Interfaz dpkgweb

1998-12-29 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Este fin de semana e estado preparando unas paginas web para un servidor que tengo en el trabajo, me interesaria mostrar una lista de los paquetes instalados en el mismo, para ello he escrito este script, pero como mis conocimientos son bastante limitados, me gustaria saber si alguien ha escrito

Scanner ¿USB?

1998-12-29 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Hola, Aprovechando que he sido muy bueno este año, le voy a pedir a los Reyes Magos un scanner, para aprovechar las nuevas tecnologías estaba pensando en comprar uno por puerto USB, ¿Me podeis aconsejar?. ¿Tendré problemas para usarlo bajo Linux-Debian? ¿me aconsejais mejor un scasi?.

Grabadora de CDs ¿cual?

1998-12-29 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, como decía Ignacio, yo he sido bueno este año así que le voy a pedir a los Reyes una grabadora de CDs, he estado mirando la lista de compatibilidades hardware para asesorar a sus majestades los Reyed de Oriente pero no me aclara mucho pues son muchas las que trabajan bien sobre

Re: Scanner ¿USB?

1998-12-29 Thread · Mig ·
At 15.21 29/12/98 +0100, you wrote: Hola, Aprovechando que he sido muy bueno este año, le voy a pedir a los Reyes Magos un scanner, para aprovechar las nuevas tecnologías estaba pensando en comprar uno por puerto USB, ¿Me podeis aconsejar?. ¿Tendré problemas para usarlo bajo Linux-Debian? ¿me

Re: Grabadora de CDs ¿cual?

1998-12-29 Thread · Mig ·
At 15.36 29/12/98 +0100, you wrote: Hola a todos, como decía Ignacio, yo he sido bueno este año así que le voy a pedir a los Reyes una grabadora de CDs, he estado mirando la lista de compatibilidades hardware para asesorar a sus majestades los Reyed de Oriente pero no me aclara mucho pues son

Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker

1998-12-29 Thread Juanmi Mora
Hola Lista!!! Sabe alguién donde encontrar el parche para WindowMaker que permite el cambio de contexto (de ventanas) con Alt+Tab. No me refiero al CirculateRaise. Me refiero a la forma de cambiar entre tareas como se hace en Güindos. Gracias!!! Juanmi Mora Barcelona - España [EMAIL

S3Trio3D

1998-12-29 Thread MadBit
¿Que servidor puedo usar para esta tarjeta, la S3Trio3D? Con las X que vienen en la hamm no viene nada sobre esta tarjeta (AGP). MadBit E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LLave PGP publica en: http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver ICQ#: 22515593

re: gcc / g++

1998-12-29 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Michael -- Thanks for your reply. I had not tried that. I must admit I've been a bit confused about the differences between gcc, g++, egcs, libc5 and libc6. The program I was trying to compile worked on Slackware 3.5 (libc5, I suspect) with gcc, and I seem to recall compiling it on Red

xdm (slink)

1998-12-29 Thread Sean M Hollingsworth
I am having some weirdness with the version of xdm in slink. When the package installed and did its setup, xdm started itself. I thought this was a test, like when you install the Xserver, but xdm did not then shutdown. I killed it and eventually rebooted. Now in /etc/X11/config I have

Re: Adding memory

1998-12-29 Thread Randy Edwards
I have just purchased some more memory for my machine so that i can upgrade it to 64megs. Is there anything that i need to do so that Debian will recognize it or should I just put it in and start the machine up??? Put it in (carefully!:-) and start the machine up. Linux should see it

Re: spreadsheet

1998-12-29 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: You might also look around for WingZ. Free download for Linux. If you want to be as close to Excel (for whatever reasons), I'd go with the spreadsheet in StarOffice5.0. damir On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: ApplixWare

Re: xdm (slink)

1998-12-29 Thread Brandon Mitchell
This is a bug in xdm (reported). Try removing the link in /etc/rc?.d that starts xdm. Better solution is removing xdm and installing it again when it's fixed. I'm not at my box now, so I can't give the exact answer, but I want to do the same because it seems to lock up my keyboard (another bug,

