1998-07-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: I think the problem may lie in my sources.list. does anyone have an example one that I could look at? I would like to access the frozen us sections, and the non-us section. You need another package installed to do the ftp transfers (see the apt

Re: PNP modem

1998-07-17 Thread Robert Henry Rati
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Robert Henry Rati wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Robert Henry Rati wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Yup. Under hamm. I've had trouble is isapnp in the past but setting up an

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Manfred Bartz
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The easiest way is how I said to do it. (-: I made no claim with regards to ease. Move the windows hard drive to the secondary master. Put the new drive as the primary master. I don't consider changing hardware addresses around as easy, especially if

RE: Linux via un terminal

1998-07-17 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Salut, Olivier Tharan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 08:48:54AM +0400, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: - Y-a-t'il un miraculeux moyen pour avoir plusieurs consoles virtuelles à partir d'un terminal ? J'y crois pas trop mais bon... Si, tu peux utiliser screen qui est

Re: efax printing PS code..?

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
efax expects the first two characters to be '%!' which is quite reasonable. However, many evil machines like to put '\004%!' as the first characters (the first one is an 'EOF' mark, like our friend Ctrl-D generates). This really should be a bug against efax since this is so common. You can

exmh configuration.

1998-07-17 Thread shaul
I changed my smail configuration so that it will change the From: field on an outgoing mail to be my account on my ISP machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This setting is working when I use the mail command. For example, $ echo `date` | mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] results in From:

X fonts

1998-07-17 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am trying to change the fonts in my xterm to a more suitable size for my monitor. In the standard sizes 12x24 is too big, but anything else is far too small. At the moment I am selecting fonts from the list generated by xlsfonts, however most of these

X fonts

1998-07-17 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am trying to change the fonts in my xterm to a more suitable size for my monitor. In the standard sizes 12x24 is too big, but anything else is far too small. At the moment I am selecting fonts from the list generated by xlsfonts, however most of these

Authentication Problems

1998-07-17 Thread Babs
HELP! Before i scream! I have been beating my head against the wall for a while. I am in the process of integrating our internal office network. Network consists of many systems on different OS's, win95, apple, winGTip workstations and servers, and of course LINES (much more superior OS). The

efax printing PS code..? [solved]

1998-07-17 Thread Jay Barbee
efax expects the first two characters to be '%!' which is quite reasonable. However, many evil machines like to put '\004%!' as the first characters (the first one is an 'EOF' mark, like our friend Ctrl-D generates). This really should be a bug against efax since this is so common. You

[off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread Colin Telmer
I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles sometimes. does anyone know how I can capture the stream into an .ra file? Cheers,

installation via dselect...trouble finding locations

1998-07-17 Thread S K
okay, i've repartitioned my hard drive and installed linux. sort of. now i'm trying to install other stuff using dselect from cd-rom, and it asks for the location of packages-master file, stable/binary, contrib/binary, none-free/binary, and local/binary. i've had a few unsuccessful guesses

Iniitial Set Up

1998-07-17 Thread Alex Kwan
Now I upgrade my PC to a New One which has Pentium-II and Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Card, This System has install any system before, Do the floppy resc1440.bin can recognize the SCSI Card. Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Iniitial Set Up

1998-07-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Alex Kwan wrote: : Now I upgrade my PC to a New One which : has Pentium-II and Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Card, : This System has install any system before, : Do the floppy resc1440.bin can recognize the : SCSI Card. : : Thanks! The rescue disk should work fine. We've got a

Installing Debian on a Low-memory System

1998-07-17 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I am trying to install Debian Linux on a system which is built from 100% free, recycled parts. It has an AMD '386 DX/DXL-25 processor, and a 41 MB HDD. BIOS detects 640KB of Base and 4325KB of Ext. memory. I have repeatedly run the RESC1440.BIN diskette, and after Linux uncompresses,

Re: Installing Debian on a Low-memory System

1998-07-17 Thread Lindsay Allen
The situation as I understand it:- You must boot from a floppy. Use the resc disk here. You need to put lmemroot.bin on a floppy for use during the install. When you get the boot: prompt tell it floppy0 i.e.boot: floppy0 After this you just follow along as instructed. Be aware,

Re: color-ls how do I use it?

