Re: crtl+alt+supr

1998-08-06 Thread Oscar Castell Marcos
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 03:51:39PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > > Esta accion se modifica en el /etc/inittab, creo que bastara con > que elimines la linea: > > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now O

man-db

1998-08-06 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a la lista... Estoy viendo el paquete man-db_2.3.10-65, en su version fuente, y he visto que el instalable que genera es de la forma: man-db_2.3.10-63*.deb ¿Esto es un error? En el fichero rules, se establece la variable my-version=63. Saludos. Angel Vicente Perez Dpto. Informática

RE: Posible error en disco?

1998-08-06 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 09:29:04AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: dpkg: error processing ../gettext_0.10.35-3_i386.deb (--install): unable to create `usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4': Input/output error Errors were encountered while processing: ../gettext_0.10.35-3_i386.deb Y no me

Re: crtl+alt+supr

1998-08-06 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Oscar Castell Marcos wrote: he intentado desubscribirme infinitas veces y parece que no funciona el gestor de la lista, he escrito al listmaster y sigo subscrito ¿QUE PUEDO HACER?, alguien lo sabe Tu mensaje tiene esto: Sender:

Nessus hace algo que este prohibido?

1998-08-06 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola a todos. ¿que tal las vacaciones? Dejad un poco la Debian y tomad algo el sol, hombre, que los rayos catodicos no ponen moreno ;-) Ha caido en mis manos acaso por un casual del destino una herramienta llamada 'Nessus'. No habia oido hablar antes de ella, pero por lo que veo se puede tratar de

RE: Posible error en disco?

1998-08-06 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Dale: $ cd / $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums | md5sum -c Los errores del estilo md5sum: MD5 check failed for 'etc/login.defs' Hola... He ejecutado esto, y los errores que he obtenido son sobre ficheros de /etc : mtools.conf, lftp.conf y otros que he debido modificar a mano. ¿Podria

Lilo

1998-08-06 Thread Pablo Martin
como se instala el lilo en debian? quiero poder arrancar desde el hd el Linux, msdos y el windows nt, el msdos y el windows nt lo tengo en al primera particion sda2 y el linux en sda4 Gracias == OBTENGA GRATIS SU CORREO ELECTRÓNICO EN

Re: Acceso a los puertos serie, como?

1998-08-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 05:32:21PM +0100, Angel Vidal wrote: Hola a todos, soy nuevo en la lista aunque llevo tiempo leyendola, les cuento: Estoy con mi proyecto fin de carrera, un sistema de adquisicion de datos al que se accede a traves de un puerto serie.(desde el minicom) Actualmente estoy

Activar servidor truetipe como demonio

1998-08-06 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Hay alguna forma de activar el servidor truetype ( xfstt ) como demonio de la misma forma que el xfs ? Lo he intentado cambiando el /etc/init.d/xfs para que lance el xfstt en vez del xfs pero se queda pillado al arrancarlo. inluyo el xfs modificado -- Antonio Calvo Rodriguez [EMAIL

CD de Debian 2.0 en Linux Actual

1998-08-06 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Me iba a ir a casa ahora y se me olvidaba deciroslo ::) En la proxima Linux Actual (el numero 4, de setiembre) se va a incluir, definitivamente, Debian 2.0 (yo me encargaré de hacer el CD, espero no meter la pata). Además he hablado con el editor y es más que probable que se

Re: Posible error en disco?

1998-08-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:52:09AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: He ejecutado esto, y los errores que he obtenido son sobre ficheros de /etc : mtools.conf, lftp.conf y otros que he debido modificar a mano. ¿Podria suponer entonces que el resto de las cosas esta bien? En principio, si.

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OO By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were OO talking about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy OO booting. Could you please elaborate? The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot from,

Re: libc6 upgrade

1998-08-06 Thread David Z. Maze
Clare Johnstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CJ On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: EC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AT Should I be wary of ubgrading from libc6 2.0.6 to 2.0.7? Or can AT I just blithely replace the library? EC EC As long as you aren't talking about a libc5 to libc6 upgrade, EC

