Re: smail/sendmail/qmail cual?

1999-04-19 Thread Mario Camou Riveroll
Hola, De smail no conozco, lo que te puedo decir es que QMail tiene puntos positivos y negativos respecto de sendmail: Positivos: - Mucho mas seguro. Nada corre como root, de hecho cada fase de la entrega de correo corre como un usuario distinto - Cada usuario puede crear aliases personales, por

Interfaces ppp

1999-04-19 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... ¿Es posibles activar mas de un interface ppp (ppp0 y ppp1), uno de ellos a un ISP y el otro a una red privada PPP, utilizando la misma linea y el mismo modem? (Me temo que la respuesta es no). Saludos.

Colorines en emacs para octave

1999-04-19 Thread Francisco Gonzalez Gonzalez
Hola hace mucho tiempo que estoy suscrito a esta lista, y me ha ayudado muchisimo para iniciarme en linux y aprender muchas cosas. De momento solo habia actuado como oyente, pero hoy tengo una duda que no es gran cosa, para lo que aqui se suele despachar. Estoy usando octave y me gustar'ia saber

Re: Mas sobre GNOME

1999-04-19 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez writes: Alguno me he fijado que está con problemas de dependencias, pero bueno, Ups eso no me ha pasado a mi. Yo tampoco he tenido problemas con las dependencias. Sólo con algunas aplciaciones de GNOME más viejas que tenía instaladas... esos

Re: NFS no me funciona

1999-04-19 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Netman wrote: Salu2 a la lista. Tengo el siguiente problema: 2 máquinas, conectadas por red local, una bo y la otra hamm. La configuración de NFS es simétrica, y basada en el GARL - ya me iba bien con 2 slakware hace año y medio -. Pues resulta que hamm monta bien lo que exporta bo, pero bo

RE: Actualizando Debian con apt-get

1999-04-19 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
¿Y no hay también un ficherito llamado debian-version, o algo similar? Yo juraría que lo he visto alguna vez, y pone únicamente el número de la versión. Javi -Mensaje original- De: Marcelo E. Magallon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: viernes 16 de abril de 1999 23:28 Para:

Dudilla sobre un archivo postcript

1999-04-19 Thread Han Solo
Hola al todos. Me he bajado de inet un documento en postcript (concretamente el manual de PGP de RedIris). Bien. Lo veo en pantala con el GV. Bien. Pero al intentar imprimirlo, por la impresora primero saca una página en blanco ly después otra con lo siguiente: ERROR: undefined OFFENDING

Monitoreo de UPS

1999-04-19 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos ¿Alguien sabe si el apcd vale para monitorear UPS Powerware de Exide, que van acompañadas de unos porgramas que se llaman LanSafe? Saludos.

Problemas con Sound Blaster

1999-04-19 Thread Juan C. Amengual
Hola a tod*s, bueno, resulta que tengo algunos problemas, al parecer inexplicables con la dichosa Sound Blaster Awe 64. Bien, como todos sabréis la tarjetita de marras es PNP. Yo uso Debian Slink con el kernel 2.0.36. Para empezar, ejecuté el programa pnpdump, el cual me reconoció la tarjeta y me

Distribuidores de Teles

1999-04-19 Thread Antonio Castro
Podeis mandarme direcciones de proveedores que vendan la tarjeta RDSI Teles 13.6. Creo que hay modelos con nombre parecido y quiero la más sencilla de instalar. No se si es un poco off-topic, pero lo mando a la lista de debian porque es la distribucion que uso y porque algo pasa con l-linux

Re: problemas con los discos de instalacion de slink

1999-04-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Alberto Brealey wrote: Si es un problema de los discos, que tan dificil seria 'construir' un disco basado en 2.2.4, para arrancar la instalacion desde unos CDs de cheapbytes? Mejor: Construye uno basado en el 2.0.34 de hamm. A mí me funcionó. --

Re: Dudilla sobre un archivo postcript

1999-04-19 Thread Jose Luis Trivino
Han Solo wrote: Hola al todos. Me he bajado de inet un documento en postcript (concretamente el manual de PGP de RedIris). Bien. Lo veo en pantala con el GV. Bien. Pero al intentar imprimirlo, por la impresora primero saca una página en blanco ly después otra con lo siguiente:

Re: Monitoreo de UPS

1999-04-19 Thread Agustín Martín
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a todos ¿Alguien sabe si el apcd vale para monitorear UPS Powerware de Exide, que van acompañadas de unos porgramas que se llaman LanSafe? apcd vale únicamente para las UPS APC que funcionan en modo inteligente (smart), con el cable apc-smart (el

Problema al instalar el Communicator

1999-04-19 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Hola lista, estoy instalando en mi Debian 2.1 el Communicator 4.5 y se instala perfectamente, pero al ejecutarlo como usuario normal me dice que falta la librería libXpm.so.4. Por más que la busco en mis CD's no la encuentro. Alguien podría decirme si se está dentro de algún paquete y el

Re: soy otro novato

1999-04-19 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Esto es complicado... la verdad es que en teoria no se puede... ahora bien: - Puedes arrancar tu Linux ocn un disquete de arranque (o con el CD de instalacion) y hacer lo siguiente 0. Pasa a la segunda terminal que tienes disponible con Alt+F2 y pulsa Enter 1.

Re: Problema al instalar el Communicator

1999-04-19 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Esta en el paquete xpm4g mudarra:/cdrom/staroffice/linux# dpkg -S libXpm.so.4 xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10 xpm4g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 Saludete Javi On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 01:49:46PM +, Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes wrote: Hola lista, estoy instalando

RE: Monitoreo de UPS

1999-04-19 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
apcd vale únicamente para las UPS APC que funcionan en modo inteligente (smart), con el cable apc-smart (el 24c). Salvo que esa UPS tenga el mismo protocolo y cable y lo dudo mucho no creo que te valga. El cable si es el mismo, pero del protocolo no tengo ni idea, no he encontrado

Re: Actualizando Debian con apt-get

1999-04-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: El viernes 16 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 15:28:18 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon contaba: On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:22:05PM -0300, Hernan Alvarez wrote: Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 herny tty4 ^^^ Alguien sabe como cambiar esto para que diga

Communicator me sigue dando la tarde

1999-04-19 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Hola denuevo, he hecho lo que comentó Javier de instalar el paquete xpm4g, pero al instalarlo me pone unos warnings, que son: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is not a symlink ldconfig:

Re: Monitoreo de UPS

1999-04-19 Thread Agustín Martín
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: apcd vale únicamente para las UPS APC que funcionan en modo inteligente (smart), con el cable apc-smart (el 24c). Salvo que esa UPS tenga el mismo protocolo y cable y lo dudo mucho no creo que te valga. El cable si es el mismo, pero del protocolo no

LaTeX... se me olvidaba

1999-04-19 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola de nuevo, se me olvidaba una cosilla, necesito hacer diagramas de bloques por un tubo (del tipo control automático de sistemas y esas cosas), ¿qué soft usais para eso?... ¿xfig?, ¿dia?... ¿?¿? Saludos y gracias. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Insertar gráficos en LaTeX ¿?

1999-04-19 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos. Estoy transcribiendo un trabajo previo hecho en Word del Office 97 a LaTeX y lo que se me ha ocurrido hacer es salvarlo como HTML (obtengo los ficheros gráficos embebidos en el documento de Word como gifs), dado que salvarlo como Word 6 y convertirlo automáticamente con alguna

Re: ip-up /ip-down

1999-04-19 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, abr 19, 1999 at 07:28:26 +0100, Javier Ramirez wrote: Siguiendo tus consejos y ejemplos he modificado mi script para recoger y enviar correo y news y tengo lo siguiente: ls -la /etc/ppp/ip-up.d total 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 221 abr 19 19:10 00recoger #

Hacer que el ordenador pite

1999-04-19 Thread Han Solo
Reply-To: Hola a todos. Pues eso, ¿cómo puedo hacer que el ordenador emita un pitidito por el altavoz? es para cuando me conecto, saber cuando ha terminado de bajar el correo y las news. -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario

Re: kernel question

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas S. Howard
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I compile something as a module rather than include it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I use something very often, such as ppp, should I include it in the kernel or compile it as a module?