Re: Get queue full runnig lpr

1998-12-29 Thread David Natkins
I am getting the message 'queue full' when I attempt to print. How do I fix it? David Natkins email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax : (609) 896-2239

Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Tongyu Wang
The communicator 4.5 (complete install) won't run on my Debian box. I wonder maybe I did something wrong in configuration. Here is what I did: 1. login as root and download from ftp3.netscape.com 2. move the file to /tmp and gunzip and tar 3. Now I got all the files in

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote: I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. I ordered the most recent CD Cheapbytes had -- 2.0 (hamm). Booting from the CDROM fails -- the console announces that

Solved: Fujitsu Dynamo errors

1998-12-29 Thread Dion Hollenbeck
hollen writes: dion I just bought a Fujutsu DynaMO 640SE magneto optical disk and am dion having trouble getting it to work. Several people were helpful in solving this problem. First (and what I already knew) was obtaining the patches for 2048 byte sectors for the kernel (I am using

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Tongyu Wang posted here: The communicator 4.5 (complete install) won't run on my Debian box. I wonder maybe I did something wrong in configuration. Here is what I did: Did U get the libc5 or glibc2 (from the unsupported dir) variety ? where did I do wrong? Is the libc5 in my system compatible

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Tongyu Wang
I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. here is the ldd output: ldd: version 1.9.9 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000d000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40055000) libICE.so.6 =

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Tongyu Wang replied to my answer posting: I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. I am using tcsh. The $HOME is already set. here is the ldd output Please upgrade UR libc5. U have the latest version in ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/libc5_5.4.46XXX.

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-29 Thread tko
Stan Brown writes: I am having a reproducable problem with WP*. It must be a clinet side library problem, since it ccurs even on remote X servers. If you go to Format, and select Labels then select a label, and press OK WP says an X server error has occured. Popushell

Newsgroups and this mailing list

1998-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
Hi. I'm about to get a new machine and put Debian on it, and was wondering if someone could explain the relation between the Debian mailing lists and the comp.os.linux hierarchy in newgroups. My immediate practical question is which source I should use for help. My more general question is why

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote: I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. I ordered the most recent CD Cheapbytes had -- 2.0 (hamm). Booting from the CDROM fails -- the console announces

Re: xterm not found in slink

1998-12-29 Thread Gernot Bauer
Thank you Peter for your reply. Peter wrote: [snip] I dont' know, but if You are use the german mirror it could be happened try: entry in your /etc/apt/sources.list # begin of file /etc/apt/sources/list # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb

[PB] a quiet sound blaster

1998-12-29 Thread Didier Verna
[ First, thanks to everyone answered my first post ] It's amazing how my SB AWE 64 Gold can remain silent these days... So, I followed the instructions in Marcus' mini HOWTO. Everything went right, even the reboot step, but then, nothing works. Here are the symtoms: * At boot

Re: Running two mgetty's on same line

1998-12-29 Thread Tim Thomson
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, John Forest wrote: Tim Thomson wrote: I have mgetty running on my modem from inittab and it answers after 10 rings, but I've set up xringd to dialup the internet and then run mgetty. The second one complains about the first, and won't run. I would take the mgetty

Re: Setting screen back to B/W

1998-12-29 Thread Tim Thomson
On 21 Dec 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: When I set my machine up, I had a VGA screen on it, and so selected a colour install. But now I have a monochrome screen, and would like to set the terminal type back to b/w. I am running a bo system still, I see that the hamm disks define TERM to be

Re: SUCCESS: xterm not found in slink

1998-12-29 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi Peter and all the other debianeers... I figured out my problem with the X-installation: apt had stable instead of slink in its config file - I only updated part of the packages (which delsect-ftp for slink) and dselect apt grabbed the stable-package-files again :( Seems to work now (at least

Re: Web mirroring software

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Cagdas Ogut wrote: Hi all, Can anybody suggest me a tiny web mirroring software to run on debian, preferebly in *.deb format? I don't expect much, only the basic functionality. I only know about a web-fetcher, named wget. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you

Re: (null) as hostname, shell, etc.

