Re: El paquete xfig-doc 3.2.2-2 no va

1999-02-25 Thread Sergio Gomez Bachiller
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Agustín Martín wrote: Sergio Gomez Bachiller wrote: ¿A alguien le funciona este paquete de slink? Por que cada vez que intento instalarlo me da un segmentation fault y como peta en mitad de la instalación no puedo borrarlo. Yo lo tengo instalado y no recuerdo

Paginas man que no se actualizan

1999-02-25 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Hola, Desde hace algun tiempo vengo observando que, cuando instalo un nuevo programa, las paquinas man no se instalan. En realizada si que se instalan en el directorio correspondiente, pero cuando hago man loquesea me dice que no hay pagina man para ese tema. Cuando ejecuto mandb

Re: Paginas man que no se actualizan

1999-02-25 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
EMILIO CASTRILLEJO HERNANTES wrote: --- Recibido de GISS.99GU1033 91-390-512425-02-99 10.28 - trivino(a)alcor.lcc.uma.es ...pero cuando hago man loquesea me dice que Hay una variable que se llama MANPATH que lista los directorios donde deberia buscar el man. La puedes

Re: El paquete xfig-doc 3.2.2-2 no va

1999-02-25 Thread Agustín Martín
Sergio Gomez Bachiller wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Agustín Martín wrote: Yo lo tengo instalado y no recuerdo problemas. Intenta hacer LC_ALL=C dpkg -i xfig-doc.. Pues sí, es la segunda vez que me pasa algo parecido, así que ahora mismo voy a quitar la configuración en español

Re: Mensajes kernel-2.2

1999-02-25 Thread Agustín Martín
Enrique Zanardi wrote: En el /etc/init.d/network hay una linea route add -net ${NETWORK} después del ifconfig. Quítala, los kernel 2.2.x al hacer el ifconfig añaden automáticamente esa ruta. Por cierto, el /etc/init.d/network que se creará en la instalación de slink, ¿seguirá teniendo el

Re: Paginas man que no se actualizan

1999-02-25 Thread Josep Francesc Abril Ferrando
Hola Emilio, prueba con la siguiente instruccion, como root: makewhatis tarda un poco en actualizar la base de datos de las man pages, por defecto el comando utiliza el fichero /usr/share/catman/whatis. El problema que tienes con los programas que has instalado con

Configuracion XF86Config

1999-02-25 Thread Jesús
Hola, me llamo Jesus y soy un estudiante de la Escuela Superior de Ingenieria de Cadiz. Tengo una tarjeta grafica Sis6432C y no aparece en la lista de tarjetas graficas que aparece cuando estoy configurando el XWIN. Que tarjeta de las disponibles podria usar? Que debo hacer? Gracias.

Re: Logitec con rueda

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiro Alba
Josu Arenas wrote: Llevo un tiempo sin leer el correo, a si que igual ya has solucionado el problema. Has configurado la sección del ratón en el XF86Config ? Si, claro. ¿Tu tienes el mismo modelo y lo has conseguido configurar?. Si es asi, te agradecería que me enviaras lo que has

Configuracion XF86Config y el Kernel

1999-02-25 Thread Jesús
Hola, me llamo Jesus y soy un estudiante de la Escuela Superior de Ingenieria de Cadiz. Tengo una tarjeta grafica Sis6215C y no aparece en la lista de tarjetas graficas que aparece cuando estoy configurando el XWIN. Que tarjeta de las disponibles podria usar? Que debo hacer? Gracias.

Re: Paginas man que no se actualizan

1999-02-25 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, ju 25 feb 08:46:19 1999 HOla : Hola, Desde hace algun tiempo vengo observando que, cuando instalo un nuevo programa, las paquinas man no se instalan. En realizada si que se instalan en el directorio correspondiente, pero cuando hago man loquesea me dice que no hay pagina man para

Re: Como apagar el PC?