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Help! More problems compiling kernel I'm having problems with compiling a new kernel 2.0.35 on a Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) machine. I've tried downloading the kernel a couple of times, but after `make config', `make dep', and `make clean', when I do

Re: kernel question

1999-04-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Apr, Thomas S. Howard wrote about Re: kernel question On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I compile something as a module rather than include it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I use something very often, such as ppp, should I

mail2news problem

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas Keusch
Hello! I've just tried to set up a local mail2news gateway on my box - and failed miserably so far. :-) I've set up my aliases like this and ran newaliases afterwards: = lists.earthdawn:| /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas S. Howard
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Brian Servis wrote: by doing a make clean after make dep you are clean out all that you just did. Actually, make mrproper is what cleans out everthing. make clean removes object files and kernel images and such. Do an ls -a after make clean sometime. You should still see

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: To go to the directory you were in last: cd ~- What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine. Do some other shells require `cd ~-'? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert

tipa-package stopped working w. latest tetex-update

1999-04-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, after updating to the latest latex version the tipa package (`latest' beta version) stopped working for me, after functioning flawlessly in the past. I paste in some relevant snippets of the log file's error messages (unfortunately I don't have some older log files from the happay times

Pine Trouble

1999-04-19 Thread Emil Soleyman
Hi, I have been using pine for well over two months and an error such as this hasn't occurred till today. I'm trying to compose a message by typing 'C' or selecting the COMPOSE MESSAGE at the Pine main menu, but pine just freezes there without doing anything...this also occurs when trying to

Squid segfaulting !?

1999-04-19 Thread Corey Ralph
Hello all, I have a squid server set up as a transparent proxy, (Squid/2.1.PATCH2). It runs great most of the time, except occasionally: /usr/lib/squid/RunCache: line 66: 850 Segmentation fault squid $@ It ran fine for two days, happened once one day, then 12 times in one night, during

Re: Banshee

1999-04-19 Thread Eric
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:37:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Banshee cards are not currently supported. A coworker of mine sold his and bought a TNT. Cheaper and in all ways a better card. It can be forced to work by using the frame buffer console and Xframebuffer BUT it is non

Re: Whoops

1999-04-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote: : I did something really stupid: : #mv /usr/bash somewhere_else : (don't ask). Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root : to fix it. I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a : script with /bin/bash or

Re: how to reset the console?

1999-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
OK, here is story to date: 1. I ran lincity and destroyed my VGA consoles. My pretty hi-res textmode was replaced by strange static patterns. This was Wednesday. 2. I asked on the list for help and got several variations of the reset command. All were nice but did not change my VGA mode

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-19 Thread Michael Beattie
Ouch... well, Im not going that far, yet, Ive been told my VX/Pro MB wont like the 2.2 series very much... but a simple upgrade to 2.0.36 with PS/2 enabled sorted things... My only question.. how do I increase the mouse speed in X? gpm was easy.

null program crashes

1999-04-19 Thread Prashanth Mundkur
Can someone figure this out? This simple C++ program crashes. I have a slink system, with both libstdc++2.8 and libstdc++2.9. --prashanth wintermute:test g++ --version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release) wintermute:test cat /etc/debian_version 2.1 wintermute:test cat a.cc main() { }

RE: XiG Accelerated-X v.5

1999-04-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: This is just a note that I wanted to get filed away in the list archive in case anyone else has any problems with getting this software installed: You will need the termcap-compat package installed before installation. Detection of your graphics card is

Re: [off topic] new apt ?

1999-04-19 Thread Christian Lavoie
Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have no idea if they still resemble the current apt. More or less. Gnome-apt Is similar, but have a right pane with more thorough information about the currently selected package. Other than that, it's more or less accurate.

LLS: Install cfdisk and 12GB disk

1999-04-19 Thread Lyno Sullivan
I booted from the 2.1 CD and tried to Partition a Hard Drive but it appears that cfdisk doesn't know how to handle extended partitions on a 12GB disk. I used Win98's DOS diskette fdisk to format the extended partition and allocate the logical drive partitions. Then when I return back to the

Re: [off topic] new apt ?

1999-04-19 Thread Arcady Genkin
Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have no idea if they still resemble the current apt. More or less. Isn't apt a command-line tool though? If not, how does one run it with a GUI? -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my

Re: [off topic] new apt ?

1999-04-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 19 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have no idea if they still resemble the current apt. More or less. Isn't apt a command-line tool though? If not, how does one run it

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-19 Thread Tor Slettnes
Brent == Brent A Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent Here's the fun part. What it *tries* to do is very good Brent and powerful. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be able to Brent do it without generating profuse errors faster than the eye Brent can read for screens and

Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

1999-04-19 Thread Richard Harran
I think that it would be quite nice if these things were included in the man page, as there is a man page. man sqrt tells you that you need to #include maths.h, but not that you need to link with the maths library. This can be very frustrating for beginners,and would be quite easy to

Re: how to reset the console?