1998-07-17 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Just an idea! Should 'ls --color' be compiled as default? I believe we all have color monitor Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Andreas Mueller wrote: Hi Try 'ls --color' If it works, set the alias ls='ls --color '. woohoo! It worked by -am --

crc error ( install )

1998-07-17 Thread Amanda
I have just started to install Debian Linux. I don't think I got past first base. After making my floppies I rebooted with the resc1440.bin disk firmly in the drive. On the first screen I pressed Enter heres what I got : boot: Loading root.bin. Loading linux..

ls - color by default

1998-07-17 Thread Dave Jones
Yeah, great point. Problem is I (for one) don't know HOW to compile --color as the default. Same thing with less as the default pager instead of more, sure would be great to have that be standard. Maybe someone could make a .deb package with all the cool options as defaults: less as pager

[avandor@intergate.bc.ca: crc error]

1998-07-17 Thread Hanno Wagner
Hi, please read this one and answer :-) - Forwarded message from Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Jul 1998 03:48:03 - X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 16 22:48:03 1998 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Printing Mac PS files containing binary data

1998-07-17 Thread Richard Wraith
We have a problem with binary PS files (primarily from Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator etc) where they get corrupted on the way to the printer with the result that hundreds of pages spit out of the printer with a few random characters on them rather than one page of the desired

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-17 Thread Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva
First, thank you for all the help. Well, today I decided to read more carefully about what does XKB support. The main texts where I got information (after digging the net) were: http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/ http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/dead-keys.en.html And the README file in the

HP Omnibook 600C

1998-07-17 Thread S Brosseau
I have read the page at www.cs.hme.edu/iowa-lab/omnibook.html regarding Linux on the omnibook. I am looking for any updates concerning the mouse and floppy drivers. I would also like to install from the floppy; but Linux can't read the rescue disk in the floppy (apparently because the 600c

Re: ls - color by default

1998-07-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:21:08PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: Yeah, great point. Problem is I (for one) don't know HOW to compile --color as the default. Same thing with less as the default pager instead of more, sure would be great to have that be standard. Maybe someone could make a .deb

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Karel Bemelmans
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:14:54 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Henry Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marcus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, linux newbie linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Debian w/ Win95? I have

Re: CD vendors in Europe?

1998-07-17 Thread Bruce Mardle
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and at least one of the vendors in Europe is strictly a reseller of CDs. Perhaps you have his email or www address ? Does anyone knows other CD vendors in Europe ? I bought mine from http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html (and was very happy with the

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ Nope, that would kill the program... Maarten _ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | |

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it Actually,

Re: X fonts

1998-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 17 July 1998, at 1 h 24, the keyboard of Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment I am selecting fonts from the list generated by xlsfonts, however most of these do not appear to work for terminals (resulting in a very distorted - usually streached - terminal). Also, the

[avandor@intergate.bc.ca: crc error]

1998-07-17 Thread Martin Schulze
- Forwarded message from Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-Path: murphy.debian.org!joey Received: at Infodrom Oldenburg (/\##/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.12 Joey) by finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE id m0yx1Y9-001MvbC; Fri, 17 Jul 98 05:51 MET DST Received: from murphy.debian.org

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Cougar
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like

Re: X fonts

1998-07-17 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 09:49:39AM +1000, Chris wrote: [finding usable fonts for terminals in X] Sorry, I don't have time to write out a nice answer; here's a dump of my notes: !! ! ! Fixed width fonts ! ! Useful programs

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Leigh Porter
Carlos Barros wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like :

setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Deniz Dogan
Hi, Is there a way to dynamicly set rxvt titles, using .Xresources/.Xdefaults ? Thanks in advance. -- Deniz Dogan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Ley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Cougar wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change

Cross-compile to Windows NT

1998-07-17 Thread Michael Laing
I have a large utility program that I need to run under NT - is there a cross-compiler for this purpose? Thanks, Michael -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Filipe Jorge Marques de Almeida
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:30:32AM +0300, Cougar wrote: What this chroot gives You? Actually this is protection against simple exec(/bin/sh) but every cracker may put chroot(/) before this and all the protection is destroyed. [mod: It is slightly less trivial than 'chroot(/)', but if you can

Re: KDE in deb format?

