XF86SETUP VS NEOMAGIC

1998-12-03 Thread barreno_e
12/03/98 02:07 PM Eduardo Barrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Me han dejado un portatil Digital y tras instalarle debian en una partición y tal y tal, me he puesto a configurarle las Xwindow. Mi problema surge al elegir la tarjeta de video (neomagic laptop desktop y su puto top) que parece ser es solo

Re: Imágen en GUI Tcl/Tk

1998-12-03 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Hola a todos, Estoy realizando una GUI en Tcl/Tk y lo más sencillo supongo, que es que aparezca en el panel de entrada al programa: | | Boton1| | |- | |

Re: Becoming a Debian Developer...

1998-12-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 04:40:55PM +0100, Ibañez Palomar Juan David wrote: He pensado que la forma más sencilla de incorporarme al proyecto Debian seria enpezar manteniendo algun paquete ya creado. Lo que quisiera saber es si alguno de vosotros quiere desprenderse de algun paquete y ser mi

Mensaje mosqueante.

1998-12-03 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, cuando entro como root, en la xconsole observo que al lanzar programas (no con todos pero si con muchos) me aparece el mensaje mosqueante: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 ¿qué pasa? Gracias. Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Barras de scroll feas en xconsole

1998-12-03 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Ayer hice limpieza en el disco duro y todo ha ido bien pero un pequeño detalle no me mola: las barras de scroll de la xconsole no aparecen como debieran sino como rectángulo de puntitos. ¿qué no debería haber quitado? Gracias Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

¿Error en arranque?

1998-12-03 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Al hacer un dmesg me aparece: TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsoleted, ignored. ¿qué significa esto? Gracias. Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mensaje mosqueante.

1998-12-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:20:07PM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Hola a todos, cuando entro como root, en la xconsole observo que al lanzar programas (no con todos pero si con muchos) me aparece el mensaje mosqueante: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 en /etc/conf.modules

Re: Barras de scroll feas en xconsole

1998-12-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:22:57PM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Ayer hice limpieza en el disco duro y todo ha ido bien pero un pequeño detalle no me mola: las barras de scroll de la xconsole no aparecen como debieran sino como rectángulo de puntitos. Que es como debieran?

Re: ¿Error en arranque?

1998-12-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:27:16PM +, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Al hacer un dmesg me aparece: TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsoleted, ignored. Que estas corriendo un kernel 2.1.x; o arreglas /etc/rc.boot/0setserial y le quitas el wild interrupt initialization, o ignoras el mensaje... quitas

Re: Netscape Calendar Server for Linux

1998-12-03 Thread Robert Claeson
Kent West wrote: My hope is that one of you know where I might can get a Linux version of Netscape Calendar Server so I can preserve my current Debian box. Netscape is apparently porting the server products to Linux, but I don't think that there's anything available yet. /Robert

Linux Expertise in London?

1998-12-03 Thread Ed Slocomb
Hello. I'm thinking of setting up a linux box for my mother :) My mother, you see, has a small business based in Chicago, with several tiny branch offices in the US, and a tiny branch office in London. Said tiny branch office has four or five workers in it using windows, and they would like

Re: ANSI Color Escapes in $PS1.. heh.

1998-12-03 Thread stick
Ryan King said I don't quite get it... I tried replacing my \e's with ^['s and surrounding all escapes with /[/] pairs, and it wouldn't work at all (just the source were displayed.. IE the same as typing `echo $PS1`) I'm sorry. I wasn't as clear as I should have been. the two-char ^[ was

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: [...] When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get root's correct path. Are you sure that

Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

1998-12-03 Thread Jan Krupa
I have Pentium II, 512 Mb RAM, Linux debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.36 I need quite big swap, so I created 7 swap partitions hda3,hda5,...,hda10, as seen below: /dev/hda1 *11 420 3175168+ 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 421 421 438 1360806 DOS 16-bit =32M

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alrighty. I got it to work thanks everyone for your support. Now though, All the programs are too big for the screen. I have to move the mouse to the top of the screen to have it roll. Is there a way to change this. I think the X program is the one that simulates Win 95. Thanks.

