(off-topic) Linux Actual y cedés defectuosos.

1999-01-07 Thread Gabriel B.
Hola. Me parece que alguien de Linux Actual envió un mensaje diciendo que cambiaban los cds defectuosos del nº4. He perdido algo de correo. Si alguien me puede enviar ese mensaje se lo agradecería. Un Saludo. Gabriel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problemilla con libc6

1999-01-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hola Felipe, Felipe Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hola a todos, ojala hayan pasado unas felices fiestas. En cuanto a mi, aproveche la noche da aqo nuevo para actualizar mi Bo a Hamm. Aparte de los problemas habibituales (teclado desconfigurado, no me parten las X), lo que mas me

Re: Consultas sobre wmaker.

1999-01-07 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hola, - Parece que tal como viene configurado por defecto, no permite cambiar el tamaño de las ventanas. Cómo puedo cambiar este comportamiento? Te aseguro que eso no es una opción de configuración... ¿a qué te refieres? Recuerda que wmaker *solo* utiliza la barra inferior para cambiar

RE: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI.

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Saludos, tocayo Agradezco mucho el tiempo que te has tomado para darme una solución al problema, pero me parece que oyes campanas y no sabes dónde, seguramente por mi tendencia a hacer literatura en lugar de dar información. Aclarar que dispositivos SCSI sólo tengo el disco duro, la zip

suscribe fserrano@ctv.es

1999-01-07 Thread Hue-Bond
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Re: Consultas sobre wmaker.

1999-01-07 Thread xcalbet
On 4 Jan, Juan Ignacio Llona wrote: Hola a todos! Varias cosas sobre el wmaker (la versión de la Debian 2.0): - Parece que tal como viene configurado por defecto, no permite cambiar el tamaño de las ventanas. Cómo puedo cambiar este comportamiento? Agarra cualquiera de las dos esquinas

Problemas con el CDROM contrib de Debian-Hamm

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Hola a todos: Tengo instalado la Hamm de Debian que venía con la revista LA. He tenido algún problema con el CDROM contrib, el tercero de la distribución. He intentado instalar el Navigator que viene en el subdirectorio debian/slink/non-free/binary-i386. Pero no me aparecen esos

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1999-01-07 Thread Arale
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Re: Consultas sobre wmaker.

1999-01-07 Thread Juanmi Mora
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Jan, Juan Ignacio Llona wrote: Agarra cualquiera de las dos esquinas inferiores y podras cambiar el tamaño de las ventanas. Lo que no se como resolver es si tienes una ventana mas grande que la pantalla y las esquinas inferiores sobresalen

Re: Fortran 90 to C or Fortran 90 to Fortran 77 translator

1999-01-07 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:05:45 + Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender:

Re: Downloading Installing WP8....

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BW == Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BW When I go to unzip it (using gzip -d), I get an error saying that the BW file is not a GZipped file...I downloaded it with Netscape 4.5 (which BW thank God installed flawlessly...) Netscape does gunzip it during download. You now have a tar

Re: Fortran 90 to C or Fortran 90 to Fortran 77 translator

1999-01-07 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:05:45AM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: anyone knows if exists a translator from Fortran90 to C or Fortran90 to Fortran77. I'm very interested in a program like this. There are no open source Fortran 90 compilers or translators avalible.

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On 6 Jan, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread Gary Singleton
I don't think it runs in daemon mode but I always use netdate - I have mine in a script for ip.up so it synchs every time I connect and also runs 'hwclock --systohc --utc'. HTH, G.S. ---Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to

talk problems

1999-01-07 Thread Lazar Fleysher
Hi everyone, I just noticed that talk does not work and gives the following error Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Any ideas what happened and how to fix it? Thanks in advance, ZORO

Re: netscape, slink, bus error

1999-01-07 Thread Rick Venable
Problem solved-- thanks to the following hint: On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: XNLSPATH isn't the problem (It was only suggested as a possible problem). The locale problem (which I thought was solved a long time ago - did you recently upgrade to slink?) occurs because of a

Re: exmh - presort inc sometimes fails

1999-01-07 Thread Mark Phillips
There have been a number of reports from people recently that doing a presort inc sometimes fails from within exmh. I have been doing some further experiments. If it helps, I had it happens yesterday twice: The first time was on message number 140, and the second was on message

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Tim, I have Window$98 and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 running on a IBM ThinkPad 385XD laptop without any trouble (sofar?). I've kept a detailed log of all the things I did and can mail it if your interested. You'll have to wait till tomorrow though, 'cause I don't have it here. Basically, I

Downloading Installing WP8....