Re: Netscape and Debian for animated GIF

1998-08-06 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Erwan ESNAULT wrote: I was wondering why a Netscape communicator (or navigator) under Debian animates only one time an animated GIF, while under RedHat, it animates it forever ? This is probably not true - Netscape is a binary-only product so there's no way it can be

chmod

1998-08-06 Thread Mark Panzer
I tried using chmod to allow myself (when logged in as mark) to have access to my floppy drive. I did a chmod o+rwx /floppy but when I tried to check this with ls -ld /floppy I see that only root still has write privilages. Can someone offer some help. Mark Panzer -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: School Proof-of-concept network

1998-08-06 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: b) An ethernet hub, 8 ports (I think 10Mbs is quite good enough). Cost? I think around $300-400, tops 178$cdn for a 3com Workgroup hub You can get cheap 8 port 10 base T hubs for $40 if you know where to look. (http://www.warehouse.com/datacomm/) -- see shy jo

Re: chmod

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MP == Mark Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MP I tried using chmod to allow myself (when logged in as mark) to have MP access to my floppy drive. I did a MP chmod o+rwx /floppy MP but when I tried to check this with ls -ld /floppy I see that only root MP still has write privilages. Can

RE: naming of newt package

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:43:07 +0200, Frock [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: Stephen J. Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother. It i

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-06 Thread Ossama Othman
The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot from, before selecting a default. On my system (with only /dev/hda2 marked bootable), I see a 2FA: prompt. If I press any keys here, I can press 2 (boot from hda2), F (boot from floppy), or A, which changes the prompt to

Re: How do I set the Reply-To field in Pine/Smail?

1998-08-06 Thread Adam Shand
I use Pine and Smail and regularly send email to a group of people. Now some servers is starting to refuse the mail because they see it as spam apparently because the Reply To field refers to my localhost in stead of my proper email address. the easiest way is to use pines custom header

Re: Source Navigator (lite)

1998-08-06 Thread David B. Teague
All Please post if you have that. Ed: If you get it, either post or send me private mail, if you will please. --David On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Young, Ed wrote: Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:34:48 -0600 From: Young, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:

Re: Password to single user boot.

1998-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were talking : about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy booting. Could : you please elaborate? Sure. If you hold down the shift key very soon in the boot cycle, you'll get a

Re: Multiple copies of messages in digest

1998-08-06 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I have complained about this in the past to the listmaster: I get up to 5 copies of some messages at times. I subscribed to the digest because I wanted to shorten my download time. Today I deleted 66 duplicate copies before I started reading the

Several questions before I run Debian

1998-08-06 Thread Matthew A. Reklau
I do not subscribe to this list and do not currently run Debian. Before I run Debian I want to know: What kernel version does the current Debian 2.0 come with? What support is included for Fat 32? Do the X servers include support for the Diamond Viper V330? If I can get acceptable answers to

Re: Several questions before I run Debian

1998-08-06 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 11:53:34PM -0400, Matthew A. Reklau wrote: I do not subscribe to this list and do not currently run Debian. Before I run Debian I want to know: What kernel version does the current Debian 2.0 come with? 2.0.34 What support is included for Fat 32? kernel 2.0.34

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-06 Thread Paul
Yup! Even to the technically inclined monitor and card setups tend to be difficult and boring, even when you can find all the information needed. On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we need here is more clout with the hardware

simple points..........

1998-08-06 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, Who can recomend me a good* program for ploting points ?? I want to show scientific data in a graphic form, and put it in a LaTeX doc. It could have some factures like title, axis text, cusomization of points (diamonds, circles, colors,...), regresion (fitting?) of many kinds, conecting

Re: simple points..........

1998-08-06 Thread Art Lemasters
You might try gnuplot (in the math directory). I have not used it, but I saw a good demonstration at the Linux users' group meeting here. ...tell you what...I'll download it right now, too, and we'll compete for the bandwidth. g Art On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 10:14:26PM -0700, phillip

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daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
hi- i'm trying to install debian on a thinkpad 770 ed w/ no luck. neither floppy=thinkpad nor the tecra disks (latest i've tried are dated july 21st) worked for me. i'm not complaining or anything, but this is my fourth post to this list this week -- i was wondering if anyone had any

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:52:16 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: What kind of error are you getting? for old hamm disks (i made these this may): boot: linux floppy=thinkpad Loading root.bin. Loading linux.. [disk spins w/ no progress, top of

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:26:04 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot: linux floppy=thinkpad Loading root.bin. Loading linux.. A20 gating failed [system hangs -- same thing for