Re: Configuring X

1998-12-03 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Well, can you change increase the screen resolution? If not.well, then you might have to customize a little, or use options when calling programs. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else

my apt problem

1998-12-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
My thanks to those who helped with my bash problem. Here is my only other real problem. apt-get used to work, but now all I get is: elm# apt-get upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Re: Missing file error

1998-12-03 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Hello: On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:36:20PM -0800, Curt Howland wrote: After getting hacked over the holidays, I decided to upgrade to slink. I'm getting the following error: Setting up e2fsprogs (1.12-4) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file

Re: .bash_profile not being processed

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Beattie
[...] Are you sure that /bin/bash is your login shell for root and not /bin/sh? Doh! Blush. What can I say? Thanks, that certainly clears that problem. The situation did not arise until I installed a 2.1.x kernel in mid November. At home I rarely reboot and I leave root logged

Re: Joeseph Hartmann Netscape

1998-12-03 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Joe, I read somewhere when you get the tarball (communicator-v407...tgz) file from the netscape ftp site. Then you copy that file to /tmp and then you run dpkg -i pathname/netscape.deb (the netscape install package) and it should work... I'm trying it now :) E-mail me if I can help you,

Re: Partition Magic 4.0

1998-12-03 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've used it on my own system. I backed up first and it was a good thing. PM 4.00 messed up my two logical ext2 partitons and made them fat32 extended. That is, it made /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 into /dev/hda5(windows) Not good. - --Ian On Mon, 30 Nov 1998,

Re: Optical Jukebox support in Linux

1998-12-03 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Jay Barbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I was wondering if Linux (kernel and tools) had the ability to control an optical jukebox. The box in question is an HP OEM that has 144 slots to ... Anybody have any experience with this or could point me in a direction to get some help? there is a

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-03 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: I have noticed that Debian rolls unstable to frozen and then to stable in its release cycle. In order to more accurately reflect reality, I suggest that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call this broken. A release

Glossary and Nomenclature generation (LaTeX)

1998-12-03 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, Please could someone inform me as to the 'standard' way of generating glossary and nomenclature entries within a latex document Thanks in Advance --- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering,

Re: superformat:floppy not transferable?

1998-12-03 Thread David McDonald
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: I am using Debian 2 Linux, installed recently. The new version has superformat instead of fdformat. I am able to use superformat to format floppy disks ( superformat /dev/fd0 ) and use the disks, but I am unable to mount the disk

Re: Missing file error

1998-12-03 Thread Curt Howland
After getting hacked over the holidays, I decided to upgrade to slink. I'm getting the following error: Setting up e2fsprogs (1.12-4) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file r directoryg There's nothing in that directory but one link

Re: Missing file error

1998-12-03 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 09:05 PM 12/2/98 -0800, Curt Howland wrote: After getting hacked over the holidays, I decided to upgrade to slink. I'm getting the following error: Setting up e2fsprogs (1.12-4) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such file r directoryg

Multiport Ethernet Cards

1998-12-03 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I'm looking around for an efficient, not to expensive, 10/100 BT Ethernet adapter with 4 ports. I currently have an 2 SMC 9334BDT/SC in a Debian 2.0(2.0.34) machine using the 'Tulip' driver. I really want to put 3-4 port cards in a mojo machine (12 network interfaces), and am looking at the

Re: Missing file error

1998-12-03 Thread David McDonald
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Curt Howland wrote: Many thanks, but... # dpkg -S /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 dpkg: /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 not found. Anyone else want to take a stab at it? There are several packages that will not install due to this error...

Re: my apt problem

1998-12-03 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: My thanks to those who helped with my bash problem. Here is my only other real problem. apt-get used to work, but now all I get is: elm# apt-get upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 0 packages upgraded,

masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
Hi ! I have an old pentium 90 here with 32 mb physical mem on it and I am planning to use it as an IP Masquerading server / DNS caching only server and Mail server with a *.ml.org (as soon as they recover) for our group of 20 users and 9 winblows boxes. I already have this kind of server

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote: Hi ! I have an old pentium 90 here with 32 mb physical mem on it and I am planning to use it as an IP Masquerading server / DNS caching only server and Mail server with a *.ml.org (as soon as they recover) for our group of 20 users and 9

using apt to upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0

1998-12-03 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade up to now. I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0. I have been unsuccessful up to now but maybe it is just my ignorance. The problems I am encountering are