1999-01-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If you downloaded the file using netscape then it may already have been run through gunzip! Check the size of the file! I have seen this behavior from netscape, where it detects the file type, and saves it using gunzip as a filter! Sometimes though it keeps the file name the same. Try renaming

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread john
Ralph Winslow writes: I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to synchronize the time on my workstation to specified time-servers on the net. Could some kind soul jog my memory? xntp3 is in 2.0 and frozen, and there is chrony in unstable. chrony is, IMHO, much easier

nmh bug (was: Re: exmh - presort inc sometimes fails)

1999-01-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for this, I have scanned the messages you included as well as my own, looking for similarities/differences. I think I may have discovered a common theme. It would seem that all the errant messages were sent using the mailer Mutt. My sample size it still too small to be conclusive

Appicon for wp8 under WindowMaker and Listserv Question....

1999-01-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Well, two questions here: First: How do I dock the appicon that wp8 shows under WindowMaker? Just dragging it to the Docked section doesn't work. : Second: Is there an easy way to get a mailing list set up? I've done it using aliases, under sendmail but if you do it that way, replying to

how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?

1999-01-07 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
to another Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux niels 2.0.34 X-Linux-Distribution: Debian 2.0r3 Ciao, I want to format my HD and reinstall all the system, but I don't want to forget the list of installed packages (or reinstall them by hand...). If I do: # dpkg --get-selections | grep

[OFF TOPIC] xterm, rxvt, kvt and color arrgggh!

1999-01-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
Let me preface by saying I'm a command line kinda guy so I haven't dealt with X much. Having said that, I'm responsible for keeping a bunch of naive X users happy, so I'm learning as fast as I can. After upgrading workstations from bo to hamm, funny things happen in xterms (and cousins) with

Re: Appicon for wp8 under WindowMaker and Listserv Question....

1999-01-07 Thread David Coe
Evan Van Dyke wrote: First: How do I dock the appicon that wp8 shows under WindowMaker? Just dragging it to the Docked section doesn't work. : Well, dragging the appicon to the dock or clipboard does work for me, under slink (wmaker 0.20.3-1)... Here's what doing so puts in my

Re: Appicon for wp8 under WindowMaker and Listserv Question....

1999-01-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On 6 Jan, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Well, two questions here: First: How do I dock the appicon that wp8 shows under WindowMaker? Just dragging it to the Docked section doesn't work. : Second: Is there an easy way to get a mailing list set up? I've done it using aliases, under sendmail

Re: how to reinstall all? Alias: how to dup. an installation ?

1999-01-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On 7 Jan, Paolo Pedaletti wrote: to another Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux niels 2.0.34 X-Linux-Distribution: Debian 2.0r3 Ciao, I want to format my HD and reinstall all the system, but I don't want to forget the list of installed packages (or reinstall them by hand...). If I

SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless card, and I have no way of setting the IRQs

Re: mounting a sunos filesystem?

1999-01-07 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Allan M. Wind wrote: I've got a SCSI disk with a solaris 4.1.4 filesystem on it. Is there any way I can get linux to mount this? Did you try the (kernel) UFS driver? Is it still read-only? Will

smail -oMP

1999-01-07 Thread G. Crimp
I am having trouble with my smail configuration. One of the things I am looking at is how smail is being invoked. In /var/spool/smail/input/stupid_message_that_for_some_reason_refuses_\ to_leave_my_box I see that three options are used (if I am interpreting this correctly) -t -oem and -oMP. I

[Fwd: Smartlist Setup... Service Unavaliable]

1999-01-07 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Evan Van Dyke wrote: Well, I've installed SmartList, but when I send it a test message, Sendmail dies with the following errors: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - |/var/list/.bin/flist apollo-teamB-request (expanded from: apollo-teamB-request) -

Thanks... :)

1999-01-07 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all Thanks for helping me get Wp8 installed... Everything went fairly smoothly... Now I have just one tiny problem... It doesn't run :( Help!! (again) Thanks, Brant. I really appreciate the help that this list has been to me! keep up the good work y'all :)

Re: Appicon for wp8 under WindowMaker and Listserv Question....

