Re: Distribucion mixta

1998-12-09 Thread Lord Of Linux
Bueno , yo creo que si se puede hacer Yo solo quiero usar el xserver de openlinux unicamente y el 95 % debian Para poder trabajar bien Yo casi lo logre solo me falto un pequeno detallado el dselect no me corria decia que no era ejecutable cuande le dije chmod +a+x dselect Chao Lord of linux

Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0

1998-12-09 Thread Melkor
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Juanmi Mora wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Melkor wrote: Yo he instalado esa version, para probarla (estoy muy agusto con Gnome, pese a que todavia tiene muchos problemas) y no tengo los problemas que dices. Debe de ser un error en la instalacion. Prueba a

compilación kernel

1998-12-09 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Resulta que si ejecuto el make-kpkg con un kernel que haya instalado en formato *.deb, todo me va de maravillas. Pero si instalo uno, de los típicos, en formato tar.gz, no puedo compilarlo y hacer paquete con el make-kpkg. ¿Qué tendría que hacer para poder hacerlo? Gracias por todo. --

Programacion en C

1998-12-09 Thread Marcelino Valles
Hola, Me encanta el lenguaje de programación C y ahora me gustaria usarlo con Debian. 1) ¿Puede alguien decirme si existe algun entorno de desarrollo de aplicaciones en C.? 2) ¿Que otros entornos de desarrollo existen? Gracias a todos.

make-kpkg 2

1998-12-09 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. He destarado ;-) el kernel 2.0.36, y le he copiado los directorios y archivos debian/ y stamp-x que me aparecen con el kernel 34 de la distribución. Hago el make-kpkg --revision x kernel_image y todo parece ir bien, excepto al final, que me dice ésto. dpkg-gencontrol

Re: Distribucion mixta

1998-12-09 Thread TooManySecrets
Lord Of Linux el día Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 07:54:16PM -0800 expuso lo siguiente: Bueno , yo creo que si se puede hacer Yo solo quiero usar el xserver de openlinux unicamente y el 95 % debian Para poder trabajar bien Siendo así no creo que tengas ningún tipo de problema. Otra cosa es que, tal y

Re: make-kpkg 2

1998-12-09 Thread Agustín Martín
TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas. He destarado ;-) el kernel 2.0.36, y le he copiado los directorios y archivos debian/ y stamp-x que me aparecen con el kernel 34 de la distribución. Hago el make-kpkg --revision x kernel_image y todo parece ir bien, excepto al final, que me dice ésto.

RE: Programacion en C

1998-12-09 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Agustín Martín dijo: Me encanta el lenguaje de programación C ... ¡A mi tambien!. 1) ¿Puede alguien decirme si existe algun entorno de desarrollo de aplicaciones en C.? ENTORNOS INTEGRADOS DEDESARROLLO: *A modo DOS/Borland: xwpe, realmente bueno. *A modo UNIX: emacs, de lo más flexible y

Re: Programacion en C

1998-12-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[Mira la respuesta de Javier para algo mas civilizado -- la pregunta es demasiado tentadora como para dejarla pasar] On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 10:43:43AM +0100, Marcelino Valles wrote: 1) ¿Puede alguien decirme si existe algun entorno de desarrollo de aplicaciones en C.? El mas absolutamente

Linux Actual .... y un poco de comodidad

1998-12-09 Thread Carlos Sosa Gonzalez
Primero que nada dar las gracias por leer este misero mensaje ;) Resulta que anoche mismito me pelee con los paquetes rpm de KDE que tenia en un CDACTUAL (num:27)... Todo funciona prefe. Tengo la Debian 2.0 (hamm), y quisiera saber si alguien sabe donde puedo encontrar el

RE: StarOffice

1998-12-09 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola, alguien puede decirme dónde puedo encontrar el StarOffice 5, bien sea para bajarlo con ftp, o mejor si es publicado en alguna revista. En mi página web dedicada a Linux: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/linux_home.html sección noticias, indico dónde está StarOffice 5.0 en un sitio ftp

Linux actual y la madre que la...

1998-12-09 Thread Juan_Carlos_Valero
Ante todo perdón por el off-topic... Soy subscriptor de Linux Actual y me encuentro que me llegan los numeros de 3 semanas a mes y medio despues de haber salido a la venta... e incluso los dos meses de retardo. Vivo cerca de barcelona y no tengo problemas con otras publicaciones. ¿ Hay mas

RE: Linux actual y la madre que la...