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Steve Hsieh
The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of 'bzimage'. The tecra fix doesn't work for 2.0.34 or above for us. The other alternative is to use the development 2.1.1xx kernel. A make zimage for that does work. On Thu, 6

cpp

1998-08-06 Thread Luiken, Arijan
Hi, i have a question, when i installed debian (2.0) and i want to install x windows (or something else with dselect) i get the message that the program has dependency problems with cpp. anybody any idea's ? Kind regards, Arijan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:27:31 -0400 (EDT), Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of 'bzimage'. The tecra fix doesn't work for 2.0.34 or above for us. The other

Re: Afterstep Configuration

1998-08-06 Thread Ana Graca Silva
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ana Graca Silva wrote: My new problem is the window manager - afterstep 1.4.5.3-1 . I was trying to configure my desktop when i found in afterstep home page some perturbing information - the AS Directory Strutcture in that page is much bigger then the mine in my home ... For

Re: cpp

1998-08-06 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:38:19AM -0700, Luiken, Arijan wrote: i have a question, when i installed debian (2.0) and i want to install x windows (or something else with dselect) i get the message that the program has dependency problems with cpp. anybody any idea's ? Not really, because you

Re: cpp

1998-08-06 Thread Ari K Makela
Luiken, Arijan writes: i have a question, when i installed debian (2.0) and i want to install x windows (or something else with dselect) i get the message that the program has dependency problems with cpp. Some programs depend on other programs i.e. in this case X needs the GNU C

Re: user limits

1998-08-06 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: -Original Message- From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 6:20 AM Subject: user limits Is there any way to limit background processes? Check out the ulimit command. More

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 17:33:02 +0900, I may have mentioned: At around Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:27:31 -0400 (EDT), Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: The only way we were able to get our thinkpad to boot debian was to rebuild the kernel using 'make zimage' instead of

libc6

1998-08-06 Thread Bryon Bridges
I am trying to install Netscape Navigator on my system and it says it requires a file called libc6. Yet when I go to dpkg this file, it says it conflicts with libc5! I can't simply remove libc5 can I? Why would these two files be conflicting anyway? Your help is much appreciated. --

Re: libc6

1998-08-06 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 02:32:55AM -0700, Bryon Bridges wrote: I am trying to install Netscape Navigator on my system and it says it requires a file called libc6. Yet when I go to dpkg this file, it says it conflicts with libc5! I can't simply remove libc5 can I? Why would these two files be

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread sen_ml
At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, I may have mentioned: [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snipped] i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue disk...perhaps this was the cause of the initial console error message. i am recompiling a

dselect's install is too slow

1998-08-06 Thread Paweł Sakowski
Debian 1.3.1 Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows which packages need installation. --- We are different [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Acroread dumps core

1998-08-06 Thread Eric Marsden
Hello, I have tried installing the Adobe Acrobat Reader on a recently installed 2.0 system, using the .deb provided in hamm/non-free. Unfortunately, the acroread executable dumps core right on launching (gdb says the problem is in strncmp). Has anyone succeeded in making this package work?

NeeD HELP!!!

1998-08-06 Thread Lisner
Hi all, I have a freshly installed hamm, with / mounted to a 500 MB partition /usr and /home mounted to other partitions. df reports / is 100% in use, and Linux seem to believe it, so no new file can be created. To test this I made ls -Rl bin boot dev etc initrd lib lost+found root sbin tmp

Re: Acroread dumps core

1998-08-06 Thread Ari K Makela
(gdb says the problem is in strncmp). Has anyone succeeded in making this package work? Otherwise I will file a bug report. Works very well for me with Debian 2.0. My package version is ./text/acroread_3.01-0.1.deb and my system information: 13:17:06 Thu Aug 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] amak$ uname

NeeD HELP!!!