1999-02-25 Thread Alberto F. Hamilton Castro
El Wed,24/Feb/1999 a las 08:54:11+, Hue-Bond escribió: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Alberto F. Hamilton Castro wrote: creo que es mejor fijar -c grande y un -i que 'salte' primero ya que si pones un -c pequeño y te da por recompilar el kernell y hacer pruebas ... tendrás que esperar en un par

Paquete al que pertenece una libreria

1999-02-25 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Hola lista, hace algún tiempo que no escribo, síntoma de que no he tenido muchos problemas con esta maravillosa distribución. Sin embargo, como todo no dura eternamente, ahí van dos problemas con los que me he encontrado: 1) Al ir a ejecutar un programa me pone que no encuentra la libreria

Re: Librerias necesarias en un paquete Debian

1999-02-25 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paco Brufal wrote: Estoy construyendo un paquete debian con el programa Soundtracker, y todo funciona de maravilla, excepto una cosa. Estoy intentado decirle que son necesarias las librerias GTK, y por mucho que lo intento no logro que lo pille. La versión que tengo

RE: Configuracion XF86Config

1999-02-25 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
-- ooo --- Otro de los problemas que tengo es en la confiuguracion del Kernel. Los pasos que he seguido para la configuracin de este son: $make menuconfig Una de las cosas que modifico es que los sistemas de ficheros vfat,

Re: Paquete al que pertenece una libreria

1999-02-25 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, jue feb 25 09:28:08 EST 1999 Hola : Hola lista, hace algún tiempo que no escribo, síntoma de que no he tenido muchos problemas con esta maravillosa distribución. Sin embargo, como todo no dura eternamente, ahí van dos problemas con los que me he encontrado: 1) Al ir a ejecutar un

Xemacs

1999-02-25 Thread Fernando
Hola: Estoy empezando a manejar Xemacs, y he activado la opcion parent highlighting - Expresion que marca en otro color el bloque ente llaves, parentesis, etc. pero la cuestion es: Cuando el bloque es muy largo y me desplazo con la barra de deslizamiento, el cursor se desplaza cuando termina la

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mySQL o PostGreSQL?

1999-02-25 Thread Ibañez
Buenas, Tengo que montar un sistema de informacion y estoy considerando utilizar mySQL o PostGreSQL como SGBD. En principio prefiero PostGreSQL por cuestiones de licencia, pero me gustaria que me dieras vuestra opinion al respecto desde un punto de vista tecnico, es la primera vez que hago algo

Re: suck, Línea Inválida en archivo active

1999-02-25 Thread benalb
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, benalb wrote: esp.comp.so.linux.anuncios 06 01 y ¿El archivo acaba ahí o hay un LF al final? Ahí acaba. Por lo que yo se, al hacer un ctlinnd newgroup ... , añade una linea con el nuevo grupo. Por

JODIDO!!!

1999-02-25 Thread Lluís
Hola, esta vez creo que no me librare de volver a instalar mi linux. Pues bien, he intentado instalar otros s.o, exactamente FreeBSD 3.0-release para ver que tal era y en la mitad de la instalación se ha jodio toó. Tal que reinicio mi machin i me sale el siguiente mensage: NO ROM SYSTEM

Re: Xemacs

1999-02-25 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, ju 25 feb 13:47:00 1999 Hola : Hola: Estoy empezando a manejar Xemacs, y he activado la opcion parent highlighting - Expresion que marca en otro color el bloque ente llaves, parentesis, etc. pero la cuestion es: Cuando el bloque es muy largo y me desplazo con la barra de

Re: JODIDO!!!

1999-02-25 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Lluís Palomes wrote: Puede alguien decirme como lo puedo solucionar, o bien tengo que reinstalar el linux.? Prueba a reinstalar solo el lilo. Tiene pinta de haberse estropeado solo el boot del disco duro. Hasta mas bits, P.D. PAra reinstalar lilo basta con que arranques linux

Problema con postscript bajo Slink

1999-02-25 Thread cesar . talon
Hola, Hace un par de dias actualice el sistema de Hamm a Slink. El problema es que a pesar de que todo iba bien, cuando se me ha ocurrido abrir un fichero en postscript me he encontrado con este problema: Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow Unexpected interpreter error

retevision(euskaltel)

1999-02-25 Thread jon
hola! que hay que hacer para conectarse a euskaltel o retevision.me han dicho que no usan el mismo protocolo de autentificacion que infovirria

RE: retevision(euskaltel)

1999-02-25 Thread Jon Noble
que hay que hacer para conectarse a euskaltel o retevision.me han dicho que no usan el mismo protocolo de autentificacion que infovirria Lo mejor (y lo más fácil) es que configures la conexión con el programa pppconfig. Lo único que debes tener en cuenta es que el modo de conexión es chap y

Re: Paquete al que pertenece una libreria

1999-02-25 Thread Emilio de Miguel
Hola =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_Jerez_C=DFrdenes?= escribió: Hola lista, hace algún tiempo que no escribo, síntoma de que no he tenido muchos problemas con esta maravillosa distribución. Sin embargo, como todo no dura eternamente, ahí van dos problemas con los que me he encontrado: 1) Al ir a

mi debian me patea :(

1999-02-25 Thread Francho
Hola lista, Resulta que no sé que tiene mi debian contra mi, que automáticamente me patea (cierra la sesion) cada cierto tiempo (creo que una hora). Antes me saca un mensaje de que si no pulso una tecla antes de 30 segundos me desconecta. Pero el caso es que si

Re: hostname domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Edit /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and maybe /etc/resolv.conf. Hope that helps. -Ian On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere hostname and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some real hostname and

no route for lo interface!!