1998-12-09 Thread jarregui
A mí me pasa parecido. Todas me llegan con unas 3 semanas de retraso, excepto el número 3, que no me llegó en mes y medio. Llamé, me quejé, y me enviaron otro ejemplar que me llegó en 15 días. Cuando me llegó, tenía el CD medio partido, y no iba. Llamé, se lo mandé por correo para que me lo

Distribucion mixta (cont)

1998-12-09 Thread Lord Of Linux
TooManySecrets Tengo dos distribuciones actualmente debian y openlinux. Cuando instale Debian el xserve me daba falla no me permitia usar los 16 bpp solo me trabaja con 8 bpp y me lo reconocia como una SVGA cuando en realidad era una S3V Asi que decidi usar mi viejo xserve que me trabajaba

Driver para Syquest

1998-12-09 Thread Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino
Hola Alguien sabe si existen y donde puedo bajar los drivers para el systema de backups Syquest EZflyer ? Gracias Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes Santafe de Bogota, Colombia

Re: make-kpkg 2

1998-12-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:04:50PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote: Buenas. He destarado ;-) el kernel 2.0.36, y le he copiado los directorios y archivos debian/ y stamp-x que me aparecen con el kernel 34 de la distribución. Hago el make-kpkg --revision x kernel_image y todo parece ir bien,

Programacion en C - info.

1998-12-09 Thread Carlos Costa Portela
¡Hola a todos! En vista de los últimos mails que se han visto en las listas de linux, os hago llegar esta info que quizá os pueda ser de interés. Estoy poniendo en marcha una página sobre el lenguaje c en http://ccp.servidores.net/c Preparado para recibir sugerencias, críticas, info,... Un

Re: Programacion en C

1998-12-09 Thread Alfredo Casademunt
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: ... DEPURADORES: *ddd, realmente espectacular, lo mejor que he visto nunca. Si tu programa es C++, flipa con la depuración de objetos en forma gráfica (herencias, memoria,..). ... Al hilo de esta respuesta...¿ como puedo saber si un programa C++ libera la

Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard L. Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft

Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread Mark Weston
Hi, I've been trying my first ever Linux installation from a Debian 2.0 CD, and have run into problems which are beyond me at the moment. I'd be really grateful for some help. The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during the long series of hardware detection

Re: ssh with password

1998-12-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:48:43PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 10:52:33 -0500 AJ writes: password in the opening command.. is there a way to edit ssh so that u can type something like: ssh -l login -p password host.com ? or is there a way to specify the

Re: terminal window

1998-12-09 Thread shaul
1) I never used pppconfig but I think it strange that username/password is all it can handle. 2) Perhaps configure the chatscript by hand ? 3) xisp has the ability to open a terminal. But then again, I never needed this terminal. hello I need to open a terminal window for my dial-up ppp

exim rewriting rules

1998-12-09 Thread Daniel Elenius
I have a line in my exim.conf that rewrites my from and reply-to addresses, like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fr danel698... is my 'real' mail address, on my POP3 mail-server. I don't want people to get my [EMAIL PROTECTED], since I don't have my computer turned on all the time.

Re: finding a package name given a filename

1998-12-09 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: finding a package name given a filename Date: Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 10:41:24PM +0200 In reply to:Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho Quoting Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 03:51:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with a lot

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
Mark Phillips wrote: I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I have an email account at university and use ppp to gain dial-up access to uni. I wish to set things up so that I can receive and send email from my local machine (rather than rlogin to a uni machine to read email

Re: KDE: krdb missing! Help!

1998-12-09 Thread David Natkins
If it helps, I install kdebase out of slink last weekend. Couldn't find krdb either. I also used the locate command after doing updatedb. Nothing. David Natkins email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shutdown -r instead of reboot? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Besides, it is good practice to use shutdown -r now instead of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls the command shutdown -r now for you. Could you please explain why? Thanks. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs *

Re: What's the story on Xemacs+GPM?

1998-12-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:08:50PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: I'm aware that Xemacs has problems with GPM (if you put Xemacs to sleep while GPM is running, things turn ugly). But is it possible to use GPM to paste text into Xemacs from a different VC? And the other way around? I certainly

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:53:41AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fr Uhm, who not do that in the MUA? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my

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1998-12-09 Thread MOUHAMAD
HI HOW ARE YOU iam houssam raad from lebanon beirut i need help from you about the real player i need to hear arabic music but i can't hear non so please do so for me if you can ok thank you much by ..houssam raad

First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread KTB
#1. Ok I'm not getting very far. First of all I want to make sure I am using the right disk. I have Debian 2.0 official, both the Binary and Source disks say the same thing when I boot them up and try to install from cdrom. Can you use either, or? I went through the steps and everything

First Attempt..?