1999-01-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Well, two questions here: First: How do I dock the appicon that wp8 shows under WindowMaker? Just dragging it to the Docked section doesn't work. : When you run xwp, 2 appicons show up. Make sure you dock the

Re: Thanks... :)

1999-01-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Brant Wells wrote: Thanks for helping me get Wp8 installed... Everything went fairly smoothly... Now I have just one tiny problem... It doesn't run :( Well, why doesn't it run? Without access to your machine, the only info we've got

Cost of Debian software

1999-01-07 Thread tcc
At present i am using an intel pentium 233MHZ computer with 4.3 GB hardisk I would like to acquire your debian software to help me perform mainly excel and word function . is there any authorised dealer in Malaysia? how much it cost Thank you. Chia Chuan

wmaker appicon problems...

1999-01-07 Thread jpjevans
Hi, folks While running winndow maker, I cannot seem to get any applications to produce icons which are dockable. I've read the user info at their web site, (which suggests right-clicking the title bar, selecting Attributes, choosing Advanced Options and

Why WordPerfect won't run....

1999-01-07 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy Y'all My WP8 installed correctly, but I am unable to execute it for some reason... If I start an X-Term session, I get a command not found error... :( It doesn't matter who I log in as, it won't run, even if I go to the folder that it is installed in... For reference, I am running the

partition question

1999-01-07 Thread Wesley Simon
I have a linux partition that is running out of space. I have another partition on the drive that used to be NT, I toasted that partition and created another linux partition. I would like to put everthing under /usr on the other partition. I mounted it as /bkup. I tried to go under /usr and

Remote boot question

1999-01-07 Thread Eric Monson
We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already have as clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking into using ROM chips plugged into the network cards on the clients, but commercial

Re: Why WordPerfect won't run....

1999-01-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Brant Wells wrote: My WP8 installed correctly, but I am unable to execute it for some reason... If I start an X-Term session, I get a command not found error... :( The following works for me: $ cd whereveryouinstalledit/wpbin $ ./xwp (or just: $ wherever/wpbin/xwp

Re: netscape, slink, bus error

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rick Venable wrote: Rick Venable wrote: I also tried to get netscape via the slink distro at ftp.debian.org, but the 4.07 package there still lacked the binary, contrary to reports that slink has a full netscape package. On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: You need to

VideoBlaster IE500

1999-01-07 Thread Josef Moffett
Hi there, I was wondering - just being new to Linux - if anyone out there knows about any drivers written for controling the VideoBlaster IE500 grabber card. I have been working on Win 95 for some time now, and have just moved over (temporarily running on both systems, until i can get all the

Re: Why WordPerfect won't run....

1999-01-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On 6 Jan, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy Y'all My WP8 installed correctly, but I am unable to execute it for some reason... If I start an X-Term session, I get a command not found error... :( It doesn't matter who I log in as, it won't run, even if I go to the folder that it is installed

Debian Linux and AMD Computers

1999-01-07 Thread PATRICK DAHIROC
hi i would like to whether Linux in general will run on an AMD based computer and if it does how well does it perform. pd

RE: Wordperfect Fixed!!!

1999-01-07 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy y'all... I got Wp8 fixed... I think :) I just added it into the path line, and it has started working... Thanks for all the support! Brant Wells, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On 7 Jan, Damon Muller wrote: Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help me out. I got a vibra 16 card (soundblaster) from a friend, but it didn't come with any driver disks or anything like that. Unfortunately it is a jumperless

Re: Debian Linux and AMD Computers

1999-01-07 Thread Adam Klein
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:42:46AM -0500, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi i would like to whether Linux in general will run on an AMD based computer and if it does how well does it perform. Debian runs great and without incident on my K6-2 300.

Re: netscape, slink, bus error

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sorry, I wrote my previous reponse assuming this message was a CC copy. When I realized this message was a different one, it was too late, I had already sent the other message. Rick Venable wrote: I purged all my netscape stuff, and tried a clean install of 4.5 from the frozen

HTML-ized package listing on the web?

1999-01-07 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I thought I remeber someone posting a link to a page which showed the Packages file in a framed HTML page. This was not the Debian package listing page, it was an independent page. Does anyone remeber that and what is the url? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL/IM: jim foltz

Mailing list archive search

1999-01-07 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, Did you ever notice when doing a mailing list archive search from the Debian web site, that when you select to search from Oct to Dec 1998, all the matches come up from Oct , skipping, apparently Nov and Dec completely? Or is it just me? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL/IM: jim foltz

RV: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI.