1998-08-06 Thread Lisner
It's me once again, I found it, it's the .xsession-errors in /root. However, how can it become more than 460MB??? Strange ... Jens -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Luiken, Arijan
Hi, I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and ifso HOW Regards, Arijan (debian newbie) Kind regards, Arijan Luiken Database Analyst / Administrator Amgen ELC Ext. 2047 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe

AlphaServer AS800 5/400

1998-08-06 Thread Giulio Pasqualone
Hello, I would lke to know if I can install the Debian Linux distribution on an AlphaServer AS800 5/400 (the processor isa DECChip 21164A-2). Thank You, Giulio. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Several questions before I run Debian

1998-08-06 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 6 Aug 98 04:23:09 GMT, in linux.debian.user you wrote: On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 11:53:34PM -0400, Matthew A. Reklau wrote: Do the X servers include support for the Diamond Viper V330? Dunno, but I think so. Debian's X software is Xfree86 3.3.2, so if Xfree86 supports it, Debian supports

dselect's install is too slow

1998-08-06 Thread Paweł Sakowski
Debian 1.3.1 Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows which packages need installation. --- We are different [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote: : I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it : possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and ifso HOW Yup, just use the 'standard' escape sequences and put them in the PS1 environment variable. -Remco --

Re: NeeD HELP!!!

1998-08-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
It's me once again, I found it, it's the .xsession-errors in /root. However, how can it become more than 460MB??? e.g.: #!/bin/bash bogus oh me oh my source .xsession

Re: simple points..........

1998-08-06 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: You might try gnuplot (in the math directory). I have not used it, but I saw a good demonstration at the Linux users' group meeting here. ...tell you what...I'll download it right now, too, and we'll compete for the bandwidth. g you

Problem with fetchmail

1998-08-06 Thread Ehren Wilson
I was wondering if soemone could help me with a problem I am having with fetchmail. I trued upgrading to slink yesterday and everything apeared to work. The only problem I have having is that fetchmail is not working correctly. For some reason it send [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the recipient address

Re: bo archive

1998-08-06 Thread servis
*- George Bonser wrote about bo archive | | There is an archive of bo at ftp.shorelink.com in /debian/bo | | I will post a listing of other mirrors on the ftp site as I am made aware | of them. There was a discussion on this on debian-devel recently, check the list archives to see if I missed

Re: Problem with fetchmail

1998-08-06 Thread Ervin D. Walter
[Posted and mailed] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ehren Wilson) writes: --- Begin Screen Copy --- bash-2.01$ fetchmail -u ehren mail.powersurfr.com Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 92 messages (1 seen) for ehren at mail.powersurfr.com (258990 bytes).

Automatic X startup

1998-08-06 Thread Torbjorn . T . Friberg
Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to write 'startx' every time. /Torbjörn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Automatic X startup

1998-08-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to write 'startx' every time. Try configuring xdm to start at boot. You can probably use xbase-configure to configure it. If that doesn't work check /etc/init.d for a script called xdm. If you don't have xdm but have

Re: Automatic X startup

1998-08-06 Thread Marsh Ray
On new hamm systems, all I had to do was change the line in '/etc/X11/config' from 'no-start-xdm' to 'start-xdm'. - Marsh From: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to write 'startx' every time. Try configuring xdm to start at

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:06:22PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote: : I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it : possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and ifso HOW Yup, just use the 'standard' escape

Broken rescue disk (hamm)

1998-08-06 Thread Muench, David
I posted about this once before, and didn't get an answer back. I'm trying to install 2.0 on my computer, and the rescue disk (any of them - off of floppy, hard drive, tecra and regular) all lock up right after the md line in the boot messages. I found Bo today, and tried installing that,

Re: Automatic X startup

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
TTF == Torbjorn T Friberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TTF Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to TTF write 'startx' every time. $ cat /etc/X11/config # This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System. # For a description of the meanings of the

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:06:22PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: : On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote: : : : I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it : : possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and

RE: LILO: Map segment is too big.

1998-08-06 Thread John Marter
Thanks for all the replies. The root disk below was just what I needed. It had a more modern LILO on it (version 20 instead of 17). With that I could successfully get my disk bootable again, and everything else worked fine. Thanks --

apt - priorities?

1998-08-06 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hi, When you point apt's config file, sources.list, to more than one Debian archive, is it possible make sure it uses a specific site when the same version of a package is found on more than one site? Is it just the order in which you put the archives in the sources.list file? -Remco --

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #815

1998-08-06 Thread Subhi S Hashwa
Can some1 remove me from the list please ?! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 815 Today's Topics: Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-) cpp Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-) bo

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
LA == Luiken, Arijan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LA is it possible to display colors (ansi) in your prompt and ifso HOW Check http://chem20.chem.und.nodak.edu/themes/bash.html Ciao, Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

simple points..........