1998-12-09 Thread Anders
Well I am not sure if I really know what I am talking about, and this may be stupid, but: 1) you can't change the size? Just delete the numbers it gives you and enter '###MB' or whatever size you want to make the partition. 2) you generally want to have a smaller (50-100MB) root partition and a

Re: refused connect from 'unknown'

1998-12-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PC == Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PC I've checked, and there's no option. I've installed icmplogd and PC tcplogd which log all connection attemps to my machine. The log You should also install courtney. It did recognise a portscan of my server some time ago. Ciao, Martin

Riva TNT support (was: Re: X v3.3.3)

1998-12-09 Thread Adam J. Klein
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 10:31:32PM +1100, Chris Leishman wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:44:56PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: It would be nice to have the driver for the new Diamond AGP card ! I wonder if that could be added as another package for the version of X in slink...

Re: exim rewriting rules

1998-12-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SL [1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] SL On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:53:41AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fr SL Uhm, who not do that in the MUA? Because you don't always use a MUA when you send mails. Take the bug

Cannot access Web Page from behind firewall

1998-12-09 Thread Paul Miller
The Web Page I am trying access is www.columbiahouse.com. I try to access it from either Netscape or Lynx but both get hung up on waiting for the host to reply. This is on my machine inside my firewall. My set up is a two machine network. One is my gateway with a masquarading firewall with the

Re: Stupid Telnet question.

1998-12-09 Thread Keith Beattie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this before, but don't remember what I did to make it work. Have a remote user wanting access to a Linux system. That user used to just telnet hostname with no problem. Now they are getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: telnet 205.242.10.73 Trying

Re: First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread Andrew Ivanov
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: followed the instructions in the book. I select [New] and [Primary] then I can't change the size of the partion, it lets me make a 6149.89 MB partion but then can't go on to make a swap partion. The 6149.89 MB is my whole HD so maybe that is why I can't make

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
Sean P. Mason wrote: I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far. I have six 386 Sx-16s with a meg of RAM and 40 megs of

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:45:07AM +1100, Richard Lyon wrote: I guess the 'real' truth is that most of the microsoft stuff is actually quite good. With the latest versions of service paks installed things are very slick on windows NT. quite good... mmmh. Certainly not for my needs, but my

wmmail problems

1998-12-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Is anyone else using wmmail with WindowMaker under slink? I'm having problems getting the NewMailExecute configuration option to function properly. In my ~/.wmmailrc file I have the following line: NewMailExecute cat /home/glhenni/lib/sounds/ugotmail.au /dev/audio This is straight out of the

Re: Suspend in XEmacs 20.4

1998-12-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 12:31:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is an ancient known bug(#20232,#20398,#23686,#22051,#20356) between xemacs and gpm. The problem has to do with xemacs support of gpm. You need to kill gpm before using xemacs on the console. Alternatively, you can

[exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I have an email account at university and use ppp to gain dial-up access to uni. I wish to set things up so that I can receive and send email from my local machine (rather than rlogin to a uni machine to read email as I do at the moment.)

FYI Re: ICQ and Other Apps over IP Masquerading

1998-12-09 Thread Guoqiang Dai
FYI http://dijon.nais.com/~nevo/masq/ The site above lists all the applications that have proven to work with ipmasq. Details have been gaven on how to make these apps work. ICQ is in Chat Program section. It seems that ipautofw is heavily used. What a sweet thing! I used to spend a lot of

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Sean P. Mason
GNU/Linux wont really make several machines act as one. Most of the clustering capabilities come from the software, which is able to divide it's work up and distribute it over several machines. This is specialized (mostly scientific) software that is not going to speed up your (for

First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread KTB
I deleted the partion but my problem is I can't make more than that one partion. When I try to change the FS Type I can't do that either. I may be wrong but it seems my keyboard is screwed up. For example when I try to make the first primary partion and it has a space to change the number of MB

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
Sean P. Mason wrote: GNU/Linux wont really make several machines act as one. Most of the clustering capabilities come from the software, which is able to divide it's work up and distribute it over several machines. This is specialized (mostly scientific) software that is not going to