1998-07-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I did the same, although I actually got them from the sunsite ftp site. I also have the missing pixmaps for the title bar, and also have no screensavers. All else seems OK so far. I uninstalled beta 4 first. I couldn't find the admin deb package at sunsite, but that's fairly minor anyway. Tom

cfdisk problem during installation

1998-07-17 Thread Jonathan Hester
Friends, a question: During installation of Debian Linux 1.3, I am getting the following error message when the installation software tries to partition my hard drive: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition Press any key to exit fdisk I understand that this error message

Re: crc error ( install )

1998-07-17 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I have just started to install Debian Linux. I don't think I got past first | base. | After making my floppies I rebooted with the resc1440.bin disk firmly in the | drive. On the first screen I pressed Enter heres what I got : | boot: | Loading

Re: cfdisk problem during installation

1998-07-17 Thread joost
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jonathan Hester wrote: During installation of Debian Linux 1.3, I am getting the following error message when the installation software tries to partition my hard drive: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition Press any key to exit fdisk Hi, Sometimes, cfdisk

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva wrote: First, thank you for all the help. Well, today I decided to read more carefully about what does XKB support. The main texts where I got information (after digging the net) were: http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/

Re: Debian w/ Win95?

1998-07-17 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote: I've got a rank beginner question for y'all: I'm thinking of installing Debian on a machine I've got that has Winduhs95 on the primary 4.3 gig drive. I don't want to disturb what I've got there (Windoze is so touchy as you know), and I'm thinking

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Cougar wrote: [mod: It is slightly less trivial than 'chroot(/)', but if you can execute arbitrary code as root, you can break out of the chrooted environment. --REW] My idea is to run named non-root UID/GID. As named needs to bind port 53 which is below 1024 there are

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this problem the wrong way

Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Carlos Marcos Kakihara
I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is too long, and xemacs tells that maximum buffer size something.. :) There is a way to view this file? Carlos Marcos Kakihara (bacate) Escola de Engenharia de Piracicaba (EEP) Departamento de Informatica e-mail: [EMAIL

netscape-help!!

1998-07-17 Thread Phil
I've recently hit a snag with netscape: I can't get it to download pop mail. Netscape in WIn95 works, and so does fetchmail, but not netsape in linux. I tried a complete reinstall, and even erased my user-specific netscape directories. What could be causing this? User permissions for

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread seifried
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, cfb wrote: The main problem seems to be with the way that debian starts bind using the script /etc/init.d/bind. I thought it would be really neat to just change the #!/bin/sh at the top of the script to something like :

Hard drive spindown settings

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I was looking at the hdparm package yesterday... a while back I set my stystem up to issue hdparm -S 240 /dev/hda at boot...but I am realizing that my drive never spins down. in fact it seems liek every few seconds I hear it access... I was wondering... is this a side effect of update running? (I

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jeff Schreiber
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe it makes a lot more sense to find out *what* names are being looked up and *why* and solve the real problem rather than shoehorn in some kludge. I knew there was something I was forgetting to mention! As I said, logically you only need

Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy rtfming! I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o`

RE: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
If vi said lines were too long, then you can not use vi to see all of the file. If vi ran out of tmp space, then try setting TMPDIR env var to point to a place that has up to ?? amount of space. I can't remember if vi needs double the original file space or not. That would mean either 700M or

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 10:17:45AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Hack is the word alright. My opinion is that you're attacking this problem the wrong way

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is too long, and xemacs tells that maximum buffer size something.. :) There is a way to view this file? I never tried, but you may want to check the beav or the le editors;

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Carlos Barros
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Cougar wrote: try changing only the line that start the bind daemon eg: chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/named What this chroot gives You? Actually this is protection against simple exec(/bin/sh) but every cracker may put chroot(/) before this and all the

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it I tried it when I

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: C.J.LAWSON wrote: I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing Here's a wild shot at it... Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable

Re: Dead keys in X.