1999-02-25 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I've just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.1. Now I cannot add a route for the loopback interface: fire:~# route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument As a matter of fact, I cannot add a route for any interface (same error). Inspite of this I do have routes for the two

Re: Apache and public_html directories

1999-02-25 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Is the file /home/mark/public_html readable by the user or group that Apache runs as? I set the home directories of my users up to have permissions of 710 and membership in the group that Apache runs as (wheel on my main computer, www-data on every

anyone use MegaImage MegaBook 880?

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I need an XF86Config please... NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Re: hostname domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread wtopa
Subject: hostname domain name changing Date: Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 06:08:53PM +0800 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hello, when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere hostname and domain names, now it

Re: hostname domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Feb-99 Ian Keith Setford wrote: Edit /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and maybe /etc/resolv.conf. Hope that helps. I just noticed that Debian has no /etc/system.cnf file. When I used OpenLinux, if I changed hostname and forgot to edit that file in addition to the ones named above, the

keyboard , startx and xinit

1999-02-25 Thread John Tribal
Hi, I have annoying (little alltough) problem with my keyboard map and X. I'm quite new to Debian, and I would like to know what configure- file does startx use instead of what xinit uses. See, with xinit, I don't have any problems, but with startx my backspace and partly Alt Gr

Re: no route for lo interface!!

1999-02-25 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 12:55:19AM +0100, Ferenc Kiraly wrote: Hi! I've just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.1. Now I cannot add a route for the loopback interface: fire:~# route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument The 2.2.x kernels require that you specify the netmask

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I want to know what lpr options can be used to format ascii text docs. Specifically, I want to have my docs print with normal 1 inch margins. I'm running lprng, magicfilter, and gs-aladdin. Thanks Check out 'pr'. Take a look at the man page. It has some options that

PINE.debs and related .debs

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Go here for pine.debs http://www.ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/ NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my web site or email them to you, however you like. I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first email app I ever

XDOS using too many colors

1999-02-25 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Howdy all! A quick question here. I've got a system that has some funky video card that doesn't allow for a large palette of colors when the system has more than 12Megs of RAM. Needless to say, I've got more than 12Megs of RAM installed on that system... Anyway, whenever I run `xdos` I loose

ThinkPad PCMCIA oddity

1999-02-25 Thread Pollywog
I had to reinstall Debian on my ThinkPad after something I did caused it to go into endless reboots. The second time around, I did not choose a network card and only set up PCMCIA and when I rebooted, I still had no network card, so I opened another console and as root entered the command

Re: smb.conf and preexec

1999-02-25 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
tony mollica wrote: Hi. I'm running samba 1.9.18p8 on a Debian 2.0, 2.0.34 system connected to a winnt4sp3 network. Most everything works nicely, but I can't get the cdrom's (2 scsi) on the Linux box to automount with preexec = . The fstab is set as follows and as recommended in the

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I understand that debian cannot distribute these packages in binary format as part of its distribution. I believe that this is because debian is a legal organization who's policy is not to distribute non-GPL software. I merely post the files to my personal web site, for people to download for

Re: Using LILO to boot Win95 of /dev/hdb1?

1999-02-25 Thread surak
I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second drive, hdb. My lilo.conf looks like: [snip] other=/dev/hdb1

pine diff files, and .debs (fwd)

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pine diff files, and

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I understand that debian cannot distribute these packages in binary format as part of its distribution. I believe that this is because debian is a legal organization who's policy is not to distribute non-GPL

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Thats probably your ISP kicking you off. Mine has a 2 hour limit. Try pppupd to get around no-traffic limits. For pure time limits... ? pppupd doesnt do what I need, since my ISP has dynamic IP allocation. I use a shell script I wrote instead. The source is availible on my homepage (it's a

Re: leafnode expiring news groups

1999-02-25 Thread Hartmut Figge
Stephen A. Witt wrote: Does anyone know of a way to change the default time period before news groups are unsubscribed from fetch process? Look in /usr/lib/leafnode/config.example: ## timeout_short determines how many days fetch gets a newsgroup which ## has been accidentally opened. The

Hypermail 2.0b3 ?