Re: A few questions

1998-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:51:01PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: Now that I got X up and running, I got a few questions. 1. How do I change the color setting from 256 colors to True Color? Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config appropriately, e.g.: Section Screen Driver Accel Device

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Sean P. Mason
Are there any well known programs out there that will let me run processes distributed, or will I have to do a whole load of digging? =) I think I might just try that out, if I can manage to find the right software for it. --- Sean Mason

Re: Frame Buffer

1998-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 04:06:47PM -0600, Jeff Beley wrote: Whew, please set your wrapmargin/textwidth/whatever. 80-character lines are the norm. I've just upgraded to 2.1.130 and am expirementing the frame buffer that's built into the kernel. I've been able to use the fbset utility to set

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
Sean P. Mason wrote: Are there any well known programs out there that will let me run processes distributed, or will I have to do a whole load of digging? =) If you want to run programs on separate machines and display them on just one, then telnet and X work just fine. But if you want the

Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems

1998-12-09 Thread Mark Panzer
Alexander N. Benner wrote: hi Ship's Log, Lt. Michael Beattie, Stardate 071298.1206: A `chmod +s /usr/games/squake.real` will fix it. you should also consider running suidregister from the package suidmanager as squacke is worth being updated frequently and you want to keep the +s

Re: wmmail problems

1998-12-09 Thread David Coe
I don't use wmmail, but you might tyr using wmss (sound server) and nmaker (noise maker) to make the sounds ... I use that in other simple applications when I don't want a lot of overhead. Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Is anyone else using wmmail with WindowMaker under slink? I'm having problems

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread ±è ´ë ±Ô
I though that beowulf project, clustering PCs, and most of the effort was about such a process management. http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/ Daegyu On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 10:40:38PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: Sean P. Mason wrote: Are there any well known programs out there that

bizzare mutt behavior

1998-12-09 Thread Matt Garman
Whenever I go to compose a message in mutt, I have a problem with the d key when mutt prompts me for the to: field. I have to press d twice for mutt to accept a d in the to: field. My d key is working fine in all other situations. Also strange: I tried to copy and paste with the mouse, and

Re: First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: #1. Ok I'm not getting very far. First of all I want to make sure I am using the right disk. I have Debian 2.0 official, both the Binary and Source disks say the same thing when I boot them up and try to install from cdrom. Can you use either, or? I'm

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Sean P. Mason wrote: I was wondering. . . I have a bunch of old machines, and I was wondering if it was possible to link them all together to act as a single machine under Linux. I can't seem to find any information elsewhere thus far. I have six

Re: First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: I deleted the partion but my problem is I can't make more than that one partion. When I try to change the FS Type I can't do that either. I may be wrong but it seems my keyboard is screwed up. For example when I try to make the first primary partion and it

Re: Still clueless

1998-12-09 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Paul Baloo Johnson wrote: Ok, if someone would kindly write up a step by step procedure for configuring a Intel EtherExpress in newbie terms and make it as simply worded as possible, it would help very much on my project at school right now...(I can't figure out how to

Re: ipchains/ip_masq problems

1998-12-09 Thread rick
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:10:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what I have not done properly? Trying to do it yourself... ;) ipmasq - Initializes IP Masquerade firewalling/forwarding This package contains

lilo problem - linux on each of two drives

1998-12-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
Can lilo boot either of two linux installations , one on hda and the other on hdb? If this is possible I would appreciate any guidance. Thanks, Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8

Re: eth0: unknown interface

1998-12-09 Thread Rino Mardo
How does one have a compiled AND module driver? Where can I look to find out what other modules are being loaded? -Original Message- From: John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debby Ian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 7:24

Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread Sean P. Mason
I've taken a look at this Beowulf thing (quite new to me) and it seems a bit. . . cryptic. It doesn't really say anything that will help me out on the page. Does anyone out there use or know a lot about Beowulf? If someone does, please drop me mail so we can chat a bit =) Thanks! --- Sean

Re: very weird problem with PPP (server+client)

1998-12-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 06:09:52PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Hello Pere, Hmm, nobody replied so I will make a try. Forgive me if my answer is wrong but I am really tired (3:45 am here :) I used to have a very stable configuration for a PPP connection between two debian machines

Re: multiple X servers?