1999-04-19 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Rob Mahurin wrote OK, here is story to date: [snip] 8. I go insane with frustration at the whole situation and reboot. 9. Rebooting gives me my pretty high-res console back --- and SVGATextMode promptly switches it back to Plane Jane 80x25. If you set it up, it will do

Re: Whoops THANKS

1999-04-19 Thread Richard Harran
Thanks to everyone who suggested ways to fix my stupid bash problem, and to everyone who didn't call me an idiot for producing it. I fixed it using: su -s alternative shell path Thanks Rich

RPM on Debian

1999-04-19 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, someone has mentioned in these lists that installing alien packages from .rpm can be dangerous. I'd like to know more about it, so please write some pro's and con's. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a

Re: Dayly cron job

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Arcady Genkin: It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never gets done. That's right. Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in case that it never got to run because it was off? To get that, you can: a) check out the anacron package, or

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Thomas Ruedas: When booting I noticed the following message: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug Workaround enabled. Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. R. Brock Lynn: Have a look at the kernel code: (I'm referring to kernel 2.2.3 but it may be exactly the

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Jens B. Jorgensen: This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!? What do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'? Daniel González Gasull: Nothing. :-( Here is my /proc/devices: ---begin quoted text--- Character devices: ... Block devices: 3 ide0

Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Christian Dysthe: #! /bin/sh fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc I also made a more complete script using: #1 /bin/sh That should be #! and there shouldn't be a space after it. if [ -x /usr/bin/fetchmail ] then /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc fi exit 0

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Jae W. Chang: Yes, dselect isn't perfect. It doesn't have the most intuitive UI but... Can I nominate that for the understatement of the month? :-) ... I'll forgo the useless UI feature set for something that just works. Another wonderful thing with dselect is that you can mix it with calls

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-19 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, William R Pentney: Furthermore, is there a method of searching by package description, less /var/lib/dpkg/available HTH Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.

adding new ps fonts to latex (how to keep it during upgrades)

1999-04-19 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, is there a recommended way of adding information about new postscript fonts into psfonts.map (or into another file), which retains this during upgrades? At the moment I always need to readd my fonts after the tetex maintainer changes this file. Maybe something like modutils do with

WEIRD!

1999-04-19 Thread Rick Smith
Hi I have noticed lately when I look at my server when it has been idle there is multiple lines that say Unable To Load Interpreter Any ideas? Rick

Re: printer problem not solved anymore {SOLVED]

1999-04-19 Thread Mans Joling

Re: RPM on Debian

1999-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
Urban Gabor wrote: someone has mentioned in these lists that installing alien packages from .rpm can be dangerous. I'd like to know more about it, so please write some pro's and con's. Installing alien packages from rpm can be dangerous if the converted rpm contains files that are critical to

Re: SHELL environment variable.

1999-04-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I was always under the impression that the SHELL envirinment variable was supposed to point to the _current_ shell. In my setup at least, it doesn't. It _always_ points to the login shell (I change to a different shell but the variable remains the same). Bug, feature, user error? Any

Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread Robert Rati
Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, then the windows start to come up and X freezes. Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Kernel: Make config errors (First time compile)

1999-04-19 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, I think you are installing the old hamm (2.0) package. The current package is slink (2.1). Nothing wrong with the old ones just a reminder. If you prepared to use kernel-package, it depends on perl, dpkg, dpkg-dev, fileutils, libc6-dev and if you install ncurses3.4 may be

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bob Hilliard wrote: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: To go to the directory you were in last: cd ~- What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine. Do some other shells require `cd ~-'?

Re: Can't load modules [Re: Kernel compile OK]

1999-04-19 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, Have you compiled the new kernel with some module loading in it ? Or you did compiled the kernel to load the necessary module but forget to make modules ? Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new kernel seems to load ok with a lilo dual bootup, but I get a message saying it

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, I have done my kernel compile with ease, and I have made a note on it. Here is my note for your reference. See the attached file Steps to do a kernel compile in Microsoft Word Document format. Cheers ! Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems with

Compressed X-protocoll?