1999-02-25 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Hi is Hypermail 2.0b3 that best way to archive a mailing list? Ryan, /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ /\/\/\ Windows 95/98 n. 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Paul Nathan Puri writes: I understand that debian cannot distribute these packages in binary format as part of its distribution. Right. I believe that this is because debian is a legal organization who's policy is not to distribute non-GPL software. Wrong. Much of what Debian distributes

passwd and smbpasswd sync

1999-02-25 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi all, I was wondering if there was an easy way to maintain a sync between the passwd file and the smbpasswd file? I have set unix password sync so that when smbpasswd is run, the unix password is sync'd, but when the unix passwd program is run, they get all out of kilter.. Does there happen

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
Yes, your are correct. The .diff files would create an unauthorized derivative work. Like you said, I think I'm OK for now. If or when I get a CEASE and DESIST notice from UW, I will take the page down. Until then, someone must want this stuff. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread servis
*- On 24 Feb, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about lpr and text formatting I want to know what lpr options can be used to format ascii text docs. Specifically, I want to have my docs print with normal 1 inch margins. I'm running lprng, magicfilter, and gs-aladdin. Thanks There is a package a2p that

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
On 24 Feb 1999, John Hasler wrote: Paul Nathan Puri writes: I understand that debian cannot distribute these packages in binary format as part of its distribution. Right. I believe that this is because debian is a legal organization who's policy is not to distribute non-GPL

SMC EtherEZ PCI card (1211TX)

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I recently acquired an SMC EtherEZ (1211 TX) PCI 10/100 network card and I need to find out if it's supported with the 2.2.1 kernel, and if so, which driver I need to use. It seems to be recognized (as a PCI device anyway)... #cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function

ifconfig, ipaliased interface question

1999-02-25 Thread whbell
Hello, I am finding a problem with my system in the interaction between ifconfig and ipmasq, (enumerate-if specifically). System configuration- Debian 2.1, (mostly) Kernel 2.2.1 eth0, internal 192.168.1.1 eth1, external 206.xxx.xxx.xxx eth1:0, internal 192.168.2.1 Problem, (feature?) When

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Steve Willer
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You can't re-distribute dirivative works. That's key because an official Debian package would require a slightly modified binary in order to comply with the Debian filesystem guidelines. You can modify it for LOCAL USE, in which case you

Re: xterm-debian?

1999-02-25 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Ship's Log, Lt. Branden Robinson, Stardate 180299.0053: Users of slink and potato systems will need to see /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian That's were I found it ... :-) ok .. why not add a link called xterm-color for compatibility? I added it on my machine:

Re: passwd and smbpasswd sync

1999-02-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 02:11:44PM +1100, Chris Leishman wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there was an easy way to maintain a sync between the passwd file and the smbpasswd file? I have set unix password sync so that when smbpasswd is run, the unix password is sync'd, but when the unix

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiel Givergis
At 09:33 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when I tell it. Thats probably

brief legal analysis on PINE

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'm a law student not a lawyer, but here is some amateur analysis on the pine(TM) issue. It appears Univ. of Washington (UW) allows redistribution of the source in tar and gzip format. It allows modification with .diff files for commercial and non-commercial purposes, so long as the modifier

Re: 2 questions

1999-02-25 Thread Ramiel Givergis
At 09:33 AM 2/24/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: 2) For some reason pppd disconnects after some amount of time all by itself. I want it to stay up 24/7. I did see in dmesg that the PPP has demand dialing. I do not want this. I want it to go up and come down when I tell it. Thats probably

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Steve Willer wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You can't re-distribute dirivative works. That's key because an official Debian

Re: ifconfig, ipaliased interface question

1999-02-25 Thread wtopa
Subject: ifconfig, ipaliased interface question Date: Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 09:38:14PM -0600 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I am finding a problem with my system in the interaction between ifconfig and ipmasq,

Re: ifconfig, ipaliased interface question

1999-02-25 Thread whbell
Further study on my part reveals that forcing ipchains to use the interface of eth1:0 is not correct. The more I look at this issue, the less I understand the workings of ipmasq, (which I think does a very good job :-). I need to retract my statement of the possible bug in ifconfig and I will

minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Ben Frame
I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every megabyte, I was wondering if anyone might be able to suggest a minimum size