1998-07-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I had this in my ~/.Xmodmap file to test out dead keys and the compose key... !!See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-2/Compose for keysym names. !! F9 is a dead key: dead_acute e = é keycode 75 = dead_acute !! F11 is a Compose key: Compose ' e = é keycode 95 = Multi_key

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump, I could

Re: problems with X in hamm

1998-07-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11. 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11. This may be a configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3 2. I use a

mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

1998-07-17 Thread Will Lowe
I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1 where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0. I know the link works ok, because I use it with tar. I'm getting mt: /dev/ftape:

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Deniz Dogan wrote: Hi, Is there a way to dynamicly set rxvt titles, using ...Xresources/.Xdefaults ? If it got the title from .Xresources then it wouldn't be dynamic, would it! I'm guessing the resource for the rxvt title is looked at only once when rxvt runs. On top of that, your

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread tko
Martin Oldfield writes: I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). The drives are older: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800,

Re: Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy rtfming! I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. I have never used freetype...but maybe what you want is xfstt? it is a TrueType font

Re: [linux-security] Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-17 Thread Cougar
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Carlos Barros wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Cougar wrote: try changing only the line that start the bind daemon eg: chroot /chroot-dns/ /bin/named What this chroot gives You? Actually this is protection against simple exec(/bin/sh) but every

Re: exmh configuration.

1998-07-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I changed my smail configuration so that it will change the From: field on an outgoing mail to be my account on my ISP machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This setting is working when I use the mail command. For example, $ echo `date` | mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread joost
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: if [ $TERM = xterm -o $TERM = xterm-color -o \ $TERM = rxvt -o $TERM = vs100 ] You might want to add xterm-debian to the possible TERM values when you use this with the latest xfree86 packages in hamm. And s/vs100/vt100/ I think.

Re: Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy rtfming! I have tons of TTF Fonts that I would like to use with GIMP. I have never used

Re: named setup problems

1998-07-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Jeff Schreiber wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe it makes a lot more sense to find out *what* names are being looked up and *why* and solve the real problem rather than shoehorn in some kludge. I knew there was something I was forgetting to mention! As I

Re: [off-topic?] real audio capture?

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 08:44:41PM -0400, Colin Telmer wrote: I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles sometimes. does

Bug encountered while attempting to configure Device Drivers Modules

1998-07-17 Thread David Karlin
Hello, While installing Debian (Oct. '97 release) I encountered the following error MSG while configuring device driver modules: This line should never be reached. This indicates a bug in this program. You might want to write the error messages before you continue. Press ENTER when you are

Re: Freetype

1998-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 12:24:03AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 11:18:30PM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: I installed freetype and I don't know how to use it. Help me! I'm lazy rtfming! I have tons of TTF

Re: setting dynamic rxvt titles with Xresoures/Xdefaults

1998-07-17 Thread Christophe Broult
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] with your user name, current directory, etc. then what you need to do is use the bash PROMPT_COMMAND. bash runs the contents of this variable each time the prompt is printed (you could achieve similar effect using the PS1 variable).

nsswitch.conf host.conf

1998-07-17 Thread Lewis, James M.
Hi, The discussion on named brought up a question or two. I went looking for documentation on nsswitch.conf and couldn't find any (in man, anyway). But, I did find host.conf. Looks like host.conf and nsswitch.conf have very similar functions. What's the difference? When do you use one and

Linux run from Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC

1998-07-17 Thread Alex Kwan
Does the Linux can run on a Cyrix-GX200MMX CPU PC? Does anybody have installed Debian or others Linux on this PC? Thank You! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Long text file to edit..

1998-07-17 Thread Keith Beattie
Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: I want to edit a 700MB text file. vi tells that the file is too long, and xemacs tells that maximum buffer size something.. :) There is a way to view this file? If you simply want to view the file and not edit it, I'd try something like more which

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