1999-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
Hi, I heard rumors that there is a package for debian that uses a-soft-of compressed X11-protocoll and makes X-sessions via modem possible (without I wait 10 minutes for netscape to come up via modem...). Anyone knows what this would be or where I can find infos? Gery --

A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Follow up on the scripting problems I had... IT WORKS Of course, the solution was simple and it came to me in those early morning hours when you're mind is clear and creativity flows through your veins: I wrote my script under Windblows 95 Background: I have two machines: Pentium 200

fetchmail is slow

1999-04-19 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, fetchmail is so slow. It takes so long 'til all my mail is downloaded. Can I speed it up? Armin

mailing offline

1999-04-19 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, I use exim and mutt. I get my mail on demand with fetchmail. I'd like to send mails even when I'm offline. Is it possible to store those mails locally until I hookup to an ISP and having them send then? Armin

SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

1999-04-19 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, Booting Slink with Linux 2.2.5 kernel I get the message SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument after mounting the file systems. What does this mean? Looks like an error, doesn't it? Armin

Re: fetchmail is slow

1999-04-19 Thread Alec Smith
Fetchmail is working fine here -- Hey, I used it just now to download your original mail. Sure its not your connection to the mailserver being slow? On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: Hi, fetchmail is so slow. It takes so long 'til all my mail is downloaded. Can I speed it

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

1999-04-19 Thread Alec Smith
Remove the route -add stuff from /etc/init.d/network and you'll be fine. Its OK to leave the route -add default gw line if you have a gateway on your network. The error message isn't harmful, so if you're squeemish about editing init files, don't worry. On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:

Re: WEIRD!

1999-04-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
Rick Smith wrote: I have noticed lately when I look at my server when it has been idle there is multiple lines that say Unable To Load Interpreter Maybe something ran out of memory, or your processtable was full so bash (or another shell) couldn't get loaded. Regards, -Remco

3 button mouse

1999-04-19 Thread Ralph Winslow
I just bought a new 3 button mouse for the convenience of better cut and paste, and find that I can't seem to make it work. When I first got it, I just pulled the old one and put in the new, and it worked, but only in 2 button mode. So I exited X and ran gpmconfig, which would always hang after

Xhost probs

1999-04-19 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi, This is probably a FAQ, but anyway. I'm trying to set things up so that I can run a root Xterm should I need to. The methodology is: xhost root@ su /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm --icon-name ROOT -n ROOT --scrollbar-right -S red -b red -I /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/bomb.xpm -e bash

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, Thank you for telling me about that. I am new to Linux, new to Debian, and also new to this discussion list. Don't know the rules very well. I will do no more next time. Thanks Alan Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: Alan Tam wrote: I have done my kernel

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread ANShevin
I have found, as you have, that linux sometimes has trouble with files on DOS partitions. I find that I cannot use gzip/gunzip with files located on my fat32 partition. I have to copy deb files over to my linux partition before I can install them. Once copied, though, everything works fine. As

Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

1999-04-19 Thread Shao Zhang
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:40:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found, as you have, that linux sometimes has trouble with files on DOS partitions. I find that I cannot use gzip/gunzip with files located on my fat32 partition. I have to copy deb files over to my linux partition

Re: Xhost probs

1999-04-19 Thread Richard Harran
Perhaps you want: $xhost +localhost (any user connected to your machine can use the current xsession) The better method is to: #export XAUTHORITY=/home/user_running_X/.Xauthority after su-ing (or add to /root/.bash_profile or whatever) HTH Rich M.C. Vernon wrote: Hi,

SMTP problem

1999-04-19 Thread plastiques
when i try to send a mail from a win95 client, SMTP on my linux-server refuses with error: problem creating SMTP socket NOQUEUE: SYSERR: opendeamonsocket: cannot bind: Adress already in use ..seems to be clear, expecially because of the last line.. but i don't know how to solve this problem.

Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the best hardware and are best supported by linux?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Have a look at the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO as a first try: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/Linux/mdw/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html -- Thomas Ruedas Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Feldbergstrasse 47

print via SAMBA

1999-04-19 Thread plastiques
another problem i have with printing on a windows-network-printer. the linux-comp puts the printer-jobs right to the spool area, but then nothing happens.. thanks for help.. --- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net

Re: Compressed X-protocoll?