1998-08-06 Thread Liam Healy
phillip == phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: phillip Hi, phillip Who can recomend me a good* program for ploting points ?? I want to show phillip scientific data in a graphic form, and put it in a LaTeX doc. phillip It could have some factures like title, axis text,

misdirected mail

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! ---BeginMessage--- I'm trying to install StarOffice on a Redhat 5.1 machine, but it will not work. I get a message like : line 1: syntax error at token 'I' . I know that I have to some certain libraries, but does Redhat 5.1 not

Re: StarOffice

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Jarl Jensen wrote: I'm trying to install StarOffice on a Redhat 5.1 machine, but it will not work. I get a message like : line 1: syntax error at token 'I' . I know that I have to some certain libraries, but does Redhat 5.1 not have the right libraries ? Dunno. Btw. did you notice

Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Chris Evans wrote: Many, many thanks for your help... On 5 Aug 98, at 12:54, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you to the

xdm doesn't start properly

1998-08-06 Thread BG Lim
Hi, I've been using Debian 1.3 now for some time. Recently, I thought of using xdm to log on instead. However when I type xdm, nothing happens and I get the prompt back. So, as root, I typed 'xdm -debug 1' and this is the result: ... creating socket 177 xdm error (pid 244): error 98 binding

XKB doesn't work as non-root

1998-08-06 Thread BG Lim
When I start X using startx, X starts properly (I'm using KDE). However, I can't use the backspace key. So, I alt-shift-F1 to VT1. And I find a message saying: ... The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Error: Cannot open compiled/xfree86.xdm to write keyboard description

Re: using make config

1998-08-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Kennedy == Kennedy Mutio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kennedy I'm using Linux version 2.0.33XXX and I'm browsing around Kennedy ftp.debian.org looking for the kernel-source and maybe Kennedy kernel-package. I am also looking for dpkg-perl and dpkg-ftp Kennedy

Re: xdm doesn't start properly

1998-08-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, first is xdm started, is there an xdm process in the table? If not do as root /etc/init.d/xdm start That should give the logon screen for X. Let me know how things work. also if you suspect xdm errors look at the file /var/log/xdm-errors. Hope this helps On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, BG Lim

Re: Afterstep Configuration

1998-08-06 Thread Ana Graca Silva
To everyone who was thinking respond to my previous mail: About how to configure afterstep, i've solved my mistery : Copied all the files from /usr/share/afterstep to the directory AfterStep on my home. Played with some files, and now I have configured it to fullfill all my needs (by now).

Re: libc6

1998-08-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bryon Bridges wrote: I am trying to install Netscape Navigator on my system and it says it requires a file called libc6. Yet when I go to dpkg this file, it says it conflicts with libc5! I can't simply remove libc5 can I? Why would these two files be conflicting anyway? Your help is much

Re: Afterstep Configuration

1998-08-06 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Ana Graca Silva wrote: To everyone who was thinking respond to my previous mail: About how to configure afterstep, i've solved my mistery : Copied all the files from /usr/share/afterstep to the directory AfterStep on my home. Played with some files, and now I have

PLEASE help: printer drivers

1998-08-06 Thread M.C. Vernon
DEar all, I have inherited a brother M-1109 dot matrix printer. 1: is there a driver out there? (where?) 2: if (not 1) is there somewhere that will tell me how to write a driver I can write C Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien

Re: Problem with fetchmail

1998-08-06 Thread Ehren Wilson
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Ervin D. Walter wrote: [Posted and mailed] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ehren Wilson) writes: --- Begin Screen Copy --- bash-2.01$ fetchmail -u ehren mail.powersurfr.com Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 92 messages (1 seen) for

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: : On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 01:06:22PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: : On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Luiken, Arijan wrote: : : : I wonder (my guess that this is more a bash/linux question) is it :

startx fails/freezes machine (hamm)

1998-08-06 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, On a fresh Debian 2.0 installation I am having severe problems running X. It seems like some hardware incompatibility and I've exhausted my own knowledge of what to try. I have to suspect the video and scsi cards but they work together just fine in text mode. Now for the details: Symptoms:

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Greg Starkes
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At around Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:52:16 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] may have mentioned: What kind of error are you getting? for old hamm disks (i made these this may): boot: linux floppy=thinkpad Loading

Re: xdm doesn't start properly

1998-08-06 Thread Jay Barbee
make sure /etc/init.d/xdm is not zero lenght (ie: nothing in the file). As dumb as it sounds I kept typing '/etc/init.d/xdm start' and nothing was happening. Dumb mistake, but it can happen. If it is zero you probably need to reinstall the package again (xbase if I am not mistaken.) Good