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
-Mensaje original- De: Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: miércoles, 06 de enero de 1999 05:23 p.m. Asunto: RE: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI. No. Me refiero a todos. Incluso el disco duro. (Estás tratando de verificar que los

RV: Amazing installation. SCSI problems

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
-Mensaje original- De: Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: John C. Ellingboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: miércoles, 06 de enero de 1999 05:24 p.m. Asunto: RE: Amazing installation. SCSI problems Hi John You are right, I don't have a bootable system. LILO hangs when

RE: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI.

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Saludos, tocayo Agradezco mucho el tiempo que te has tomado para darme una solución al problema, pero me parece que oyes campanas y no sabes dónde, seguramente por mi tendencia a hacer literatura en lugar de dar información. Aclarar que dispositivos SCSI sólo tengo el disco duro, la zip

Re: Cost of Debian software

1999-01-07 Thread Mark Phillips
At present i am using an intel pentium 233MHZ computer with 4.3 GB hardisk I would like to acquire your debian software to help me perform mainly excel and word function . is there any authorised dealer in Malaysia? how much it cost Thank you. Debian is a distribution of Linux. Linux is an

Re Cost of Debian

1999-01-07 Thread Josef Moffett
tcc wrote At present i am using an intel pentium 233MHZ computer with 4.3 GB hardisk I would like to acquire your debian software to help me perform mainly excel and word function . is there any authorised dealer in Malaysia? how much it cost Firstly: the cost of Debian is really mininal. I've

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Hi Tim, I have Window$98 and Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 running on a IBM ThinkPad 385XD laptop without any trouble (sofar?). I've kept a detailed log of all the things I did and can mail it if your interested. You'll have to wait till tomorrow though, 'cause I don't

Re: XWP - NOT!

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
James R. Lunsford wrote: Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran

Re: ghostscript/view

1999-01-07 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 10:41:52AM -0800, Walter Kotorynski wrote: Running gv gives message Exec of gs failed: Not a directory and Dismiss just leaves the program running until manual intervention. setuid.Debian suggests chmod u+s /usr/bin/gs which doesn't help. setuid.Debian also suggests

Re: Why WordPerfect won't run....

1999-01-07 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stephen Pitts wrote: On 6 Jan, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy Y'all My WP8 installed correctly, but I am unable to execute it for some reason... If I start an X-Term session, I get a command not found error... :( It doesn't matter who I log in as, it won't run, even if I go to the

route add default

1999-01-07 Thread debian
i set up ppp with PAP protocol. i can dial up my provider and am able to ping the gateway. however i when i type route add default 207.167.86.253 (gateway) i get the error message SIOCADDRT: Operation not supported by device how do i add the default route? many thanks, -neutron.

Re: partition question

1999-01-07 Thread frleg
The first thing is to ensure you copy all the files AND links. This can be done using the -a command in cp. You don't have to change the name of your partitions (in fact, it does nothing). If you have 2 partitions mounted on /usr and /bkup /dev/hda1/usr /dev/hda2/bkup You just have to

Re: Why WordPerfect won't run....

1999-01-07 Thread frleg
Which binary are you calling ? Mine is /usr/local/wpf/wpbin/xwp and it works fine Franck Howdy Y'all My WP8 installed correctly, but I am unable to execute it for some reason... If I start an X-Term session, I get a command not found error... :( It doesn't matter who I log in as, it

RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Chang, FKK
-- From: Ed Cogburn[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 7 januari 1999 8:21 To: Debian-Users Cc: recipient.list.not.shown Subject: Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98] Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Now, if I could only get that silly Window$ logo at

Dosemu help

1999-01-07 Thread Alan Tam
Hi , folks; I installed the dosemu_0.66.7-13.deb with raw config.sys and autoexec.bat. After I boot to drive A (executing dos -A with a Win95 bootdisk in /dev/fd0), the MSDOS editor can start but not functioning at all. Thanks for any help in advance. Alan Tam

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and the install of the equivs package in a single operation? Yes, AFAIK. dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install new-mta.deb -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because the mail transfer system of a subscriber is broken (it should not report back to the From: address of a message with Priority: bulk or junk); Rather, it shouldn't ever bounce to the From: address. All bounces should go to the envelope sender,

Re: need various libs ... ??