Re: Data Storage

1999-02-25 Thread Peter Ludwig
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Stephen Lavelle wrote: We are soon going to be installing a Linux Box on our Win98 network as a file server - You'll notice a vast difference :) Plug here for Linux sponsored by no-one. and i want to know of a good back up media supported by debian and easy to

Multi-Modem Cards for Debian

1999-02-25 Thread Peter Ludwig
Okay, not really on-topic for the debian user list, but because I'm running debian I wanted some input. I live in Australia and I'm looking at perhaps starting an ISP sometime within the next six to twelve months. At present I am unable to purchase a multi-modem card in Brisbane (where I live),

RE: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Shaleh
On 25-Feb-99 Ben Frame wrote: I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every megabyte, I was wondering if anyone might

How to build a dial-up server?

1999-02-25 Thread Jim Power
I've setup a www server using Apache but I have no idea on how to deal with PPP SLIP connections. What packages do I need to enable my server to handle PPP connection? And how to configure? Could someone give me some detailed instructions? Telling me where to find related online reference

Re: minimum size for root partition

1999-02-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:59:57PM -0500, Ben Frame wrote: I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I would like them to share diskspace and filesystems, using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every megabyte, I

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread Peter Makholm
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again, only partially true. If he sends the debian diffs to the pine team and they approve them, he may distribute the binary within the pine license and they will be within the debian package guidelines. But then it may conflict with the DSFG --

Bootable backup cd ?

1999-02-25 Thread Marcel Burggraeve
What I'd like to do is to make a backup of my debian system on a bootable cd-rom. The idea is to boot from the cd and have it 'copy' all data to a harddisk so I can run debian again within short time if I ever mess up. I've found a utility which should do this named backup linux at

man-pages

1999-02-25 Thread F. Frijns
I think I sound very stupid but I can't figure out why, after a successful Debian install, I don't have man-pages installed. I downloaded Debian 2.0.34 from the net (including base2_0.tgz). I made a manual selection for dselect, accessed, updated and installed it and found that, although I

Re: A question about HP DeskJet 710C

1999-02-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:18:33 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: [...] I believe the 710c is the same series of the 712c. I accidentally bought a 712c, which _IS_ a Windows-only printer. I returned it for a 697c, which I'm very happy with, and works great under Linux. You're right. According

Re: lpr and text formatting

1999-02-25 Thread Guenter Schmidt
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I want to know what lpr options can be used to format ascii text docs. Specifically, I want to have my docs print with normal 1 inch margins. I'm running lprng, magicfilter, and gs-aladdin. Thanks If you use an HP printer, you may use PCL commands at the end of the

dselect access methods

1999-02-25 Thread rnewton3
Hallo all, Whenever I try to run dselect I'm getting a message that says No access methods available. It's a brand new installation on a 486DX2-50. The only problem was that I had bad inodes on the /usr partition. So I need to know has this affected dselect and how do I fix it? Where are the

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread ivan
This has been answered over a dozen times in the last two months. Could I suggest that you check the mail archives on www.debian.org before asking questions here. Many of the European readers have to pay big bucks to get mail off this list and a lot of your questions have been asked before,

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network? PROBLEM SOLVED!

1999-02-25 Thread Jens K. Olsen
Jens K. Olsen wrote: Please I need some help. I have Debian GNU/Linux running on my Sony VAIO PCG-505G which I carry around to different offices. I need to connect to the networks in the different offices so I can download my e-mail and stay in contact with the rest of the world. When I

Re: upgrading slink - potato

1999-02-25 Thread Stuart Miles
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:22:00 +0100, you said: then selecting some gnome stuff i get: gnome-gnometris depends on libaudiofile-cvs0 libaudiofile-cvs0 does not appear to be available gnome-gnometris depends on libesd-cvs0 libesd-cvs0 does not appear to be available from where should those files

Re: hostname domain name changing

1999-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i installed my debian box, i only put in some out of nowhere hostname and domain names, now it seems that i need to give it some real hostname and domain name that really exists. can someone direct me please as to what files

*** repost : slrn

1999-02-25 Thread ivan
I have just started trying to use slrn - looks good and seems it will do everything that I require BUT ... Both when downloading the groups list and when decoding a file an error appears bsd_decomp0: bad sequence # 11, expected 77 The numbers 11 77 change but I get several of these errors.