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-03 Thread Joe Emenaker
... I suggest that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call this broken. [ snip ] Witness a post of mine on Monday: Upgraded to unstable, now unstable ;-) Well, it has always caused a little confusion (for me and the others that I have introduced to Debian) that

Re: using apt to upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0

1998-12-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Carlo U. Segre wrote: Hello All: I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade up to now. I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0. I have been unsuccessful up to now but maybe it is just my

Re: Glossary and Nomenclature generation (LaTeX)

1998-12-03 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Hi, |Please could someone inform me as to the 'standard' way of generating | glossary and nomenclature entries within a latex document LaTeX has \makeglossary and \glossary{...} which are equivalent to \makeindex and \index{...}. Could this be what you

Re: ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot

1998-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Frankie wrote: HTML code - please don't; it's a pain in the neck for ordinary mailreaders. I cannot get linux to boot from my HDD, which comes up as hde. I altered the entries in my fstab when I upgraded my computer. /etc/fstab has nothing to do with booting; its job is to tabulate which

printing from netscape

1998-12-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is it possible to print the page that you are displaying in netscape? When I try to do so I get the messag lpr:stdin: empty. I generally use lynx so am not very familiar with netscape. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Logitech TrackMan Maple+

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Wahl
Good morning, Can somebody help me with the installation of a Logitech TrackMan Maple+? I’ve made a first time installation and as XFree86 tried to configure it the system broke down (have to push the red button). Have a nice day. Michael -- What is this hell you’ve but me through ? --

Re: Installation on IBM ThinkPad 380XD

1998-12-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Tecras and other notebooks -- (Many thanks to Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this explanation) Tecras and other notebooks, and some PCs have a problem where they fail to flush the cache when switching on

Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Wahl
Hello, Please help me for the right understanding: the /root contains only the kernel and the device drivers, the /home is the working area / space for the user (with space for store of their own data?), the /usr is the main area comparable to WINDOWS PROGRAMMS, /var for printer,

Installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes?

1998-12-03 Thread Swee Keat Sng
Hi Does anyone know how I can go abt installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes such as Redhat? == .Keat. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

1998-12-03 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- Please help me for the right understanding: - the /root contains only the kernel and the device drivers, nope; /root is home directory for user root (privileged user, admin) /boot contains boot files - kerneli image etc; modules are in /lib/modules/{kernel version/* - the /home is the

Re: Installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes?

1998-12-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 00:43:20 -0800, Swee Keat Sng wrote: Does anyone know how I can go abt installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes such as Redhat? Use Alien (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/). Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted. Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero.

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be deleted. Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach

RE: beginner: mouse jitters

1998-12-03 Thread indeed
I am trying to get the mouse running on an NEC powermate 486 sx-25 i. When installing the mouse driver from floppy, a message says, No module parameters. Depends on misc.o and the driver installation usually fails. When the driver does install and I run vgacardgames

Re: My binaries won't run

1998-12-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Is it possible that the current directory isn't in your PATH. Try $ ./mytest You can see the search path with $ echo $PATH and add current dir to it with $ export PATH=$PATH:. Even better, add ~/bin to your PATH and make sure newly compiled programs are stored in ~/bin. Having

Re: Name suggestion

1998-12-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I think it should go broken - unstable - frozen - stable. It would seem to me that unstable - broken represents a backwards move. I disagree. The unstable distribution is not necessarily broken. The frozen distribution _is_ broken most of the time, otherwise it would be the stable one; the

Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

1998-12-03 Thread Joe Emenaker
Maybe they could get a question like do you want to get rid of YYY too? It was installed only for supporting XXX but may be useful on its own. Uh... I think I mentioned this a few days ago. So... I guess my vote would be... yes. I'm all for it. I guess the thing I was mostly suggesting was a

Expect script for Del key under pico/pine.