Re: dselect's install is too slow

1998-08-06 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, [ISO-8859-2] Pawe³ Sakowski wrote: Debian 1.3.1 Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows which packages need installation. You are

problem at start of debian linux installation

1998-08-06 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi people, I have a laptop from TOSHIBA, model 310CDS, and I have a copy of your last distribution (hamm, 2.0, 24/7/98.) I have a floppy disk that I wrote using the command rawrite2 whith arguments 'resc1440.bin' and 'A:'. (from debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current) Then I inserted the floppy

Re: ppp connection speed

1998-08-06 Thread Patrick Olson
On 21 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add 'REPORT CONNECT' to your chatscript and call chat with '-r /etc/ppp/report' and the 'CONNECT' string reported by your modem will appear in /etc/ppp/report. Add 'X4' to your modem init string and it will report the connect speed. I tried this and

Re: ppp connection speed

1998-08-06 Thread Marsh Ray
Try putting the 'REPORT CONNECT' at the beginning? - Marsh /usr/sbin/chat -v -r /home/patricko/speed \ TIMEOUT 60 \ ABORT '\nBUSY\r' \ ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r'\

xfstt 0.9.9-5 is not serving for some reason.

1998-08-06 Thread Christopher Barry
Hi all, I recently grabbed the latest xfstt from Slink and I removed the old xfstt first before upgrading (maybe this is where I went wrong). Anyways, the new xfstt installed without giving any error messages but when I started X and Netscape, Netscape was no longer using truetype fonts and I

update of message about debian on toshiba laptop

1998-08-06 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I forgot to mention that I also tried to boot using the images: resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-fast.bin. No one of those worked. I always have a rebooted laptop. Thanks a lot, Giuseppe Sacco -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: AlphaServer AS800 5/400

1998-08-06 Thread Anders Hammarquist
Hello, I would lke to know if I can install the Debian Linux distribution on an AlphaServer AS800 5/400 (the processor isa DECChip 21164A-2). Yes, you can. There is a port to the alpha (it's not part of Hamm/2.0, but we hope to have it ready for Slink/2.1) availabe in dists/unstable. The AS800

Re: xfstt 0.9.9-5 is not serving for some reason.

1998-08-06 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: : I recently grabbed the latest xfstt from Slink and I removed the old : xfstt first before upgrading (maybe this is where I went wrong). : Anyways, the new xfstt installed without giving any error messages but : when I started X and Netscape,

Re: xfstt 0.9.9-5 is not serving for some reason.

1998-08-06 Thread Christopher Barry
Adding FontPath unix/:7101 solved the problem. I don't know why the xfstt installation doesn't put this in there for you automatically, or at least tell you to do it after adding ttf fonts to the proper directory, but it should. Also, why the switch to unix/:7101? Because unix/:7100 conflicts with

Re: daily thinkpad 770 ed post :-)

1998-08-06 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : At around Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:15:20 +0900, : I may have mentioned: : : [discussion about installing debian on a thinkpad 770 ed snipped] : : i just realized that i'd been using a 2.0.35 zimage on a 2.0.34 rescue : disk...perhaps this was the

Re: xfstt 0.9.9-5 is not serving for some reason.

1998-08-06 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: : Adding FontPath unix/:7101 solved the problem. I don't know why the : xfstt installation doesn't put this in there for you automatically, or at : least tell you to do it after adding ttf fonts to the proper directory, : but it should. Also, why

Re: samba: encrypted passwords

1998-08-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:50:26 +1000 (EST) Chris writes: Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to configure samba to do the following: - Accept unencrypted login passwords - Update the smbpasswd file by encrypting unencrypted passwords - Accept enrypted passwords that are in the smbpasswd

Re: [Debian]: Wann kommt die Debian 2.0 - CD

1998-08-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 12:53:21PM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 5 Aug 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: | | Please: This is an englisch speaking mailing list. Thanks, | | Some German on the list and even other languages contribute to the variety | on

Re: Colors

1998-08-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 11:45:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote: In your .bash_profile or similar, enter a line like: PS1=^V[[33;1m This is my prompt I think you have to make bash know that those are not really printed characters, or you may get problems with line breaking, deletion of characters

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