Debian user friendly

1999-02-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I've to draw some simple vector graphics. I started looking for options in Debian distribution. First I tried tgif but it loads with green and black colours only. Very strange. Anyone knows why? My tgif version is: Package: tgif Status: hold ok installed

Re: How to build a dial-up server?

1999-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jim Power hat gesagt: // Jim Power wrote: I've setup a www server using Apache but I have no idea on how to deal with PPP SLIP connections. What packages do I need to enable my server to handle PPP connection? And how to configure? I'm sorry, but I think I don't understand exactly what you

problems after update to slink

1999-02-25 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am now using slink, but I have found two little problems. 1. my lpd daemon has been starting twice every time the kernel boots up. 2. my mouse does not work anymore in the consol mode. Thanks for any help in advance. Regards,

DeskJet 320 and gs

1999-02-25 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Is it possible to use gs with this printer? At this moment my internet connection is very bad that is way I am unable to find the answer at Alladin's page. Probably someone can help me.. I tried to print with deskjet device but did not get right output. Thanks, Eugene Sevinian

Re: /home/ftp directory question

1999-02-25 Thread Thomas Adams
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:36:43PM -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? Yes, as I said I followed the man page of ftpd to the letter. I have made sure that

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #344

1999-02-25 Thread :0\)~
unsubscribe debian-user -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 9:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #344 Message: ATT2.eml (1.04 KB)Message: Re: I have PINE .debs...

where is Tex-xeT

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I am looking for Tex-xeT in order to write Tex documents in hebrew. Anyone know where can i find it? Thanx

Extract sit archives?

1999-02-25 Thread Debian Mail
I have a Mac Stuffit archive (ending .sit). How can I extract such a file within linux? Stef

Major System Hangup problem (hamm)

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I am running hamm (2.0.34) on a 486DX2/66; I am also running dos+windows 3.11 on another partition. Linux is on the first partition, and I'm am using lilo. My computer has a strange problem. First it will start working only after worming up (it neads to be on for about a minute bifure i can reset

Re: where is Tex-xeT

1999-02-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I am looking for Tex-xeT in order to write Tex documents in hebrew. Anyone know where can i find it? Practically everything related to TeX can be found in the ctan archive. A quick browse got me this: ftp://ctan.org/pub/ctan/language/hebrew/ Check it out (I have no experience whatsoever

istaling xfstt - and tt fonts patch for X11

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I managed to start xfstt from inside x using: as root - xfstt --sync (do i need this every time ?) then as normal user: xfstt xset +fp unix/:7100 (I get an error - bad path #48 if i try this before i start xfstt) question is how do i automate the stuff? also i ran into a

istalling lprng

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
Anyone know where i can find documentation on how to install lprng (or is wiling to explain); I intalled the package, i can print text files using ' lpr file name' when i tried to print from the kde editor it just did nothing when i tried to print from ghostview, it just sent out the raw

Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote: Is there a recommended way of installing SO5 under debian? there doesn't seem to be an install Package for it (like there is for SO3)? If its like staroffice 4, Then use the setup supplied with staroffice, and then install it with the net option as root

Re: I have PINE .debs...

1999-02-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my web site or email them to you, however you like. I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first email app I ever learned back in 92 when I started

support? Firewire,DVD,USB

1999-02-25 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi I just wanted to ask whether Linux supports the following: - Firewire (IEEE1396) - DVD playing/burning - USB As I am frequently asked by a new convert to Linux who is still much using Mac I'd like to give him soon a positive answer :-) Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner This Email is

Re: istalling lprng

1999-02-25 Thread dpk
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: Anyone know where i can find documentation on how to install lprng (or is wiling to explain); I intalled the package, i can print text files using ' lpr file name' when i tried to print from the kde editor it just did nothing when i tried to

Re: man-pages

1999-02-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Man pages package is under Documentation section in stable on www.debian.org, and is called manpages Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

developers in Houston/login length limitations

1999-02-25 Thread Marina Gandelsman
{ please Cc: me on all replies } Hi - I've two unrelated questions. One is: are there any developers living in Houston? I will be there for spring break (mid-March) and would like to meet and exchange keys. Two: there is a limit of 8 characters for login length. Where did that come from? Can it be

Re: Segmentation Fault with Netscape Communicator 4.5

1999-02-25 Thread Kirk Hogenson
after you do the search you can't click on any of the messages that were found -- you just get Not Found errors. Hmmm ... haven't found this problem yet - I wonder why it happens for you and not me ? Oops, I just tried it again and it worked! Perhaps they've fixed it, or maybe it is

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