1998-12-03 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all, I am using the folowing method to correct the work of the keys backspace and delete under pine/pico: [latt-s:~] alias |grep pico pico/home/danieldf/bin/pico-pine.fix pico -e -k pine/home/danieldf/bin/pico-pine.fix pine

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Wahl
So, I make a guess: For my first time installation: 1.7GB hard disk, 98MB RAM -NT40, Win95 (I’m not sure about this) -Staroffice -ME10, ProE (CAD Software) -Excel -Neoplanet (Net Browser) -CorelDraw7 -Some Games (WingCommander,

Re: Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

1998-12-03 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Maybe you can find this useful: Adrian Bridgett wrote: Linux can per default only handle swap-partitions = 128 MB The latest 2.1 kernels raise this to just shy of 2GB :-) You will need a new version of util-linux which I am about to do an NMU of - util-linux-2.9e-0.1 will be the name.

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Wahl
So, I make a guess: For my first time installation: 1.7GB hard disk, 98MB RAM -NT40, Win95 (I’m not sure about this) -Staroffice -ME10, ProE (CAD Software) -Excel -Neoplanet (Net Browser) -CorelDraw7 -Some Games (WingCommander,

Re: Interesting Problem (PCMCIA ethernet and modem)

1998-12-03 Thread Nathan Myers
Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After some struggles I was able to install a PCMCIA ethernet card. It is working wonderfully. Unfortunately intslling it affected my modem card. Now when I dial using the modem it makes a connection but I can no longer telnet of ping outside. I changed my

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Erik Maxwell
At 02:10 AM 12/3/98 PST, Michael Wahl wrote: So, I make a guess: For my first time installation: 1.7GB hard disk, 98MB RAM -NT40, Win95 (I’m not sure about this) -Staroffice -ME10, ProE (CAD Software) -Excel -Neoplanet (Net Browser) -CorelDraw7

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
So, I make a guess: For my first time installation: 1.7GB hard disk, 98MB RAM -NT40, Win95 (I’m not sure about this) -Staroffice -ME10, ProE (CAD Software) -Excel -Neoplanet (Net Browser) -CorelDraw7 -Some Games (WingCommander,

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: modem or something ... no problem. Your concern is going to be with disk space. If users leave their pop3 mail in the server, mail files can grow quite large. This is particularly true at Christmastime here in the US where Windows users have a fondness

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-03 Thread David Randall
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I see no upgrade notes for slink. That's right, it is not released yet. For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in .../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote: [snip] I decided to partition my hard disk into: /boot 50MB about 2-3 would have done. I left mine on / . The main reason you'd separate it is to have it under the 540MB limit/1024 Cylinder limit on some old BIOS's.

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Joseph Hartmann
I have run linux for years with just a linux native partition as big as I can make it, and a linux swap (= 2x my ram size) with no problem. I believe your approach is some kind of protection for runaway events, but in four years I have had no such event. I think the partitioning is not necessary,

Re: Interesting Problem (PCMCIA ethernet and modem)

1998-12-03 Thread wb2oyc
After some struggles I was able to install a PCMCIA ethernet card. It is working wonderfully. Unfortunately intslling it affected my modem card. Now when I dial using the modem it makes a connection but I can no longer telnet of ping outside. I changed my /etc/init.d/networks file to the old

sudo doesn't ask for passwd

1998-12-03 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi I filed a bugreport on this a while ago, but I seem to be the only one with this problem :( well ... I updated now to potato hoping it'll go away, but I had no luck. ok what does actually happen in detail: sudo -s throws me right into rootshell without prompting for a passwd. I am in the

Win95 - ghostscript (font problem)

1998-12-03 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, I wrote: I want to print from Win95 apps (Word97) into GhostScript, and thence into mgetty+sendfax. What would be the best printer driver to use in Win95, please? and someone suggested I download the driver from the Adobe site. I did that, but now I have a new problem: if I tell the

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Wahl wrote: I decided to partition my hard disk into: /boot 50MB /home 50MB (maybe more) /root 50MB /var150MB (maybe more) /usr700MB /etc50MB /swap 128MB

Unused libs for deletion?

1998-12-03 Thread Gunnar . Isaksson
Is there some script I can use to find out which installed packages aren't used by other packages. It's about time for me to get rid of all the unused libraries that has been installed when testing various games and other stuff. I need some simple way to list all such deletion candidates. Is

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 06:10:44 -0500, David Randall wrote: Here are the broken packages: size broken Next unbroken release 93182 libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-1.deb ??? libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2, which should be on most mirrors by now has been recompiled with the fixed libc6.