1999-04-19 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yeah there is. It is called DXPC. Look in stable/X11. HTH. -Ian On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote: Hi, I heard rumors that there is a package for debian that uses a-soft-of compressed X11-protocoll and makes X-sessions via modem possible (without I wait 10 minutes for

Re: fetchmail is slow

1999-04-19 Thread Armin Wegner
It's faster to compress /var/mail/armin and ftp it. I hoped, that someone knows some options to make fetchmail work faster. On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 07:05:16AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: Fetchmail is working fine here -- Hey, I used it just now to download your original mail. Sure its not your

Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

1999-04-19 Thread homega
~ ~ by doing a make clean after make dep you are clean out all that you ~ just did. ~ ~ Actually, make mrproper is what cleans out everthing. make clean removes ~ object files and kernel images and such. Do an ls -a after make clean ~ sometime. You should still see .depend, .config, etc. So,

Re: print via SAMBA

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:22:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: another problem i have with printing on a windows-network-printer. the linux-comp puts the printer-jobs right to the spool area, but then nothing happens.. Here's the relevant lines from my printcap: lp|Samba PostScript

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Randy Edwards
Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the best hardware and are best supported by linux?? This is something that's needed badly. I'm going through this right now deciding which SCSI card I should purchase. As more and more people buy equipment solely for use with

RE: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-19 Thread Paul Sargent
Looks like it's just the config program that requires RFC compliance. I edited it to stop checking my FQDN and then responded to all other question as tdlabs.com. This let me get through the config stage and I then went and changed the exim.conf file. Exim seem to have no problem. I'm about to

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread Patrick
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 08:56:09AM -0400, Randy Edwards took time to write: Does anybody know any good websites that talks and reviews the best hardware and are best supported by linux?? This is something that's needed badly. I'm going through this right now deciding which SCSI card I

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Nobody answered your post probably because they couldn't guess from not having any luck why you couldn't just compile the module along with whatever kernel version you're using. I included shell output from both an attempt to load the module and an

HELP! Mail program suggestions

1999-04-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi all! I'm a pine user (as can be seen from the header of my message), and because of the unclear status and future of this program I would like to switch to another mailer. However I have some special requirements: 1) The program should be free according to the FSG 2) The program should leave

PARIDE almost working (but not quite).

1999-04-19 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Me again. What I did - Installed Debian 2.1 including base system from 9 floppies on a 486-33 notebook. Selected paride to be a module in the kernel. - Logged in as root. - Did insmod epia to load the protocol module for the Shuttle parallel port CD-ROM I happen to have. - Did insmod pcd

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:58:21AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: Bob Hilliard wrote: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: To go to the directory you were in last: cd ~- What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-19 Thread John Foster
Michael Beattie wrote: Ouch... well, Im not going that far, yet, Ive been told my VX/Pro MB wont like the 2.2 series very much... but a simple upgrade to 2.0.36 with PS/2 enabled sorted things... My only question.. how do I increase the mouse speed in X? gpm was easy.

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-19 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Russell Rademacher wrote: Okay... I checked the process by ps x and seen that diald is running. Unfortunably, the dial-on demand is not working yet as I tried doing lynx, ftp or ping from root or user account. As for the package version, it is diald_0.16.5-3.deb version.

Re: Linux Hardware website??

1999-04-19 Thread ktb
Here are a couple of sites that might help you piece things together: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi These I know from the Modem and Printer howtos. There are probably more if you pick through he howtos. hth, kent Shao Zhang

Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Dan Willard
I can't seem to find anything on this subject and am wondering if ya'll could help. I need to set up a box to get a dynamic ip from a NT server over the lan. Everything that I've managed to find on dynamic ip is for ppp, will the same methods work for ethernet? Or is there some other

RE: Client side DHCP

1999-04-19 Thread Bernard
There is a package called dhcpcd which you configure by giving the interface where the dhcp server can be reached. As far as I remember, version 0.70 (or so) is included in slink but does not support kernel 2.2. For kernel 2.2, you need version 1.3 (or so). This version can be found somewhere on

Referencing Tables in Latex?

1999-04-19 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi all, Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but with the recent converstaion about latex I was wondering if someone could help me? I'm writing a document in latex and I can use \ref and \label to identify figures fine. So if I put \ref{something}, it will print the number of the figure called using

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-04-19 Thread John Foster
Robert Rati wrote: Has anyone gotten Star Office 5.0 to install on Debian 2.1? Everytime I try to ru nthe setup program, An error message pops up about the window manager not setting the window size and it defaults to the default size, then the windows start to come up and X freezes.

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