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Have you checked out /etc/hostname and/or /etc/HOSTNAME? Somebody with local access should also be able to issue the command hostname myhostname. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me

Re: How to restore original conffiles?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Henning Makholm wrote: The short story: How do I tell dpkg to re-install the conffiles in a package, overwriting any changes I've made myself? Normally dpkg renames overwritten conffiles into conffile.dpkg-old and not installed conffiles into conffile.dpkg-dist. However I'm not sure if it also

Re: killing D processes

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Pere Camps wrote: Hi! How do I kill this processes? Reboot the machine. root 844 4.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW 14:46 0:24 (quotacheck) root 1041 0.0 0.3 744 344 ? D14:51 0:00 umount /xtd/ root 1119 0.1 0.5 868 500 ? D14:53 0:00 repquota

Re: How do I keep copies of outgoing mail?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Helge Hafting wrote: I would like to keep a copy of every outgoing message I send from work, (using exmh, nmh smail). Is there a simple way of achieving this so I won't have to cc everything to myself? I know that elm, pine and mutt provide a way to copy mail into a =sent folder. I doubt

Re: mailing list archives

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I'm writing this, the archive on www.debian.org was last updated 35 hours ago. Does anyone know of a mirror that is kept more up to date? even just a flat text file would suit me. You'll find an up-to-date archive of both lists at

Re: dpkg-multicd

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Kenneth Scharf wrote: I installed the dpkg-multicd package, but I don't see how to use it to install from multiple cd's. I have the cheap bytes cd set with main, Please refer to /user/doc/dpkg-multicd/readme.txt.gz to find out how it works. The multicd rules doesn't work on regular disks.

Re: apm - questions

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Bradley Fehr wrote: I just installed debian 2 on a laptop and I have the apm -s command working to suspend the system but, 1. I want apm -s to work for users other than root. Currently it says apm: Operation not permitted Any ideas? Use sudo or super as wrapper around it. I use super

Re: mount -r -t iso9660...-fs not supp by kernal (fwd)

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Eric Drayer wrote: currently the sugestion is to say yes to _NLS but there might be another fs that has somthing to do??? with iso9660. That's appropriate. Afaik you'll need at least one NLS and one KEYMAP (sp?) define. PS should i

Re: Web server is really good, but can't email webmaster

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Alex Perry wrote: I originally tried to send this message to the Webmaster. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3) I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long. This only reflects one webmaster, there is half a dozen of them. It is a

Re: How to use scp through a crontab

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
By the way, this issue is resolved, although I can't give you the reason. *sigh*. All I can say is that it had something to do with /etc/hosts.equiv apparently. After I removed that file scp worked as expected. Unfortunately it still worked after I re-added the local machine name in that file.

Re: Setting screen back to B/W

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Tim Thomson wrote: Hi Guys, When I set my machine up, I had a VGA screen on it, and so selected a colour install. But now I have a monochrome screen, and would like to set the terminal type back to b/w. I am running a bo system still, I see that the hamm disks define TERM to be 'linux-m'

Re: Using UPS.

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
±è ´ë ±Ô wrote: I like to know if there is any way of making a machine to start the shutdown process automatically when (may be after some minutes) it gets the power from a UPS? There are several UPS's that are supported by free software. Please take a look into the

Re: StarOffice 3.1 setup

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephen Turner wrote: I'm trying to install StarOffice 3.1. I used the installation package in contrib/editors. That bit seemed OK. But when I run /usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup (or the file it points to inside the Linux subdirectory) as a user, I get StarOffice 3.1 Installation Tool

Re: Upgrade to slink

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, I am thinking about upgrading from hamm to slink via modem. But I am not sure how to do it.. Could someone please point me out some documents to read or give me some suggestions? Use apt-get upgrade-dist (or upgrade dist), there is an option for it.