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 10:59:35PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: That P166 with 64MB is severe overkill for a mail/DNS/firewall. You don't need anywhere near that kind of CPU. Most of your time is going to be spent waiting for the next network packet. Do I hear idle CPU time? Do I hear

Re: masq server hardware req's

1998-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 12:06:10AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Sorry for the dig, but Only in America America has nothing to do with it. Only in the net-idiot land of Gatesville and Windowstown. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my

suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I want my users to be able to execute this script: #!/bin/bash /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 /etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm start The problem is that these programs need root's privileges. I've suid the script root:root but still the programs say I don't have he right

kde and jpeglib6a

1998-12-03 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi I am trying to install kde on debian 2.0. When configuring kdelibs it returns an error Tou need jpeglib6a. Please install the kdesupport package kdesupport is just a collection of standard libraries not anything specific to kde so I would rather use .debs to install these. I have

Re: Installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes?

1998-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: Alien can convert .deb packages to .rpm or you can install dpkg on the Red Hat system. Be careful if you do this because rpm and dpkg will be unaware of each other and one could clobber the other if you remove packages. Hm, that's not accurate. Once a package is converted

Remote backup

1998-12-03 Thread Stef Hoesli Wiederwald
I want to make a backup from one machine directly into a tar file on another machine. How could I do that? I'm thinking about something like: tar -c / | rcp ... Stef

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi! | | I want my users to be able to execute this script: | | #!/bin/bash | /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 | /etc/init.d/gpm stop | /etc/init.d/gpm start | | The problem is that these programs need root's privileges. I've | suid the script

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread dpk
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I want my users to be able to execute this script: #!/bin/bash /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 /etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm start The problem is that these programs need root's privileges. I've suid the

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 01:01:26PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! I want my users to be able to execute this script: #!/bin/bash /sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 /etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm start The problem is that these programs need root's privileges. I've suid the

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 3 Dec 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I want my users to be able to execute this script: | The problem is that these programs need root's privileges. I've | suid the script root:root but still the programs say I don't have he right |

Installation woes

1998-12-03 Thread Tom Anzalone
I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and did receive some messages back but was unable to read them. So I will try this again. (Thanks to everyone that did reply) I have tried to install Debian numerous times on my machine: P133, 128meg, 8.4 ide, 2.5 ide (install

Re: sudo doesn't ask for passwd

1998-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
Alexander N. Benner wrote: I filed a bugreport on this a while ago, but I seem to be the only one with this problem :( well ... I updated now to potato hoping it'll go away, but I had no luck. ok what does actually happen in detail: sudo -s throws me right into rootshell without

Upgrading from Red Hat to Debian

1998-12-03 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, Is there a way to install Debian 2.0 over an existing Red Hat 5.1 system without destroying the /usr directory. Ideally I would just like to upgrade not reinstall. Red Hat has a nice install, but too much bull. I have 240MB HD and none of it is microsoft it all Linux now. My Debian is on

Re: suid script

1998-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
Brandon Mitchell wrote: Scripts are not allowed to set UID, it's a security feature. I don't know where this occurs, but it's pretty low level, perhaps in the kernel itself or in the shell, and there's no getting around it. There are just too many holes that allowing scripts to be setuid

Re: superformat:floppy not transferable?

1998-12-03 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Thank you for your suggestion. In my case, I discovered that when I form the ext2 file system on the floppy if I use mke2fs /dev/fd0 I get the problem of transferability, but if I use, after superformat /dev/fd0 hd, mke2fs /dev/fd0 1440 the problem disappears. So at least in my case, the

HELP: jikes libstdc++.so.2.8 probs

1998-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i solved the problems with dselect and apt thank to the foobar_debs.tar.gz package but my favourite java compiler reports the same problem... jikes: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info what can i do to get this solved?