1998-12-09 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 10:04:00PM +, Preston Landers wrote: In the other user's home directory, I put an .xserverrc file with only this in it: exec X :1 -bpp 16 but unfortunately, that JUST starts the X server and no clients or window managers. It's not using the system wide

Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!

1998-12-09 Thread Rino Mardo
Thanks. Now both my 3c509 and NE2000 are working. The is the command I've been searching for (to add NICs) which eluded me for some time. The HOWTOs should really be rewritten as it is not clearly written specially for someone who has been an NT administrator for years. Now, time to prove to

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
Hi Mark, Some answers are given below. I hope they're correct; they're based on my experience in a similar situation (although my machine is behind a firewall). miket On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:00:45AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I

Re: A few questions

1998-12-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:51:01PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: Now that I got X up and running, I got a few questions. 4. If I'm idle for about 10 minutes, my screen turns black, how do I turn that off or start a screen saver? To disable blanking for the text consoles: setterm -blank 0

How to install tcl8.0.4 ?

1998-12-09 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Hi all, I have Debian 2.0 (hamm) system running and I wanted to install the new tcl8.0.4 package from frozen. It turned out that it depends on libc6 (=2.0.7u-6) -- my libc6 is older. There is libc6 2.0.7u-7 in frozen but it conflicts with libstdc++2.8 (2.90.29-2). And I can't upgrade to the new

Re: Netscape install

1998-12-09 Thread Rino Mardo
I think you should get the netscape installer. I had a similar problem and the only way to install is to use the netscape installer which can be found in binary-i386. -Original Message- From: Tamas Nyitrai [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: dselect-help!!!!!!!

1998-12-09 Thread Kent West
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Patrice Bertrand wrote: I have installed Linux on my laptop and i have now to use 'dselect' to install X and others packages. Problem : i can't find my way and i'm stuck with dselect from the beginning. I've downloaded the file 'Dselect documentation for beginners' from

Re: Latex - let me make clear

1998-12-09 Thread King Lee
How about \begin{tabbing} \xxx\\kill \Name: \Shoa Zhang\\ \Address: \Debian, org\\ \Email:\[EMAIL PROTECTED] \Health: \Excellent\\ \end{tabbing} On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, Thanks for all the kind answers about tabbing

Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

1998-12-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Hi, For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea? Yes. dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq wmaker For help on

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Martin Waller wrote: Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . I did but was still confused :( It didn't say *why* we have an apparent fork in compiler development. Since the gcc compiler is at the core of Linux (behind only the kernel itself in importance), having a semi-permanent

Re: Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package

1998-12-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mario Bertrand wrote: Hi, For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea? It would help if we saw the

Re: A few questions

1998-12-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Thomas Crulli wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:51:01PM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: 3. Where can I get netscape and what are the procedures for installing it? from dpkg description of netscape package: Netscape Communications Corporation does not allow redistribution of [snip]

Re: lilo problem - linux on each of two drives

1998-12-09 Thread Stephen T Roach
Yes. Below is a copy of a lilo.conf file. If your machine boots successfully you could ignore the disk sections. I use these because my bios can't see drives bigger than 2.1G and drive hdc is 2.5G. Good Luck, Stephen --- boot=/dev/hda delay=150 disk = /dev/hdc sectors = 63

Subject: Re: Linking Machines

1998-12-09 Thread John_Gay
I've been looking around the Beowulf sites for several days now. If you follow ALL the links, you will eventually find the useful info. Basically, Beowulf is used to enable several Linux boxes to behave as one super-computer. That's the good news. The bad news is, this is only useful if you are

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 23:48:07 GMT, Mark Weston wrote: Hi, I've been trying my first ever Linux installation from a Debian 2.0 CD, and have run into problems which are beyond me at the moment. I'd be really grateful for some help. The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux

Re: bizzare mutt behavior

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 22:12:23 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Whenever I go to compose a message in mutt, I have a problem with the d key when mutt prompts me for the to: field. You are using a recent mutt with an old muttrc. Current muttrc-s need to have .. around multi-character keynames. So

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 00:13:16 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . It didn't say *why* we have an apparent fork in compiler development. It doesn't contain a full history of the free software movement either, as that's out of scope for that document too. Since the

hacked machine ?