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Comes up showing only libf2c.so.0 missing. I found the other libs ... was looking in the wrong directory. I did find a libf2c.so.2 file. Is this a later version of the libf2c.so.0 ??? Should I use that? Or is it something completely different?? I found a

ftp only account

1999-01-07 Thread Sibuyas Bombay
hello everyone ! i have a few questions, 1. how do i give users an ftp only account (no telnet, etc). 2. im using default debian install (2.0) , how do i enable anonymous ftp sessions ? thanks a lot Sib - A world of Information. The

[Help] Problem on Printer port MO

1999-01-07 Thread Tung-Han Hsieh
Dear Debian users, I am planing to buy a printer port MO. But I am worry about that Debian/Linux does not have driver to use it. I know that Linux can use SCSI MO, or SCSI ZIP or printer port ZIP, but how about printer port MO? Is anyone has the experience? If Debian can use the printer port

Re: XWP - NOT!

1999-01-07 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- This sounds like an X windows security problem. If you login - and run X as one user, then open an Xterm and su to another - user, that second user cannot run any graphical applications in - X for security reasons. - - So if you loged in and ran X as your normal user account (as you - should)

Re: ftp only account

1999-01-07 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- 1. how do i give users an ftp only account (no telnet, etc). give them shell which doesn't work, but is listed in /etc/shells for example /bin/false... - 2. im using default debian install (2.0) , how do i enable anonymous ftp - sessions ? addftpuser -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at

Upgrade has hosed my system :-(

1999-01-07 Thread Nidge Jones
Well after my last post I decided to go ahead and try upgrading one of my Debian 1.3.1 systems.,,, and now I have a hosed box :-( I used apt-get (on the CD) to upgrade, after being told by many of you it was better than the .sh method. I first edited the /etc/apt/sources.list file, so that it

Re: Remote boot question

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
Eric Monson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already have as clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking into using ROM chips plugged into the

ACER extensa 390's mouse?

1999-01-07 Thread pqa
Hi I have an ACER extensa 390 and I'm having difficulties with the X installation. I have already installed the xserver-neomagic (thanks for the tip), but now I am having problems with the mouse. The mouse (tablet) can be run by the X-windows system? The mouse (tablet) can be run by the

Gnome Problems :(

1999-01-07 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, at home I installed some Gnome packages from Slink and have any problems. But at work, I have a fast conection to the net and have a updated Slink box. When I try to run: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ gnome-session gnome-session: error in loading

Re: ACER extensa 390's mouse?

1999-01-07 Thread Stephan Witoszynskyj
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- hi, i'm not sure if this ist true for all notebooks, but i think the mousepad should be accessible as ps2 mouse. at least this works on my acer light 370. stephan On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, pqa wrote: Hi I have an ACER extensa 390 and I'm having difficulties

Re: X toolkit warning

1999-01-07 Thread Lars Steinke
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 02:31:28PM -0200, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: Hi Debian folks, I'm running a program (cantata from Khoros www.khoral.com) and every time I access some dialogs I get a dialog warning box with a message like this: Warning: X Toolkit Warning: Actions

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On 07 Jan 1999 21:39:40 +1300, you wrote: J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because the mail transfer system of a subscriber is broken (it should not report back to the From: address of a message with Priority: bulk or junk); Rather, it shouldn't ever bounce to the From: address. All

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On 07 Jan 1999 21:33:48 +1300, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and the install of the equivs package in a single operation? Yes, AFAIK. dpkg --auto-deconfigure --install new-mta.deb |=ROOT[EMAIL

CVS and diff

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder how I can visualize differences between the cvs repository and my local copy. cvs diff only works if modifications are local. It won't notice if somebody has committed his modifications to the repository already. I'd like to see the changes that would be applied with cvs update

Re: CVS and diff

1999-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS I'd like to see the changes that would be applied with cvs update MS before I run the command. How about cvs -n update ? Ciao, Martin

Re: partition question

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 11:21:11PM -0600, Wesley Simon wrote: I have a linux partition that is running out of space. I have another partition on the drive that used to be NT, I toasted that partition and created another linux partition. I would like to put everthing under /usr on the

Re: SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Damon Muller
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:39:54 -0600 (EST) Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of BIOS do you have? my PCI PnP bios auto-configured the card and I used win98 to find out the irq and dma. There is a package called isapnptools that has similar functions. Get it, read the docs, ask the