Re: Installation on IBM ThinkPad 380XD

1998-12-03 Thread pat
Hi, you've sent shortly in debian-user the followin tip. i'd like to include it in LTT, the Linux Tips and Tricks page at http://www.patoche.org/LTT so i'm asking your permission to do so. thanks in advance. Le 03-Dec-98, Manoj Srivastava a pris ses électrons pour écrire: Hi, Tecras and

Adding menu items in WindowMaker

1998-12-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I'd like to add a new submenu to the WindowMaker main pop-up menu called RemoteHosts and each item in that menu would be of the form: xterm -e ssh remote host It took me a while, but I figured out how to do this the Debian Way(TM) under fvwm2 by using the ~/.fvwm2/main-menu.hook file. I can't

Re: Installation woes

1998-12-03 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tom Anzalone wrote: I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and did receive some messages back but was unable to read them. So I will try this again. (Thanks to everyone that did reply) I have tried to install Debian numerous times on my machine:

Re: Multiport Ethernet Cards

1998-12-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, I can tell you that I managed to get the Adaptec ANA-6922A/TX working (2-port version of this card?). I did have to modify the latest tulip driver to get it to work though. Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I'm looking around for an efficient, not to expensive, 10/100 BT Ethernet adapter

Re: Installation woes

1998-12-03 Thread Tom Anzalone
Kent, Thanks for the reply. I did intially partition the drive using Opendos 7.2 fdisk program. I will try using Linux's fdisk this time and let you know how it works. Thanks, Tom Date sent: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:23:06 -0600 (CST) From: Kent West [EMAIL

proxy ftp software ?

1998-12-03 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
is there a package to create a proxy ftp server ? -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze -

Re: Remote backup

1998-12-03 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: I want to make a backup from one machine directly into a tar file on another machine. How could I do that? I'm thinking about something like: tar -c / | rcp ... You'll have to did for more details (i.e. how tar accompishes this), but if you

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
to add to the mess: I have three smaller disks, a 320mb, and two 500mb's, one of which is scsi. The 320mb is /dev/hda and is partitioned as 32mb swap, rest is /. The 500mb scsi is mounted as /usr, and the 500mb /dev/hdb is mounted as /usr/local. Weird maybe, but I had some special needs.

Re: Adding menu items in WindowMaker

1998-12-03 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 3 Dec 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: I'd like to add a new submenu to the WindowMaker main pop-up menu called RemoteHosts and each item in that menu would be of the form: xterm -e ssh remote host What I did is: Create my own menu with my customizations.. Somewhere in that menu I created

Re: [Re: php 3.0.5 needs apache_common_1.3.3!!]

1998-12-03 Thread James Ryan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Dec 1998, James Ryan wrote: 1) I am in the US, the apache-common is a non-us package. Is it legal for me to use it. I thought that SSLEAY was legal worldwide. There is a current apache-common in slink/main 2) Where can I find the

Unix book

1998-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could someone recommend a good Unix/ Linux book to learn the ins and outs of the system? It seems that the O'Reilly publishers seem to publish some good stuff. I've really enjoyed the Learning GNU Emacs and C++. Thanks. Also, with dselect how do I download more packages without downloading

Re: Adding menu items in WindowMaker

1998-12-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:03:30AM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote: What I did is: Create my own menu with my customizations.. Somewhere in that menu I created an external menu pointing too menu.hook. It's kinda kludgy, but it works. If you figure out how to embed menu.hook, please let me

gnome-core dependencies ?

1998-12-03 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, today I tried a download of the gnome-packages (0.30-2). But I can't figure out how to solve the dependency problems of gnome-core. The dpkg packaging tool tells me that gnome-core (and so on libgtkxmhtml0) depends libgnome0_0.30.1-3.deb; But where can I get it ? dpkg-Output: --

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-03 Thread tko
Eugene Sevinian writes: Hi all, I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, however I will try to discribe the problem shortly. At the very initial stage of communication chat script is getting NO CARRIER and exit. At the

Re: using apt to upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0

1998-12-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 12:55:09AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade up to now. I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0. I have been unsuccessful up to now but maybe it is

Re: Adding menu items in WindowMaker

1998-12-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:03:30AM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote: | | What I did is: | | Create my own menu with my customizations.. | Somewhere in that menu I created an external menu pointing too | menu.hook. | | It's kinda kludgy, but it

Re: SB AWE32 PnP, no midi

1998-12-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Matt, did you read my Soundblaster-AWE mini Howto? Please check my homepage below for a copy of it. On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:12:02AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: bash-2.01$ cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Mon Oct 26 11:42:24 CST 1998 root, Linux crh3019.urh.uiuc.edu 2.0.35

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