Re: Mutt and PGP folders?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Erik van der Meulen wrote: After all the praise here for the Mutt mail client, I decided to give it a try and upgraded from elm. Now after a week I do not know if I can do without! Wonderful stuff. Hee hee. It has so many possibilities that it makes me hungry for more. I would really like

Re: aol.com not blocked anymore? (was Re: just a test - please ignore)

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you read this, I suppose that block has been lifted (maybe just in my case?). IMHO, blocking AOL is a BAD idea - I can understand the need to That's correct, I added your address to the list of valid ones just after I saw the first of your mail which indeed

Re: power outage now linux problem

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
AJ wrote: ok the power in my house just went out and when linux tries to boot it goes and checks my inodes and junk and then gets to a part and says: Problem: block on freelist at 06fbbc90 isnt free over adn over and doesnt boot it lets me type but i have no clue what to do.. I'd try to

Re: getty source

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Eugene Sevinian wrote: Hi, where can I find the source of (a)getty? It's in the util-linux package Regards, Joey PS: dpkg -S /sbin/getty tells you. -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me when

Re: Logitech TrackMan Maple+

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Wahl wrote: Good morning, Can somebody help me with the installation of a Logitech TrackMan Maple+? Is this a typo and should be TrackMan Marble? If so this is my Pointer section in XF86config: Section Pointer ProtocolMouseMan Device /dev/ttyS0 EndSection And

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Please only refer to debian-boot@lists.debian.org in your replies. Philip Jensen wrote: I installed Debian v2.0, and after the first re-boot I am asked for a password for root. Ok, no problem so far. But, I discovered an application which runs automatically after you have logged in for the

Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

1998-12-29 Thread Gossamer
Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Hi. I'm about to get a new machine and put Debian on it, and was wondering Congratulations!! Please don't take the following as criticism, it's meant more as correcting some mis-knowledge you have. Share And Enjoy, and all that. Feel free to respond

Re: Mailing list software for non-permanent internet access?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Mario Bertrand wrote: Hi, I would like to setup a mailing list, but I don't have a permanent internet access. Is there a software I can configure for that? You can use both smartlist and majordomo in an offline setup. All you need is to be able to receive mail for several different accounts

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how I can load Linux onto a Toshiba Prestege 300CT?? I created a copy of the bost disks from the web site (along with the base files on disk) yet I cannot get Linux to start. Everytime I try to boot, the computer restarts. I tried the other Toshiba

Re: apsfilter

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rick Knebel wrote: Is there any way to rerun the apsfilter setup. If so where is the setup script located at? Currently there isn't. I think that you can re-run the apsfilter postinst by sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/apsfilter.postinst Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland,

Re: mirror

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
John Leget wrote: HI all, Any mirror users out there, how do i force it to download the files that symlink's on a remote site point to, ive had no success, it just ignores them. Normally mirror will only add the link if the file it points to is also available on the local system. This

Re: quantex laptops, any good/debian compatible?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Shand wrote: i've been looking at the quantex laptops (www.quantex.com) and they look too good to be true. very reasonable prices, decent looking hardware and a pretty cool web site (though slow ...). has anyone had any experiences with them? i'd love to hear anything about them,

Re: apsfilter

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rick Knebel wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up apsfilter with my Hp 870Cse and have not been succesful with debian. I have used freebsd with apsfilter without problems. Here is a copy of my printcap. My problem is that nothing will print but when i check the que it is empty. Apparently

Xdm on remote servers.

1998-12-29 Thread Johan Berglund
I have xdm installed on my server and have configured it to not start a local xserver. I also have a win98 computer with eXceed configured for XDMCP broadcast. I get the login window and it is able to authenticate me as a user and then the login window shows up again and it only loops.