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: On 07 Jan 1999 21:33:48 +1300, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: Sounds like a bad brute-force approach. Can't dpkg do the remove and the install of the equivs package in a single operation? Yes, AFAIK. dpkg --auto-deconfigure

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-07 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: I doubt that Pertamina is aware of that - they don't even have postmaster. Had to look them up in the RIPE DB. Which RfC mandates bounces going to the envelope sender? RFC 1123 (aka STD 3), Host Requirements, section 5.3.3. In part: If there

Can't locate module net-pf-5

1999-01-07 Thread Shao Zhang
Hello All, On boot up, I got the above message. I only had two lines in my /etc/modules: auto sound So how do I avoid this message? What is the use of this module anyway?? Thx

dselect access screen does not have ftp update method

1999-01-07 Thread David Wayne Williams
I've tried to use dselect to update my Debian distribution via FTP. However, the dselect access menu items does not contain an FTP option. How can I fix dselect or use other means to update my debian distribution? Thank you in advance David Wayne Williams.vcf Description: Binary data

Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Thomas Janke
The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. Is Debian ready for the new kernel? Will Slink be? What about the HURD-Kernel? regards -- Thomas Janke Hewlett Packard Boeblingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect access screen does not have ftp update method

1999-01-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 21:32:41 +0900, David Wayne Williams wrote: I've tried to use dselect to update my Debian distribution via FTP. However, the dselect access menu items does not contain an FTP option. How can I fix dselect or use other means to update my debian distribution? You need to

PS/2 Mice not working =(

1999-01-07 Thread HoBzIE
I have a PS/2 mouse, Logitech Mouseman 4 btn, that will not work with either gpm or X, when i start gpm with protocol PS/2 and dev - psaux it says.. gpm: /dev/psaux operation not supported by device and i know what that text mens but i think its strange cuz i have had it working before with

Re: Can't locate module net-pf-5

1999-01-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 23:35:08 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: On boot up, I got the above message. Add alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk to /etc/modutils/aliases . HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

Re: Can't locate module net-pf-5

1999-01-07 Thread Conrado Badenas
Shao Zhang wrote: So how do I avoid this message? What is the use of this module anyway?? Edit your file /etc/modutils/aliases and uncomment the line: alias net-pf-5 off # DDP / appletalk It seems it's used for appletalk. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer)

Re: PPP and mouse

1999-01-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Michelle Maria Coelho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi... Yesterday, I downloeaded the Debian Linux installation kit on floppies and installed it on my 486 at home. It was a breeze. However, there was one problem. At the time of installation, I hadn't plugged in the mouse (a Microsoft PS/2

Re: Kernel 2.2.

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Makholm
Thomas Janke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new LINUX-Kernel will be available soon. Lets hope so... Is Debian ready for the new kernel? Will Slink be? Slink will not include the new kernel. Linux 2.2.0 is pretty much new code compared to 2.0.X and will probaly not go into a frozen

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
There is a .bmp file named something like windowslogo.bmp in the windows directory that has the windows bootup display. It can be edited with the paint program. I modified the one on my kid's computer so It comes up with their names, Emily and Reva's computer. You could copy the file to linux,

SoundBlaster Vibra 16 jumperless card under Linux

1999-01-07 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If this is an isa card, then use the isapnp package to set up the card. See the sound how_to. --- From: Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks, This one has got me beat, and I'm hoping someone in debian-land might be able to help

Re: Cost of Debian software

1999-01-07 Thread buns
tcc wrote: At present i am using an intel pentium 233MHZ computer with 4.3 GB hardisk I would like to acquire your debian software to help me perform mainly excel and word function . is there any authorised dealer in Malaysia? how much it cost Thank you. Check out the following URL

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On 08 Jan 1999 00:50:59 +1300, you wrote: RFC 1123 (aka STD 3), Host Requirements, section 5.3.3. In part: Thanks. I will incorporate this into my canned response for brain-dead autoresponses to mailing lists. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies,

Re: dselect access screen does not have ftp update method

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:32:41PM +0900, David Wayne Williams wrote: I've tried to use dselect to update my Debian distribution via FTP. However, the dselect access menu items does not contain an FTP option. How can I fix dselect or use other means to update my debian distribution? Thank

Re: Can't locate module net-pf-5

1999-01-07 Thread Peter Berlau
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:35:08PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hello All, On boot up, I got the above message. I only had two lines in my /etc/modules: auto sound So how do I avoid this message? What is the use of this module anyway?? This is for the

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