1998-12-09 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
HEllo, just yesterday I was logged to my debian machine from Sun solaris 2.5.1 machine using ssh; when I closed session i saw message like waiting for closing of forwarded X11 sessions from IP I checked netstat on solaris - no connection from that IP; I checked netstat on debian machine and

fetchmail daemon mode

1998-12-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, If I comment out the line set daemon 300 in the file ~/.fetchmailrc. Then my fetchmail works fine... If I run fetchmail with the above line, then id doesn't work. The process just sits there and doing nothing... Do I have to start fetchmail in a special place??

Lynx Proxy again

1998-12-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I did the following, still not working.. In netscape 4.5 I set my proxy - auto proxy - http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac, and it worked fine... so in lynx.cfg, I wrote a line: http_proxy = http://proxy2.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au/proxy.pac

Re: First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread Philip Charles
The binary CD uses the normal resc1440.bin to boot. The source CD uses the boot disk with the tecra patch Depends on what your system needs. I would suggest that one partition is OK if you are having an initial play with Linux. You will probably make several installs before you start to use

Re: First attempt

1998-12-09 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Kent; I add these lines to the rc file at /etc/init.d = # I add the following for NumLock ON by default INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8] for tty in $INITTY do setleds -D +num $tty done # eof /etc/init.d/rc

emacs xemacs

1998-12-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I can use emacs to browse the web now... But xemacs is not working... It says cannot load w3-el/w3. Any ideas?? By the way, can I use emacs to display the image(i.e. like netscape, not lynx)?? Thanks... Shao

Re: wmmail problems

1998-12-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On 8 Dec 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Is anyone else using wmmail with WindowMaker under slink? I'm having problems getting the NewMailExecute configuration option to function properly. In my ~/.wmmailrc file I have the following line: NewMailExecute cat

Toshiba Satellite - X problem

1998-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT. I've established that the chipset is CT B69000. This isn't listed in the hamm distribution. Has anyone got X to work on this machine and, if so, could they kindly provide their XF86Config file? Many thanks, Anthony -- Anthony

Re: Toshiba Satellite - X problem

1998-12-09 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi, You should use SVGA server, the chip set should be CT 6 HTH, Giuseppe Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT. I've established that the chipset is CT B69000.

Re: finding a package name given a filename

1998-12-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 03:51:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with a lot of packages is that the executable is linked from a shorter name, and the links are not part of the package but are created in the postinst scripts.

Re: Toshiba Satellite - X problem

1998-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Dec 1998q, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi, You should use SVGA server, the chip set should be CT 6 HTH, Giuseppe This is what I am using. It doesn't work; I get the message: No valid modes found. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL

Problems with make menuconfig

1998-12-09 Thread Michael Kirchner
i can't start make menuconfig. I get the errormessages: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1] *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1] Leaving directory '/usr/scr/kernel-source-2.0.34/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Does anybody knows the solutions for the problem.

Re: Toshiba Satellite - X problem

1998-12-09 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
This is usually done because a wrong monitor configuration is in use. You should check your monitor setting and the modelines (both in XF86Config) I can send you mine, if you need it. bye, Giuseppe Anthony Campbell wrote: This is what I am using. It doesn't work; I get the message:

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-09 Thread Martin Waller
Subject: Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused* To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Waller) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:30:50 +1100 (EST) Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Jiri Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Over the weekend, I downlaoded V 1.20 onto /usr/local/. Did the same last

Re: Problems with make menuconfig

1998-12-09 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:50:33 +0200, Michael Kirchner wrote: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory You need to install the ncurses-devel package. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP

Re: Problems with make menuconfig

1998-12-09 Thread Helge Hafting
i can't start make menuconfig. I get the errormessages: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1] *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1] Leaving directory '/usr/scr/kernel-source-2.0.34/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Does anybody knows the solutions for the

Re: Toshiba Satellite - X problem

1998-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Dec 1998q, Francois GELIS wrote: Francois Gelis Laboratoire de physique theorique LAPTH BP 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to get X to work on my Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT. I've established

Re: shutdown -r instead of reboot? (was Re: ack! I've hosed init

1998-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralf G. R. Bergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:33:53 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Besides, it is good practice to use shutdown -r now instead of reboot. Or just press ctrlaltdel, because then init just calls the command shutdown -r now for

Re: fetchmail daemon mode

1998-12-09 Thread graham . ashton
On 9 Dec, Shao Zhang wrote: If I comment out the line set daemon 300 in the file ~/.fetchmailrc. Then my fetchmail works fine... If I run fetchmail with the above line, then id doesn't work. The process just sits there and doing nothing... are you sure that it's not doing

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