Re: mailing list archives

1998-12-29 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 06:05:38PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: You'll find an up-to-date archive of both lists at ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/usenet/mailing-lists/debian-{devel,user}/ It's splitted by months and gzipped for older months. Noteworthy is that this unlike the HTML

Re: Upgrade to slink

1998-12-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, I am thinking about upgrading from hamm to slink via modem. But I am not sure how to do it.. Could someone please point me out some documents to read or give me some suggestions? Use apt-get

Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

1998-12-29 Thread ivan
I may be wrong (pls correct me if so) but I believe this mail list _IS_ linked to the newsgroups. Check out linux.debian.user ivan. At 11:30 AM 12/29/98 GMT, you wrote: Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Hi. I'm about to get a new machine and put Debian on it, and was wondering

Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!

1998-12-29 Thread John Reid
Desperately seeking help! Think I'm doing something silly in my installation. Is it necessary to load/configure any modules for an integrated pci controller for ide disk/cdrom (or for anything else - fairly plain vanilla system) using the hamm cd's? If so, which ones? The install script doesn't

Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!

1998-12-29 Thread gummbah
On 30 Dec, John Reid wrote: - 2Gb mode-4 ide disk drive on hda (3 partitions - 1.2gb fat32, ~515mb linux, 96mb linux swap) I think this might be the problem. LILO has problems booting linux if the primary linux partition is located above a certain block. I think it would be best to have the

Unidentified subject!

1998-12-29 Thread me
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Web-based email for Debian

1998-12-29 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based e-mail system that would fit into a Debian system nicely? -- Regards,| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a . | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 Randy

Re: ipchains/ip_masq problems

1998-12-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
This is in response to a very old message on debian-user which I saw while browsing the mailing list archives. I've got IP masq working on a Debian system with kernel 2.1.132 at home. I think you're missing the obligatory echo for the 2.1.x kernels to turn on IP forwarding. I'm not at home

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Philip Jensen wrote: Anyway, does anyone know anything about pkgsel (which is a perl script). IIRC it is in fact a b/ash script, which uses whiptail to produce a nice colourful menu display of varying ways of configuring your shiny new Debian

Re: qmail on dial-up ppp

1998-12-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
This is in response to a fairly old message on debian-user. I run qmail at home on a Debian system which is connected via dialup PPP (using diald) with a dynamic IP address. I'm not at home right now, so if you need to see exact copies of config files, let me know and I can look them up. First

mounting W95 partitions

1998-12-29 Thread Ted Llewellyn
I need to mount my Windows 95 partitions from the Debian 2.0 setup. I keep getting errors that say I am trying to mount an extended partition. Well, guess what? That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Just what is Linux's syntax for these DOS extended partitions that Windows puts all those

Re: mounting W95 partitions

1998-12-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
It sounds like you are trying to mount the extended partition itself rather than one of the logical partitions which it contains. To see what is there, run fdisk and use the 'p' command. Bob On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Ted Llewellyn wrote: I need to mount my Windows 95 partitions from the Debian

Re: Logitech TrackMan Maple+

1998-12-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Martin Schulze wrote: Michael Wahl wrote: Can somebody help me with the installation of a Logitech TrackMan Maple+? Is this a typo and should be TrackMan Marble? If so this is my Pointer section in XF86config: Section Pointer ProtocolMouseMan Device

Re: Communicator won't run. Help!

1998-12-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I got the libc5 version from the supported directory. I am using tcsh. Also make sure that the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME is set to point to /usr/local/netscape The $HOME is already set. here is the ldd output: ldd: version 1.9.9 libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6

Re: Logitech TrackMan Maple+

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Oliver Elphick wrote: Hmm... my Trackman Marble is a PS/2 device: Mine too, but I'm too lame to test the PS/2 connector so I used the adapter to turn it into a serial device. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of

printing --help

1998-12-29 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
got an epson stylus color 400, but have not been able to get it to print anything at all yet. if anyone has any ideas on what's going on, i would appreciate some help in fixing this. whatever is sent to the printer makes it to the queue, then the bytes seem to disappear because nothing happens

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally built mail-transport-agent installed is equivs. I don't know whether the hamm version will work right or not... several months back, during either hamm or slink upgrading, my equivs suddenly stopped working; I filed a bug report,

Where are the configuration files for Afterstep?

1998-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
Does anyone know where the config files for Afterstep (the version contained in hamm) are found? In particular I want to modify the options presented by Start/Debian (Apps, Screen etc.). The docs seem to say they are in ~GNUstep or /usr/share/GNUstep but they don't seem to be. Anthony --

Re: Installation on a separate hard drive

1998-12-29 Thread Kent West
At 06:39 AM 12/27/1998 -0600, Gordon von Miller wrote: Hello, Would installation be any easier on a separate hard drive? TIA Gordon Just my opinion, but YES. For one thing, it gives you one more level of removal from doing something wrong and hosing your existing setup. There's really not a

Re: File download problem

1998-12-29 Thread Kent West
At 06:35 PM 12/27/1998 -0600, KTB wrote: Hi, I was downloading the Communicator file once again. I tried another installation and came very close this time. Anyway I decided to remove all the previous Communicator files I had downloaded and see if a fresh one would work. I used rm to take out a

Re: Where are the configuration files for Afterstep?

1998-12-29 Thread Andrew Ivanov
I think they are in /usr/share/afterstep/ Andrew On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: Does anyone know where the config files for Afterstep (the version contained in hamm) are found? In particular I want to modify the options presented by Start/Debian (Apps, Screen etc.). The docs

[Off Topic] Ideas on providing low cost email access to schools

1998-12-29 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
[I would appreciate it if you Cc-ed your replies to this thread to me] #include offtopic.h Folks, I am planning on writing an article for a computer magazine in India [1]. This magazine is big supporter of Linux in India. I thought of writing an article on how high schools and colleges with

Booting Problems, Floopy drive is dying!!

1998-12-29 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, I am upgrading a system from Red Hat to Debian 2.0. But it seems the floppy drive on the box is dead. I can not write a boot disk no matter what I tried to do. I use new floppies, old floppies etc and nothing works. At the point where dinstall ask you to insert a floppy and everything

OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

1998-12-29 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? Why has it such nonstandard name (without .h suffix).

C libraries?

1998-12-29 Thread Craig P. McDaniel
I'll give it away before my questions do - I'm a Linux newbie (Woohoo!). I always try to find my answers in documentation first, but I'm still stumped on this one. I have installed the .deb packages for libc5, libc6, and I think glibc2 (not at home right now). Does this mean I can run all three

Re: mail filtering

1998-12-29 Thread Thomas Adams
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 08:46:44PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: This is my first exposure to smail which seems to be the default in Debian. I had no trouble setting it up. That's what you think. I'd check my From: line if I were you.

[no subject]

1998-12-29 Thread Paulussen Edmond
Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login I get following error message: login [128] unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user root Unable to

Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

1998-12-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 20:21:43 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. String was a GNU extension; if you have code that still uses it, install the libg++ packages. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class.

Re: C libraries?

1998-12-29 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:20:17PM -0500, Craig P. McDaniel wrote: I'll give it away before my questions do - I'm a Linux newbie (Woohoo!). I always try to find my answers in documentation first, but I'm still stumped on this one. I have installed the .deb packages for libc5, libc6, and I

Re: Acroread Hamm ???

1998-12-29 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does Acroread work with hamm? It tells me it can't find libXt.so.6. If I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get a SEGV. I do have libc5 installed. Install the xlib6 (and to be sure the xpm4.7) packages from the oldlibs section. Otherwise check the output of (in

Re: Newsgroups and this mailing list

1998-12-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
ivan wrote: I may be wrong (pls correct me if so) but I believe this mail list _IS_ linked to the newsgroups. Check out linux.debian.user ivan. Somebody on this list awhile back said that the linux.* newsgroups were deprecated. In any event, not everybody can get linux.*

metamail aternative display methods?

1998-12-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'd like metamail to offer me _all_ of the possible display machanisms until I say yes to one of them: In my ~/.mailcap I have: application/msword; /opt/WordPerfect8/wpbin/xwp %s application/msword; /opt/StarOffice-5.0/bin/soffice %s application/msword; word2txt %s When I view it with

booting recalictrant machine, or tar from resc1440

1998-12-29 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I really only need tar split from this machine; i need to move large dos directories between a non-networked, phoneless win3.1 machine, and my slowly connected cdless laptop. This seems to mean copying to floppy. msbackup is, well, msbackup. After spending 15 minutes on the first disk,

Re: [John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net: ML.ORG replacement]

1998-12-29 Thread Robert Edmonds
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 01:49:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Since some people have requested an alternative I'm forwarding this mail from debian-user. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please

Re: [PB] a quiet sound blaster

1998-12-29 Thread debian
FYI: You might have a cdrom installed.. But I suspect it is on an IDE channel rather then on the IDE channel on the soundcard? I am not sure on AWE32 cards, but I know the AWE64 has no ide cdrom controller. So hence my card would have no sure CDROM entry in the ISAPNP.CONF file. -Original

/dev/fd0

1998-12-29 Thread Brent Hueth
I can't seem to get my floppy drive to work under Debian. For example, when trying to format a disk with: superformat /dev/fd0 hd sect=18 I get: old capacity=12500 Measuring drive 0's raw capacity Fatal error while measuring raw capacity 0: 40 1: 01 2: 00 3: 00 4: 00 5: 01 6: 08 Wouldn't be

re: snmpd (ucd) mrtg

1998-12-29 Thread iodine
I want to monitor other stuff with the snmpd service.. I have a config file that lists the procs or processes that I want to monitor. But I am lost how I get mrtg to monitor anything except for ppp0 and eth0 which I have it currently doing. Anyone got snmpd.conf files I can look at and also an

RE: /dev/fd0

1998-12-29 Thread Shaleh
On 29-Dec-98 Brent Hueth wrote: I can't seem to get my floppy drive to work under Debian. For example, when trying to format a disk with: superformat /dev/fd0 hd sect=18 Try something like mkfs.

debian-cd package broken? (hamm)

1998-12-29 Thread Pann McCuaig
OK, I have a few questions. Background: We have a mirror (debian.ssc.com for those on the west coast who hadn't noticed) which makes on-site installs a breeze. However, we have employees who'd like to install Debian at home, so I thought Gee, we have a mirror, why don't I just burn a CD or two?

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bill Newman wrote: I'm an experienced Linux user. I just tried to install Debian on my Toshiba 225CDS. It was not a good out of the box experience. I think there are laptop install apps in Debian When choosing modules, the PPP module description says something that I

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:53:49 -0500 (EST), Sourcerer wrote: Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs. Untrue. OS/2 allows you to use Boot Manager to dual boot and even points you in the right direction to do it. IIRC WinNT also

I've got a problem installing a new Graphic Card (ELSA Gloria Synergy)

1998-12-29 Thread Andrea Zennaro
This card use the 3DLabs PERMIDIA 2 Chipset and I don't know how to run an X server from the debian 2 distribution. I know that XFree86 3.3.3 provide a new Xserver for 3DLabs Chipsets but where can I find the Debian Package for it ? There is other possibilities for me to run an Xserver without

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-29 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
May I ask what dynipclient does? I'm setting up a tiny network at home and am going to network a Linux box (running slink) with a Windows 95 machine (my son's) and I get a dynamic IP address from my ISP. I use a PPP connection. head over to www.dynip.com, they give a better explaination than I

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-29 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
How do you know? These scripts are run with stdout directed to /dev/null, so you won't see any output. I was able to determine this by having another PC, running windows, connected to the internet not being able to ping the resolved name. I had originally though, since I can't ping the box, and

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